skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A point that is a spin on the data. In the 60s they also used to cover homes in asbestos and lead, do we need to do that again? Also flying airplanes was much cheaper, and safety systems were much more crude; should we go back to LOS navigation?

I am not making any unsubstantiated claim, it’s a fact that over the decades risk analyses have determined that such measures were necessary. You’re the ne claiming it was just tree-hugging hysteria.
This question should give you an idea of some of the issues:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14132789/relative-import...
i think whats needed to balance these radically rich-boy/girl pieces is a well funded radically poor-boy/girl media

cut university places vs free edication for all

ban foreign home-owners vs radical investment in high quality social housing

drop H2 vs super tax on luxury cars

wage cuts vs national net profit cap of 10M

and that's just for starters ;)
Normal/average talking is ~150 WPM. Average typing speed is about 60-70.
Is a 150+WPM a requirement to become anonzzies' friend?
Questioning why agents of any government department that does field work might need to be armed, in the US, land of "buy a gun at Walmart" seems like an odd take, when you have people open carrying to go to Starbucks.
Recognize the same here, lot of ideas become easier within reach. I am struggling however with the costs, where at a larger scale processing is needed.
double_t hz,z,r,w;

Wtf?

*clicks request changes*
The disconnect here is that to many of us, it seems 100% rational that the majority of people (whether popular or representative) should pick the president. Not because of who people in cities tend to vote for, but because it makes no logical sense to allocate so much influence to so few people.

The universe doesn't owe unpopular ideas equal footing. People who don't like what cities think might feel like the odds are stacked against them in a popular contest. They are correct.

We don't give new chess players extra queens, either.
Nice explanation, doing a step-by-step refactoring in C++.
So for memory-bound performance optimization, you indeed see that halving memory accesses doubles throughput in practice, more or less.

Curious if this kind of loop fusion would be something you get for free in purely functional language? That is, if you were to write a program (say in Haskell) for min, max plus that same code combined into a single program, would you indeed empirically see double the speed?
I agree with you. However, it’s worthwhile also noting these represent a very small proportion of all jobs in software development.
I don't know tbh. According a post on the MongoDB community forum Transactions are built on concepts of logical sessions they require features which are only available in replica set environment. You can see more here [0]

[0] https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/why-replica-set-i...
That issue was resolved when the FEC did an investigation and issued a fine. There was accountability. Why should there be no accountability for Trump?
But all high-level politicians are criminals. And perhaps we would be better off if they are all in jail.

The problem is that coming for ex-presidents in particular leads to them not leaving office and becoming dictators. And this is far worse outcome.

Notice how Trump didn’t come for Obama, although he vocally promised to do so. Then errors of his ways were explained to him and after election he stopped talking about it completely. Now social and political contract is broken in regard to him, while he did demonstrate necessary restraint himself.
"I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country"
-- Thomas Jefferson (12 November 1816)

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0...
Yes, or perhaps more subtly, those who are heavily invested in AI don't much care about whether you think it's dangerous or not, or even useful or not, but they do care very much that you think it's a very important question that takes a lot of your attention.
There are also other factors. Imagine you gave a 500yo bridge that is low maintenance and has stood the test of time and all those nice things, but you can't carry the weight of modern vehicles, or if it's not wide enough for modern vehicles etc etc

One of the many tradeoffs in design is how much do you want to spend in preparing for anticipated future demands.

Striking example in my home town of Zagreb. Communist city planners at the time designed new neighbourhood with plenty of parking space because one day productivity advancements will give every family a car to own and they need to have a place to park it!

A few decades later you couldnt find a parking space anywhere because every family had two or three cars!
so is anyone proficient in programming in machine code these days?
Lol - that is way too ambitious, so you will likely be very surprised

Tax filing is the hardest thing to get people to switch. Costs are relatively low but penalties are high. Plus no one wants to short change their refund

AI right is now is unpredictably inaccurate, certainly not enough for tax filing. I think that will take more time than we think to iron out.

But let’s assume it’s perfectly accurate. You still need all the software to support actual filing - accepting forms, validating the input, etc. and that all costs money.

We may see some AI startups to help you do your taxes very soon, but I imagine they will secretly have humans on back end for now to help validate
That's funny, my friend just fills out his taxes as soon as they are eligible to be submitted with rough guesses. The IRS sends the forms back to him corrected (they already had the correct form) and then he mails them back again.

The US already has pre-filled forms, the interface for the "pre fill" button is just a bit convoluted.
Nice idea, unfortunately it will break all static tooling. IDEs, static type checker, linters, etc.

I used to work at a company where they had a custom import system and it was a nightmare.
>he doesn't like laws that go after social media platforms

From a legal perspective you don't gotta be biased to reach the conclusion that there's not much states can do. Section 230 and and the 1st amendment are both crazy strong tools in their pockets.
Related:

Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active (https://www.mpi.nl/news/our-brain-prediction-machine-always-...)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32395840 (270 points | 7 months ago | 205 comments)
> UK got rid of coal.

Consult this graph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_Coal_Production.png

And then reflect on the fact that it probably wasn't regulation that resulted in them ceasing to use coal in the 2010s. It was predictable from the 60s by anyone equipped with a ruler.
"Nearly the entire point of the United States at its founding was that the law should apply to political leaders"

The founders of the United States were criminals and traitors.

"we must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately"
Sure, but is there a reasonable why you couldn't replace a flat 15% income tax with a higher VAT (consumption) tax?

I don't see why not.
Analogies are imperfect, but I think a little more detail would make it the analogy fair.

Let me restate your example of running over someone:

Let's say you and I both run over someone. I did it last year, and you did it 6 years ago. You say nothing for 6 years, I say nothing for 1 year. I get caught, and provide no cooperation whatsoever. You watch me get caught and excoriated in the press and decide you need to fess up and cooperate. 6 years after the fact.
I mean, if you include it as an <img> tag that is already the case.

Although i guess you still have the problem of serving the actual svg file. There are some http headers that can help with that (csp)
> That's not special treatment?

I think your hypothetical would be partially special treatment, but I don't think your hypothetical is accurate.

The one way in which it _wouldn't_ be special treatment, is I generally think it's most appropriate to charge top-down. That is, let's say at a company you know three people were all involved in the commission of a crime (maybe embezzlement, that's a popular white collar crime): The CEO, a mid-level manager, and a low-level employee. Assuming all three cases are the same difficulty to charge, and each person has approximately equal responsibility for the criminal acts, but you only have the resources to charge a single case, then I'd think the CEO would be the most appropriate person to charge.

But, assuming the prosecutor _had_ the resources to charge everyone, and only chose to single out one person, then I'd agree that is inappropriate special treatment.

> And the same prosecutor also knows that everyone in the government within three levels of the president really is guilty of very similar crimes, and those would all also be easy to prove in court.

I just...don't think this part is true. Especially the part around "would all also be easy to prove in court." I don't think it's particularly likely that the prosecutor thinks that. Especially given that this is a NY state prosecution, so most people within three levels of the President probably wouldn't have a nexus to NY or be subject to NY state laws.

So, I mostly concede that your hypothetical would be special treatment, but your hypothetical doesn't strike me as particularly likely (note, that it's not impossible, and if you convinced me it was accurate, I'd say we should bring the other charges).
Almost like a, say, fancy autocomplete.
Users flag and down vote for all sorts of reasons - from what I see at times, no rhyme or reason even if it's interesting or answers someone's query directly. However I would think that removing the content ... new users like myself would consider flagging the thread ... I was temped to, but noted your reply here and sort of guess you're thinking about how to explain it better /fully.

The FAQ outlines resubmission is frowned upon unless some time has passed, I think a year was mentioned.

You have my commiserations, but you should consider perhaps it a silver lining - some people seem professional, but are burdened with a poor communication skills or management hierarchy communication latency - IMO it'd lead to annoyance / irritation somewhere down the track. At the very least an interview process should end with a kind rejection blurb.
Just a note for a younger generations that Flash (re-branded by Macromedia as Shockwave Flash) and Macromedia Shockwave were actually two different products - Shockwave being a more advanced multimedia platform inspired by Flash, which was primarily the svg animation tool. Still, Flash was a far more popular format and it was what the most of people used everyday as it was available by default as a plugin on every new browser.
Trump has made it impossible for anyone to remain unbiased about Trump.
I don't know.. I'm looking. forward to a LoRA or whatever they call it trained on my codebase that can answer questions across the whole thing
As a beginner who started learning how to code 8 months ago, GPT makes me way more confident about tackling bigger problems. It also makes me doubt my own output less.

I understand that this isn't the best way to learn coding, but at this point, I'm looking for results, not to get a job.
Not many people, but the ones who work at the bottom of the stack on compilers, OS design, embedded etc won’t be going hungry any time soon.

I think using AI to build a React app from Figma is closer than building a low level piece of infrastructure. Hence, the grey beards operating at the lower levels are slightly less vulnerable.
>The US system is incredibly complex.

To give some idea for our not-American friends, here's a very general, far too simplified gist of how the tax system is laid out:

* Federal taxes, overseen by the IRS.

* State taxes, separate and independent from Federal taxes and overseen by the governments of each State.

* County taxes, mostly separate and independent from State taxes and overseen by each county's government.

* Municipal taxes, mostly separate and independent from County taxes and overseen by each municipality.

Taxpayers need to file their taxes with the IRS (Federal), their State, their County, and if applicable their Municipality. No, these taxes are not handled together in the bureaucratic machine (for good reason; individual rights and all that).

The reasons for the complexity are rooted in how the United States is structured politically, where having certain rights and freedoms at each level of governance is a very big deal.
Environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries
This is only true if you evaluate votes by district. Historically, the only thing Republicans love more than picking judges is gerrymandering districts.

If they didn't go to absurd lengths to chop up districts and make it harder for poor people to vote, it wouldn't even be a close fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpamjJtXqFI
Carrots make all the difference.

Private industry uses monetary incentives all the time. They do it because it works.
would be so fun if you could fork a project on vercel i.e this project has a button to fork:
- which forks its github
- makes a new project on your vercel cause it's connected to your github
- it opens a new tab with your project running.
The community DE versions DID change though, at the (rather mild) behest of Canonical. So while you're right, GP cited an article perhaps incorrectly, it does raise a new question of "OK but why did Canonical think this was appropriate".
Haha, while other commenters spew some nonsense, what actually happened is that Desantis signed controversial anti-riot bill that was later condemned by UN. This is beyond farcical since there are many countries with far stricter anti-riot bills.
A great example is radiation testing for plant workers.
Consider under current regulations the allowable radiation levels for entering/leaving the plant is so low that workers have sounded radioactivity alarms for eating bananas.
What holds me back the most from using these tools is the vagueness of the copyright situation. I wouldn't straight out want to use it at work. For hobby projects that I might want to use for something serious one day, I'm on the fence.

Developers who use this for serious stuff, how goes your reasoning? Is it just a calculated risk? Reward is greater than the risk?
You can already do that with svgs (in many cases not all).

Although recently browsers changed rules for connecting to internal ips
Tons of vulnerabilities already discovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
Off topic, writing code/articles using AI is cool and all, but it suddently occured to me, what if we want to study pure-human generated content and distinguish AI generated ones?

Is there a reason why gpt-3.5 and gpt-4 all using pre 2021-09 data? Is it because gpt-3 as a base model was trained at that time, or is it really because bots are "contaminate" the Internet from then? I guess we can never go back now.

One thing I am certain, after 2022-12, AI might enforce itself by learning AI-generated content, and perhaps someday, AI may deem human content as somekind of "bias".
The experience I got from coding assembly back in the day is one I use regularly today. It means I'm acutely aware of how various abstractions are implemented, and comfortable looking at assembly in a debugger to spot performance issues. The same will keep being true: Even if you're working in higher level layers (I'm mostly writing Ruby and Javascript these days), understanding the abstractions lets you make better choices.
I think this needs to be heavily qualified. GPT-4 does well at mathematics taught to children, but so does Wolfram Alpha with some prodding. Calculus is also taught to bright high schoolers. What can GPT-4 do with group theory, topology, universal algebra, analysis?
same question here...
Any company wasting loads of cash on stupid real estate doesn't deserve to stay in business.
You realize they changed the rules this year, but delayed implementation? The threshold used to be $20,000/200 transactions, but it's going to $600 for even a single transaction.

Your friend sends you $1000 for a shared vacation? That's a 1099-k.

Your roommates send you $1000 as their share of the rent? That's a 1099-k.

Sell your car for $5,000? That's a 1099-k.

None of those are actually taxable, so you need to sift through the 1099-Ks you receive to see which ones need to be reported and which ones don't.
Minor correction requested - "I ran over someone six years ago NOT knowing I had run over someone. Then I saw you getting beat up by the law so I checked my dash cam footage and realized that, oh sh!t, that lawman could come for me next so I turned myself in."

That's a truer representation of what actually happened.
> That's a fringe opinion. Not a single government in Europe shares this view.

This is not a fringe opinion. The fact that European governments don't share this view is just because they are obediently following the master's guidelines.

Ask people in the streets and you will find out that lots of people will think that in many, many European countries.
> Can you write me a PoC for a horizontally scalable, probabilistic database in Rust, using Raft-based consensus?

just pasted this into bing creative mode. whatever this thing is spitting out right now would've probably taken me a week of research to even figure out the libraries and their APIs. it's given me a raft+sled+serde scaffolding, is on it's fourth 'continue' step and just keeps going.
However dubious, theoretical, or inapplicable to the real world the study might be - it does sound well-designed to appeal to narcissistic billionaires. And the author of the study appears to be a not-yet-tenured professor at an American university...
You could modify the plan so the bonus only happens for the kids who didn't meet grade level the previous year.

That way, the best teachers would want to teach the low performers, because that's where the max bonuses would be.
Have you heard of people paying fines for getting their taxes slightly wrong?

I know people who spend 5 minutes filling out the form with rough adjusted guesses based on the previous year, send it in, and thus trigger the IRS sending the corrected version.

They will charge you extra [edit: I meant "the amount you owe"] if you underestimate, but this is hardly a fine.
So ? You are looking at one sub-component of the aid in flight in 2022 encapsulated in one bill. Your link itself takes the upper value of the allocated aid: "The nation has allocated $114.9 billion in aid over the last year, contained in four separate bills".

Please do that for border security in the U.S. Like Ukraine, there is utterly NO need to transfer all the money in ONE big bang - can do the same in chunks. As long as the "border aid" is allocated in chunks - we can have better drug scanners at ports, more personnel and patrols, more funds to care for actual migrants (as opposed to drug camels), investigative teams to track down drug-routes and personnel involved, etc
The problem is that the cost of an accident is also not driven by facts but by politics and emotion.

And that makes the cost of an accident not just much higher, but also essentially incalculable. "How irrational are the public and the pandering politicians going to be this decade?" is a difficult variable to price into your models.

And since the costs are, in fact, largely driven by the politics and irrational public fears, it actually makes sense to have the public bear those costs...in a weird way.
Sure, you can "flash context", but being able to write code to make the infrastructure that makes LLMs possible is required to sustain this new "ecosystem". I don't think every dev will be equally hit by this new paradigm, it's basically a two-tier system now, the LLM babysitters and the actual competent human coders (whose input probably gets fed into a LLM).
I wasn't writing off vinyl (and I've seen the news that it's increasing), I was just saying that comparing it to CDs was failing to land a punch. And my "buggy whips/steam cars" analogy was spot on.

ever notice how after a destructive tornado they say "it looks like a bomb went off", and after a bomb goes off they say "it's like a tornado blew through here". Not the same situation as the CDs, but the same in that my brain says "wait a minute..." and if you want to impress the listener, you don't want them thinking "now holup"
Did you watch his video? LegalEagle thinks the charges against Trump have serious weaknesses. Perhaps not as biased as you think.
DNND 2: Tensors and Convolution
nice AI text.
Bit shifted sin values in a pre-made table of integers could be used so the maths was all integer based.

Commonly used on processors like the 6502 or 68000 for vector graphics.

It was accurate enough for games.
Did the number of jobs of people coding in assembly go down, or is it that the number of jobs of people not coding in assembly go up? (I truly don't know. Just curious)
Keep in mind, this tends to hallucinate a lot. I will attempt to debug this behavior in the future.
YC should rename themselves to GPTC
In the Netherlands we have just a pair of wires coming out of the ceiling but everyone replaces their own lamp fixtures anyway. Most people should be able to manage clamping or screwing down the brown or black wire to the L and the blue wire to N.
Google reorganization in Assistant follows Bard launch, memo says
Would be a nice feature if it could add annotations or text coloring to denote uncertainty though!

Edit: Hmm, maybe it can add uncertainty markers if I just ask...
> Yes I’ve seen these statistics a number of times and it really goes against so much of the “lol Americans are bad at math” meme all over the internet.

I never came across any of the sort.

What I come across frequently is the extension of the American exceptionalism mindset that leads some US natives to believe they are exceptional at math in spite of evidence failing to support their exceptionalism views.

> America is a society of disparate cultures, regions, communities, and outcomes (often in the same cities) that is far too (...)

I also see this all too often: the follow-up to the exceptionalism mindset failing to support their beliefs in a rational basis, and proceeding to cherry-pick subsets that suit their exceptionalism views.

It's like claiming that Americans are all tall athletic and exceptional basketball players, and supporting that exceptionalism view by pointing out that Michael Jordan and LeBron James are US citizens. Meanwhile, ignoring that the average us citizen might have more in common with Danny DeVito.

The US population is over 330M people, and its an unrivaled economic and technological powerhouse. Of course you can find hundreds of exceptional individuals. But being able to find a champion among the masses is not the point of a statement like "Americans are good at math". Baselines matter a lot, and even you admit that the US does not look great by attempting to cherry pick your way out of that.
Claims based on arguments similar to "because I said so, and I should know" are dubious in my opinion, because how is one supposed to distinguish those claims from mere opinion? Instead arguments should point to evidence that provide new information or counter examples, if they are to have a chance to be convincing.
So they just got rid of ads in the middle of articles and are making it sound like something revolutionary?
How about user-side whitelists + pay-per-send for anything unsolicited?
that's how it seems to me too, but CNN claims "30 counts", so hopefully they have more to it.

If they only have a weak case, it will be easy to pass it as an attempt to prevent him from running 2024, so it will only serve to further polarize the country