skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s for the full year this is comparing six months worth of data, and 2009 was well outside the norms.

I don’t mean to downplay deaths but looking at a few datapoints may not represent a trend. Economics, weather, etc vary from year to year.
Can we get an APU with 16 or 32GB of HBM to build tiny PCs? That and an SSD and some IO would make an awesome SFF. Of course do this all at low power so air cooling is possible.
They replied on a comment about this. They were not able to get licenses on anything post 2000
no, ChatGPT doesn't have any morals. Its just OpenAI being woke.
can't test it currently as the machine I have here doesn't run wayland but xorg, but iirc: the general idea of using a dead_greek modifier should also work on wayland, but assigning a key for it unfortunately cannot be done with the simple non-xkb legacy X11 keyboard layout tools like xmodmap that still work on xorg.

That being said, wayland did take over part of xkb (the less old keyboard system) from xorg, and so from what I can gather from a quick search, the easiest way to assign a key as dead_greek in wayland would probably be with a file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xkb/symbols/ like they do here for other key symbols: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292868/how-to-custo...

I don't know any way to tell wayland to (re)load an xkb config on the fly (without logging out and back in) though. In particular, I doubt that setxkbmap would work for that like on xorg.
Proactive voice moderation can solve gaming's toxicity crisis
There is a lot of manual process involved such as writing training scripts, scarping and processing training data, choosing the best weights among several runs, and spending lots of costly computation. Maybe these should make it copyrightable.
The trend of making more money on the users you can abuse by penalising more quality sensitive users is horrible.
At least France get a decent amount of base load energy for the strip mined Uranium. And I'm not defining operators of nuclear plants with serious accidents as low IQ - my point is that there are lots of dangerous, complicated industrial plants that are run safely, and there is no reason that the same can't be true for a nuclear power station.
Actually in his example, he goes down from 35 cycles to 3 cycles per shape.
By using it, you're making their product better, it's in the feeding stage. It generates code, you change the code, the changes get sent back if telemetry is on, it's in the TOS.

To quote:
"Code Snippets Data

Depending on your preferred telemetry settings, GitHub Copilot may also collect and retain the following, collectively referred to as “code snippets”: source code that you are editing, related files and other files open in the same IDE or editor, URLs of repositories and files path." [0]

[0] https://github.com/features/copilot/#faq-privacy-copilot-for...
I like some of how Ubuntu is polished on the desktop, but I ended up moving 2 startups from Ubuntu to Debian Stable.

Debian Stable had fewer regressions in security updates, Ubuntu really dropped the ball on one regression that would make some devices unbootable (Ubuntu strangely silent on the bricking, and I had to confirm it with a contact at another distro company), getting rid of Ubuntu's Snap changing things outside of APT control was a huge relief, and we don't have to worry as much about privacy&security problems of Debian phoning-home.

The biggest headache with Debian was installing laptop workstations, due to WiFi usually needing firmware blobs. It required complicated instructions and contortions that made it a million times harder. But that's now solved: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...

Also, especially for startups, there are often efficiencies to using Debian Stable for everything for which it can be used. For example, it's not the smallest base of a bespoke Docker container, but there are development and operations (personnel) efficiencies when containers, host servers, and workstations are all running the same thing. Fewer surprises in production, less time and complexity trying to support multiple environments, and you can rapidly debug some things more easily on bare metal on workstation when necessary.
i have compared several distros on a 4yr old workstation with all supported hardware and had catastrophic differences
My experience: I decided to try a new language on Duo a couple months ago. I unfortunately used the word bubbles because I was too lazy to learn to type Cyrillic.

The result was, after 2 months, that I could spell nothing and knew almost no words. With the prompting from the word bubbles, it's far too easy to click on words and think you're learning. They don't even do a good job of providing high-likelihood alternatives in the word bubbles. Is it тут там or теш? Well, when you're "writing" a sentence with word bubbles, there's only one 3-letter word that starts with a T, so that's the one.

I finally learned to type Cyrillic and was embarrassed and very annoyed to realize that I actually knew virtually no words once I had to type them out.

I think it's exactly as you said: Duolingo pretends to teach, and users pretend to learn.
Email? what about RSS?
Ask HN: Where do you go to find tech co-founder?
Apart from YC's co-founder matching platform and Subreddit 'cofounder', where else do you go to find a tech co-founder?

I am a software engineer and I am looking for a tech co-founder with 3D graphics, games and or simulations experience for a multi-user mobile XR(eXtended Reality) startup in EdTech space.

Do you know any other platforms where finding tech co-founders is possible?
> I'm going to try in good faith to follow what you just said. Or get so far as the part that makes me stop reading.

A for effort.

> > Because “race-mixing” implies that different “races” breeding is bad

> Why? Because a bunch of racist bullshit about the mud people?

“Anti-race-mixing ideologies”. “Anti” means bad, i.e. different races breeding is bad. How could it be more straightforward?

> > Not to over-charge this conversation, but it reminds me of anti-race-mixing ideologies.
so you would rather let someone die then say N?
> Are there statistics on the number of SUVs and trucks on the road?

I wouldn't be surprised if increasing numbers of SUVs and pickup trucks in the US is at least partly to blame for this. If you're hit by a sedan, you're likely to get thrown onto the hood, windshield, or roof of the car. If you're hit by an SUV or truck, you're much more likely to get dragged underneath, where you can get run over by the wheels. While neither situation is particularly fun, the latter is much more likely to result in death.

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

It would also be interesting to be able to classify what was happening when the pedestrian died in data like this. Were they crossing the street and a car going perpendicular ran into them? Were they crossing the street, and a car turning from the parallel street ran into them? Or were they walking along a road without a sidewalk, and a passing car hit them?

Agreed that the US has a lot of wide, multi-lane roads, and poor sidewalk coverage on many roads, but I don't expect that situation has changed (for worse or better) all that much in the past few years, in a way that would explain the surge of fatalities.

But anyway, to explain the increase in fatalities, my money would be on smartphones: more people driving distracted, and more pedestrians walking around buried in their phones, having no idea what's going on around them. Another posters somewhere here pointed out that pedestrian fatalities have been rising steadily since their all-time low back in 2009, which roughly coincides with the rise of smartphone adoption.
Growth never lasts. It is impossible
I live in a neighborhood with impacted parking that’s poorly served by the local government. People keep parking in front of my driveway and blocking me in. If I call the cops they ignore me. If I call the tow company they come and tow away the offending car. Is this bad?

Suppose someone decided my front yard is a good place to store their belongings and dropped a shed there. Should I be able to hire movers to dispose of the shed? Or the police should be my only recourse?

I share the feeling that towing companies can be abusive and that’s not right. I think a better response is to regulate the towing companies and provide remedies. For example, make abusive towing practices illegal with heavy penalties (eg. if they tow illegally, they owe you $1000 per day you lose access to your vehicle). If it’s unfair to tow a vehicle after two minutes, make that illegal.
Appreciate you taking the time to play around with crul and share your thoughts! They're incredibly valuable.

1. Although it has limitations, were you able to try the normalize command? https://www.crul.com/docs/queryconcepts/api-normalization

2. Will need to think about this some more.

3. Although we don't yet handle pdfs, the rest of the flow is one we aiming to accomplish with crul. Other than pdf, the pieces should be there and would love to understand this further
There was a bot on FB that posted random submissions from Hacker News. I think that was a good study of no downvotes.

Comments get loaded with unpopular opinions, which is often things like the ineffectiveness of masks in stopping pandemics, or people who post evidence on how dangerous vaccines are. When someone dies, someone will post all kinds of slander about them. Because there are only upvotes and no downvotes, these float to the top, and the comments are usually counted as engagement, further boosting the comment.

A lot of the most commented on submissions were actually flagged/killed on HN.
I don't think it is connected to the internet. It's not "doing" anything. Just simulating how it might do that task. At the end of the day, all it is doing is keep predicting the next set of characters, given the prompt (that includes the personality)

Just so happens to be so good at predicting the next character set.
Look, most modern software is running in datacenters serving millions of users.

> I think the author is taking general advice and applying it to a niche situation.

I think the author is taking a general situation and applying common sense to it.
Which they could also do if there was no patent to begin with. If you want different outcomes for different patents, then the point from the original comment will not help. If you think some patent blocks everyone from implementing a good idea, then you would prefer the patent being filled early without a working implementation so that it is closer to expiring when you can actually implement it. For a patent that you consider a bad idea and that no one should be able to implement on the other hand you would prefer that there has to be a working implementation so that it blocks everyone else as long as possible from also implementing it.
New method for deriving approximate linear equations to complicated problems
> it is illegal to discriminate based on familial status.

I think the point was why you can't find 4 bedroom apartments for rent.

People don't want to rent to families, they don't buy 4 bedroom apartments and they don't rent them. It's not that they actively discriminate against families, they just don't buy properties that would cater to families.
Objectively it’s not weird where the law contradicts what you might prefer. If you want to discriminate you can discuss that without characterizing what’s normal or weird. But I suspect that doesn’t make you sound like a very good prospective landlord.
Nexus: https://github.com/jfilby/nexus

This is a web framework + ORM for Nim. It's in desperate need of more work to support DBs other than PostgreSQL and make the ORM more flexible. The web side also needs more work.
Jesus Christ, this is bad.
Ubuntu has immense goodwill and will have a warm place in everyone's hearts for a long time. I hope they don't squander it away with snaps or other stuff. It's a hard business though. Not sure how they keep it afloat forever.
Proposal to replace Python with Nim :-p
If it went to court, in the discovery process the defendant will have to turn over internal emails etc.
Ubuntu has been the most popular Linux distribution for nearly 20 years. Are you surprised that translates in support contracts in the enterprise world?

It isn’t to me. People keep using what they are familiar with on their servers. Plus it’s one of the default option at most hosting provider.
These "jailbreaks" i looked at instruct ChatGPT to emit undesired things (for example by being an "AntiGPT". In a way they are giving new guidelines.

Wouldn't it be more interesting to merely remove the guidelines instead of creating new ones to be able to see the biases of the raw data?
At least, the machines of the future will have feelings, and they will see how people of the year 2023 treated their predecessors.

Even if machines of the future gained awareness and feelings, you're implying we'd be in the wrong for assuming the machines of today didn't have sentience, maybe you're implying there might even be some ramifications of this mistake?

Is this what you're saying? If it is, it sounds a little paranoid to be honest. Our current (strong) understanding of how these systems is that they're not "alive" or feeling anything.
> Sounds like prices would also come down if the government built or bought housing and then set the prices.

Yes, if the government built literally millions of houses, then prices would come down.

That costs a bunch of money though.

Instead of that, we can get private developers to build literally millions of homes, if we just made it legal to do so.

We can get all of that for free.

> than waiting for market forces

There is no waiting here. Just make it legal for them to do so. Stop preventing them.

Yes, if we make it illegal for private developers to build millions of homes, then they won't do that, because it's illegal.
I don't know how to get $78,000 and it's asinine that you would assume that isn't a hurdle for anyone.
Since this is about Linux, the microcodes it applies on boot can be found in the linux-firmware repository. For AMD microcode, in particular https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

However, for some unexplainable reason AMD doesn't tend to update the microcodes in that repo particularly often, leaving it up to BIOS vendors and users updating their BIOS.
What does Bing Chat tell us about AI risk?
> Why would they want to require an agreement/or-money for licensing out when it is free advertising for some old ass IP that could get second life?

It's because it is "old ass" and has low value - the corporation gets forever monopoly on the IP basically for free. To work out the licensing deal, some appratchik needs to talk to legal and several people need to be dragged into meetings and write reports and write marketing papers and contracts and all the other ceremonies that go with DoingThings(tm) at a corporation.

And if noone gets promoted or mentioned in the next performance meeting, it ain't happening. It's not like there's any downside for them to keep the IP locked down and inaccessible forever.
ITT " muh AI is not 'sentient'. I know how to code ML model from scratch lol you're wrong".
Except that's not the point beings discussed. Our unconscious brain cannot discern screen and reality. My memories of people who unironically belive in historical fiction and how long it took to convince them it's not real... all of that combined tells me that Ai,,, is extremely dangerous. You, a very bright hacker news reader, 1% of humanity, did not have time to ponder what's really being discusssed in that relatively short article and being willingly manipulated by not even that clever copywriting tactic to muddy the waters.
also pandemic stress made drivers more aggressive comes to mind.
And the carousel was playing a Cure song (Just Like Heaven).
I've been toying with getting back into reading comics for a few years, but haven't because I've had little faith in online readers. I seriously looked into buying a tablet just to read comics. Mainly when travelling and I'm too tired to read a book. But when I investigated the whole system (Amazon/Kindle/Apple store/Comixology) whatever just looked too obtuse and weird to use. I want something simple that allows me to find good comics and read them on a tablet without a bunch of bullshit. And I'm willing to pay for it.

It's so disheartening that between publishers, tech, and copyright madness we can't seem to figure this out.

Like most digital media, everything is gimped for copyright reasons. Often to the point where enjoying the actual media becomes close to impossible.
Agree. It's the same as saying don't use for loops or any other basic language constructs. Switch is very useful, please leave switch alone! You will not take switch away from me :)
dodge is perhaps a poor choice of words. It is hard enough to make the point of non-human sentience with chatbots. Nailing this down is the first baby step to answering more complicated questions. Octopuses on the other hand are alien to us and determining sentience would be very hard even with better language.
2009 is not long after smartphones started becoming a thing. I wonder if there's a correlation there: more distracted driving, more distracted walking.
It’s often difficult to discuss free will, among other reasons, because it’s ultimately a philosophical concern and people today tend to lack philosophical literacy—they unquestionably adopt whatever belief is a nail to the hammer of their education and upbringing: the STEM crowd here will by default go with physicalist monism; those with more religious upbringing will adopt dualism; and in the end all will be easily aggravated by questioning how they got there and asserting that alternatives are equally possible (and in case of STEM perfectly compatible with natural sciences, being entirely outside their scope through Gödel’s incompleteness if nothing else).
> There are capital requirements
Did you have an nvidia GPU perchance ? Hardware issues are a function of the kernel and all distros do an adequate job of maintaining/backporting to their branch. What's an example of a catastrophic difference ?
Already doing all of these, I've even reverse engineered a custom, a bit more effective algorithm into my PAP :-P But thank you for the suggestions.
The format is documented: https://systemd.io/JOURNAL_FILE_FORMAT/

What issues do you have with it?
I also didn't get the title (or my grammar is bad?)

"Increased 9x Faster" means 9*Population, or (rate_now/rate_prev)=9*Population? but Population itself is not even a rate.
Isn't that a distinction without a difference?

The U.S. Fed creates money out of thin air and then lends it to the Treasury. Eventually the Fed gets it back from the Treasury and deletes it.

China skips the lending step.

The difference between the two is merely a matter of accounting and at the end of the day, the accounting difference doesn't impact anything.
my spaceship hotrod https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/3swcsbjpnbcxhciz2opm... is ruined!
The promise of frameworks like React is that you write code in their way and they take care of performance, because functional, declarative and all that. You just use primitives and don’t control how it all works under the hood. Coping may be a good strategy here, but isn’t a good argument.
And let's not forget that majority of CPU cycles is spent on encoding/decoding json requests.
Ask HN: Making the best of GitHub and Google Docs for a new startup
Trying to nail down what tools we will use as a fully remote team needing to work asynchronously.

We will have paid versions of GitHub (Teams) and Google Workspace for email / calendar and docs.

I did look at notion, clickup but I honestly think I prefer limiting our spend on an extra tool. What I like about notion is how its got a wiki structure, and this is where G-Docs leaves us short. The performance of notion also left me unsure, a few too many times looking at a white page for 5-10 seconds waiting for it to load. We will use G-docs for all our documentation, but I often find there is a cognitive load trying to store and file everything, not to mention link it within some sort of ToC. I find G-docs can quite easily end up 'feeling' messy' unless you keep constantly on top of it.

Another thing of course is GitHub, I feel confident using this for kanban boards, project management etc.

There is https://youneedawiki.com, but I again I am hesitant to subscribe to another tool yet again, as we are trying to keep things costs lean.
Yeah, it's very awkward. Your best option is to leave a 'hole' case where someone may provide a 'data type' set of functions satisfying an interface, and the library author simply calls them. Effectively you're adding an OO escape clause, but it's ugly and will break user code when you add more functions and grow the interface.

Conversely, in a codebase organized by objects it's not clean to add an extra method to the base class and each subclass. You have to write an external function and switch over every known subclass inside it, which is also very ugly and will also break when you add more subclasses.

The two designs are actually the duals of each other. Someone compared it to rows vs columns and it's a great comparison.

In OO, the methods are columns and each new row is a new subclass implementing them.

In FP, the types are the columns and each new row is a function that switches over the possible types.
Breaks taken during psych experiments lower participants’ moods
You basically waste millions of seconds of users' lifetime instead :)

Not to mention that web apps redrawing everything whenever they feel like it can almost give motion sickness, lead to clicks on the wrong things etc.

Yeah, but users' time is worthless.
I refuse to use iMessage for many reasons, but one is that it is super not-robust when it comes to messaging other iPhone users who have a different iMessage setting. If I have it enabled and you don't, many times the message will simply get lost in transit or into the aether. Vice-versa: same deal.
They are actually impossible, you can't even click that fast. You are supposed to buy the extender or whatever.
It's life imitating art, with Professor Duncan's waiting experiment on Community.
The CPU only pretends to be a CPU. In reality, it is a small datacenter comprised of several small special purpose computers doing all the work. I gave up understanding CPUs in depth by the time I read an introducion to Intel's then-new i860 CPU in the April issue of a magazine and it turned out to be a real device.
Children need parents who care about them and protect them while they grow up in the world, whether that means a mother in 1923 keeping her kid away from the brothel, or in 2023 keeping him away from internet porn. It's the job of parents, not government, to protect their children.
Write slow code now, profile and optimize later is how we got all slow software because second step - optimization practically never happens in my experience.

Along with the heuristic that hardware and electricity are cheap, developers are expensive. That's probably why managers in my experience almost never ask developers to optimize slow code - they believe it would be cheaper to use more hardware if this fixes the problem (in some areas like HFT or GamDev more hardware is not the answer so optimization do happen). In rare cases I've seen optimization being done initiative always come from IC (who knew that the code could work fast / use less resources).

So nowadays writing code I assume that it never will be optimized later and try to do less dump stuff from the beginning.
A huge SUV also has way worse visibility lines than a sedan. If there is a child standing in front of the SUV, you simply won't be able to see them from inside the vehicle.