skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need to be wary about caste based discrimination entering the U.S.

However, I tried to dig into the actual sources in the article, and the only non-anecdotal source in the article was a 2018 survey by a non neutral group. Which could be fine as a starting point, but literally the first substantive content in the report is the following quote:

“If Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Caste would become a world problem”

Can you imagine any publication treating a report that begins with a quote like that about another group seriously? For example, basing an article on a report that starts with “If Muslims migrate to other parts of the world, sharia law would become a world problem”.

Then I tried to look at the sources quoted in the interview. We start with the “Cisco situation”, where the linked Washington Post article is about the discrimination investigation being voluntarily dismissed by the Civil Rights department (after an apparent 3 year investigation). There are a couple of other “situations” mentioned, with no backing link. We then get a link to the “Google situation”, which involves Google canceling a Dalit speaker after complaints from employees. From just a cursory reading it seems like a bad decision by Google. But, we’re in the middle of a huge multi year argument about “cancel culture”. It would seem to me this has a lot more to do with that than casteism. Either way, 1 instance of a canceled speaker seems thin gruel to suggest that casteism is rife within CA, while we have hundreds of non Dalit speakers being “canceled” for years.

I am of the opinion that adding caste as a protected category doesn’t seem like a bad idea at all. But this article, at least, provides little support to the idea that caste based exclusion is a problem beyond a couple of isolated incidents.
Exactly. And now they don’t have cheap and abundant gas (which is better than coal). So their choices are: (1) to pollute more with coal, (2) to de-industrialize, (3) give up on Europe’s security and offer concessions to russia.
Although I'm not personally a fan of web apps or Electron, the reality is that browsers are not just consumer consumption devices. And my reading of http://crbug.com/1178058 is that the existence of WebP and AVIF is being used as a justification for removing JPEG XL support.
English can be pretty much as efficient... It's up to the social context on how much you want to dress it up.
It's more likely that the "value" of income in the US is overestimated in international comparisons. If one compares not only lifespan, but also other measures of human health and experience, the differences between US states and European countries makes a little more sense, see: Top 20 states and European countries with the highest Human Development Index: https://i.imgur.com/jcHhVk4.png
Pretty excited for the conversational tutor for learning languages. Been hearing about it since 2021 but my guess is Google's big investment in Duolingo probably put the brakes on it internally.
In Seattle going as contractor means making $150k instead of $300k. Does contracting in Sweden pay double? $600k? Or as a contractor you make half what Seattle contractor is making.
Sounds like the public school system is being made into a scapegoat. Very easy to say “public schooling is broken” when you’ve assigned it 500 tasks and funded it for 10.
Yes. De-industrialization comes with internal combustion engine ban. Whole Mittelstand makes very special parts for them. With electric vehicles these companies will disappear and living standard in rural areas will fall. 2 decades ago it was completely different country…
there will be no growth. No growth => no investment which will lead to stagnation.

Contrast this with what Finland is doing. Finland is going to be one of the leading European nations in 20 years.
How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
Sometimes because if you add 'race' to the data then clusters appear that align with that extra data. Of course it doesn't mean that 'race' is a causal factor, it can be that it correlates with some other data that is not included such as poverty.
If a startup will let you work on things a more established company wouldn’t, you can acquire skills that bolster your long-term income and job security.

Also, not every startup is “pre-revenue” with 6 months of runway. There are many startups out there with real product-market fit, several years of runway, and prudent financial management in place.
The commissioning notion was brought up by the copyright board in their march advisement on the eligibility of neural network produced works under copyright - which are not eligible.

It's an accurate description of whats going on. Commissioning paintings until you get the one you want isn't artistic expression, or artistic decision making, and the human coming up with prompts will be replaced by a machine learning program trained on prompts, as they bring the least value to the process and are the most easily replaced.

> And from a purely practical point of view, getting worked up over this is tilting at windmills.

I'm not worked up at all. I'm explaining whats going on. Is anyone who thinks differently from you getting worked up? Are you getting worked up for imagining emotions I'm not experiencing? In the future just argue ideas instead of imagining emotions across internet mind reading.

>Change is the constant. And there will be undoubtedly 'artist commissioners' that will outshine others, using the same 'artist'.

It will all approach zero value, so it doesn't matter. It's inauthentic, uncopyrightable stuff based on the misappropriation of the work of actual artists. The expert 'commissioners' will also be replaced by machine learning faster than anyone else.
If you get value from Reddit, it might be worth trying to migrate that elsewhere. Better to have some control than none.
The health care system is problematic not because it’s not well funded but because parts of the population can’t access it?

I have bipolar and I know online communities where the Americans with BPD talk about not being able to afford their meds.
Hmm, I was thinking about building a 2d game solver with a LLM and I was wondering the other day if there is a better way to represent 2D data instead of just raster scanning it to a vector. probably a hadamard transform might work out better but the hilbert pattern looks interesting too.
It is still not done, in fact there is a good chance that this launch will go boom, which is actually expected by SpaceX as part of the iterative development process and not as bad as, say, a failure of the SLS, but it still means we are not ready yet. Remember that the Soviet N1 launched 4 times, all failures, and it was the end of the program, I don't think Starship will suffer the same fate, for many reasons, but just because we get to launches don't mean the program will succeed.

That it can be done never really was the question. The tech is actually pretty well proven, a lot of it coming from soviet design. The issue is more about economics: do we need a super heavy reusable rocket, will reusability keep its promises. It is not like everyone and his dog has to put something into orbit, and in fact, we don't want too much stuff into orbit mostly because of the risk of space debris. Interestingly, the biggest customer may be SpaceX itself, with Starlink, and I think it is not a coincidence. We already had the Space Shuttle which was supposed to revolutionize space operation, and while the shuttle did work as a launcher, but it was ultimately a failure, hence the skepticism over Starship, it addition to the well known tendency of Elon Musk to overpromise and underdeliver.

Personally, I think SpaceX did better than I expected, and I think Starship will become at least a working launcher. SpaceX is essentially the only hope of the US government when it comes to rocketry, they won't let them go, especially now that the relationship with Russia is a bit tense. But as for how game changing it will be, I have absolutely no idea.
They did a short duration static fire, they seemed to do a lot to keep it held down at ~50% throttle, full LOX tank, just enough methane for combustion.

It is probably impossible to have a full thrust or duration static fire on the existing launch mount, or any?
Because of.
We have much lower prices for electric power than our neighbour france. They are using mostly nuclear power and have every winter problems, because more power is used that generated. Their reactors are also security risks where you need a book to cover them all. An french three-mile island can happen any time
Why do so many tech companies think they have a right o issue decisions to employees, contractors, or customers without communicating context? Lack of contextual information seems to account for a large proportion of tech grievances discussed on HN.

Running a business as a top-down dictatorial entity with zero accountability says something bad about the founders and owners. The standard excuse is that 'if we give out too much information, people will game the system'. But by evading accountability and often regulation, it's these companies who are gaming the marketplace/regulatory system in which they operate, while offering themselves as victims of unscrupulous individuals whenever one of their counterparties exhibits even a slight degree of autonomy. This kind of control freakery is recapitulating the worst aspects of 20th century Taylorism.

I was very much in favor of Uber as a disruptive entity when they first appeared, given the numerous flaws in the in then-dominant taxicab model. But (along with many other companies that adhere to the same platform mentality) have mutated into something significantly worse.
I wouldn’t be surprised if RMS said “I don’t file tax returns, because I would have to either (a) use nonfree online filing software, (b) use nonfree PDF technologies (since the US Form 1040 features XFA forms, and Wikipedia says the are nonfree [0]), or (c) hire an accountant, but they would also be using nonfree software, and the IRS is using proprietary software to process the tax returns anyway, so therefore I am not filing them”.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA
Why Africa is one of the most unequal continents in the world
Those stone carvers must be fast, since they were presumably doing it in realtime. /s

Seriously, it's not a scoreboard.
That's put bluntly but well.

I understand the parent's sentiment though. Every few years when I need to use Tex for something it always take me a second to remember that it is not a computer algebra system, just a rendering engine hyper focused on rendering 2D math notation that predates web rendering engines by about two decades. For some reason it surprises me that CSS did not grow to eat the publication rendering use case. I get that Tex has solved that problem quite well, but it seems like the sheer number of people who used CSS would mean that those capabilities would be ported to the language. But no, didn't happen. So we still have the two rendering languages.
> mandatory unpaid time [off]

Furlough
> What I don't get about all of this is that the hard, expensive part of nuclear power is building + certifying the plants.

Not really. The hard part is ensuring that nuclear can be safe throughout it's service life. This is what leads to construction process to be extremely expensive, and certification is just an umbrella term that means "checking if the plant doesn't exhibit any of the risks involving pre established problems and disaster scenarios by going through a number of checks."
> Sure you can - you just do it. You just make the necessary fix.

No, you can't. Not simply.

> But you do it quickly, within a short time of launching it. Anyone who was able to make use of it within a couple months, will be able to adapt and fix things.

That's not how the web works. "People who make use of it in a few months" could easily apps and sites serving millions of people. This is a process that applies not only to image codecs, but to, say hardware APIs and interfaces, network protocols etc.

> But there's no reason to take so long.

There are very many reasons from technical to political to anything in between (and sideways, too).
Formality and politeness is baked into Korean and you are basically always speaking at the right formality unless you ignore the rules.

Your relationship to who you're speaking to (and who you are referring to if you speak about anyone else) changes the grammar of the sentence.

The grammar changes mostly manifest in different suffix endings.
.47c a kWh. Highest outside of Hawaii, third or fourth highest in the world.

You're not paying that in Florida.
I have implemented this using the gcc/clang “transparent union” extension, which eliminates the need for explicit casting or helpers.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Type-Attributes.ht...
His style of management is effective because it’s fear based and slave driverish. Fortunately in this case he can get people to work purely on the basis of the ideals and lofty goals they are working towards.
try adding +*{unicode} to scan rules. seriously, please try and let me know, if it worked.
The politician in question here, Markus Söder strongly argued for shutting down nuclear power plants after Fukushima. This is not in any way a principled policy, this is pure populism.

Bavaria is also vehemently blocking any attempt to put storage for nuclear fuel in their area.
> I have several friends who work or worked in schools, and they all have told me that students lack respect. They cuss out teachers on a regular basis, are insubordinate, and do not respect authority

Has there ever been a time when this was not a common complaint? If there was an award for “most consistent complaint in recorded history”, I think this would win.
Compared to many European languages, sure, but English still has plenty of filler. Chinese, for example, can be extremely information dense.
While I agree “restroom?” Is perfectly valid, you could also say “the restroom is where?” Which puts the important noun first and makes it a question later. It’s not particularly formal, which in America at least is completely unnecessary for day to day life.
They didn’t matter last decade either, which is how 2008 happened.
Sometimes it's a tax thing. The points usually don't count as a taxable benefit, so even if you're travelling for your own incorporated business, it's a way to squeeze a few percent of your expenses out as tax-free income.

Or at least a tax-free retirement benefit (not bad if you have an employer).

But it is funny to read on the travel discussion boards how much road-warriors hate hotel/airline X Y or Z because their points program isn't great, but they're substantially cheaper.

Some country's tax policies consider employer-paid meals a (partly/fully) taxable benefit, but if the hotel provides it for free, that's cool.

Same thing with credit card points. That's a huge one for squeezing out tax-free income out of your business.
I think it’s moreso that the more developed any one project is, the fewer low hanging fruits there are to pick, so there’s less beginner tasks to do. That being said, there are still new projects springing up every day, but we just don’t know which of them will be the next Linux or Python.
Bad Piggies was one of my favorite games, ever.
They are stocking extra propellants at the suborbital tank farm for backup and shorter turn around times should they need it. It takes a lot of trucks to bring enough fuel for a full load
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I'm often browsing hotels ahead of actually committing to any firm travel plans, so a message like "rooms available" suggests I likely have plenty of time to keep looking (and potentially going to another website to book), but "only 3 rooms left" might prompt me to pull the trigger earlier than I otherwise would have. Of course, I am personally convinced these numbers are totally made up and just ignore them anyway.
Not to be pedantic, but the net profit =/= revenue from the movies. Even though the Sequel Trilogy was a financial success, the net revenue was definitely lower than 5-6Bn the movies earned.

Here's a source https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2023/03/01/reveale...

But once you factor in toys for the movies and shows (and other merch), DVD and Bluray sales,video games units sold and microtransactions, theme park tickets, increased subscriptions to Disney+ for marquee shows like the Mandalorian etc. it probably has been made back, probably with a multiplier.
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Some from column A, some from column B.

He picked the right people to work SpaceX and Tesla, which is his greatest feat and deserves much praise. He informed himself, then involved himself more than was probably required or even good, but he had adult supervision.

He's deliberately ignoring adult supervision in Twitter and making a hash of it. The fact that both Tesla and SpaceX continue in his absence suggest that whatever direct benefit he once provided does not seem to require more.
Or just don’t? If the game isn’t fun with cheating and the developers can’t do anything about it without malware just don’t play it
All of the people here who are so passionate about JPEG-XL will be happy to learn that there's nothing preventing them from using it on their sites right now:

https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js

If you want Chrome to ship with JPEG-XL support, use it. At some point, browser makers will decide it's worth the incremental cost (to them and all users) to add it.
> (...) when half lives were incredibly long.

I'm sorry, did the laws of physics changed in the last couple of decades?
Only one room left would be useful information if it were accurate. Most of the time, booking agents don't really have an accurate picture of inventory though. It's more like only one room available for booking.com to book right now.

It could be that the hotel is holding back rooms for other channels or because they like to not be fully booked so far ahead of time or perhaps the hotel has found listing only one room at a time gets them a better look to book ratio (in part because of anxiety inspiring features like this).

Without an understanding of the industry though, it's not really useful information.
I think it mostly has to do with the (over-)regulated labour market. Contracting is a way for people who don’t need job security to get payed more.
We're a long ways from "Peak LLM", if we will ever get there.

If we are, indeed, in a virtuous cycle of LLMs building on each other, then we are actually in the knee of the curve before exponential increase in LLM capability.

An LLM that can access all other AI models (e.g., HuggingGPT) is not limited to the strengths and weaknesses of any one model. Declarations of "Peak LLM" or "LLMs can never be secured" are as laughable as statements like "Assembly can never be surpassed in abstraction".
There's also RP2040 Doom which managed to get doom running on the RP2040, complete with sound, music and networking over I2C. The VGA signal is generated by a PIO state machine on the RP2040.

https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/
I was strongly opinionated that upper case html tags were better and more readable, and I still believe that it should have won. Building sites in '96 nearly everyone upper cased.

Now that there is syntax highlighting though the readability benefit is minimal so not a big deal. I still think SQL keywords should be capitalized though...
> Bavaria's prime minister Söder is a populist

That's why he was for closing the power plant in the first place. In 2011 was the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The obvious downside of this decision is that nuclear generation that has been shut down is replaced by coal and gas.

Also it's not a given that the renewable strategy will succeed. The bulk electricity prices are already going down to zero across Germany at random times when the weather is good. Which means the renewable energy business don't get revenue when they generate the most electricity. As a consequence even more subsidies are required to further increase the share of renewables.
Depends on what I'm protecting from. The problem, though, is that loud-enough-to-cause-a-setback noises happen all the time. You of course won't notice if they don't cause you pain, but people yell, drop things, trucks clang and their breaks squeak, fire alarms go off...

All of these can cause setbacks, some permanent (for instance, a random fire alarm permanently increased my hearing sensitivity/pain). Wearing earplugs full time isn't a solution, partially because that's just an untenable way to go through life, and partially because your brain will compensate by turning up its "input gain," effectively making your hyperacusis even worse.

Most people with severe hyperacusis have no choice but to become shut-ins. A large percentage eventually kill themselves, to the point that I had to stop going to support forums because it happened to often.

It is truly a hellish condition. I've thankfully always come back from the points in which you could describe my condition as "severe" -- there have been times where even my own speaking voice caused me pain -- but many, many people don't, and I'm always walking a tightrope, fully aware that my somewhat normal life I've clawed my way back to could be over at any moment.
One thing I’ve learned about politics in the past few decades is that most successful career politicians are weathervanes - ie, they point the direction the (political) wind blows.

This is by design in a democracy. However due to political parties, the pol may simply attach to the most powerful sub group they can use to parley themselves into re-election. So they often double down on their existing stances to keep/grow their core voting bloc.
> Is SpaceX succeeding because of Musk or despite of Musk?

Probably because. Just look at Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos. Or look at the US, EU, Chinese space industry. It does look like Musk adds something to SpaceX that makes them achieve above the rest.
Angry Birds (and its sequel) as well as Angry Birds: Star Wars were absolute hits, I think.

Bad Piggies was also fantastic.
Speaking of "Wrong"...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10112809/Chicago-bl...

https://chicagocrusader.com/shoplifting-a-big-problem-at-loc...

But you just put "wrong" with zero facts, this surely makes you right..
>Wal-mart carries too much stuff lock up, so they close the stores.

Tell that to my local Wal Mart, which locks up, among other things: all shaving products including $1 travel size bottles of shaving cream and all USB cables.
SpaceX's reusable launch technology has become a strategic American national security asset. The U.S. would, in all probability, bail out SpaceX if, for some reason, it was about to fail. SpaceX's success is a Sputnik moment for countries like China and Russia, which are desperately trying to develop reusable rockets of their own.

Also, Gwynne Shotwell deserves as much credit as Elon Musk.