skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem is the terrible rent control system - with a lucky few getting rent-controlled first-hand contracts, and everyone else facing a cut-throat almost completely unregulated market of sub-letting.

Rent control never works.
A "luxury" brand that's actually made by Unilever and has been contaminated and recalled twice now.
Approx how long would it take to do the full thru hike for a group of intermediate hikers?
I think this is a troll post.

By banana dev: https://huggingface.co/banana-dev
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Good public transit is convenient. Ask anyone in any city with good public transit how they commute. Trains and buses that run all day consistently are even cheaper and more convenient to plan around.

"[A developed city isn't one where poor people take cars but where rich people take public transit.]"
> One of the main roles of government is to step in where markets fail.

Because that's worked out great so far?

In every case I can think of, the government (usually because it's already captured) only ever serves to further exacerbate the issue.
>I’d like to go back to split PTO and sick time

What's the benefit compared to having a single bucket?
This is an April fools joke.

From the linked paper:
> It is important to note that the concept of GPTrillion and its capabilities are entirely fictional and were created as an April Fools joke for the AI community. GPTrillion does not actually exist, and the claims made in this paper are not based on any real experiments or data.

Please flag this off the front page.
pretty sure this is an april fools joke.
GPTrollion, more like it. It's an April's fools joke, not a very good one I'd say.

Also submitted earlier here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402147
I think this is more of a complaint that GUIs have prevented non-programmers from learning to do novel things with a computer; that's been the focus of GUIs since the Apple Lisa. I was working in a university comp center, and got to see a Lisa at an Apple event shortly after it was announced. Everyone who went with me agreed, it's better than an etch-a-sketch, you don't have to turn it upside down and shake to clear the screen.

But at that moment computers bifurcated: real computers for programmers, and appliances for the rest of them.
Just charge admission/sell a permit
The US would have to establish a law regarding mandatory vacation time before they could start adding to it.
Unlimited PTO means the company does not have to pay your unused vacation time when you leave; voluntarily or not.

Remember, HR isn't there for you, it is there to help the company.
No state is going to accept that terminating someone for using their accrued vacation is a legitimate for cause termination.
Being harsh is not my intent, definitely not at a personal level. OpenAI is definitely not a role model, but at best they release API that can be tested and explored and bench marked. At least, it moves the needle. In this case, there is no way to test let alone reproduce. I think people need to expect more from scientists and researchers and call them out when they fall short
"A woman loyalty is tested when a man has nothing. A man loyalty is tested when he has everything."
> maybe the generation before the 80s?

Yeah, I overstated the reality for rhetorical effect, but it also would depend on what part of the US. Gender roles have changed in some places, but not so much in others.

> until I reached high school and football practice got in the way

That says a lot about US culture right there.
Growing Activity at North Korea’s Experimental Light Water Reactor
Ahh I fell for it. I was fairly convinced by the 100+ 40GB files as weights to download, but when I saw the paper was written in a word doc I remembered to check the date.

One interesting thing to note is that I could tell they used ChatGPT rather than GPT-4 to do the fake writeup. ChatGPT likes to generate paragraphs shown in their paper, GPT-4 will do full latex commands, inline citations, and even (a made up) bibtex for the citations.
You're a spammer, simple as that.
> Self checkout machines put people out of a job.

Have they, though? Is there good data on this? I haven’t seen anyone lose any jobs over this in my area. They either get reassigned to different departments or get better jobs doing the same thing in companies that refuse to use self-checkouts. And I read here just a month or so ago that Amazon closed many of their "no cashier" stores in NY and Trader Joe’s vowed to never use them.

> Light bulbs put candlemakers out of jobs

I would guess that such artisans moved on to other niche products. Where I live, candlemakers today make a lot of money, and I had a chance to watch them do their thing in their small commercial space. This was a one person operation, no employees and no mechanization, and judging by the amount of product they were creating and their wholesale prices, they were pulling in about about 300k a year or more, after taking into account supplies.
Keep it up!! Well done
Medjed
I Quit Programming (or did I?)
Simulations aren't really the limiter on engine efficiency, SpaceX etc already lean heavily on simulations.

The limiters on engine efficiency at this point are mostly materials and costs, and even the latter are coming down with better fuels (eg Methane, which is extremely popular with rockets debuting this decade) and different design philosophies (eg SpaceX's Raptor engine, which is supposedly under $1M per engine while being the most advanced flight tested rocket engine out there).
All that may be true, but it doesn't help us decide whether more AI regulation is a good idea or not.

As with most things, it probably depends on how it's done.
The customer, eg. the advertising industry.
Why must you be loud about changing your mind? Why not just quietly realise you were wrong, have conversations with friends about it and move on? That’s what I’d do.

My life is a story. I’m under no obligation to share.
France specifically seems to have a bizarre tolerance for "pay to play" culture and limited access in outdoor recreation. Countries all around them have shown how strong freedom to roam laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam) can work. Those just don't exist in France. Even in the US, trails are largely maintained by volunteers, non-profits, and federal institutions.
Especially on macs
There will be frameworks that build around your anonymous proof that allow people to block you across all platforms at your identity level. The default implementation of Worldcoin doesn't tie all your online accounts together, but I think many platforms would choose to use it in a way that doesn't identify you as any specific person, but does identify you as the same person across platforms.

With that particular implementation, if you spam on one account on one platform, people can block you across all accounts and all platforms. And I'm sure something like community maintained lists we have for adblockers will emerge.
> Of course there is no left wing propoganda to fall for though, right?

I'm honestly not aware of similar propaganda on the left. By similar I meant an entire industry designed to lie and gaslight people into voting for people who will cause them direct economic harm. The GOP has made lying an entire industry and an art form. Now they are demonizing trans people in a way extremely similar to the way Nazis demonized Jews.

> Do you wonder how you came to form such blatant negative opinions of your political opposites

I know exactly why I have formed such a negative opinion of the GOP, because I've watched them lie blatantly and egregiously for the last 20 years and I'm really sick of it.
Open areas where people live (people's yards) are famously open to the public. There's certainly not a common acronym for what people don't want happening in their yards...
Check out who tech companies and employee PACs almost exclusively donate their money to.

Read the many articles about steps tech companies and employees have taken to promote their own political causes and candidates while stifling opposition. How they had practically had to bring in grief counselors to soothe their tearful employees after their chosen candidate lost in 2016.

There's nothing moderate about it. They are getting exactly what they voted for, schemed for, and paid great amounts of money for.
This doesn't even need to be an April Fools.

I've worked on building vocoders and other synths and it's basically just code. A lot of it written in C and C++. Much of it open source.

There's also no-code tools like Reaktor that I think you can use code templates to get started (haven't used it in like a decade)

A prototype like this is literally a weekend project, completely possible with today's technology.
Why have the trails at all then? This sounds like some gatekeeping bullshit, where you think people who take a few pix along the trail are not enjoying nature correctly. They don't "respect nature".
So nobody else wastes time excitedly reading the paper like I did:

>In conclusion, while GPTrillion is a fictional model, this paper can still serve as a humorous commentary on the state of language modeling and the challenges that come with training and developing large models. However, it is essential to maintain scientific integrity and ensure that claims made in research papers are based on real experiments and data.

Not sure I get the joke, but it did manage to fool me into getting my hopes up briefly.
Kaassouffle is great and i don't know why it hasn't spread to higher-altitude parts of the world. I found the key to eating it safely was to have a glass of cold beer to hand.
Of course it doesn't. The only way to bring down prices is to build more supply than the demand, but for some reason this elephant in the room is always ignored because always a million reasons come up against it, mostly being just NIMBYsm in disguise.

Keeping a limited supply artificially price capped through regulations, sounds good at first, and will most likely be popular with clueless voters, but it will lead to shortages down the road and only the lucky few with money or connections will be able to afford.

We had that in communism, except ironically, not with housing but with food and goods. Now the west has the opposite problem, everyone has plenty of food and iPhones, but no housing. Have Swedes never learned about this and the functioning of supply/demand in their excellent school system?
How is this "stuck in the past" ?
Is the future about building some gates and selling some pass ?

You can totally find the GR and walk through it without a map.
Because, historically, you had vacation which you planned for and sick time which you did not--but which was just there if you were sick up to often fairly generous limits (or just have a lot of doctor's appointments). Being laid up with the flu or an unexpected surgery for a week didn't mean you potentially had to cancel your vacation that year.
That is a really good idea. I often don't pick the best card that I should. This will be really helpful for me. Have signed up.
OK ChatGPT
That's not _really_ what that study says... what they found was that "A password guideline including three sample password creation methods and a persuasive message and important notes for the experimental group" gave a small improvement over enforcing password restrictions. So it finds that training people to come up with good passwords immediately before they're asked to do so results in slightly better passwords. Notably, they did _not_ test what happens when you train users and also enforce restrictions, nor what happens when you don't train users and don't enforce restrictions.

But then also recognized "the participants in the experimental group spent time to read the information and applied the given methods to produce passwords, maybe just to help a research study by participating. However, in real life, users may not make an effort to read the information provided in the password guidelines unless they have to. Zakaria [64] suggested that one possible way to overcome this is to make reading and understanding the password guidelines compulsory before constructing a password." So even if we were to follow the findings here, the result would be to create _more_ friction, not less.
Quality with Purpose
Not sure the relationship, but they say 600PSI chamber pressure, or about 20 bar. Spacex is push 200 to 300 bar pressures. I would think this means they're currently at a low ISP. The challenge with RDEs has been keeping them lit, I e. Keeping the detonation wave going indefinitely. Once that's done they can work of efficiency. Seems like they're at that point now.
So long as you buy your inferencing hardware from another private party, I'd wager you're helpless against both state and corporate power.
The constantly idling giant trucks very much were a public nuisance. YOU wouldn't want to live near them.
Link to the actual tool:

https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/
Using 2-3x as much battery as all other browsers on my Macbook is the dealbreaker for me.. I want to use the same browser on all systems when I move..
Also it would be healthy for the web ecosystem overall if users, especially power users, would use less Chrome. Any excuse to uninstall Chrome is a good excuse.
Has a government never prevented a merger that would have created a monopoly?
Ignoring the “observant Jew turned atheist” aspect, the rest of that description seems apt. A comparison against the features of religions is valid here, considering that one of the criticisms is that these people are following a religious playbook rather than a rational one.

We don’t enact public policy based on predictions of a biblical apocalypse, nor do we ban televisions or computers because groups like the Amish disapprove of them. The same reasoning should apply here.
If companies are willing to give me an extra week, I'd prefer taking that week in cash.
For someone with a disability, having combined PTO and sick time basically means taking time off to remain healthy means you don’t get time off to actually do anything with your life.

Sick days aren’t vacation for me. I’m generally too depressed or manic to function. I’ll usually drive to a park or the local zoo to walk so I’m not sitting in a chair, too anxious or tired to get up. Somehow that’s “vacation” time because I’m able to (or need to) leave my house.
I don't know, isn't history really just a series of specific people doing concrete actions?

Do you think on some level the idea of some abstract 'government' taking care of things is just a narrative we apply to make ourselves feel better?

Sure individual decision makers in that government can concretely affect reality, but beyond that are we just telling a story and really nobody is 'in control'?
> "Medium heat" is when the ring is half-way up. "High heat" is when the ring is all the way up.

This is incorrect.

Medium is when the surface of the pan is around 350°F. High is when it's around 450°F. (Low is 250°F.)

How to get and then maintain the surface of the pan at that temperature is probably one of the trickiest skills there is for people to learn. Because obviously if you put an empty pan on the middle of your gas burner dial and just leave it there it will quickly heat up to ultra-hot (550°F+). While if you dump a bunch of watery vegetables in there to sauté it will just go down to like 150°F and not heat up further.

In the end setting the right burner strength to maintain your desired temperature is a crazy nonlinear function of heat, pan temperature, pan material (both conductivity and thermal mass), food quantity in pan, food temperature, food water content, and lid on/off. That you learn through just a lot of trial and error, involving a lot of listening for sizzle and seeing bubbles and browning and feeling for radiant heat with your hand. Not by setting the dial to a particular setting.

If you want to know why so many people have difficulty doing something so "basic" as frying an egg, this is why. If you want to know why part of the interview to cook in a restaurant is also quite often... just to fry a single egg... that's why. (It's "fizzbuzz" for cooks.)

Also, please don't do things like insult entire nationalities here. It's very much against HN guidelines.
Actually, from 10% of something to 35% of something is a 250% improvement. You already had the first 10%.
Reddit has a ten percent rule for self promotion versus not, so there's your answer.
Very basic so far, but would appreciate feedback: https://quizle.uk

Create your own quizzes and play online with others.
I love mentions of Cuma. It's a sublime, simple site, definitely worth an afternoon's stroll.

It's also the birthplace of the alphabet that we are writing and reading here! That inspires me for no good reason. It's just amazing that this came out of a tiny colonial city on the edge of paradise.

p.s. The bay of Naples in general is just overwhelming with dense human history. As this article notes, the city center has basically been under continuous inhabitation for 3000 years. You can feel it everywhere!
Housing is yea.
So, you spammed and are surprised you got banned?
Don't require a special observance like April Fools to question the validity of online content. Do that all the time.
It's true that TLC and MLC have for good reason displaced SLC. However, in no way are they even anywhere near the old SLC in durability. ~5 years old SLC literally had 100 times more write endurance (as in, how many times you can rewrite each bit, not total amount of writes in the drive) than typical modern TLC.
BTRFS, at least technically. It can get really fragmented and slow though.
That's been true since at least the Vista days.
The state of Illinois did just that this year. They aren't even the first state to do it.

"Gov. Pritzker Signs Historic Legislation Guaranteeing 40 Hours of Paid Leave

Governor JB Pritzker today signed SB208 into law, making Illinois the third state in the nation, and the first in the Midwest, to mandate paid time off to be used for any reason. The historic legislation provides employees with up to 40 hours of paid leave during a 12-month period, meaning approximately 1.5 million workers will begin earning paid time off starting in 2024."

https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.26164.html
> Fun fact: the GR trails, and hence this through route, aren’t allowed to be mapped in OpenStreetMap.

This is misleading : the GR trails as a whole, named... but I believe all the trails are mapped, they just aren't named or continuous.

See this one for instance : https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/323697041#map=16/48.3484/-...

In the mountains, it can be a problem, more than on the coast.
Your exact words were, "I'm all for prosecuting Trump and Clinton."

Don't try to take it back now.
Ah, well, even in that case there's still a lot of things Indian people don't know about Indian food. Just by virtue of being Indian we do not learn everything there is to know about Indian people / food / culture.
Maybe it's better value to the company for you to get some more relaxation.
So the idea of shorting that capacitor… how did you reason that doing that would keep that chip from starting?
Pressure can tell you about thrust, but I don't think its as strongly linked to specific impulse. However looking at the wiki article on the RS25 which is pretty high up there being a hydrolox engine, I see it's also got a chamber pressure in the 200+ bar range.
There's better solutions to that, like allowing carryover (if people don't need to schedule all their PTO to be used before year's end, they can have some "slop" for unexpected needs), and/or allowing a certain amount of PTO to be used in arrears.

If you separate out vacation and sick time, then employees need to lie to use all of their time off.
I'm far from an expert in this area. But llama has been updated so anyone can hack with it on their m1 macbook (which many developers have). If someone updated T5 to be as easy to dev against, then I am sure they would see similar community interest.

Most people don't have the hardware or budget to access these specialized high vram GPUs.
Switched to Firefox for like 6-12 months, eventually moved back to Edge a couple of weeks ago. Had to open it constantly anyways.

I couldn't get used to Firefox's DevTools and the JSON viewer in Firefox is bad compared to the JSON Formatter chrome extension.
On paper I’ve never used up all my PTO, even though in reality I was probably taking more time off than I was allotted. None of my managers have ever cared, and one of my first managers even explicitly told me not to bother reporting PTO (“you can get a nice check when you leave for unused PTO”).

Obviously this varies from place to place, but I believe the practice was pretty widespread in silicon valley at least. And this was one of the justifications for companies moving to “unlimited” PTO policies - employees weren’t reporting PTO diligently, and they didn’t like having to pay people out when they left.
I like that your first point asks for data on a common phenomenon. (Side note: Everyone was reassigned or got a better job? You sure about that?)

Then your second point is a wild anecdote with zero data. (Side note: With zero additional data I can tell you that your “judging” of their profit is wildly inaccurate.)
And is using all accrued vacation days ever expliticly mentioned as contributing towards termination reason or is something else used as a cover?
One thing that "technology" has changed is how people can interact.

On the negative side de facto censorship, such as on Reddit, has created echo chamber so people can think hitherto fringe ideas are normal.

On the positive side if you look hard enough, and it is getting increasingly hard, you can find alternative POVs
As you get older then you realize time is finite and work is just a means to an end. I take all my vacation in the year I get it and if the company were to ever say anything then it's like shrug. It's like WFH in that you could tell me to work from a cube but I'd ignore that. I take my vacation and don't ever check email or respond to texts.
An interesting, if slightly dated, comparison between 22 countries’ vacation taking habits (including US + some of Europe).

Remarkable how little vacation allowance the US gets. No wonder only around a 3rd of Americans own passports.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/articles-reports/2015/11...
I love what OpenAI has built and it's awesome to see them succeed on the AI front (also I'm forever amazed to see SamA live up to the Lebron James early level hype about his entrepreneurial skills).

This article sheds more light on how the non-profit front failed. I find that to be a very hard and interesting problem. IMO, it points to a larger problem with our current laws, where trying to do good and compete fairly is made much harder (near impossible?) when you compete against companies that exploit unfair monopolistic laws.