skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I would like facts, not assumptions. It's definitely not safe to assume they are making a profit, as a whole, or per transaction. It's more complicated than that.

Profit has a strict definition of $revenue - $cost, for a business operation as a whole, which leaves money in the bank at the end of the month.

They could be making more money for a single query than the cost of compute time for that single query, but that may not cover the engineering and idle servers. They could be running at a loss with the assumption that they can improve efficiency per transaction soon. They could be running at a "loss" because they're giving some of the compute away for free right now, to improve the training with the user responses. Or maybe they are making fistfuls of money. "Profitable" has a strict meaning, shouldn't be assumed, and definitely isn't required, at this point in their operation.

I'm very interested to know if they are profitable, at the moment, but I don't think that's been publicly disclosed yet, and I can't find anything. A reference is required.
How different is this from a Jupyter Notebook? https://jupyter.org/

This seems like a simplified version that could reach it's limit pretty soon.
This is also what I do. 99% of the passwords in Keepass on my PC I don't need when out and about. The 10 that I do need I just keep updated in a vault on my phone. I don't like the feeling of my 'keys to everything' being hosted somewhere.
Dataview sorely needs maintainers. The author is working on a successor but I still want to use the original one.
How about something like [`input`](magic-link)? I came up with this for https://codeberg.org/macchiato ( though it's not yet implemented in the new project, just in the predecessor, https://gitlab.com/ResourcesCo/notebook ). The backquotes differentiate from non-magic links. (I tried badges, but they aligned weirdly.)

You could use [`data.mrr`](https://evidence.dev/md/value) or any other internal DSL you can come up with.

Another thing you could do is just decide against MD(SVE)X the format and keep the style and transform inline codeblocks that match. (MRR grew by `<Value data={data.mrr}>` yesterday.)

That you said Markdown to me says you aren't on sold on using an incompatible syntax.
Microsoft 365, Malware, and your responsibilities
I worked briefly at a shop that maintained a complex outsourced project by Yahoo (some ad bidding optimizations pipeline).

As it turns out, they used Perl, one of the few sanctioned languages at Yahoo.

The coding style handed over from the client forbade every other thing that Perl fans tell you that make the language warm and endearing to them; you were allowed to use about a few of the sigil variables, all the data structures were to be used in their "object reference" form, because it sidestepped the "contexts" functionality of Perl, which was to be avoided at all costs.

I remember the tedium of having to maintain your own stacktrace, because all you got was a the `$@`, `$!` and `$?` variables, which contained precisely the last of various types of error encountered during execution within the process. If you encountered errors while performing error handling, the original error would be lost, so you had to keep a backup.

Edit: man, the contexts, the fans sweared by them, making analogies to natural language; I'm sorry to sound elitist, but they often came across as enthusiastic amateurs rather than people with a formal background in Computer Science. They claimed that things like passing an array to a place where an integer is expected to get the length was richness, not insanity.
Trademark protections. FCA sued. IIRC Mahindra redesigned the grill in response.
or use a derivative like popos or mint. that way you get newer packages than debian.

I am interested to see how they will fare in the long term as ubuntu moves farther and farther away from debian though.
You got any more info on that? I can't find anything online that talks about this trick
I’m not sure there is a justification for your point, but I hear the point.

The counterpoint is that retribution MUST be a goal of the state, because if the state does not provide a sanitized replacement of what some surviving victims of crime will naturally want to do.

Put it this way: if someone killed my son, I would quite naturally want them dead. But then I would be killing someone’s son, and I’m sure you can detect the problem there.

If the state provides an implicit contract to everyone that the result of citizen on citizen violence will contain some sanitized version of retribution that substitutes for eye-for-an-eye justice, then overall violence will be reduced by the severance of the cycle.
I agree with your perspective on our social/cultural "matrix". It's amazing how much we take for granted and how deeply ingrained these constructs are in our everyday lives.

I used to gloss over the words representing "constructs" as I had used in my last sentence. I finally groked what was being referred to while listening to some lectures by Alan Watts during my recent sabbatical from burnout.

He was able to explain the differences between eastern and western philosophy in a way that made me see things in a completely different light. It was like waking up from the matrix.

Since then, I've been constantly aware of the constructed nature of reality and have had to re-evaluate many of my assumptions. For example, just learning that words are just abstractions and don't always accurately reflect reality was something I had never considered before. Now I try to be more careful with my word selection, but nobody's prefect :)
Which is what makes it a stupid idea. Credibility is hard to get, easy to lose. It seems obvious that the poor reputation of Buzzfeed would bring the news part down rather than the news bringing the rest of the operation up.
Havok physics is certainly an interesting addition! Especially since Cannon.js & Oimo.js are not being maintained anymore. Ammo.js (port of Bullet) seems to have some updates here and there (IIRC, it was easier to setup using Babylon considering that it used a wrapper across all physics libraries).

Good to see that Babylon.js is doing well.
Oh, for sure. The old-school conservative solution, from back before "conservative" meant "simply don't try to do good things, at all" (at least, in the US) would have been to try to price in the added risk to others (and other externalities, like extra road-wear) to discourage having too-large vehicles. I think that could work.

Never gonna happen, because too many people think discouraging choices that make public roads more dangerous, or simply paying for costs they impose on others through their choices, is outright tyranny, but hey, it's a nice idea.
Can it create interactive documents like distill.pub or observablehq? I want my reports to look beautiful, and these sites are exemplars. I can't stand that jupyter junk. And it would allow you to support a use case beyond BI.
That is a good answer.
because its just markdown and SQL without all the other overhead.
SLS was built on 30 years of flight-proven systems. It wasn’t at all entirely a modeling exercise.
There's a wide spectrum of behaviors in relation to future penalties. Some people are so far gone that they don't care about death. This includes people who livestream their murder sprees or are willing to commit suicide bombings, for example. There's no prospect of deterring them. At best you can permanently isolate surviving perpetrators from the rest of society. Until we invent slap-drones [1] I wouldn't trust them to roam free again.

Other people won't violate minor rules even when there's nobody watching. Some people will come to a full stop at every stop sign, even when there's perfect visibility and no cross traffic, even when there's no cameras or police cars around.

In between these two extremes you do have people who are deterred by enforcement. My sister didn't come to a full stop at a certain intersection on the way to work until she was ticketed for it. She stopped completely every time afterward. For this in-between set of people who respond to deterrence, likelihood of facing a penalty is more important than the severity of a penalty [2].

The problem I have seen repeatedly is that catching more violators is more expensive/difficult than increasing the severity of punishment, so lawmakers are tempted to increase penalties to "make up" for rare enforcement. Fining $1 for littering and catching half of litterers seems mathematically equivalent to fining $5000 for littering and catching 1 in 10000 litterers. It's also a lot cheaper to catch only a handful of people. But the rare-enforcement, high-penalty approach has a much weaker deterrent effect because most people are not mathematically rational agents and fail to consider long tail events. The deterrent effect of extreme penalties is even weaker for murder. Most people are not interested in murdering anyone even in circumstances where they would get away with it. The remaining subset of people with a non-negligible propensity to murder is enriched in people who behave erratically and cannot be deterred by rational means.

[1] https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone

[2] "Frequency of enforcement is more important than the severity of punishment in reducing violation behaviors" https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108507118
Also people who ride dirt bikes- the back will slide out fairly easily compared to the front (but using the front exclusively comes with some pretty big tradeoffs)
Even "whole" ingredients are often packaged in plastics. I think there's a lot going on, not to mention breaking free of metabolic dysfunction is extremely difficult for a lot of reasons.
If you work on Linux or MacOS, you can generally count on the interpreter being present. Even minimal installs of Linux tend to include Perl. Python might be as ubiquitous, but Ruby certainly isn't.
The Death penalty has actually been abolished in Washington state since 2018 when the state’s supreme court ruled it unconstitutional as a punishment. Reasons cited was that the punishment was issued arbitrarily and with racial bias. The court’s decision was directly based off of a regression analysis study.

https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/death-penalty-washin...

https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/legacy/documents/WashRace... (PDF)
The author is listed as Matthew. There's a Danny who wrote another article on the blog (the blog has only two articles).

Blog owner is a Bruce McAllister who claims to have written three successful books, which he doesn't list and be a member of Guerrilla Marketing hall of fame. Zero results for his name and guerrilla marketing on search engines.
Its sad that we have threads this dumb on HN.
> It’s demise goes to show that humans do not want fact-finding journalism.

I don't think it shows that at all. What it shows is that if you take something good and slap a brand on it that people associate with crap, people will think your good thing is crap and avoid it, too.
Yahoo used it a lot, but I'm not sure if they still do.
POWER2 was originally multiple chips as well.
I think it's because he is using Perl.
Yes, in principle a compiler is free to generate arbitrarily horrendous code regardless of what you ask it to do.

In practice, non-virtual function calls are reliably compiled to fairly efficient code while virtual calls are much less reliable.
The current stable Debian (11) is two years old. Of course it has older packages than distros released more recently.

Debian 12 is newer than 22.04 right now, and probably about the same as Ubuntu 23.04. It's in hard freeze, and soon to be released though.

The Debian live DVDs are using the Calamares installer now, if that's more your style. Debian's normal installer is still the same as it always was.

Debian is still more default, you set it up for yourself than Ubuntu. I don't like Ubuntu's defaults, but I know what you mean. GNOME's defaults are better now, if that helps out.
> ChatGPT generates unhelpful, plausible-looking nonsense.

I use ChatGPT daily to generate code in multiple languages. Not only does it generate complex code, but it can explain it and improve it when prompted to do so. It's mind blowing.
RAM sells a small truck in Mexico called RAM 700 and it’s getting popular for work purposes (specially in urban areas).
I have no idea why it’s not being sold in the US market.

https://www.motor1.com/news/447996/2021-ram-700-debut/
Alphabet merges AI-focused groups DeepMind and Google Brain
Jeff was very early on in the "just scale up the big brain" idea, perhaps as early as 2012 (Andrew Ng training networks on 1000s of CPUs). This vision is sort of summarized in https://blog.google/technology/ai/introducing-pathways-next-... and fleshed out more in https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12533, but he had been internally promoting this idea since before 2016.

When I joined Brain in 2016, I had thought the idea of training billion/trillion-parameter sparsely gated mixtures of experts was a huge waste of resources, and that the idea was incredibly naive. But it turns out he was right, and it would take ~6 more years before that was abundantly obvious to the rest of the research community.

Here's his scholar page (H index of 94)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=NMS69lQAAAAJ...

As a leader, he also managed the development of TensorFlow and TPU. Consider the context / time frame - the year is 2014/2015 and a lot of academics still don't believe deep learning works. Jeff pivots a >100-person org to go all-in on deep learning, invest in an upgraded version of Theano (TF) and then give it away to the community for free, and develop Google's own training chip to compete with Nvidia. These are highly non-obvious ideas that show much more spine & vision than most tech leaders. Not to mention he designed & coded large parts of TF himself!

And before that, he was doing systems engineering on non-ML stuff. It's rare to pivot as a very senior-level engineer to a completely new field and then do what he did.

Jeff certainly has made mistakes as a leader (failing to translate Google Brain's numerous fundamental breakthroughs to more ambitious AI products, and consolidating the redundant big model efforts in google research) but I would consider his high level directional bets to be incredibly prescient.
There are some smaller options these days. The Honda Ridgeline has led the way here as a very livable, smaller (although not small) truck.

The Ford Maverick is even smaller. It is a bit more barebones but it might work for you.
I think this non deluge system was 100% intentional as a cost saving measure to just see if the asset acquired clearance from launch tower. The next iteration of launch will have one.
Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data
Appreciate it! That was always the plan to make this as simple and understandable as possible.

Regarding the parameters, I prompt GPT to to return the function name as well as an object for the params in JSON. The acceptable params are passed in the prompt just by stringifying the 'parameters' object passed in the addFunction() function.

This means it works best when the function parameters are extremely descriptive. I've also found it is important to check all params to ensure they're the correct type, not null, etc, directly in the function.

I've also been meaning to implement some retry logic so that if a passed parameter is wrong, the function can throw an error and this error will be passed back to GPT to allow it to retry.
Surely it will work eventually...
> Its happy place was a sane job control language

maybe that was your happy place for Perl, but it certainly wasn't mine or that of lot of Perl users I've known over the years.

#!/bin/perlish
while (<>) {
/* regex match */
/* do some stuff, with variables or the file system or whatever */
}

Awk theoretically is a close match for this basic structure, but Perl is closer, most of the time.
By this standard aren't they retreating from Earth?
I’m one of the people who helped design and build this functionality; happy to answer any questions about it!
Space Insurance
LeBron James didn’t pay for his Twitter checkmark but Elon gave it to him anyway
The Javascript ecosystem (to which Typescript belongs) makes the Perl ecosystem of twenty years ago look modern and streamlined.
I'm not that plugged-in to the AI world (though doing my best to catch up)... but is Uber really viewed as a powerhouse on the same level as FAIR?
I am always surprised by the amount of people on HN who just put out statements like "it exists" without any explanation, as if it informs anyone of anything else but the implicit "[I am convinced that] it exists".

Like, why? Can you share any more information? Some reasons on why you're convinced of that statement? Or do you consider yourself so important that you expect your opinions to be taken as real arguments, as facts, as something self-evident?
perfectly safe and clean modern vehicles from other advanced nations

A lot of what's being discussed are neither perfectly safe nor clean by American standards.

The UK, for instance, allows pretty much anything with wheels to be registered (e.g. the Peel). Euro NCAP is merely advisory, you can still sell/buy a death trap. Pollution as well. Want an early 90s Figaro or S-Cargo or a late 00s Hijet? Those were sold without cats or fuel injection. Want something cheap and Euro? Cool. The cheap shit is often cheap because it pollutes so much it can't legally be driven in city centers any longer.

A lot of the bellyaching is over cars that the manufacturers couldn't justify fixing up to meet American standards.
Do you have any references to support that “no matter how badly you punish the criminals will you prevent most crimes”?

I would expect that more strict sentencing has diminishing returns. The difference between no crime, versus a crime and a fine, versus a crime and jail or prison time, are steep escalations, but the difference between 15 and 25 years in prison seems much smaller. I agree you probably won’t prevent many murders by raising the minimum sentence on murder, but other less severe crimes/sentences don’t present the same obvious conclusion to me.
I guess that where you see overhead I see options.
Where did I suggest this was a mission?

This was a partially successful test nothing more and nothing less. I get people really really think SpaceX had done an excellent job and I don’t disagree but people who are comparing the end result of a long process Aka the current state of falcon 9 with a new system like Starship are going to be disappointed.

Starship is extremely likely to fail repeatedly before achieving anything close to the same streak as the Falcon 9 has. That’s not an issue with SpaceX that’s an inherent aspect of doing something really difficult.
I still need help understanding this new Tax rule.
I might understand capital assets better if you could answer these two questions.

We pay software developers to create a new product. We spend $1m on their wages, then sell that software product for $1.1m. How much federal tax would I owe based on this new tax rule?

We buy a machine for $1m and then sell it for 1.1m. How much federal taxes would I owe?
Jesus you are a seriously disturbed person. I honestly think you should seek help.
ChatGPT Glasses Bring AI into Your Real Life
The /r/fuckcars folks are being a little dishonest here. As another commenter mentioned, this is like asking a vegan for steak recommendations at a restaurant.

Subaru Sambar (kei truck) towing capacity: 1,300 lbs

Ford F-150 towing capacity: 5,000 to 11,300 lbs

Ford F-250 Shelby edition towing capacity: 24,200 pounds

And that's just one additional dimension where these vehicles significantly differ.

These vehicles are utilitarian workhorses great for contracting, construction, farming (eg. hauling livestock), towing (eg. other cars, trailers, mobile BBQ, etc.), boating, leisure [1], etc.

I live in an urban area close enough to the forest, lakes, and pastures to see all of these uses frequently.

The electric version will power job sites, camp sites, and help with disaster recovery. It's going to sell like hot cakes.

[1] https://www.f150forum.com/f34/how-pull-jeep-out-mud-130086/#...
There's someone with a lovely little Kei Firetruck in Bernal Heights. Makes me smile every time I walk past it.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Meet-Kiri-the-tiny...
I believe "state" is ambiguous here. The "state" brings the charges and recommends the penalty.
> Although, physics engines are inherently difficult to work with in the first place.

Do you have any insights into why this is the case? What areas of simulation or tooling are difficult to work with?

Disclaimer: I'm on the Havok team and worked on the Babylon.JS integration.
I use a similar tool at my work (airplane.dev) that lets us make dashboards as code using raw SQL or a language of our choice. I love it, and it gets a ton of use from our engineers and customer support folks.

But our CEO, sales, etc. teams that are often consumers of BI tools do not like it, as they do not like SQL, nor putting things in code, nor markdown. So we kept the "traditional" BI tools and ETL shenanigans as well.

It's expensive to have both, but I don't think either fully replaces the other, and I don't regret going down the path we have at all. I think most folks are happy.
> due to obtrusive (SMM mode), non-auditable firmware

Let's be honest every architecture has the same problem of parallel "trusted" execution environment, some have even more than one.

- ARM TrustZone

- POWER SBE

- RISC-V SBI
Two specifics here that seem problematic for me and I am curious about

1) DeepMind was given very significant autonomy since day 1 it was acquired. I find it very hard to believe that any attempt to take that away won't result in huge internal problems and / or attrition

2) Sundar Pichai has been coming in for a lot of criticism in general because he seems to be constantly out-maneuvered by Microsoft and we have seen very little new emerge from Google under his watch. Putting himself at the helm of this is going to really accentuate this and actually seems high risk - if he is the the reason Google is struggling to deliver elsewhere then positioning himself at the apex of an existentially important effort could be lethal.

Added together, there seems like a high risk this could go catastrophically wrong for Google, and Pichai in particular. Maybe it will work, but the downside is enormous.
I pick a thing that annoys me and try to fix it. In the process, I'm following all the tangential issues that I discover without really caring about the original goal.
Oh, and while we're on the topic, anyone have something like a media database where they record metadata about what they watch and when? I want to create yearly media dashboards and I've run into a few tricky problems around metadata organization. The querying has been easy for the most part.
CNBC says Pixel Fold will launch in June for $1,700
I like short stories on HN.

The most interesting part are the HN comments, and without reading the story first, it is rude and less interesting commenting.

So short stories are a plus for me!
Multi-frequency GPS is already available in many inexpensive civilian devices such as smart watches and cell phones. It improves accuracy a little, primarily when the device doesn't have a clear view of the sky like when next to buildings. But it's still not as precise as SBAS.
> But that’s why it’s a thought experiment.

My point is I think it's a bad thought experiment. In my opinion just using the actual "mapping" concept directly is much less confusing than clumsily reusing the definition of "size" and other concepts that are really irrelevant in an infinite world.
I assume this wouldn't hold any value for prions (as the entropic anti-life tarpit that they are), and more value for "benign" and merely useless misfolds?