skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The engineer(s) that wrote the offensive code were almost certainly not idiots."

Bold statement, but closer to accurate than the first impression.
FBI seizes bot shop ‘Genesis Market’ amid arrests targeting operators, suppliers
No worries! I really appreciate you giving it a closer look, and I’m glad our general philosophy seems to resonate. Please shoot me an email if you ever try it and have any feedback. I’m [Firstname] @ type.ai.
So which propaganda should we believe? The Gotland story that all pro-NATO people use today, or the MAD story from the cold war?
Tank tactics: how might Ukraine use its influx of western armour?
Well, I was going to work on a couple of langchain document loaders and an agent this weekend, but now after this raise? nah.

After reading about countless other awesome open source projects get tainted by VC cash, what makes it so different this time?
Here is where the file is read in its entirety. https://github.com/koki-develop/gat/blob/c16dbf999b89b46ed17...
I bought one of those Minisforums Mini PCs with a Ryzen processor like two years ago, it now sits collecting dust. This M1 Mac mini that I use as my daily runs circles around it in every performance metric.

I see this has open source firmware. Great. You will be giving up a lot with that chip compared to M1 though. Asashi Linux may not be 100% complete but I hear it is pretty good. Might warrant a consideration if you can run your software in the ARM world. In my mind there is just too much to give up when going back to such a legacy platform such as this one.
Well most of the Islamic age progress was mostly done by Persians and Turkic folks rather than Arabs, out of which none of the scholars were based in Saudi Arabia of all places.

On the other hand, Arabs were extremely good at racial name calling (calling Persians Ajami, and calling chess evil and shit).
Often the kind of thing people hate for a while, and then with enough time becomes iconic and you'd probably end up with an article about how they were debating whether to preserve it or not as it aged.

I think about this a lot when it comes to "eyesores", particularly wind turbines. When you think of how windmills are considered picturesque, it always makes me a little surprised when people moan about modern wind generation, because I think they look great. Especially when most of the areas they are put up are crisscrossed with overhead power lines anyway, which are much less appealing.
Looks like Coreboot support for 5000 series landed recently: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-2023
what political solutions do you envision that would reduce demand for electronics in a meaningful way?
TIL the etymological origin of "The Zócalo" in Babylon 5.

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Zócalo
Pretty much an entire chapter of N.N.Taleb "Antifragile"
That's been bouncing around my head too. Would be interesting to use LLM's to generate this classification automatically. Right now it's hard to do it efficiently though.
Cycling is more dangerous per mile traveled than cars [1]:

"So we’ll compare risk at both the 6.2 billion and 21 billion miles traveled levels.

784 cyclists died in 2005 (p. 86). That would make the death rate of 0.37 to 1.26 deaths per 10 million miles.

33,041 motorists/passengers died (p. 86) from 3 trillion miles traveled (p. 15), making their death rate 0.11 per 10 million miles traveled.

So cyclists are either 3.4x or 11.5x as likely to die as motorists, per passenger mile. Neither conclusion is very happy."

Motorcycles are about 30x more dangerous per mile than cars, for reference. I've seen it said that walking somewhere is also more dangerous per mile than driving, but I can't find a source for that.

The page links to a source which suggests cycling is much (6x) safer per hour than driving, which intuitively seems like a more reasonable measure of safety to me, but I'm unsure.

1:https://bicycleuniverse.com/bicycle-safety-almanac/
Based on what case law? In what jurisdiction?
In America there's contactless payments with your phone. The merchant's POS will confirm the transaction like it would with card or cash.
Largest Ever Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plane Takes Flight
Ok i'll bite. What are the ruling class's current desires?
There is no truth in business, only knowledge
This will probably get buried, but I've noticed the concerns about AI also apply to other technology: personal computers, Internet, social media, etc.

These have undeniably changed society, in some ways for the worse: inequality, loneliness, sedentarism, mass disinformation. They have enabled mass destruction at never-before-seen scales, given massive power to individuals and small groups, and might have already set us up for mass casualties and apocalypse.

What if the US or Chinese government turns its new military tech against civilians? What if giving children social media and Fortnite has doomed them to be society too inattentive and lazy to sustain the next generation? What if we experience a Carrington Event which destroys most technology? Hopefully, none of these things will happen, but we need to do more than hope: we need to seriously discuss, prepare and probably regulate these things. AI gives more publicity, but we have always needed to do more sophisticated debating.

And to people think that AI is more significant than the personal computer, Internet, social media, etc.: I seriously doubt it. Why? We're comparing GPT to the invention of the computer and Internet, and it can create simple games, explain things you could've Google searched, create generic stories, and do other things 1+ billion people can. Which is actually really impressive, and may have consequences, like it mass spam and disinformation. But remember, we're comparing it to computers, which it runs on, and the Internet, which is the entire reason spam is a problem. And although GPT does things almost as good as a human, it has a long way to go before it does better than a human: remember, we've had machines that could play Chess better than humans for 25 years, "Jeopardy" almost as good for 10, and we still don't have machines that can do physical tasks with human agility or single-handedly do the work of professional artists and engineers.
Don’t they remember what happened to Monster Cable?
Why are you being so disingenuous about this?
Every little bit counts.
So in short, companies can't expand or build new due to lack of green infrastructure. The proposed solution is to make it illegal to use other than approved types of electricity. Amazon says it makes no sense unless the infrastructure is expanded as well.

Seems difficult to disagree considering my country is burning oil to get through the winter. Shutting down production that takes 20 years to rebuild was apparently a bad idea.
Calculational Logic
It's a big deal as far as impact, sure, but I think it's also OK for us to abandon the need for complete control. Because, really, that's what this is about: we're worried that if we can't understand what's happening, we can't control it. Personally I think that's just fine. It's a different class of thing but that's also OK.

Do we even really know all that we should about how to manufacture chips? My understanding is that we rely heavily on experiments and heuristics. I think with complexity that's just how things are, sometimes.

And again, going to the human-throwing-a-ball metaphor, maybe generalized intelligence actually requires introspective opaqueness. Maybe it's some cosmic law we don't understand: the better a system is at handling open-ended issues the less it can be systematically understood. I just think the utility of application is so, so much more important than our inability to know down to the last bit how a given LLM works. If it works, and delivers value, then we just don't need the why. We can and should try to understand, but we can also accept that we won't always get all of the answers we want.

I mean, why does anyone do anything? Ask someone to explain why they did everything they did today and I'm sure a lot of what they'll tell you is made up or just plain wrong. Humanity seems to be just fine despite all that. Why do we expect our apprentices to be different?
I presume fellow trademark troll Monster Cables has struck a truce with Monster Energy?

Much like Monster Cables, if you think there might be confusion between a video game and your chemical water, then I am confident that your product tastes like ass.
I’m a big fan of putting more time and effort into communication.

I just think that there’s an incredible set of decreasing returns after about 30 minutes into building any diagram or presentation, for most people and most use cases.

That’s why quick whiteboard or lucidchart or Miro sketches are so powerful - and are designed to communicate in the moment! - and most PowerPoints, swimlane diagrams etc which have tens or hundreds of hours of work are like polished turds.

Very few diagrams or presentations show history and almost none are ever updated to show the status of things today. Which means that they just cause confusion. Generally, someone starts again and creates something with new blind spots and which takes about as much time again to create, and is out of date before others see it.

Drawing and presenting is mostly interesting if the people who are present for the drawing or description process can go forth and explain, draw or present it in their own words or images, and therefore communication has been achieved; this seems to be very uncommon in most drawing and presentation-heavy environments I’ve been in though.
Brave launches self-serve ads program
I think the difference here is that code is effectively a description, so there is an extremely tight coupling between describing the task and the task itself.

You could tell me, in the most painstaking detail, what you want me to paint, and I still couldn't paint it. You can take any random person on the street and tell them exactly what to type and they'd be able to "program".
Interesting, thanks for sharing this feedback! I didn't realise intially that it was about running clickhouse-local in Lambdas.

Fyi, we recently improved the Parquet support in 23.2
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45878

Also, we still have optimizations for reading Parquet from S3 coming so that might improve
I also like the idea of using AI to create legal documents. Build a whole law firm around it.
I still would.

I would accept it if providers other than Microsoft could offer the service.
Amazon’s Drone Delivery Dream Is Crashing
Why not just use C?
you seem to be intentionally strawmanning my position

if you are going to write about parquet, say something like 'apache parquet' or 'parquet, originally written for hadoop' or 'parquet, originally by julien le dem' instead of making it sound like you invented it yourself

this is only the top third of your article if the article is six words long

like 'apache parquet, for free, never used'
As an infra dude it saves me loads of time. Most of the code I write is stuff where I already know what needs to happen, I already know how the process looks un-automated, and I'm not going to learn a whole lot writing more boilerplate, or learning the names of all the endpoints for a dumb api and parsing the text.

It's still mental work. You still have to read the code over and edit stuff.

It helps me save lots of time so I can do quality things like comment on hn during work..
Sorry, we're looking for US-based at the moment due to some legal & security concerns from our beta clients. Appreciate the interest though!
Yep, we’ve acquired hundreds of paying customers since launching about a month ago. And we don’t see the market here as “people who hire writers” — we see it as “people who must write to get paid.”
I agree and have always wondered how people with these extreme views think modern society would function without roads. You can't build (or maintain) a house, a hospital, a factory, a school or an office building without roads to accommodate the trucks pouring the foundation, deliverying the lumber and shingles. How do I get food, funiture and appliances to my apartment with only bike paths? What if I need an ambulance or police, do they roll up on electric bikes?

Nothing is going to get build and everyday life is not possible without real roads that accomadate vehicles doing real work. And if you have that already why not use then for real personal vehicles that can be used by everyone and not just young, healthy hacker news subscribers.
Perhaps your subconscious doesn't see something to look forward to; something for which it would be worthwhile to be ambitious. And I could't blame it :/
It's not about taking away the right of everyone in the city to vote. That's absurd. It's about subtly restricting the right to vote by targeting those in cities. For example, you might restore the rights for felons to vote in a state, but not those whose crimes involved a hand gun, which would target city dwellers. That sort of thing. I'm not invested in it enough to go deep into it like Marc Elias and crew, but I get the idea.
>But the comments on that video paint Israel not as a shameful alliance or a settler-colonial state but as an entity conspiratorially pulling the strings whenever the US is involved in a war elsewhere. It's not a substantive or veridical critique, and it would be alarming if that were in fact the predominant critique of US involvement in wars overseas as GP insinuates.

Israel definitely has some say in US foreign policy through their pull with the religious right and the influential pro-Israel lobby.
I jumped from Chrome to Edge ~3 years ago, and ever since it has been a steady downward trend with each release. I switched back to FF a couple weeks ago when the giant Bing Button appeared and can't be easily removed.
The Effective Decision
> The punishment for the crimes he's accused of has so far been none.

For him. Other people have been sent to jail for Trump's crime, while Trump was shielded due to his position. A shield that he won in part by illegally paying off a porn star to hide that fact from the public.
I worked at Google; now I’m an AI researcher. Here’s why slowing AI dev is wise
The article asks: "... could be replacing car trips and saving fuel. Why won’t federal officials promote them?"

Here is my very strongly held opinion.

1) partially it's actually incompetence. Policies are formed and negotiated by politicians, but they don't really always know. There is too much "common sense" that people take for granted that is incorrect. For instance Mitt Romney recently came out with a statement that bike lanes increase congestion because they take away car space. This type of supreme confidence is what gets politicians elected, but they still have no clue what they're talking about. But it's a very salt of the earth type common sense approach that has some traces of logic in it. However, we know from data this is not true, and once you realize cars are an extremely inefficient use of space, then the views on what is logical start to change. But you need to come to this realization first.

2) we can't completely eliminate malice. There's a lot of money in transport/transit and incumbents are not keen on letting go of that cash cow. For instance, one of the ruling parties in Germany, FDP, is obviously in bed with the car makers which is causing them to promote policies at best contradictory (letting the market sort it out, but also guaranteed stable fuel prices and tax breaks so the high income earners don't get crushed on their commute prices) and at worst ludicrous (subsidies for e-fuels that are not really produced yet).

The way I see it, we should reframe the discussion based on sharing the pie fairly. Again Germany as an example, there was a discussion pre-election about subsidies on cargo bikes. Of course the conservatives dismissed it as a vegan hipster solution, but the actual question is: who cares? If tax money is used for thousands of euros in subsidies for electric cars, why shouldn't a fraction of that money be used on bikes? So there should not be a 10k subsidy or whatever for electric cars and s 1k subsidy on bikes. Instead there should be a fixed per person budget for everyone to do whatever they personally want, and if that's a bike then that's their choice.
I use 3.5 && 4 equally. Limitations prevail on 4, so it forces you to use both if you are a heavy user I think.
It's also a pretty good setup for flying a plane with a light load of fuel over to Shannon where the passangers can do US immigration checks while the same plane gets fully fueled. I think BA used to do this.
Gg, Tg? Is that Giga-gram and Tera-gram? Why not kg, the SI standard unit for mass?
Falstad helped me (and many others) through electrical engineering undergrad, those are the hall of fame websites/apps (applets?)
Daniel, co-founder of GradientJ here!

Appreciate the feedback. We have a more detailed demo video that is linked in the YT description. Will be sure the resolution is adequate.

We will definitely work on improving the website and demos. Want it to be easily accessible for everybody.
I agree with trivializing the prospect, but for me personally it's less about the nature of the work or the city, but the ludicrous instability that a company would hope you don't think about. It's fine if where you're coming from is a desolate market and you're wanting to seriously improve either your income or location for personal reasons, that's a sensible risk. But doing it for a more lateral move, or for marginal gains, I'd be asking myself how committed this employer is to having me; the answer is usually zero. So I go and get my expensive apartment in a scarce market and start working away on whatever inane problem company x is paying me for, and 2 months in it turns out, "oops, we overhired and have to refocus our energy on digitizing, solutioning, and don't forget problemization and alignment".

One case where this would be worthwhile though would be one where you wanted to move there anyway, and the company is arbitrary
archive link unpaywall : https://archive.is/EzOvq
> it seems intuitively obvious to me... you can encode "more" data in an analog way than digital

It doesn't seem obvious to me, because I'm not talking about encoding distinct symbols into the medium. I'm talking about using the entire available frequency range to encode digital information the way a modem does. And I'm talking about using lossless compression as well. And as you say, if an LP can encode ultrasonic information, that opens up all sorts of extra space for information that is useless in analog.

It may very well be the case that an LP couldn't record CD-quality audio, but I do very much wonder what kind of bitrate would actually be achievable. A dial-up modem is 56 kbps, using the frequency range 300 hZ to 3.3 kHz. CD audio is 1,411 kbps, but vinyl frequency range is from 7 hZ to 50 kHz, which is 16x wider than a dial-up modem. And you can pack much more data into higher frequencies.

So on the face of it, digital CD-quality audio seems like it might be very much achievable in theory on vinyl. But again, when you account for error correction and degradation and particularly distortion, I wonder if you could actually get it reliably in practice.
Assuming a perfectly gridded city core. Take the road every n blocks in each direction and make them bicycle only. A simple two-lane road would be enough. Place bollards at intersections that intersect a car lane for increased safety. Possibly paint those bike only lanes with large obvious markings to make it even more obvious. The bikes could follow similar traffic laws, one lane each direction, stop lights, the whole bit.

These roads can be maintained just as they are for cars, except they would need much less repaving work as bicycles do not cause as much wear and tear as a car or truck.

As this develops you can narrow the actual roadway for those roads and increase sidewalk size where appropriate. With some of this increased sidewalk space you place racks for locked parking.

I'm a recent bike purchaser, I've had my ebike for about a year. I love my little cargo bike and take it all over my moderately sleepy city neighborhood to run errands, see friends, etc. I'm very nervous, however to take it anywhere near the downtown core. Too much traffic, bike lanes are generally 'paint only'. If I had separated infrastructure I would certainly travel downtown more often (there is a lot of separated infrastructure that can get me from my house to the edge of downtown, but once i'm downtown it's a shitshow). So I think that priming the pump with safe infrastructure is necessary to increase the use of modes of transport like bikes/ebikes/scooters/monowheels/etc.

Once the use is up, the secondary effects will follow. More bike repair 'garages', more secure space to lock up in parking garages w/ charging (most ebikes just charge on a 110v wall wart (in my case a pretty beefy one) but that just means simple dc hookups.. I'm not sure if the current crop of ebikes have standardized on a particular voltage but over time in this scenario I suspect they will.

I guess my point is that re-engineering is already happening in many cities. For years it was paint only bike lanes, now in my city (Seattle) we're starting to see even more bike lanes, though most paint only or shitty lane separation 'flags'. But also some more separated infrastructure. Hell last I checked they have fallen short on spending the budgets we give them for this stuff already.

Car infrastructure was built up very quickly and without much actual thought. Hopefully we can do better.
Actually, you do.
Feynman Trig Notation: Creating Custom Characters
Seems reasonably similar range, but pricing is definitely higher than BD.
I hadn't heard of Shelter before but this looks really neat!
In the textile industry many of the major changes were from better devices, not neccesarily of how they were powered.

The cotton gin revolutionized the industry while it was still people-powered, including by slave labor (edit: and also horse-powered); and the Luddites (some decades after Ned Ludd) rebelled not against the looms being powered by steam but rather against the Jacquard loom - an add-on to the exiting looms which allowed complex products to be weaved by unskilled people, removing their bargaining power despite not changing a thing about how the loom was powered.
I worked at a shop with P0, and then there were too many P0 tickets, and then you just worked on whatever the CTO told you was the _actual_ highest priority ticket when he stopped by your cubicle for a chat.
Agreed! We’ve begun exploring some ways to do that.
So when you are speeding, you are endangering people and property on the road. The amount of danger is proportional to the time you spend speeding among other things.

With the falsification of business records, the situation does not seem as clear-cut. It is wrong because it is preventing the public or other relevant parties from having access to accurate information. I don't know if one can really make a formula to calculate how much damage is done by a given falsification, but I personally do not think I would include the number of checks or (probably) the number of invoices written in that formula. The method of payment seems mostly incidental and not essential to the wrongness of the crime. (I include the number of payments as part of the method of payment.)

If this does not clear up my position, feel free to let me know. There is more I could write to flesh it out, but I don't know if that's necessary or if it'd be overkill =)
There are humans lacking empathy. Some of them cause a lot of harm.
> Name all your variables 'data'.

Name a class "Entity" and make everything else derive from it. Write code that can't be deleted, ever.
Software might be free, but hardware is not.
it doesn't really work, about have of the "decompressed" words are totally new, if you do it in a new session. Reminds me of the the experiments from a few months ago where people were using img2img or text whatever to "compress" and decompress images, getting the system to generate a "very similar image" to the one given, but wasn't a 100% representation