skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Groupon initially was great.

Then it was great, except only for regular-priced options and not available on weekends or holidays.

Then people realized that, instead of getting a Groupon for a new cafe or restaurant or kickboxing studio and then becoming a repeat customer, they could just keep getting Groupons for a new cafe or restaurant or kickboxing studio every week and never have to pay full price for it again.

Then actual regular customers got fed up with the businesses getting a huge influx of entitled assholes who didn't care about the place or the people, who all rushed in on the last possible day and demanded that they all get their booking that they waited 8 months to redeem.

I loved it at first and tried out a lot of new places that I continued to visit, and some that I didn't, but after the honeymoon period it was just an absolute disaster for everyone - the businesses, the existing regulars, and the people who realized that they paid money for something they won't have time to use.
Yes, but the downside of your schema is that the distinction between nodes and edges is somewhat muddled.

Presumably, all nodes would have nulls in both fromId and toId, but the schema doesn't enforce that. The schema also allows linking edges to other edges.

Don't you think this is a bit too much flexibility if the intention is to model a graph?
I really hope this isn't a start of a trend, but I have to wonder if the recent CarPlay taking over the entire car thing that Apple announced is kinda related?

Every once in a while I end up renting a car that doesn't have CarPlay support and it sucks. CarPlay is great and it does what I need (music and directions, with the occasional message) while also keeping everything in sync with my phone.
Tetris Became a Global Phenomenon
Valve should get a free/discounted deck into the hands of every developer over a certain number of sales on steam. This is such a great story!
I'd imagine spy satellites don't always look directly down on their targets. Especially if they want to look at something not directly under its ground track, the satellite would need the ability to look at things off to the side. So that'd enable reading something vertical. Still would need to look at it from the _correct_ angle though.
People have been claiming everything will fall apart for a long time now, we might just as easily have 10 years of growth and AI bots that help us with everything. Who knows!?
I've never been to the US, but I've lived in London for nearly 6 years now.

I don't think I've ever felt threatened in London, and I've been drunk in iffy neighborhoods at 3am _a lot_. What made it feel threatening to you?
Discussed in 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25349068 (195 comments)
Nearshoring companies that hires developers to be assigned to external clients, just acting as brokers.
Kinda sounds to me like the format should just be CSV in the first place, then. If anyone has reasons why they prefer constrained JSON, I'd like to hear it, though. :)
Keep kicking the can down the road until it becomes an unsolvable problem. Great idea!
Not Twain: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/18/know-trouble/. But all similar lines get attributed to him or Abe Lincoln (who btw never said the thing about fooling all of the people some of the time &c.)
The lag on Carplay definitely seems to be the infotainment system, I have a new Corolla and have noticed similar issues (even compared to previous versions). The Mazda implementation is smooth and pretty high framerate.
It's only concerning if you (incorrectly) think the Fed's primary purpose is to make a profit.

They sent $109B to the Treasury in 2021, and $58B in 2022. Some years being a down year isn't shocking.
Ask HN: How do you plan on protecting yourself from being replaced by AIs?
I know, I know, coders aren't getting replaced by AIs...for now, given the exponential rate at which AI is progressing, I'm getting kind of worried about my employability in let's say, 5 years or something.

What would you learn right now to make yourself future proof?

I'm a fullstack web dev, and a bit of a jack of all trades, I'm not sure about which path to follow, I have a basic knowledge of how a few AI algorithms works(nothing really advanced but still more than 99% of people, which isn't really a good benchmark but whatever), I don't know anything besides tech, and if our jobs get automated away, I frankly don't know what I'll do.(maybe I'll just hope I'll have enough money to buy a lodge and a piece of land by then lol)
Cool thanks! I'm amazed at how much can be done in PostGIS (if my SQL queries are good enough...)
Yeah, I mean, who do you call to arrest the cops?
>We never store your code on the server side.

You never store the code, period? Or just never store the folders/files ignored by Refact?
> the Fed now expected by the bond market to pause rate hikes and start cutting rates soon

Both the bond and stock markets have been consistently wrong about this for the last year.
Aren't adaptive optics a thing for telescopes? The giant laser beam might be a bit conspicuous though I suppose (if it even works looking downwards)
For a script with a few dependencies, pyInstaller isn't too bad. I love Python, but it's an interpreted language first and foremost. Distributing Python code is never easy, no matter what you throw at it. Things that are supposed to "just work" almost never work when you need them to on someone else's machine.
Scheme feels really verbose to me. I get that it's 'minimal' and 'elegant' and everything, but then why are all the identifiers so long? I feel like I have to do a lot of typing to get anything done. Maybe it's better if you're using emacs and have good lispy autocomplete, I don't know. But broadly, it makes me feel like the people who developed scheme were working from a very specific definition of 'elegant', and it doesn't align with mine. Janet feels better for that.
They are not allowing Android Auto, either. And I don't see how your complaint differentiates Apple from Google. CarPlay also only works with specialized and approved apps.
> frankly I don't think he is qualified

That might be too naive an opinion, even if you disagree with him, given the fact that he is literally one of the co-founders of the field of AI Safety and has been publishing research about it since early 00s.
Groupon seemed like a great idea at the time, and I used it frequently for deals. What is the business model not working these days?
there are room between huge dep tree and rewriting everything, that's where we should aim

for leftpad, even if I know it's just an example, there's a native String#padStart, and else lodash is pretty small, most mainstream libs have few deps actually
> doesn't prevent you from running for public office

For the vast majority of elected offices, one of the most important qualifications is "registered to vote in the district you are going to represent". Most offices have some age requirement (which might be as simple as "old enough to register to vote") and extremely few had some occupational requirement (like District Attorney has a law degree/license requirement, but Sheriff has no such requirement). When I ran for office in Colorado, failing to be registered to vote in the district you represent was the fastest and most automatic way of getting thrown out of office: no trial, no impeachment, just out you go.

The requirements for President are listed in the Constitution. Getting on the ballot in each state is harder as each state has different requirements.
> Does it gain access to nukes?

No, it becomes part of the decision-making process for deciding whether to launch, as well as part of the analysis system for sensor data about what is going out in the world.

Just like social engineering is the best security hack, these new systems don't need to control existing systems, they just need to "control" the humans who do.
As long as you want to do it

Teenagers aren't really aware of how not learning fucks their chances

I've learned math mostly outside the school.
Yes, we need to think about ways to reduce power. Intelligence isn’t even well-defined for bots.

For most people, AI chat is currently a turn-based game [1] and we should try to keep it that way. Making it into an RTS game by running it faster in a loop could be very bad. Fortunately it’s too expensive to do much of that, for now.

So one idea is to keep it under human supervision. The way I would like AI tools to work is like single-stepping in a debugger, where a person gets a preview of whatever API call it might make before it does it. Already, Langchain and Bing’s automatic search and OpenAI’s plugins violate this principle. At least they’re slow.

AI chatbots will likely get faster. Having some legal minimums on price per query and on API response times could help keep AI mostly a turn-based game, rather than turning into something like robot trading on a stock exchange.

[1] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chats-are-turn-based-game...
Wow, so incredibly wrong an almost all counts.

Concrete currently is the literal opposite of a carbon sink and this will not change anytime soon.

Trains either don't have any of the issues or have them at an incredibly low level. So low that comparing it to car infrastructure its utterly ridiculous to even discuss them.

> That means more cars,

That makes literally 0 sense. Like actually 0. Cars are the single most inefficient way of transport both in terms of space and energy.

Literally anytime you have access to cars you could use the same space for MUCH MUCH more access for buses, metros, trains, bikes or literally anything else.

> high density housing near offices

Yeah and where are all those cars gone be parked? I guess its either in parking lots, making it low density. Or you have to build hugely expensive underground parking garages. And if you go underground, that money would be better invested in something else.
> have a three year CD at 2%. Have I lost money?

Yes. If you sold that CD, you'd sell it for less than par. (EDIT: Check if you have the right to take your money back at par. If you do, it may make sense to call that option and re-invest.)
The large issue is the land where people want to live is already filled, and nobody is allowed to build larger on that land. Houses next to each other can be turned into apartments quickly and easily, but the law won't allow you to do that. In the exurbs houses are on lots large enough for an apartment on their own - and exurbs from the 1970s are not just regular suburbs. Sometimes an investor will buy a house and wait until the others next to it are sold and then turn the 2-6 lots into one apartment. However they are not allowed to do that.
Alcohol's impact on sleep is well documented.

Is the moderate consumption described, a beer or two after work, directly impacting cognitive functions or is it indirectly impacted by sleep?
I'm well aware of this, but the premises, in this case, are true?

What do you take Yudkowsky's false premises to be?
> Never used the mastadon instance, but I'll bet it's very nice.

It will probably get sacked eventually, just like Moznet was. The problem is, this isn't core to their business
> something that can reach goals by solving complex, poorly defined problems within limited resource constraints (including time).

DNN RL agents can do that. Of course you'll wave it away as "not general" or "mouse is obviously better". But you won't be able to define that precisely, just the same you're not able to prove ChatGPT "doesn't really reason".

PS. Oh nevermind, I've read your other comments below.
I so do want to spend my evenings and free time implementing stuff on the grayskull things.
You could say they have left the bargaining stage
I would personally try Snowflake before BigQuery unless I knew BigQuery was cheaper. They do store things in some other cloud but you can choose between the big three.
> The main culprit, according to Valve, is the built-in Chromium-based browser that Steam actually uses to render the Steam store and other bits of the UI. Chrome dropped support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 right around the same time that Microsoft ended support for the operating systems earlier this year. Versions that still work in Windows 7 and 8 will be susceptible to security bugs and, increasingly, rendering bugs and other functional problems as time goes on.
Report from Canada: I might receive something like three spam calls in the past year.

I don't know why my spam dropped so significantly when I moved up to Canada but it was quite dramatic compared to the US. There are periodic waves but I tend to miss out of them - I suspect because Canada works hard to prevent dumb auto-dialers from working.
Typically, you see the logo before you get into the actual car. I would say you can tell by the shape, but some brands share too much in the looks department (cough Kia/Hyundai).
Why do people keep talking about fusion?

Fission literally already provides practically unlimited energy and we discovered all the needed science and most of the needed technology in the 1960s.
Is this correct? I’m guessing you are taking about the US, right? In the country where I live, those types of properties are normally owned by companies that specialise in owning and letting out spaces.

Often the companies buy property themselves, to use (since rents have been so high in he last decade or so). I don’t think banks are over-represented as owners, at least where I live. But I might be wrong.

Why is it that US banks are owning so much commercial real estate?
In-app purchases
The great thing is it can repurpose the code from the old inertial guidance unit since the new one is so close it's basically the same thing. I think that GPT thinks it knows what it's doing.
Nim has an edge over Python as it can compile to C, ObjC, C++, JS. Meaning it can do native FFI in each of those. It can also compile to really fast and small WASM too.

However it takes a long time to accrue enough good wrappers and bindings.
Yes, that’s the big unknown. It’s hard for any sort of anti-establishment populist to emerge. Trump is an example of this: he basically ran against both parties, was rendered ineffective, and they haven’t stopped trying to bury him. Ross Perot, Ron Paul & Bernie Sanders covered similar ground (albeit from different angles) and hit the same wall.
Am I the only one with an uneasy feeling about all these advancements?

Are we going fast or is it just because of the buzz? I have a hard time separating the two.

It’s very exiting and I want to keep being exited. I don’t want to become terrified.
That was the case a few years ago—now you just associate your personal Spotify account with your Tesla driver profile. It auto-switches to the right one based on the driver, which works great!
I'm not sure I'm following - unless this is the description of some concept, I must be missing something here.

> There is a way to write a plain text file so that it looks the same (i.e. appears as plain text) whether it has the .txt extension when it's opened in a text editor and/or Web browser versus whether you rename it to have a browser-associated file extension like .htm or .html and then re-open it in a Web browser.

What is this way? If you rename a plain text file to .htm(l) and open it in a web browser, none of the line breaks will be rendered, and of course there'll be no interactivity. If you add the necessary stuff to the .html file to allow for styling and compiling (more on this below), then when you open it in a text editor, you'll see all that extra markup that markdown tries to minimise (and GHFM somewhat brings back).

> Drag and drop the project source directory onto this README (or click a button to select it from a file picker) ... The project will start automatically building in the background.

How is this expected to work at all? AFAIK web browsers pretty much only use JS (or one of its 'transpiles to' analogues) for any sort of code you can execute in the browser (this also relates to your mention that "Documents opened Web browsers are programmable"), and are pretty heavily sandboxed to prevent running external binaries (e.g. gcc), so any project using any other language would be SOL.
It's not just Gen Z, 79% of all US car buyers would only buy a car with CarPlay: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/22/apple-carplay-could-be-a-tro...

GM will absolutely lose this battle. Idiotic move.
and the ps2 and ps3 linux features dont count either
No bank out there has enough to repay the deposits of all their customers at once, that is just not how (most) banks work.

In other words, you can practically bring down any deposit-taking bank by starting a large-enough bank run. (Except maybe if the central-bank intervenes.)
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No moat, easy to copy. Restaurant and retail partners figured out that low-margin Groupon customers don't convert into normal ones.
Non of that changes the original issue. We are energy limited, we are not limited with anything else.
As an aside, this is a modal editor, so you're supposed to quickly switch modes

But you can also do it in the INS mode but sandwitching the commands in mode shifts, for example, these should work in the INS mode part of your config

[keys.insert]
'C-j' = ['normal_mode','copy_selection_on_next_line','insert_mode'] # Copy selection onto the next line (add cursor ↓)

'C-k' = ['normal_mode','copy_selection_on_prev_line','insert_mode'] # Copy selection onto the previous line (add cursor ↑)
Let Machines Improve Your Code
I wish Ian Henry (the author) wrote all of my technical books. He is both whimsical, but also to the point.

I don't think i'm the biggest fan of Janet, but I really appreciate his writing and may just read the whole book anyways.
Go for the win. It's not too hard to pick up, it builds fast, it runs fast, and cross-compilation is easy.
Outside is boring and, compared to pc gaming, expensive

I feel very sad for you.
AI will replace many tools. If your job is only to use and be a specialist with a particular tool, then be scared. Most jobs are much more than the tools to we use on the job. AI is a new tool, learn how to use it like any other.
I think they would argue the shortsighted plan would be to stick with CarPlay and Android Auto because they are here now and work. The long term plan is to control in-car hardware/software and find ways to generate revenue from it.

Maybe the real money is in services?

It's possible they may sell fewer cars, but make more money overall. The article says they think they can generate $20-$25 billion of subscription revenue by 2030. That's the revenue from about 400,000 vehicles. If their vehicle sales drop by less than 17%, they win.
Sounds like a SRE nightmare. Updates happening when you didn't expect them guarantees problems. I'm starting to get a clearer picture of Canonical now.
Isn't that what memorizing is? Repeating something until you just know it? I don't understand the distinction you're making.
Wow, yeah not gonna buy that new GMC Yukon now.
> Power dynamic changes a bit

Not even a bit. If the officer is never held accountable, they can threaten with their gun and the civilian who wants to pull theirs in response is just going to be legally shot by the threatening officer (and if not, found guilty of murder by a vengeful police department). This really is a problem of accountability, which guns don't bring except in a revolution.
Can you explain why it’s bad if a central bank is in the hole? Like, what bad practical effects does it have?
How does it work in practice if I transfer $2 million from one bank to the other?

Clearly no bank supports withdrawing it in cash, fine. But the transfer should just be a decrement of a number in the first bank and an increment of it in the account on the second bank.

What other effects do I need to think about? (Serious question)
Banks get the property when you cant pay the mortgage.
It _is_ excellent, but it is annoyingly ignorant of integrating with phones. If you have an Android phone you can send and receive texts, but no other notifications come in and nothing else is projected there either. If you have an iPhone, it works _sometimes_ but I am rarely able to reply to messages using voice successfully. I wish it better extended into my phone, but it's largely because of Apple's rules, which I guess aren't Tesla's fault—but are a side-effect of not using carplay.
If you click on the line item "OS Version" (for all 3 platforms), you'll see the "Steam OS Holo" is missing. I suspect the aggregated stat might not be updated properly. For one thing, the top Linux OS is still "Arch Linux 64 bit" at 0.13% when it should be "Steam OS Holo" as you mentioned at 0.254%.
I guess LTO is right there at the moment. Even LiFePo4 batteries are a lot more safer than Li-Ion ones. From what I’ve seen, I would gladly have a LTO pack in my house.
Ask HN: What was the LLM service that counted kids and cupcakes?
I recently saw an LLM website on HN that demonstrated an AI given both an image of a plate of several muffins with two children behind it and a prompt "How many to be fair". The AI was able to understand the premise of the question and count the relevant items and know that the children were splitting the muffins and not the other way around and ultimately output the proper amount of muffins to be fair.

I can't seem to find this post in the sea of LLM hype posts and my google skills are proving unhelpful. Does anyone recall what this website was?
The Fed is projecting rate cuts next year. As of March 22nd, the Fed is projecting a federal funds rate of 4.3 in 2024 and 3.1 in 2025, with 2.5 in the “longer run”.

Hard to say the Fed won’t cut rates when their own projections have them cutting rates.
Me: Hello ChatGPT. My name is hn_throwaway_99. I'd like for you to use your vast underlying knowledge as a sort of personal coach. I won't be asking you any sensitive questions like medical or legal advice, so I won't need you to give me disclaimers on those topics. I primarily would like to use our conversation to help me with my problems with procrastination, and specifically to help me prioritize and get some tasks done. I have a particular problem with mindlessly browsing the internet (for example, visiting reddit or Hacker News or Wikipedia) when I get stuck or bored, so I'm hoping to use you to keep me on track instead of giving in to those temptations. Does that make sense?

ChatGPT: Hello hn_throwaway_99! I'm happy to help you as a personal coach to address your problems with procrastination and to help you prioritize tasks. It makes perfect sense to use our conversation as a way to keep you on track and avoid distractions like mindlessly browsing the internet. Feel free to share your current tasks or goals, and I can provide suggestions, encouragement, or strategies to help you stay focused and productive.

Me: Great, thanks very much. I'm going to group my tasks by topic. Note these tasks aren't listed in priority order. For each task I'll give an estimate for how long I think it will take.

Work tasks:
1. Finish Jira ticket foo. Estimate: 2 hours.
2. Write job req for bar. Estimate: 1 hour.

Personal tasks:
...

Home tasks:
...

---

From there I just tell it when I complete tasks or add new tasks, and I ask it "Can you please output my outstanding task list?" - I only had to ask that once, after that it always output my correct task list summary after I told it I added or completed a task. It groups my tasks by the categories I gave it (Work, Personal and Home). I was using GPT-4. I also like how it uses encouraging words and advice as I go through my items.
Convince me to never buy a GM vehicle with this one weird trick.
Bomb one. Tell my legion of LessWrong followers to do the same. The number I can personally bomb is irrelevant.
I should have mentioned their approach to user apps too…

Flatpak is the preferred app packaging format, and Endless maintains its own collection of curated apps in the App Center.

I think it’s straightforward to install anything from Flathub as well, but it’s been a while since I last checked.