skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>46% of American gamers are female

Kinda depends on whether the "gamer" means "someone who occasionally plays games or "self identified as member of specific gamer culture". The word gamer can mean both.

Full disclosure: I am a woman who strongly refuses the title "gamer" and occasionally playing some games. For me, it means specific culture I decided I don't want to be member of.
I don't feel I'm being critical at all.

I hope I'm inspiring someone else to put in a parallel effort, with a different form of artistry - writing image processing rather than staring at Photoshop.

If the artist took my comment as critical, I apologize - not my intent at all.
High Court: YouTube-Ripping Is Illegal. UK National Newspaper: Legal
Also the command-in-chief of UK and other Commonweath militaries?

Canada:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Cana...

As all executive power is legally reposed in the Crown, the role of commander-in-chief is the only constitutional means by which decisions are made over the deployment and disposition of the Canadian Armed Forces.[6] Under the Westminster system's conventions of responsible government, the cabinet—which advises the sovereign or his viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers—generally exercises the Crown prerogative powers relating to the Canadian forces.[6][7] Still, all declarations of war are issued with the approval, and in the name, of the monarch and must be signed by either the sovereign or the governor general, as was done with the proclamation that declared Canada at war with Nazi Germany, issued on September 10, 1939; it stated: "Whereas by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, We have signified Our Approval for the issue of a Proclamation in the Canada Gazette declaring that a State of War with the German Reich exists and has existed in Our Dominion of Canada as and from the tenth day of September, 1939."

Australia:
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca4...

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 68.

Command of naval and military forces.

The command in chief of the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor-General as the Queen's representative.
Tech Startups, VCs Brace for Wave of Down Rounds as Downturn Lingers
I’ve only heard good things about tailwind. Did you have a bad experience with it?
Ah, so it's my Firefox :)
I've taken my Tesla to the Manitoulin a number of times to visit family with no issues from Southern Ontario. Not super north, but enough to get a good sense.

Tesla has superchargers along 17 pretty consistently. The biggest gap is probably Sault St Marie to Wawa and that's only 230 km. The rest of the gaps are all well under 200 km (mostly around 100-150) so you don't have to stop at every location. Highway 11 is a no-go zone.

Destination charging is a little more sparse. I use a welding outlet in the family farm shop, but that's obviously not an option available to everyone. There is a single L2 charger on the whole island and it costs $5/hr which is pretty steep for 7 kW.

I wouldn't feel stressed taking a Tesla anywhere along 17 or the whole main trans-canada corridor. I'd want to plan a little ahead if my destination was a place without a supercharger to arrive with enough charge to get back to the network, but that's pretty simple.
Of course it was "Twelve!". Thank you for bringing this up. It is fixed now.
In that case, you really can't use any hosted search engine because they could be logging all your queries, the time you made them, and associating them with your IP and any other information they can get their hands on. Are you familiar with any search engine that is technically incapable of logging your IP???
Unfortunately, it isn't; but multiple volumes available at http://newandroidbook.com are plenty enough for a beginner to get started. I also quite like Karim Yaghmour's Embedded Android which compares Android and generic Linux distros, but it is in urgent need of a new edition. Docs at https://source.android.com/ and in the sub-folders at https://cs.android.com/ are super neat; various Linaro.org, Linux Plumber Conf, and Google blogs / presentations on Android also have quite a few gems.

Android is vast and changes rapidly. Do you have a specific sub-system (like the runtime, graphics, audio, camera, telephony, system-services, ipc etc) in mind?
Show HN: GPT3.5 Travel Planner (no signup req.)
Hi HN!

I decided to get on the AI hype train and build my own version of an AI travel planner. Yes, it's pretty basic and there are existing ones like it out there, but this one's mine :)

Stack:
React, NextJS. I used this vercel template to get going quickly. A nice feature is that the API response is streamed in, so despite the 1-2m it takes to load the full response, users can already preview and won't click off right away.
https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/twitter-bio

There is no data fetching happening from external sources, it's two OpenAI api calls. To be more accurate, this could be replaced with serpapi + langchain + apify to fetch live data from the web, but I haven't needed to go down that rabbit hole yet. Who knows, maybe future models will have their weights updated daily with web content or someone will build a webscraperGPT api.

Now I'm waiting on API access to rail providers in Europe to build out the next set of features (rail + hotel booking). Joined Omio affiliate and in talks with Qunar.

To anticipate HN comments:
- you need JS to run it.
- is it expensive to run? About $1/day in API costs from GPT-3.5 turbo
- What's unique about it? How is this better than ChatGPT? So far, it's neither. But I've shifted focus to train journeys, and hope to show a cool update in a month or so.

If you have any tips, I would love to hear, especially if you've worked with any rail APIs.

PS I'm vlogging my journey from quitting my fulltime data science role to building startup(s)
https://youtu.be/FG63Y8l0e5A
> I don't think it's cheap to do early. The costs are in people writing, drawing, talking, and often debating, rather than doing iterations on a basic working solution, and the outcome usually doesn't really work and needs to be redone in a year or two when more information is available.

It is, for vast majority of apps.

All you need to do to make sure your app running on one server can be run on 10 i.e. using actual SQL transactions to manage data, not in-program-memory locks. Then you can just get fatter DB server and boom, you're 10x

Above that, sure, the "bigger server" starts to be expensive so you might need to start thinking about sharding, or moving some data off to separate instance (separate search cluster for example), or adding cache here and there, or, eventually, rebuilding the core of it for performance but that's 100x territory
"Memoiri" looks like a random misspelling of "Memoir", and that's why I failed to find your app on Google the first time I tried.

Both on Google and Bing, a search for "Memoiri" leads to you, but the first page of results for "diary app" doesn't: you seem to need better promotion much more than a better name.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but the RTC lags about a minute every three days. At least for my device a regular ntp sync is therefore absolutely required.
This is my understanding as well. The length/scale of the conductive element is directly proportional to how much danger is involved.

The modern power grid has lots of places where it can trip nearly instantaneously upon adverse conditions. Assuming we can automatically trip any segments of transmission, I think most of the damage could be isolated. Long conductors that aren't connected to anything can't cause any damage beyond the lines themselves.

I don't think transformers and generators sitting in storage are going to feel much of anything.
But devise is only single tenant and doesn’t offer a web admin view for managing the integration?
Is Ruby on Rails still widely used?
They do it because they have been sold a story that it works. It's easy to show short-term gains, and hard to show long-term damage... and nobody gets paid today for showing damage months later. Short-term marketing incentives are horrifyingly destructive.

Does it work? In some areas, yeah, I believe it does. But most are cargo-culting a dark pattern that loses them what might otherwise be excellent customers, sold by people trying to justify their marketing position, and companies whose business incentives are perfectly aligned with selling snake oil.
why not just adjust the decoder / beam search to not emit any tokens that aren't semantically valid JSON?

ie. instead of using temperature to sample something from the top k most likely tokens, first exclude all the tokens that cause the output to be malformed. the model can only emit {, ", [, or a number for the first token, for example.

if someone would like a fun project to try this right away, one place to start would be to modify llama.cpp's chat example just before the line that samples tokens [1], going through `lctx.logits` to zero out invalid tokens (or these are logits, so i guess set them to -INFINITY). For smoketest, fix the first token of the model's output to "{" without any other changes and I bet you'd get something approaching JSON out.

[1]: here's the line to change: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/c4fe84fb0d28851a... see the bit on line 317-319 about how it ignores the end-of-sequence token by zeroing out the probability of sampling it? just like that!

i mean, the most principled approach probably requires some theoretic CS knowledge about regular expression derivatives or parsing machine derivatives, but i'm surprised it isn't more common to just hook into the decoder design a little, given how much we want structured data out of these models

i wish i knew how to voice my ignorant skepticism in a less disparaging way, sorry.... but i feel like a lot of this "legitimization of prompt engineering as a useful trade/practice" thinking assumes that we're trapped in the "magic circle" where the only input we have to the model is picking the prompt and the only possible output is the most likely token. but these are generative models! conditioned on their output, we have our choice about which token to accept, so why not just condition on the distribution of possible JSON output instead of the distribution of possible prose?

i suspect very quickly the most competitive prompt engineers will combine their solid understanding of theoretic machine learning and statistics with a solid understanding of computer science, perhaps even combined with a dash of persuasion / neurolinguistic programming experience. kinda worries me but it's how it is
> Feedback in general doesn’t benefit from in-office scenarios in my experience, so long as the junior is proactive.

In your comment you say you haven't worked in-office much. So, genuine question, how do you know feedback doesn't benefit from being in-office?

I think this relevant because in my experience (1.5 years remote because of COVID), the benefits of being in the office often aren't apparent when you're out of the office. For example, in work I regularly overhear O(2 minute) conversations in which co-workers talk about edge cases in our system that I didn't realize existed. If I wasn't in the office I wouldn't even know I had missed these conversations.
Both Tesla and Petro Canada have the Trans Canada covered. I'd recommend getting a TT-30 and a 14-50 adapter for your charger so you can charge at camp sites.
Related: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/0393...
Yes indeed. I think you'll be astonished by the data demonstrating the trend here.

It shows how around 2010 [1], there was an inflection point in main stream US media. It appears to be a coordinated campaign. Which would make sense given Operation Mockingbird [2]

[1]
"Many trends develop over decades but I’ve never seen change so rapid as the breathtaking success of what one might call social justice concerns. Beginning around 2010-2014 there appears to have been a inflection point. Here from Zach Goldberg on twitter are various words drawn from Lexis-Nexis."

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...

[2]

"Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
So the web is just a fancy email funnel?
>>If and when it happens things will get fixed

Yes, but the timing of those fixes could be an enormous problem

From what I've read, a large part of the problem will be burnt-out transformers all over the grid, from the major stations down to the street-level. Replacing any one of those is only a job of a few hours, when you have one available. The problem is that fabricating them takes a long time, and there is nowhere near enough inventory to replace the numbers that would fry in a Carrington-like event (or an EMP attack). It could take YEARS to replace them, during which time the economy is pretty much back to the 1800s, but with 2000s-level population to feed.

The estimates to create a stockpile of transformers so that they could be replaced in weeks-to months range around $500 million. It would give the nation a huge strategic economic advantage to be able to fully recover on a timescale of double-digit weeks instead of years. But, since the problem is so un-sexy that it is never brought up (the last infrastructure bill would have been a good time to do so).

Even if we could individually have power with rooftop solar+battery (also sufficiently protected), it'd be hard to thrive with the entire transport web broken (no grid electricity to pump gasoline/diesel, etc.).

Still, I want to know how vulnerable is rooftop solar, and what it would take to protect it (and prevent an event from burning down the house). Any experts have some pointers?
> we have no idea what is plausible or not, really, and we should not forget that. we can make up reasons that seem reasonable or which makes sense when combined with other unproven hypotheses but we simply do not know and we should not be offering up any words other than "we don't know" when asked for explanations.

You're saying "we have no idea what is plausible or not" and then go on to describe what plausibility is.

The one part of your definition of plausibility that you're leaving out is observation, which is critical. We aren't just comparing hypotheses to other unproven hypotheses, we're comparing hypotheses to what we observe.

We observe that criss-crossed nervous systems predate eyes in the phylogenic record, so from that observation, we can fairly conclusively say that criss-crossed nervous systems did not evolve as a result of eyesight. You can say that this is implausible, unreasonable, or doesn't make sense--I don't particularly care which terminology you prefer, but they're all saying basically the same thing: we know (i.e. have high degree of confidence) that a criss-crossed nervous system did not result from eyesight.

I'm not sympathetic to Platonic idealist arguments that "it's not possible to know anything" because that's a completely useless way of thinking, which even the people saying it don't believe. If I offer a philosopher the opportunity to get punched in the face, they'll decline my offer, because they know from prior experience that getting punched in the face will be an unpleasant experience. You can't reasonably claim that it's impossible to know anything in conversation when all the choices in your life are based around the things that you know. Platonic idealist epistemology is a convenience argument that people only trot out when they want to disagree with something.

Additionally, the idea is self defeating: if it's impossible to know things, then how do you know it's impossible to know things?
Why not entering a fake email and move on? It's not like many of them do email validation anyways. Something like kgistdaie@gmail.com will do.

At least let them having to handle junk data.
> if a voter ID is free and requires no effort on the citizens part

That alone is a big "if". Getting an ID rarely requires no effort. But the bigger question above all that is why do it anyway? Why do anything to make it harder to vote? There is little to no evidence of voter fraud taking place in the UK (or US for that matter), certainly never on a scale that would come close to affecting the outcome of an election. Every time the number of people who would be unable to vote (even just because they've lost their ID) eclipses the number of fraudulent votes that would supposedly be caught.
I haven't been in that world since Java 7. What's the startup time on the JVM these days? It used to be a pretty hefty cost, and it didn't seem like it would get much better because of the way class loading was done.
Wow, 24 years. What was it like in the early days, say 1999-2005?
The idea is to get away from Snippet + URL and instead just get a natural language answer to your question that uses knowledge from that internal corpus.
Love the idea. I seem to have missed the 1,000 window. Does anyone have access?
UK to end end-to end? To what end?
Would working totally remote, but paying for quarterly tickets and accommodation to gather all staff (from all over the world) for a week to meet and brainstorm, be cheaper than hiring locally and renting?

I know someone who worked for a danish company, they has a similar scheme but every six months... worked really well for the most part. The company would hold retreats all over Europe, and since it combined both business and employee perks (stay at a nice resort), worked like a charm for them.

____

But it also highlighted an interesting issue, that might act as a counterpoint for the whole thing.

The problem was my acquaintance was a Pakistani citizen like me... and visa for us is a really big headache.

Not a big deal for an EU company to announce only a week or two before where the retreat would be held this time, and most of their workforce, who all had relatively strong passports, also didn't face major issues.

But the earliest he himself could get any form of schengen visa was like 3 months after the retreat, so too late for the first one and too early for the second one, whenever and wherever that would be decided.

I think it worked out for him after sometime, but remote work is not all sunshine and roses.
Interesting. So we can tell from the last example that humans are perfectly good at doing this reasoning in theory and that therefore the trouble is actually in interpreting what the question is asking.

Put another way, if the question could be beamed into someone's head they'd get it right. The flaw is in the part of the mind that loads the words into their brain and not the reasoning after that.
Digital Cable / TV. It used to be that you could sit back with the remote and flip through the channels to find something good on. Now it takes a few seconds for the next channel to "start up" that you can't quickly scan through them. Oh, and the proliferation of "junk" channels on cable means that you still couldn't channel surf because of all the crap you have to wade through, and the half dozen channels out of several hundred that might have a show you are interested in is more likely than not to have a commercial running when you land on it.

Yes, we have more choice with more channels, and streaming, and independent media, but I'd almost rather have limited choice of higher quality than to have a choice of thousands of "meh" options.
> I wonder if they’ve explored trackballs?

I'd be concerned with the mechanical interaction of saliva with any mechanism, size concerns (this seems like it could be operated with clenched jaws if needed, opened mouth for extended periods of time can cause pain), and having moving pieces that can break or be lost (hopefully not during operation, that could be hard to swallow).
Not entirely, people can also have some satisfaction that others are burning in hell.
> Brazil has two or three 1200 mile plus HVDC lines in operation

There are four: Xingu-Estreito and Xingu-Rio for the Belo Monte dam, and the two parallel Rio Madeira lines for the Santo Antônio and Jirau dams on the Madeira river. They all take large amounts of hydroelectric power from the sparsely populated North region to the densely populated Southeast region. (There are also the two parallel Itaipu HVDC lines, but they're shorter than 1200 miles.)
I would really like to see a study on this. I bet there's a threshold. Aren't there a lot of trusts that hold wealth for virtually forever?
In their rush to create false endorsers for their various verification routes, they also gave “verified organization” status (which has an official price of $1,000 to apply which isn’t refunded if rejected, and supposedly involves significant vetting) to a fake Disney account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687666
I feel sorry for other answers to this question. I feel they mostly duck the point and put the manager in the position of "right by default" too much.

Look, in professional setting truly being a dick - especially regarding this question - is relatively infrequent. Often someone doesn't understand that his arguments - or general actions - are off by substance (i.e., he's wrong and should be able to see and correct the mistake) or form (often he's telling not enough, assuming people will understand the way he means, and the form is such that they understand it differently than intended). Harsh criticism could be a lack of form - when the person doesn't put it in a shape somehow convenient for understanding, acceptance, analysis - or substance - when the person is wrong because either he doesn't know something, forgot something he did know... Truly being a dick professionally is to be "lazy enough" to systematically make these mistakes without taking care to fix them, or "evil enough" to do them on purpose. A decent organization has ways to hire and keep professional people, improve less professional and leave those not improving; the level of dickiness is under some control.

Sheep can be skinned once, but people aren't sheep, and power imbalance requires those wielding more of it to have the ability to grow that skin. Your question is valid and rather to the point, and I would like to learn more of the answer.
Nope, haven't gotten access either
And of course he directly addressed it mere hours after my post. Haha

https://youtu.be/nTocrbqGCWs
I think you're talking about subvocal recognition [1]. People are indeed using ML for it, but it looks like it's more complicated than it appears. Still, I think it's only a matter of time before it's available to the average consumer, which I can't wait for because I've wanted something like this for a long time. I do my best thinking when I'm hiking, and I'd love to be able to dictate my thoughts on the move without looking like I'm talking to myself out loud (even though I am, I guess) in public.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
Heh, you may not be old enough to recall BBSs or PCLink?
I think it's exceedingly important to recognize that life is finite, and to reflect upon this regularly. I think its so important that I created an android wallpaper that shows what percentage of your life is already past. This helps me ensure that I'm spending my limited time in the most valuable way possible, and really helps put things in perspective.

App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.machineryc...

Source code: https://github.com/ethanmdavidson/DeathProgress

This isn't the first time I've shared these links, but I hope it doesn't come across as spammy because 1) I'm not selling anything and 2) articles like this keep getting posted, which implies this is a topic some people are just discovering
What car? What provider? You mentioned taping a card, not just plugging in. Definitely not EA.
Patent lifetimes are 20 years.