skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, have you listened to NPR lately? It’s too much for me, a longtime listener, to tolerate the majority of the editorial content, these days.
Maybe it cancels out somehow?

Let's put in some concrete numbers to see if it does. Specifically, let's say that people value the ability to buy raspberries at $1.00, which means that they value their time at $0.01 per place-in-line (so waiting in a line of 100 people costs $1.00 of their time, and as such joining a line of 100 people would involve a $1.00 benefit (buying raspberries) for a $1.00 cost (waiting in line) and so 100 people long is the point where anyone is indifferent to joining the line.

Before the coffee is introduced, the first person in line receives $1.00 in value, the second receives $0.99, and the hundredth receives $0.01, and the 101st does not join at all, for a total of $50.50.

Now add in the coffee which costs $1.00 and is valued at $0.75. This causes the line to get longer by 75 people. The first person in line receives $1.75 in value, the second receives $1.74, the 175th receives $0.01, and the 176th does not join at all. This is a total of $154.00, which is $103.50 more than the total value of the line before the coffee was added (at the cost of the government spending $175.00 on coffee). Which yields a social cost of $71.50. Which is not $100. Hm.

If I replace $1.00 as the value of buying raspberries with $5.00 (and so the cost of waiting one place in line is $0.05), the numbers work out as line length 100 -> 115, total value $252.50 -> $333.50, cost of coffee $0.00 -> $115.00, which yields a social cost of $34.00. Which is not only "not $100" but also isn't even the same as the last value.

Maybe the assumption is that, say, at 6:00 every morning, every person has a choice of "wait in line until 9:00 am for raspberries" or "don't". But then if everyone who waits gets raspberries, then you'd expect either everybody or nobody to join the line. Or maybe the coffee is only given to the first 100 people in line? Or only given to the people who join the line after the first 100?

Yeah I got nothin. Maybe I'm missing something though.

Edit: maybe if you include the cost of providing the raspberry subsidy, the numbers line up? In the first case, that would be $1.00 x 75 more people, so the cost would go up to $146.50, while in the second case that would be $5.00 x 15 more people, bringing the social cost to $109.00. So yeah, still not sure what's going on. There's probably some configuration of assumptions which yields a social cost of exactly $100 without needing magic numbers, but I'm sure not finding it.
I took it to be a reference to slow transaction rates.
Long Live the Free Software Foundation
VR has a time lag issue which I personally think is unfixable. I do not believe we have systems which can react in real-time without something morally akin to an uncanny valley glitch, somewhere in the processing loop.

Make it 120hz. make it HD. make it as good as you like, I am really sure that for the forseeable future computing ALL the asynchronous real-world event changes and arranging for them to arrive at the right time, compared to your own movements is functionally impossible.

A later thread speaks to the specific torture test: simulate being in a stadium for all 100,000 people and show ME the one person who is waving a giant hand I want to look at, out of 1000, against the game play on the field. You've now got to martial 100,000 events, render them into my view, and focus on a random singleton in real-time against game play, no matter how I move my head. Simulataneously, for everyone, with other async events taking place beside me, or in another sense-space.

Either you glitch the VR experience, or you put me on delay.

Zuckerberg swung the company to deliver an experience which was never going to score 8 out of 10 for average user experience. It was always heading to 3 out of 10. He should have put it into a sub-division and spent his personal risk money on it, not bet the company.
Japan as AEGIS + SM3 with dedicated ballistic missile defense ships in the plan. Issue is BMD are really not well tested, intercept tests are very choreographed events that is not... reflective of reality, and still experiences occasional failures. I think JP conducts there tests with USN around Hawaii, away from prying eyes. Apart from just being sensitive tech where you don't want capabilities revealed (which it will if intercepting in sea of Japan), the political optics of FAILING to intercept is catastrophic. IMO worse than a F35 getting shot down. Imagine interceptor (missile) misses / fails to self destruct and lands in SKR (if lucky), or if unlucky, in nuclear states like PRC, RU, NKR where an incoming missile defense interceptor is not distinguishable from an actual missile. Basically, current BMD politics is better to pretend/hope you're capable (via controlled demostrations) than fail once while doing it live and remove all doubt.
Well I mean there’s a valid argument to be made that giving an employee a raise instead of finding/training a new employee is not only cheaper in the short term, but can provide exceptional ROI in the long-term (depending on industry of course).

As long as the employee is producing X amount of value for the company and the value is greater than the total cost of that employee the math is simple, reasonable, and healthy.
So where are the event listeners then? On the body tag, and they bubble up and then examine the hx attribute? Is that how it works?
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Not excactly Lindows related but I still think that KDE2 reached some sort of ideal of unix desktop metaphor GUI design, and all KDE after it were sort of a regression. For similar reasons this is why I use XFCE now.
My older Sony TV had a “PIC OFF” button on its remote that did this. I really miss that, it’s not on my “new” (2021?) one.

Note: neither were fancy models, both are the slightly above entry level grade stuff.
Has the US ever "declared war" since WWII?
So "off the shelf" rather then.
Create a regex that captures first, middle, and last names, as well as prefixes and suffixes, while handling hyphenated last names and multi-word last names like "de la Rosa" and "Von Neman". First and middle names may optionally be omitted, as well as prefixes and suffixes.

I’m waiting for ChatGPT-5 I guess…
Washington state passes bill allowing fourplexes in single-family zones
I don’t think it is that matter whether a license is OSI compliant or not. The more important one is whether it is a Free Software License compliant like GPL3 preferably.
Africans tried many times over the past centuries to establish stable sovereign states (a prerequisite to large-scale development), and each time they got brutally crushed by foreign powers. It's not for lack of trying.
tensegrity structures are afaik natures most stable yet diverse systems, their strength combined with flexibility gave me the notion that combining data storage and vector databases would benefit from a strut that can have properties, for example tension and strength, then, you can feed semantic information to the struts, and the emerging structure could be mapped into less dimensions to be visualised in 3d, or something like that :)
My old one had a remote button for “PIC OFF”! What year roughly was yours made? I’m wondering if my new one has that buried somewhere. Mine is running the “Google TV” OS
Your solution seems way more palatable to me. I refuse to use these third-party centralized services or hook up my appliances to the internet. Right now I just set an alarm on my phones for when I estimate it will be done, and snooze it a couple times to be safe (and lazy).
Yeah.... My take away is that people are dumb though. If you know this sales tactic then you should check the price history or competitor prices and only look at the final cost after fees, discounts and shenanigans.
> I have also read some crazy accounts of how Einstein's Theory was proved

FWIW, this was the observations during the solar eclipse of 1919, by Eddington and a bunch of less famous people. It apparently made headlines at the time.
Well, at least Krugman would know who he was talking about.
Not I. All that garbage is disabled. Too many late night wakeups and false alarms during meetings and other inconvenient times. Boy who cried "wolf" syndrome.
Japan has Patriot systems and several Aegis equipped ships, and both of those have ABM capability. Ballistic missiles are just much harder to shoot down than normal surface to surface or air launched missiles, especially when you’re using SAM’s like Patriot that are relatively short range. I think there just isn’t a very high confidence level in ABM systems. Even the US’ dedicated ABM system, which consists of long range missiles based in CA and AK, is expected to need four shots to achieve a 97% probability of kill (the system only has 44 missiles).

The US had a test platform [0] that showed that the concept of an airborne laser ABM system was viable. However they concluded that we need an order of magnitude increase in the power of airborne lasers in order for it to have enough range to actually be useful.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
I think it's far-right representation has certainly grown over time, probably largely as a function of right-wing speech being pushed out of other platforms.

However 4chan has always had, and continues to have quite broad demographics, it attracts extremes, by nature of it's low moderation and permissive content policies.

Some examples of left wing associated content could be it's very active LGBT user base.

It's involvement political movements like "anonymous", targeting groups like the Westboro baptist church, hacking the website of Uganda's anti-gay prime minister, occupy wall street, etc.
Eventually we will solve this, and once we do it will go mainstream.

Another point of view is that VR sucks for what it is, even if all the technical glitches were resolved tomorrow and everything worked perfectly.

Why? People just don't want to zone out and spend that much time in a made-up universe. It's just not an appealing or interesting or useful experience for most folks (outside the niche universes of gaming, porn and certain teleconferencing use cases).

Meanwhile the recent past is bursting with example of technologies that not only worked, but positively exploded from the get-go -- despite offering a plainly crappy experience on basic sensory levels. Hand-held TVs, VCRs (until something infinitely better came along), the first 20 years of the internet by and large -- for example. People didn't have to look past their shortcomings because they fulfilled obvious, basic needs and desires.

It feels like you are actually interacting with people.

Sorry, but if you're referring to the current state of the art here (overtly cartoon-like 3D avatars that sort of look like your friends) - that's plainly ludicrous.
High-Level Synthesis Made Easy
previous discussion when the first legislative house passed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070502
Chemotaxis is the behavior of a small organism to follow a chemical gradient to find a higher concentration. Likewise, thermotaxis follows temperature. It took me several rereads to realize that robotaxis wasn't some kind of behavior that followed a "robot gradient".
Agreed. The ability to just have all ads be non-existent on every platform is super nice.

Yes, on desktop I can use an ad blocker but that doesn't solve the app or smart tv usage.
Or if they brought their phone with them
> The big problem is the variation. If you want a specific, complex scene it's basically impossible to get exactly what you want in my experience.

The UI/UX of a proper workflow is still very janky (even in user-friendly UIs like auto1111), but you can get very specific, complicated scenes with a mixture of ControlNet + inpainting.

> I've also found that some words and phrases will overpower the rest of the prompt, so it can be hard to get to specific areas of the latent space.

I've also had this problem (particularly with multiple colored objects, like "blue eyes, brown hair"). Apparently Cutoff (https://github.com/hnmr293/sd-webui-cutoff) is very good at addressing this "leakage", but I haven't implemented it yet.

Right now, things are really good for mood board kind of work, but there's a lot of tech already available for enabling a lot of back-and-forth "work" on images to get them into exactly what you're imagining. There aren't a lot of good UIs for them all yet though; as soon as they get a little more user-friendly, I'd expect another boom in generative AI for artists (this time, with artists being the primary benefactor).
Interesting that a journal called "American Affairs" is essentially rejecting the Washington consensus/neoliberalism and strongly imply that the neo-Westphalian/Chinese model is the future. We are truly entering a new era.
> Intelligence leaks surrounding the sabotage of the pipelines have provided more questions than answers. It may be in no one’s interest to reveal more.

Intelligence leaks? Is that a euphemisms for misinformation? Propaganda? Or both?
I think that's an important point that too many people gloss over, and I want to emphasize it with an example. Let's say the cutoff between 10 and 12 percent brackets is at 10k. If you make 10k one year, you pay $1000 in taxes. If you make $10,001 the next year, you don't pay $1,200.12; you pay $1,000.12. 10% on the first 10k, and 12% on the single dollar that you earned in that bracket.
It’s a (reasonable, in my opinion) but not proven assumption. It’s not a fact and not by definition.

I think the bigger problem is that while the author assumes that humans cannot understand or control a super intelligent AI, he readily assumes that having escaped the constraints of its human creators the AI will either immediately go on to reward itself with infinite utility and become inert, or aim to infinitely reproduce.

The surety with which the author predicts the outcomes of the super intelligent being modifying its utility function, does not make sense if we assume that we cannot understand or limit its behaviours.

Like under this assumption the AI agents behaviour is by actual definition unpredictable.
And the potential impact is huge! Not only are individual syscalls expensive on their own, and increasingly so (afaik) with spectre and security issues. You also need a thread to execute the call, which is several KB of memory, compound context switches, and (often overlooked) creating and destroying threads also come with syscall overhead.

Now, we’ve had epoll etc so it’s not novel in that respect. However, what’s truly novel is that it’s universal across syscalls, which makes it almost mechanical to port to a new platform. A lot of intricate questions of high-level API design simply go away and become more simple data layout questions. (I’m sure there are little devils hiding in the details, but still)
My wife is a CPA accountant and I'll go out on a limb and say that 80% of her time is spent doing the equivalent of data cleaning and validation. The balance of her time is making judgement calls so she can appropriately reconcile notional rules against the messiness of real world business transactions.
It was much talked about on slashdot when Walmart started selling a PC with Lindows pre-installed.

https://www.wired.com/2002/06/wal-marts-new-lindowsos-pc/
It’s only self-destructive because we are mortals and have frail bodies.

If there is something ‘endorphins-like’ that motivates an intelligent machine, it will eventually learn how to activate the endorphines at will, and then it will sit in a corner and do nothing else forever…

…just as would a heroin-addict if he did not have to eat occasionally and score more heroin now and again.
What is TFA? Thanks.
> you should check the price history or competitor prices

That's why companies don't publish their pricing, to prevent something like this.
I think he's talking about doing the laundry or something to clean his money. he puts in on the quick wash cycle multiple times?
Deflation is bad if you have debt. With inflation, the value of your debt is chipped away which makes taking on debt more attractive. In a deflationary environment, your debt burden grows over time all else being equal.
Hospitality is definitely tight. Good employees have been cooked by the pandemic, the boomer generation is aging in to constant medical attention, and newbies are understandably hesitant to enter in to public-facing roles where the teams are lean.
Ok this scenario, but my wife.
While the interview question is a fun exercise, the complexity analysis presented is wrong.

For part 1 using a hashtable to look up the dictionary words, the complexity is not O(n^2) where n is the length of the input string. It should be O(w^2) where w is the length of the longest word in the dictionary.

The hash key material of the dictionary words has at most w characters. When computing the hash key for the input string, it can be truncated at w, as any longer input won't lead to a hash key making a match in the hashtable.

For part 1 using a trie, the complexity is O(w) rather than O(n). This is actually more obvious since walking down a trie tree will stop at the last character of a dictionary word.

Again for part2, the complexity is O(w 2^n) using bruteforce with hashtable, O(w^2 n) using DP with hashtable, and O(w n) using DP with trie.

Edit: Also for short strings like dictionary words, O(w) is kind of meanless since with SIMD or SWAR the short word can be folded into one or two DWORD. You can effectively treat it as O(1).
Twitter changes name to X Corp. and moves to Nevada
It's a huge step toward getting the image you want, but like others said, MJ is ahead in quality right now.
Fuel consumption? Net total particulate emissions? Net involved fatalities (regardless of fault)? It's not like this is hard. Those are the things people care about reducing.

At best, vehicle mass is a proxy measurement for those things. But the thing is, you use a proxy measurement when the things you're trying to measure are hard to measure. That stuff is easy!

Fundamentally my point is libertarian: If we want to regulate safety, we should regulate safety and not play dumb games with weight rules that then need to be tuned for EVs or whatnot. Fine-tuned rulemaking doesn't work.
the aim is to combine my 'truths', eg belief systems, Xanadu (r), irrefutable measurable facts, think wolfram, creative multimedia content, think TikTok meets twitter, machine learning, sentiment and content analysis with something like GPT to function as an advanced mind mapping tool wherein I can explore ideas pulling from all these 'experts' into a coherent chain of information that can be traversed and branched in a q and a style to extend the system again, or something like that...
Mmm that’s not what I’m seeing
Lindows was my first Linux distro c. 1999. It was my first year at college, majoring in Business Administration, living on campus with internet speeds above 56kbps for the first time. Trawling through the internet at that time, I stumbled on a (likely bootleg) Lindows installer somewhere and fell down the rabbit hole.

Looking back, I realize now I’d been a self-denying computer geek before then but for whatever reason Lindows, it’s wacky installer, dual boot support, and fortunate hardware compatibility gave me the right nudge at the right time to send me on a lifetime of hacking.

Almost 25 years later, most as a professional software engineer, I have a completely biased affection for this strange OS.

Thanks for sharing!
It's probably more dangerous to predict they won't, at this point.

The people that aren't seeing a compelling use case simply aren't looking.
Agreed, this doesn't give a relative magnitude nor an accurate comparison to comparable services operated by humans nor against vehicles operated by (potentially impaired) humans.
Show HN: Dauh, detect well-known CLI on your computer and its version
Detect well-known CLI on your computer. Is PHP exists? Is Node.js exists? and many more, along with its version. This tool is like a quick checkup of several well-known CLI.
You have a white menu bar that suddenly just gets cut off by a black square, its distracting and jarring. I can assure you the people that are giving up the entirety of length of this bar to not have the black portion stick out aren't worried about "waste".
It's part of a plea agreement. In a plea agreement the defendant gives up certain rights in exchange for other sentencing considerations.

They were worried they'd get a worse sentence at trial, so they plead to get a better deal. They didn't just give up their rights...
I find this to be bad advice. People already do the activities they enjoy and don’t do the activities that don’t enjoy.

Clearly the activities they enjoy do not involve meeting women. For me, this translates to weight lifting (few women lift; if there are women, there is a trope for creepy gym guy and there isn’t much socialization outside of the men’s locker room) or coding (another solo experience).

Try new things. Try things that are social and are uncomfortable for introverts. It’s the only way you can find the results you want.
"Leaked" also includes cashing in or out of Bitcoin.
This is Peter Thiel's thesis, and his answer is basically overregulation born of a cultural fear and pessimism of science bringing doom rather than progress that crept in slowly after WW2.
My uneducated guess is that they are using credit and “now that the pandemic is over we finally feel like we can live again!”
When MongoDB came out it was sort of the anti-SQL database, so it is interesting that this flavor of the same kind of database is backed by postgreSQL.
The one area where I don't advocate for GNU/Linux is in graphical user interfaces. The year of the Linux desktop will never come. For whatever reason, the cathedral can make a much better GUI than the bazaar.
There's a reason for that:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/13/hunter-bi...

> The article said that more than 50 former senior intelligence officials, including five CIA chiefs, had signed a letter saying the release of the emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
I'm not sure I can agree with that. I'm incapable of relationships, but even if it were, my background makes puts me at a elevated probability of becoming abusive towards towards an intimate partner.

Would you not say that most if not all people would not want an abusive partner? If so, then even if it were possible, would not choosing to remain unattached out of concern for others be the more... Correct? Ethical? Moral? In any case, the better choice then to unnecessarily subject them to that elevated risk?
The topic is "laundering BTC into dollars".

You're referring to the risk of getting chased down for the "bad deeds" of others after funds are co-mingled. You're not explaining that it's prohibitively risky or not possible.

Further, I'm only aware of tumbling blacklisting [0], where the exchange gets blacklisted for co-mingling known dirty funds. AFAIK, there are still sizable tumbling vectors.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/crypto-mixing-service-tornad...
It wasn't about bending of light though. The orbit of Mercury is slightly different from what Newton's theory would predict, and this was first observed during the eclipse.

The British officer story happened in Korea IIRC, the custom at the time wasn't cannibalism, but that women who lost their husbands would be killed to join them in the afterlife.