skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They just lie when you arrive at the destination anyway, and you can’t easily decline from a taxi stand and take the #2 driver instead.

If you are skeptical these scams happen, there are many reported examples. Here’s a doozy:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-taxi-credit-c...
and i too, can write a fictional story of how i am evil.

I think people are reading too much intentions into the output.
Replying here so I have a url for the remindme bot. see you in 5 years.
Sometimes people want tulip bulbs. Why? No idea.
I dislike airbnb so much that I would pay money to make them fail faster.

It used to be great, now it's awful. The cleaning fees are inexcusable and the effect they have on search, making it unusable, is even more inexcusable. Our politicians are awful for not stepping in and forcing airbnb to knock off the poor behavior.

I love the idea of on demand rental of a fully furnished apartment, but the state of airbnb now is just worse than a hotel.

I had a couple quite fantastic experiences in the past, but now they are just awful. I don't even look at them as an option anymore.

I would tolerate 90% of the crap they do, the bad hosts, and the general lack of trust if they allowed searching by total cost/days, but cleaning fees being greater than the per night rate and therefore not part of the cost make it unusable.
I’d kick off all the stupid people.
I typically watch at 1.75x speed, sometimes 2x. Same (sometimes faster) for podcasts.

Of course there’s a one sentence bottom line to a majority of YouTube content, but I appreciate the artform, adjacent color commentary, and evidence-based rigor from these higher quality creators. Albeit at a ridiculous speed lol.
"Less than the target" in effect is "more leading zeroes" depending on how low the target is. But the lower, the more leading zeros, Right?
This is approaching the status of truism to anyone who has worked in journalism.

It’s not just the macabre dopamine rush of car crashes and natural disasters. Critiques involving total and complete destruction of the restaurant/play/movie/album — like this classic takedown of Guy Fieri’s monstrosity of a Times Square restaurant https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant... —always draw the most eyeballs.
You're right that race often has a small (but statistically significant) affect, because of all of the confounding variables.

Imagine that you're a hospital who takes predominantly black patients, if you could modify the standard treatment to reduce Adverse Drug Experiences by 5-10% would you do it? Or would you say that it's unacceptable to use race as a variable at all, and continue to give the black people the same treatment as white people, resulting in more Adverse Drug Experiences in your black patients?

You can say that Ancestry is better, but often neither you or the patient actually know their ancestry.
I might try to phrase it another way: isn't it sad that so few other enterprises have the resources & scale to try for similar? Why are there so few others in the world who might try these things?
That was a great article in The Amateur Scientist column of SciAm.

As a kid I was fascinated by these articles, wanted to build them. But alas I was too young, too poor.

There was also a great infrared laser if I recall that used gold coated mirrors. I even used allowance money to buy a gold mirror from Edmund’s Scientific. I also got my mom to take me somewhere to get acrylic tubing and flat stock for the laser.

Sadly, that’s as far as I got. :(
Wasn't that Deuchebank?
I agree entirely. It’s not just a feedback loop, there is an underlying amplifier.
seaweed is the new GPT?
In many ways yes, but more interesting to this subject in particular: no. We are actually underestimating the human involvement in LLM behavior by personifying the LLM itself.

An LLM can only "exhibit" the behavior that humans encode into text. We encode explicit behavior, including symbols and grammar, and we encode implicit behavior, including narrative and logic.

An LLM blindly models the patterns of text, but doing that exposes the power of the patterns themselves.

The only problem is that an LLM can't determine which patterns are useful and which patterns aren't.
I'm sure they have Chinese around other places, but one thing I've noticed around train stations in Tokyo is that for the major announcements they are read out in Japanese, English, and Chinese. Hopefully those announcements were something that helped them on their journey.
Another use case: How soon before we start integrating dashboards by screenshots that are interpreted instead of having to manually code the API interaction. Plus, if the dashboard doesn't load, automatic alerting.
With my brother, probably.
> You see a website with 100 blog posts. That could easily be 1000 hours of work.

It could also easily be 1,000 hours of learning.

> In my opinion there are very few goals where "having a blog" is the right answer.

Self improvement is one of the top reasons to have one, and while there are other ways to work towards that particular goal, it's an entirely valid approach.

You raise a definite point though, and when starting a blog you probably should carefully examine your reasons and expectations.
A growing number of scientists recently watched 'Tenet'.
does it have anything to do with the fact that the USG has basically said "UFO's are real", and since UFO's were always real (in the sense that I'm sure there were always some kind of "flying object" that was "unidentifiable"), this is in effect a tacit admittance that they are probably extraterrestrially piloted? >..<
I navigate across my favorites directories at light speed, using this simple alias which uses fzf.

alias f='files=$(cat ~/.fzfdirs | fzf) && cd "${files}"'

I type f and it fuzzy find the directory that I have added to the ~/.fzfdirs file and cd into it.

If I want to add a dir, I append the directory into the file or `pwd >> ~/.fzfdirs` inside the wanted directory.

I find it simple and efficient. I gives me an amazing boost of productivity for moving across directories.

With 3-4 key stokes I get inside any common directory on my box.

fzf is so amazing.
I'm a veteran, can confirm this language.

In fact, the weirdest thing to me about the announcement was that... nobody cared. And yet, this made sense, because...

Wildly speculating, I think there's been a big systematic desensitization program going on due to that being effective against phobias (such as this one, which I'll call "astroxenophobia"): https://www.healthline.com/health/systematic-desensitization

If the announcement made last year was instead made in, say, 1987... actually, no matter how true, no such announcement would have ever been made in 1987 because either the announcer would have had to resign in disgrace or we might have had a good chance for public pandemonium.
FreeMoCap – Free Motion Capture for Everyone
I have been wanting to learn Japanese but have been putting it off, you just convinced me that I have to get started learning it already. I love a good pun!
Thank you for this suggestion . The genius bar was less than helpful. I have reduced security selected and still I am given a “Ventura is not compatible with this mac” dialog. I made a usb installer with 13.0 and it didnt work so I just assumed the worst. this new 13.0.1 usb i just made also does not work. I tried turning of sip as well. Both the developer line and genius bar say apple does not support rolling back the OS. I find documentation though indicating reduced security allows installing older versions. Im not sure what I am doing wrong.

Here is a log of the installer when I attempt:

Device is unsupported: BIPreflightError - Domain: com.apple.BuildInfo.preflight.error Code: 9 UserInfo: {
Counter-productive loading graphic: so good that you don't want to scroll down to the actual content.
I'm an autodidact like you. However, I'm under no illusions that what worked for people like us will work at scale.

Extrapolating from our experiences is how Nicholas Negroponte came to the conclusion that air-dropping laptops over villages in Africa would magically teach a bunch of children how to code.

Another level-headed perspective in this area is provided by Kentaro Toyama (author of "Geek Heresy") who saw several such well-intentioned projects up close during his tenure as director of Microsoft Research Asia:

> All of the evidence stands on its own, but I will tie them together with a single theory that explains why technology is unable to substitute for good teaching: Quality primary and secondary education is a multi-year commitment whose single bottleneck is the sustained motivation of the student to climb an intellectual Everest. Though children are naturally curious, they nevertheless require ongoing guidance and encouragement to persevere in the ascent. Caring supervision from human teachers, parents, and mentors is the only known way of generating motivation for the hours of a school day, to say nothing of eight to twelve school years.
365 Days of AI: Experiment and Guidelines
I also noticed that. It got terrible fast a few years ago but it seems to me to be slowly getting better over time again.

Anyways I had this strange thought some time ago: What if social media is this way by design? I mean, what if it was intended to be shallow, to value weakness, to tell obese people they are fine the way they are, to say it is okay to be afraid all the time? That we should just judge people and that is valuable? And to value feelings and manipulation over truth and honesty?

People who don't hold these values will either leave or they will get resentful about how the world "degenerated" and how they are no longer welcome here. It is all lost!

The notion of "the world" has been distorted after the pandemic (it was already distorted but the pandemic helped) to mean their phone, the internet, facebook, instagram, twitter, etc.

And as mentioned by the article the real world is very different: The grass and the air is revigorating, people don't fight each other as often, they are busy fighting for their dreams, and obese people are told to get healthy, weak people are taught how to be strong, and if you lie people will hold you accountable instantly. A 40 year old psychopath will not tell a 12 year old that their gender is wrong because he will be punched on the face or sent to jail. Sorry for having to go there, it is just an extreme example.

Maybe it's possible that by making the social media landscape hostile to the kind of people who are good we can get them to be happy in the real world? Where we need them building a better society? I don't feel right saying this but part of me is fine with leaving people who are evil or lazy hypnotized by their phone.
"people's negative feelings about the world are unjustified because when I go outside I feel like things are all right"

I think judging the state of the world in this way is a bad idea.
Bitcoin was "old internet" tech at some point. Just for reference, I bought my first BTC at 0.20 €/BTC. Back then it looked like the future to a lot of us ... "hey! We/Hackers can make our own money. And it is superior to state issued money!" ... looking back, it honestly it is somewhat to see the state of cryptocurrencies today.
>>"Can you help with my printer"

>no

Can you do my taxes for me? I hate printers as much as you do.
It really depends what you are towing - a full length triple axle low trailer with a shipping container full of car parts, a mega house on wheels caravan?

I grew up in one of the more remote parts of Australia and now live in sparsely populated rural part of W.Australia - we get by pretty well in a six cylinder family car both on and off road .. and we tow regularly mid sized caravans and a thirty year old double axle trailer (built from the chassis beams of an old nine tonne truck) loaded up with whatever (tonnes of fire wood, tonnes of sheep shit for the garden, white goods from the city, fallen trees, hay bales, etc).

Oversize Toorak Tractor US Trucks are mostly overkill, but I do recommend a good set of Hayman Reese anti sway bars for more positive control.

https://www.caravanparts.com.au/hayman-reese-weight-distribu...
more like: perpetual war for perpetual profits of the military-industrial complex.
Eisenhower (who had been a five-star general before becoming president) warned about it in 1961… he saw it coming, but people didn't listen or didn't care:

> we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co...
It'll never not amuse me that in the first season of NCIS (circa 2003), Seti@Home (or someones clone of it) was the screen saver on Gibbs computer in a couple episodes.

At the same time we had already installed Seti@Home on basically every computer we had access to... including school.

Good times.
>...retrocausal models also open avenues of exploring a “time-symmetric” view of our universe, in which the laws of physics are the same regardless of whether time runs forward or backward.

... or sideways!

If you want a visual model that may help to build some intuition about that, I have one at [1]. Retrocausality is not explicitly spelled out in that model but "it's uh... uh... it's down there somewhere".

[1] https://github.com/OlegMazurov/Janus
I don't make mistakes? News to me. This kind of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose argument is circular at bottom: I'm bad because I don't make mistakes so it was intentional; any attempt to correct a mistake is backtracking.

No, it was a mistake. We fixed it. If you expect perfection, stop using Firefox too because Mozilla has made mistakes, including some similar ones. (I don't think they are reasons to stop using Firefox, I'm just applying your fake standard.)
I think this is exactly the type of post the OP was talking about
TSA confirms plans to mandate mug shots for domestic air travel
The advice about going outside is great. It's really good to have repeatable weekly interactions with people too. Your hobbies, or your kids hobbies are easy ways.

But how bad things are online, I've only only heard about, and rarely seen.

I use twitter. Web only, no notifications, timeline view (only people I follow, chronologically). If anyone retweets drama, I block the author. Second time, I unfollow.

My feed is full of awesome smart people in different industries building things that matter. I learn, and I can interact with great people in my industry. It's as good (though different), as ICQ/AIM back in the day or the early days of Facebook.
Wouldn't 10 cents worth of EPROM be a suitable choice? First boot, it supports the least-common-denominator channels, and you run an application with a big clicky flag icon to specify the regulatory environment. The OEM could even run this before shipment since he knows where the device is being shipped to. If you move, or travel, run the program and click a different flag.

It's not unreasonable to expect the customer to know which country he currently resides in.
Anyone figured out how to run this against a video?

https://github.com/google-research/scenic/tree/main/scenic/p... has an example showing how to "train Vid2Seq on YouCook2" using "python -m scenic.projects.vid2seq.main", but I couldn't see the recipe for using it against a video to return a description.
Unlimited deposit insurance is basically just saying that the bank can take as much risk with their deposits as possible!

I think it's understandable that the current depositors from failed banks that are over the FDIC limit feels hurt if they don't get made whole, but this sort of thing cannot continue. Unless the insurance is paid for by the banks themselves, the risk transfer is not fair.
> I recall someone saying the following in a conference, which stuck with me (paraphrasing): "If you write something down and nobody ever reads it, those keypresses are sort of wasted."

Only if you are looking at objective contribution to the world/conversation. What you don't see, and is not measurable by clicks or page-views or any other kind of real metric, is how you changed yourself by writing.

As others have notice, when you write something, your are practicing -- no, developing -- your writing and language skills and you are re-inforcing your understanding of the subject (why do you think teachers made you write essays at school/uni/college? Not so they can grade you, but so you learn).
If execs think it will improve their bonus, please give a warm welcome our new GPT-4 development team!
Well, the ICC has just -rightly IMO - put out a warrant for the arrest of Vladimir Putin. I’m sure the warrant for Bush Jr. is next.

Oh wait, they didn’t issue the warrant because of aggressive war, it’s due to forced deportations of children, something that AFAIK didn’t really happen in Iraq. That’s convenient.
Yes, you can set it on the subscriber.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.h...
This is even sadder: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85870&po...
The rise of Wokeism correlates with a decline in mental health.

We should think hard about what's causing what.
That channel doesn't meet any normal global definition of 'leftist', the global left generally not being onboard with investment capitalism as the driving engine of the economy. Also, the left isn't afraid to discuss petrodollar recycling - i.e. it was the Saudis who refused to keep pouring their petrodollars into Credit Suisse, and Saudi Arabia and Qatar are the top investors in Credit Suisse.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/qatar-doubles-credit-suisse-...

This Credit Suisse story might have some connection to the China-sponsored restoration of diplomatic and economic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran a week ago, perhaps.
Damn, that was the most fun article I've read in a long time!
What's your explanation for what's different?
I curate/maintain a blog (for more than a decade now) to preserve books published during Soviet era.

http://mirtitles.org

This blog though does not generate any revenue, I see it as a personal achievement which will perhaps be my contribution to the world at large which might be remembered or make an impact. The vision of the blog started from the idea to preserve knowledge which might be otherwise lost/forgotten. This blog was/is the guiding light for me in my dark times.
I think it could go either way depending on the product. For example in app/game/web development where code quantity > quality, hire more juniors who can bust out code with ChatGPT all day. But if you're developing software for medical devices, vehicle control systems, HFT, etc. Then nobody's going to let some college grad using ChatGPT touch it. You'd hire senior engineers who can be responsible for the reliable operation of the software and they can use ChatGPT for code review, test suites, etc.
Pre Google, pre AOL those were the days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein

Life is complicated.

P.S. - I did not support the Iraq war in 2003 or now. Just cognizant of how such things unfurl beyond the trendy self-flagellation.
Hookers and blow actually. Space dust.
Stop using dishonest language: "links" mean hyperlinks in pages, and we never added any affiliate code to those.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088549
I would suggest reading a bit about why the world is what it is now. Join some Goodreads groups. Find people who read to talk to. That's my escape route. Plz don't ruin that too.
The problem was that no country dared to stand up to America just like they would with Russia right now. (IMO, Russia was rightfully sanctioned for the invasion of Ukraine.) But when America invaded Iraq, who dared to sanction America? No one. And in the future, should America do it once more, the same thing would happen again.
From the article:

[picture of a laundry pod]
(caption)" Edible bubbles designed to replace single-use packs for liquids. Ellie Smith for The New York Times"
E.g. /bin/sh is from an ancient version of bash while the default /bin/zsh is not POSIX standard (without some manual mucking around at least which can break your setup if you do globally). The POSIX certificate doesn't make those less ancient or more standard it just makes the environment POSIX certified.

In that regard the stuff I mentioned in the comment is what I was referring to as standard. No 20 year old document to reference or certificate on file but I'd bet more people here are interested in things like how docker or package managers compare between systems than knowing df on macOS is certified to report in 512 byte blocks by default. I forget who said it but "the nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from". If you're expecting the GNU awk which has been on every machine you've ever used it doesn't matter you have POSIX awk, it's not the relevant standard to check.
It taught me how much I do not want to use AWS for personal reasons. In fact, I wouldn't even build a revenue business on it.

A few years ago, a friend gifted me a domain name, and simultaneously, I signed up to AWS so I could goof around with all the free-tier cloud features, and basically just learn some cloud architecting.

I quickly settled on the Bitnami image of a MediaWiki stack on top of Ubuntu. It was fairly easy to get set up, but of course I quickly realized why the average Joe does not want to do this sort of thing. I had to be my own sysadmin, which I knew fairly well, but I also had to be my own CISO, and the logistics of running a bare OS on a VM on the public Internet are definitely daunting in the 2020s.

I attracted futile probes of my ssh port and I also attracted some sort of spammers to create throwaway MediaWiki accounts. In fact, the aforementioned friend showed me a few security holes in my MW configuration, and I was thankful he did it and not some malicious stranger.

Eventually, MW failed in some perplexing way, and I was frankly appalled at the myriad ways that AWS costs could literally get out of control and I'd have a 5-figure monthly bill with little recourse. I pulled out completely and shut it all down, after a few months had elapsed.

All in all, it was a good experiment, and really not disastrous; I did accomplish the learning of various cloud administration techniques, so I appreciated that. I don't miss the crazy opaque billing. There was so much more to learn. Perhaps someday.
why would something like 10:1 be the ideal

bloom seemed to show you continue to get improvements all the way to 1:1

maybe the ideal is 1:3 or something
honestly i don not think im ok, im living friday to friday. All i expect is to go out with my friiends and to talk shit. monday to friday i do my software development work but i do now give a shit. sorry for my bad english,
> Also, Gen Z has truly lost any sign of motivation/interest in life

This is a tale as old as time. And it’s always proven wrong.
Americans looted Iraq oil, so that war wasnt that costly. They tried to do the same with Afghanistan lithium mines, but in 20 years Americans never ever able to control the land greater than 50%. So the majority of Bush war cost wjich amounts to 10-20T weigh down by Afghan humiliating defeat.
American police kill about 1,000 Americans per year. Last year was a record high:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-ki...

In the last 25 years American police have killed more Americans than terrorists have.

More American lives would be saved by putting resources towards getting the police under control than by more spending on the nebulous war on terror.