skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Convicted felons should 100% be allowed to vote though. I never quite understood the fear of letting them vote. Indeed keeping them engaged in society instead of ostracizing them feels like it helps prevent them from reoffending.
Can NYPD police officers even reasonably afford living in NYC?
What you describe sounds like an amateur hour Keystone cops level of surveillance. Or some dirty cops doing some shady stuff. A real surveillance would be so much more professional. Depending on the budget/case/interest, they use multiple cars in the pursuit. Some cars are in front, some are behind the subject. They rotate positions so that the same car isn't in the same position all the time. There are so so many other techniques available as well that isn't just conjecture.
Most of these seem substantially more risky than a credit card though.
No, but you'll definitely get charged with false imprisonment if a judge decides your citizen's arrest was unwarranted.
did you just exit a time portal from the 1920s or something? women have incredible amounts of power in contemporary US politics.
> The only fix is to have police on the highway randomly pulling over trucks, and checking that the driving license of the actual driver matches who the computer thinks is the driver.

This is super, super common. Interestingly enough, if your federal scores (FMCSA ratings) drop too low, the police are obliged to stop the truck. Needless to say, this is not conducive to a prosperous future in trucking.

More generally, this will keep happening until drivers start getting paid for their time at pickup/dropoff. Right now, the suppliers can basically just ignore the driver for as long as they want, as it doesn't cost them anything. The driver, however, is capped at 10 hours driving or 14 hours total, so they have to lie and pretend to sleep when at a destination.

Truckers are basically where instant delivery meets the cold, hard realities of physical existence.
Memory model experts: if you define the constants in the way this code has, will they be contiguous in memory? Or would it be better to allocate these in an aligned(64) array?
Reminds me of the stories I'd heard about Toronto cops using their lights and sirens to clear a path to Tim Horton's. Which I found mildly surprising in Toronto's case, not at all surprising in NYC's.
Snowflake is easily the best alternative. It's a little expensive, but it just works.
I really wish hn would ban posts on ChatGPT /s.

Seriously though this site could do with a filter like the major subreddits.
It's a long standing goal of mine to put together a distro with the system management aspect of NixOS, the isolation of bubblewrap and the lightness of Alpine. I'm gonna start this project when I have time™.
Actually, energy storage by weight is not as big a deal for electric cars. Regenerative braking can recover most of a vehicles kinetic energy, which is where the weight dependent energy goes. This is why several hybrids get better fuel economy in city driving than highway, the biggest losses are due to aero which increases nonlinearly with speed.

Otherwise yes, it's important to find something better without sacrificing on any of those metrics.
> They even _publicly threatened_ the children of the previous mayor.

I'm curious to learn more. Do you have a source?
How are account permissions handled on the host machines that are relinquishing control to outside users?
I mean, what prevents a Malicious user pasting in a devastating command into your terminal if they are running under your privileges? Or a mistaken user copy and pasting a bad command?
Something has to pay for the AI Race they are losing right now.
> It would be an AI deciding that it needs to turn every bit of available matter on earth into computational power in order to cure cancer, or figure out a way to stop humans from fighting each other, or to maximize the profit of GOOG, and being so good at planning and deceiving us that by the time we figured out what it was doing, it was way, way too late.

That's how AIs worked in outdated science fictions.
Current one don't have a bunch of mathematical rules that they follow to literally, but try to model what a human would write by statistical means with less logical capability.
> and several other ways besides?

As of March 2023, there are 422 operable power reactors in the world. Additionally, there are 58 reactors under construction and 104 reactors planned [1]

We've had nuclear plants for over 50-60 years now. We've also had nuclear reactors in ships, submarines etc.

How many of your amazing spy-novel-level scenarios have happened in reality?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...
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We are also commited to keeping it open source and have all the features in a pro subsription that are in the open source version.

It supports .pdf, .txt, .md, .rst

It also has few extensions for Discord and chrome
The parent comment did not claim to have let the person into the building themselves.
A TV can usually be controlled quite effectively by a parent (if they choose to do so). Access to the internet can not be controlled in the same way. Taking it away completely is often not desirable, fine tuning access is not feasible even for tech-literate parents. Hence a greater responsibility to confirm the age of the consumer should fall on the party making the content in question available.

This is basically the same reasoning why it is legal for parents to buy cigarettes and store them at home, but shop owners can be held liable if they do not check the age of people that they sell cigarettes to.
Twitter to Exempt 10000 Most-Followed orgs from $1000/month Verified-Status fee
Congress is going to make laws and policies based on what people say. People should be much more careful when saying things to congress.
Yes, the thought came up but didn’t implement yet. Thanks for the feedback.
Yep, practices such as this have even been memorialized in song lyrics ex. Six Days on the Road.
I'm assuming Toyota and Honda are hedging more than the other companies because they have the luxury of doing so. They both have well-earned reputations for making the most reliable ICE vehicles on the road. Ford, GM, Nissan, and BMW have the opposite reputation. Maybe the don't see this generation of EVs as a worthwhile investment and/or feel they can catch up rapidly when the need is greater and not need to invest so much before that point.

Stellantis is in the odd group who is well-behind the EV curve and makes unreliable ICE vehicles.
No surprise that the amount of ignorance in this thread is breathtaking.
Maybe something like the onexplayer 2 (https://onexplayerstore.com/products/onexplayer-2-amd%C2%AE-...) ?

Personally i don't really fancy removable controller as they seam to add a lot of mechanical complexity and bulk to console design.
> It seems obvious that of the 120 million people who weren’t motivated to vote

Could be true, but it's certainly not "obvious". There are myriad reasons (especially in the USA) why people might not vote that nothing to do with their political opinions (ideology or intensity). I am sure that a significant number of the 120 million non-voters were "not motivated", but not all of them. And of the "not motivated", it is hard to know the real reasons why and what it means. Some of them, for example, would never vote, regardless of who ran or what the platforms were. Maybe some of them would vote for radical progressive if there was one with credible chance of winning. Maybe some of them would vote for a blatantly Mussolini-inspired candidate. Either way, it isn't obvious that motivation was the reason to not vote for all of them and it certainly isn't clear that they are more likely to be "latent conservatives".
This is what I call a load-bearing "just". People don't "just". Getting people to change their workflows and habits is difficult. And they certainly won't do it for the single person who decided to opt out of common communications channels. It'll be up to you to actively maintain that relationship. After all, you're the one that opted out of the social contract.

I've encountered this everywhere, even with myself. I'm bad at keeping in touch to begin with. Anyone decided not to use normal means to communicate with me are likely to get missed among the hundred plus other people I know.

I'm not on Facebook, so I'm left out of the majority of my family's communication. The only reason I know anything is I regularly call my parents to get the summary. (It's also a good excuse to call. We always have something to talk about.)
Of those 5 things, only 1 has never been used as a weapon to kill someone.
Really good read. Well balanced. // someone in faang
> As soon as word gets out that flouting these rules is career-ending, then the industry will probably mostly regulate itself. Seems pretty easy to solve this problem...

This has already happened, there's a reason most trucking companies last less than 18 months.
Study links transportation noise to higher risk for suicides
>Here's a classic for you, one of the early incidents which lead to this kind of regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Bradford_sweets_poisoning

I don't see how said regulation would have helped in this case, the shop owner simply mistook fake sugar for arsenic, it's not like he decided to sell arsenic-flavored candies.
> an agency which _already has that piece of paper_

Sooo... the IRS knows that you installed solar panels last year and will be taking an energy credit for them? They know how much bitcoin you sold? How much mortgage interest you'll be deducting? The strike price of the stock options you exercised in your private company, and their current fair market value?

There's a bajillion variables that go into filing a tax return, and only you are the one that knows all of them, and sometimes not even then! This idea that the government "already knows" how much you owe in taxes is a complete fiction.
I’m using it, and I really like it. I’ve been using FreeBSD as my main operating system for more than two decades. Though I’m fairly OS agnostic, I keep a copy of Linux and Windows just in case. I accept its limitations(Bluetooth) and I think it’s great software
> At least GPT hasn’t killed anyone yet.

Hard to tell, given that…

(0) newspapers apparently rename things for clicks: https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/430098/belgian-man-com...

(1) him being a hypocrite tells you a mistake has been made, not which of the contradictory positions is wrong.

My resolution is: GPT isn't the only AI, and Musk is pretty open about wanting to put FSD AI into those androids of his, so if the Optimus AI was as good as Musk sells it as being, it would absolutely be covered by this.

(2) how do you even compare the fatality rates here?

GPT doesn't move, and stationary Teslas aren't very dangerous, so miles-per-death seems a poor choice.

User-hours per death? Perhaps, but I don't know how many user-hours either of them have had yet.

And then (3), while I don't really trust self-promotional statistics, those are the only ones I have for Tesla, which says that switching it on increased the distance between accidents: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

Better sources appreciated, if anyone has them! :)

(4) finally, as this isn't just about GPT but all AI: how much of the change in the USA's suicide rate since the release of Facebook can be attributed to the content recommendation AI that Facebook uses? What share of culpability do they and Twitter bare for the Myanmar genocide thanks to imperfections in the automation of abuse detection and removal? Did the search AI of Google and YouTube promote conspiracies, and if so how much blame do they get for the deaths proximally caused by anti-vaccination? And in reverse, over-zealous AI have seen fraud where it did not exist, and people have committed suicide as a result: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399721/uk-post-office-s...
and or there's a library to do XYZ. and you just want to know how to use it. or what library is available to do xyz.

I also use it to tell what the weird error text means given this snippet of code.
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Hi, we are developing an application - something like TikTok, only there are images, but with several unique features. For example, a neural network will generate images specifically for the tastes of the user. And we don't have money for marketing haha. This application will be useful for those who are looking for inspiration.
And do you have any ideas how to promote applications without spending money on marketing?
Unfortunately, this is simply not the case, as much as I hate it. I've worked on several custom ISAs and processors (mostly at companies shipping custom AI accelerators), and after sufficient explanation of the ISA to chat gpt, it was able to write machine learning kernels that did indeed run on our architecture. It is an impressive piece of technology, as much as I hate to admit
(Not who you responed to)

Just to argue against there being no benefit, I have a cognitive impairment that occasionally puts me in an altered state, a delirium to varying degrees. camelCase is much more difficult to read at that point, so I can get confused ridiculously easily. I tend leave a bunch of comments and then step away, but sometimes I can work well through it; things like horrendous variable names/regexs will throw me. I default to snake_case but compile over when I share the code.

This is my unique situation and predilection to being able to read one form more easily than another, but it does indeed help me.
Most? Corrupt county sheriffs are a tale as old as time. I don't know why people try to give a pass to non-big city policing with a brush off like this.
Food that largely wasn’t even invented or popularized there. Italy’s only heritage is a lie.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273586
Polynomials with the coefficients defined in the sin and cos arrays (and likely in the referenced literature).
I think perhaps this is a little more developer and creatives focussed as opposed to business meeting focussed al la zoom and I suspect and it’s inferred from what they’ve focussed on (optimization, multi screen, 60fps) that this will be more performant than zoom. That said I am yet to try it but zoom is pretty much down there at the bottom of screen sharing tools I would want to use daily…
There wasn’t much mentioned about security but again it’s probably more secure than zoom
AI? Or medical equipment malfunctions?
And I confess to have done that, to achieve exactly those expected consequences... :-)
> syntactic sugar

To be fair, all languages are syntactic sugar over asm which is s-s over CPU machine code. A mental model is just that: a model for something physical that's in your head. FP or OOP are both mental models for programming in nearly any language. Some languages have first-class FP or OOP features, and some don't, but you can tack-on either of these, and others, to nearly any language you want to. It's really dumb to look down on others choice of mental model if it works for them. I have seen successful projects that were designed around both OOP and FP models.
What it means is the police exist to protect capital not individuals. They're there to protect the system
AWS Spot instance prices are going wild: https://twitter.com/jonathannorris/status/164072721401353011...
Ideally you’d used Parquet or ORC if querying from Athena/Trino/Presto. Since they are columnar formats you will enjoy considerably faster queues and lower query costs for most query patterns other than “select *…” since the query engine can just retrieve the columns needed for your query instead of the entire row.
I tend to think people who are out to profit from AI, like to push the powerful and dangerous narrative. They want the notoriety.
You can just click the 'hide' button next to the post
It's sad to live in a society where a new tool that does your work for you, faster, is seen as a problem rather than a opportunity. I'm also a bit puzzled about the proposed solution.

If you, say, get 80% of your salary after you lose your job, but lose that benefit when you start working again, then you are effectively taxed 80% of your new income. So financially, you don't have much of an incentive to look for work. An alternative would obviously be UBI, where you may earn less (because of general higher taxes to pay everyone an UBI), but what you earn in addition you can mostly keep.
Do we know how it compares to https://pop.com/?
As for reaching the limits of Scratch, that depends on what you think the limits are. It's amazingly versatile and surprisingly powerful. I teach at Code Clubs and am constantly encountering children (and even teachers) that believe Scratch is good for making a cat walk across the screen but not so much above and beyond this. To counter this I made my own projects to demonstrate what can be achieved (though not necessarily what "should" be achieved). These vary from accurate reproductions of arcade games (Mr Do, Scramble, Galaga, etc) through to ports of classics (z-code adventures including Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide, etc through to Beneath the Steel Sky) and even a fully working BBC Micro emulator that plays most original Disk Images. You can view these projects at https://www.rokcoder.co.uk - you really can create very impressive projects using native Scratch
I suppose if you are already coding on your phone it could be an upgrade. I find the touch keyboard to be pretty basic, but it does have all the symbols and special characters visible like on a physical keyboard. Once you get used to the double trackpad and hot keys, I think the coding experience could be maybe even better than a phone.

For real coding plugging in a dock and going real keyboard, mouse and monitor would be a must for most.
Yep. Every time a truck is parked, that trucker is away from home and also not making money. They almost universally hate the limits. Of course it's also in the collective best interest to not have massive trucks with tens of thousands of lbs of cargo driven by exhausted drivers.
Which cities were those, that started to follow through on defunding?

Cities that increased funding are also experiencing the crime spike. It's a national phenomenon. Also one that apparently police can't prevent because, again, more police haven't prevented it.
> That said, I agree with you that patients who need these drugs should get them. I had to get emergency surgery a few years ago and they also gave me morphine, oxycodone and fentanyl at the hospital. I find it hard to imagine how awful the experience would have been without medication.

Almost no one is suggesting this medication should be banned. A significant driver of the problem was that Purdue pushed heavily for 12 hour dosing periods despite knowing that the medication wore off in only 8 hours for a non-negligible number of patients. Their motivation for this was explicitly financial.

Patients were faced with following the dosing periods Purdue were strong-arming which meant enduring 4 hours of pain, finally salved by an addictive opiate or taking the medication more frequently than prescribed, running out early, and exposing many of them to black market alternatives.
Where is your evidence for that?
I'm sure it's possible to conceive of a pathological hardware architecture where bubble sort is faster than insertion sort on small inputs.
I don't think that's necessarily proof against the Bayesian brain. It seems reasonable that the brain is also using its statistical models to assess the relevance of new evidence. So it's not just "new evidence, I need to update" but more like "new evidence, how likely is this true? I'll update according to the magnitude of the likelihood."
Yes, it is difficult to maintain. That might be a good moment to consider a proper graph database!
> It's probably the same thing as with writing text. If you find starting from a blank page is anxiety-producing, a page of generated text may be useful even if you end up rewriting a lot of it.

This is a pretty cogent insight, I much prefer having a draft of, for example, an email and then completely rewriting it, rather than starting an email from scratch. I'm not sure why, but it makes it seem much more approachable to me. That being said, I have found GPT-4 code not useful for anything but boilerplates or small functions. It often gets large blocks of code so wrong that it is just much faster to write it from scratch.

What I have found useful so far is asking for a commented outline of what I'm asking for with just variable names filled in, but no implementation. It often gets that correct, and then I do the implementation correct.
This post is not just a rant, by the way.

It may be useful for other people like me who question themselves whether they are idiots or maybe Unicode is really developed by 14-year teenagers.
If the question was "Would you support a strong leader who might make some unpopular decisions that would make America great again?", and a lot of people said yes, would call them anti-authoritarians or authoritarians?
I haven't compared, but something like Kùzu is probably much more performant for a lot of use cases because it implements Worst-Case Optimal Joins.

But I think Postgres is likely to get these improvements in a few years too.
Yes, I suspect the AI finds all answers just as easy/hard.
Whereas for humans certain programming tasks are orders of magnitude harder than others.
The industry and drivers love ELDs because most cops can't be bothered. Before they could just say "show me your log" and they read down the page; now they have to fuss with memory cards or figuring out the UI of the control unit and they cannot be bothered.

The laziness of the American policeman knows no bounds except when they think someone has drugs or cash on them.
If the government wants a tax code complicated enough to require professional services to comply with it, then it is on them to provide those professional services. End of story.

Unless the government is going to simplify the tax code (hint, they're not) then they must provide the services necessary for me to comply with it.
I love the steam deck, but if you aren;t really using it what's the point. I am sure there might some indie/small project somewhere who would have better use of your 400-600 than valve. Plus you can get some tax write off:)
There are standardized ways to check age based on national IDs and a company worth billions in venture capital like OpenAI can certainly afford to implement them. Alternatively they could just not publish a batshit crazy language model just because they see an opportunity to juice their valuation and spend a bit more time and money developing it so that it is reasonably safe to use for minors.
Yes, I’ve had that problem myself as well. I’ve built it in React and frankly I don’t know how to make the ‘return’ button work. But there is a solution for everything!
Is there a variant of Cunningham's law where you intentionally include a funny typo in your first sentence to get extra upvotes?
> It's Gary Marcus "neural networks don't really work" suddenly discovering they do, and literally trying to shut down research in that area while keeping his prefered research areas funded

Gary Marcus has been aware that neural nets work for a while now, but he is only in the spotlight for his contrarian take, if he stops having a contrarian take he disappears, because it's not like he is producing any research worth of discussion otherwise. So you can expect him to stay contrarian forever. What might have been a genuine take initially is now his job, that's how he makes money, and it's so associated with him that it's probably his identity as well.