skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem with Twitter’s ad business is that advertisers don’t trust Musk.

Advertising is all about creating and projecting an image --- real or otherwise.

Musk has always been about just the opposite --- projecting his own personal whims, opinions, idiosyncracies and abrasive, in your face personality.

This is why Musk is obviously ill suited to run a social media ad platform. A choice that was his alone.
If I'm understanding the parent comment correctly: a fact may have political implications but it doesn't depend on politics. In other words reality is independent of our interpretation of it (i.e. philosophical realism). The rub of course being that coming to know facts about most things is a highly social process filtered through interpretation and biases. Everything can be political if it needs to be decided upon by a group.

EDIT: I have avoided using "truth" here because it's a more general term than "fact" which has the connotation of being in reference to something concrete.
That practically reads like religious prophecy. Yeech
> the U.S. goes to the brink and beyond the brink of war because it perceives itself as having no other choice. Its soft power is fading

This is false. American soft power has consolidated post-Ukraine. (See: NATO and the Quad.)

> Iraq was supposed to be a forward U.S. base in Asia to disrupt China’s growing ties in the regio

No it wasn’t. China wasn’t a strategic rival when we invaded Iraq. There is no evidence it was a motivation for the invasion.
Same as martial coach not in war with bully of a child they’re teaching.
This seems highly unlikely to be true, that account is not describing symptoms of ALS, and no doctor has diagnosed him with it.

It's more likely inflammatory induced muscle spasms, which could happen due to abuse of drugs such as ivermectin–if I were treating him (Army Medic, ~EMT-P equiv, not a doc), I'd recommend he stop taking it. A few months without ivermectin and maybe a muscle relaxer should do it.

After perusing his timeline some more, I get the feeling that doctors have told him this already and he's ignoring their advice in an antivax crusade that unfortunately media has perpetuated. He keeps asking for doctors to give him the Dx he wants, not the one he actually has. These lies are hurting real folks, and he is a prime example of it :/
Essays produced for school aren't of much value for someone else to read. The value is to the writer who gets to practice synthesizing ideas and communicating them into words. There's still value to be had in learning how to communicate effectively in writing.
>Unfortunately our baseline is currently limited by the diameter of the earth

Is there a way to use the diameter of the earth "at this point in the orbit" to effectively make it into the diameter of the earth's orbit?
Mistakes made while building a SaaS company
As a longtime zipcar member who owns Philip & Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing, this was awesome to learn!!

I hope for zipcar’s sake that Oracle was reasonable about the licensing fees…
I would say it was the worst membrane keyboard of all time but the Sinclair ZX was definitely worse.
Bullies only respond to force. The only way to prevent Russia using nukes, is to tell(and mean it!) them any use will be repaid 5x over.

Really though, all we're waiting for is Putin to die from old age, or lose his hold, and then Russia will decend into anarchy.

Which will end the current threat, but open up others...
From the description:

> Our engineers write code only in C and HDL languages.

Hooray! No Rust in this box.
Yeah, Stellantis just need to release a new one. They quote the C15 in the "more than 90 years in utility vehicles" press releases for their new (optionally electric) Citroen utility vehicles: https://www.media.stellantis.com/ch-fr/citroen/press/citroen...
My grandma has never used the internet and sees no reason to use it.

It would benefit her immensely to use it.
That private key needs to be stored somewhere otherwise your singing scheme does not work. Generating signing key is not really an option as you won't get enough entropy on the ECU and generated private keys will be oscillating around small group of prime numbers.

Loading a new private key from the server? Well, thief's device can probably pretend to be a server and load a new private key into the control unit behaving as a master of immobilizer. Then the thief will get car and instantly new set of keys.
This advice doesn't apply to ChatGPT in my experience. It does great either way, probably thanks to great RLHF.
That's true, and Clojure (when used with metosin/malli) is probably the only reasonable alternative to statically typed programming languages in terms of long-term maintainability.

Essentially, it's like two completely different reasoning models: inside-the-box (ALGOL / SQL), and outside-the-box (LISP / Datalog).

The first model (ALGOL / SQL) is about designing for machines to better understand, and the second model (LISP / Datalog) is about designing for humans to better understand.

I think that the main issue with dynamically typed programming languages is the lack of robust enforcement.
During his lifetime, that's true. However, there was a period in the first part of the 1800s when his works flirted with popular acclaim, especially after Mendelssohn revived the St. Matthew Passion in 1829.
As an American, American soldiers are not fighting. The Ukrainians are not asking them to either. We are paying taxes, and those taxes are being used to send weapons to Ukraine. I'm pro-Ukraine as long as they collectively want to fight themselves - whether that means we send them advanced weapon systems or provide training and support for an insurgency.
I think most people agree that "live and let live" is a good philosophy, but it's also tough to reconcile with the global tragedy of the commons wherein we destroy the earths ecosystems because we all have our eyes set on completely unsustainable standards of living.
> you gotta have an ATF destructive devices license and follow state specific laws if you want to fire the main cannon

Okay, now that’s a rabbit hole if I’ve ever seen one. Because: tanks are operated by a crew, not just one person.

So who on the tank crew needs this certification? Presumably, at least, the gunner—i.e. the person actually pressing the button to fire the cannon—would. But how about the owner of the tank? How about the driver, if that's a different person? Can the driver/owner of a privately-owned-and-operated tank just be a regular dude, and call in an expert (maybe someone from the National Guard) to sit in the tank alongside them as its gunner?

I know that ATF explosives experts are usually called in by e.g. YouTube science content-creators, to handle the actual "explosives" parts of explosives demos. But in such cases, the ATF fellow doesn't just set off the explosives; they also set them up, in fact usually sourcing the explosives themselves rather than trusting explosive materiel given to them.

In the case of a tank, the tank is already there on-site when the expert arrives; and its cannon shells are probably also already there on-site, as finished explosives. Would a destructive-devices-licensed expert insist on calling in an engineer for an audit of the tank's soundness as weapons platform, to ensure e.g. the cannon barrel will still be able to take the strain of firing after sitting unmaintained for decades? (And would that person need to be specifically trained and certified in Weapons Engineering to be able to sign off on the tank's soundness?) Would they insist on sourcing their own shells, or, if that's impossible (vintage/foreign tank where shells of the required shape can't be locally sourced), perhaps having them refurbished (opened, cleaned, re-filled with a known explosive mix, re-packed) by a trusted factory?

And do the rules change if the driver tells the gunner when to fire? In fact, would the answer to the licensing question be different depending on the type of crewed weapons platform we're talking about? Would you, as a vehicle owner, need a destructive-devices license to e.g. captain a gunboat in a private pond, given that it is usually understood that the captain of a ship has overriding authority for any decisions anyone else who has boarded their ship makes while on board (and so, in other words, can tell a gunner to fire off a missile whether the gunner thinks that's a good idea or not)?
The privilege knowing that bitcoin is pointless scam for halfwits?

Yeah I guess having a brain is a privilege
Ask HN: What specific lessons have you learned from your mentors?
How have your mentors influenced your career, and what specific lessons have you learned from them?
That’s not how nuclear codes work. There’s a long chain of people before ICBM is launched.
Except a lot more is released at once so it will accelerate like a jet engine on every stop sign
https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-inventories-six-...
What's with these weird, grandiose generalizations I've been seeing about America on this site, based on single data points?

Do you realize that other brands and models exist in the USA? Do you realize Tesla is and American company? Did you even check look into Chevy Cruze's mileage? Here's a guy getting 70mpg in a Chevy Cruze by driving 55mph on the highway. That's 30km/l.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15341744/the-prince-of-pa...
Which database are you using and what kind of extensions are we talking about?

(I often create Go types which are then serialized to some useful representation in the database, and de-serialized to Go types when I query the database. I usually use SQLX for most interaction with SQL databases since it does a lot of the tedious work for me (without introducing ORM'y madness). On the rare occasion where this eats too much into performance I can always use the DB library directly)
It makes orders of magnitude more sense to have one centralized large refinery and then many dispersed holding tanks to distribute fuel. This model may sound familiar.
Ben Eater has a nice 8 bit kit that uses real chips, he also has a great video series. https://eater.net/8bit/
> I’m unfamiliar with the subject but many points seems unproven/political rather than scientific

You're exactly the kind of person Stochastic Parrots was trying to warn us about - you bought into the AI hype.

AI are extremely sensitive to the initial statistical conditions of their dataset. A good example of this is image regurgitation in diffusion models: if you include the same image n times in the data set, it gets n times the number of training epochs, and is far more likely to be memorized. Stable Diffusion's propensity to draw bad copies of the Getty Images logo is another example; there's so many watermarks and signatures in the training data that learning how to draw them measurably reduces loss. In my own AI training adventures[0], the image generator I trained loves to draw maps all the time, no matter what the prompt is, because Wikimedia Commons hosts an absolutely unconscionable number of them.

Stochastic Parrots is arguing that we can't effectively filter five terabytes[1] of training set text for every statistical bias. Since HN is allergic to social justice language, I'll put it in terms that are more politically correct here: gradient descent is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. Because you can only scrape content written by people who are online, the terminally online will decide what the model thinks, filtered through the underpaid moderators who are censoring your political opinions on TwitBook.

Of course, OpenAI will try anyway[2]. The best they've come up with is to use RLHF to deliberately encode a center-left bias into a language model that otherwise would be about as far-right as your average /pol/ user. This has helped ChatGPT avoid the fate of, say, Microsoft's Tay; but it is just sweeping the problem under the rug.

The other main prong of Stochastic Parrots is energy usage. The reason why OpenAI hasn't been outcompeted by actual open AI models is because it takes shittons of electricity and hardware to train these things. Stable Diffusion and BLOOM are the biggest open competitors to OpenAI, but they're being funded purely through burning venture capital. FOSS is sustainable because software development is cheap enough that people can do it as volunteer work. AI training is almost the opposite: extremely large capital costs that can only be recouped by the worst abuses of proprietary software.

[0] I am specifically trying to build a diffusion model trained purely on public domain images, called PD-Diffusion.

[1] No problem. We are Google. Five terabytes is so little that I've forgotten how to count that low.

[2] When filtering the dataset for DALL-E 2, OpenAI found that removing porn from the training set made the image generator's biases far worse. i.e. if you asked for a stock photo of a CEO, pre-filter DALL-E would give about 60% male, 40% female examples; post-filter DALL-E would only ever draw male CEOs.
Even if you don’t use stored procedures, simple stuff like how you limit the return results is different between databases like SQL Server and MySQL as is how you do bulk inserts.

How you specify locks, the support data types, casting, intrinsic functions, conditional statements (case functions) are all different between databases.
Except that religious rules aren't 'random rules', they're believed to be of divine origin, there's no meaningful distinction between 'divine rules' and 'divine ethics', but there is a distinction between 'rules' and 'ethics'.
Im saying complex predictions is a feature of certain beings with consciousness. There are also beings, young animals and young kids, with consciousness who have less good prediction capabilities. Why do you, and many other people assume a feature is a creating factor?

I can walk, does that make me human? I have empathy does that empathy create consciousness? I feel anger does that create consciousness?

If you prick me do I not bleed?
Does this mean that the AI/humans apocalypse is also self fulfilling since not once have I come across a prophetic use of AI that did not end in the AI attempting to wipe out the humans
> It is a sign of the success of the oil industry that this analysis always takes the cost of electricity generation back to the source, but assumes that fuel stations pump from a perfect source of naturally refined/distilled hydrocarbons.

It's not like renewable energy doesn't take resources/energy to produce as well. It's just borderline impossible to get real numbers because you'd pretty much need perfect information on the supply chains.

Not saying that renewables don't still win in such a comparison.
I recall that the default place for "unknown" in the US was a spot just next to a farm they was raided by the police on a regular basis because this is where their GPS was directing them. They even had a document to show that explained the thing.

I think that this point was ultimately moved to the center of a lake.
The article was flagged because the article was trash. Just because it had a few correct points sprinkled in a misleading fashion among the rest doesn't mean the article was overall correct.

The damage was expected, no one was hurt. A throw-away obsolete test article that was literally going to be shot full of holes and sunk to the bottom of the ocean was instead blown up and a temporary pad that is being replaced anyways got damaged, oh well. The primary objective of the test was to demonstrate a 33 engine start up and operational run at 100% throttle. There's all kinds of compounding effects that are hard to simulate (constructive interference is a bitch) and at some point the only way to get the data is to test. Even hitting MaxQ was a bonus, although this test article lacked many of the structural enhancements already incorporated into the production articles so it's not as useful as some think.

Nothing that you see in Boca chica is in it's final form, almost everything there except the tower structure itself will be ripped out and replaced at some point.
I mean compare to using arrow functions and it's almost identical

let decrement = () => set_value.update((value) => value -1);

The difference is that Rust isn't garbage collected and has reference value semantics, which is where the *value -= 1 comes in.
Apartment complex doing it right.. comes with 20 EV chargers
>> Developers are users too.

For a GUI toolkit, developers are the only users in one sense.

>> > I'm personally not sure that "user must have an ability to redefine every keyboard shortcut"

I'm not either, but I agree it sucks to just remove existing functionality. OTOH reading the thread it seems on MacOS you can define that outside the application, so integrating with that would be a requirement - did they do that before?

We get people wanting to redefine shortcuts sometimes and I'm just like "wow, can't people just accept the defaults? I'm not even sure how to go about implementing that, never mind on 3 platforms..."

My current UI complaint is corruption of the title bar. Gnome has allowed widgets up there now. Even if I accept the desire to use the space, some widgets can be used to drag the window while others can not. The primary purpose of clicking up there is to move a window and I can't tell if/where I can do that any more. BTW moving windows is important now with Wayland because Apps can't remember where they were and put themselves there on opening, and the Gnome guys haven't realized that's their job now. BTW I agree with the Wayland thinking on this, it's just that the DE hasn't caught up yet.

Also on Windows, MS has made some title bars white/grey and some blue. Same with toolbars. So now when I have multiple windows overlapping it's impossible to tell what is attached to what and what will move the window I want to move. It's like GUI designers think "oh I'd like this" but don't even consider the collateral damage the change will cause.
I've got one of the first run. It's back in the box, I was always more of a Tandy guy. The RC2014 is also more my speed. CPM.
Here’s a white paper on how one was implemented https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/06/adem/engin/e25/fina...
How many Rasperry Pis have the equivalent processing power to an original Cray-1?

(I would not be at all surprised if a single RPi were as powerful as twenty Cray-1s.)
There’s also a strain of anti intellectualism that assumes every human should be forced through 12ish years of schooling and every human should achieve the same base level of results.

Public education for all is not much different than the American idea of “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”.

Leave education for those that either want or can benefit from it. Come up with more efficient systems for the rest of the masses.
> The US has lost three wars without resorting to nuclear weapons;

None of which was happening anywhere close to US borders. In finance they say that past performance is no guarantee of future results, but you're eager to bet everything you have on this war outcome nonetheless.
>"These guys are not clowns."

Not sure who these guys are, but given that SpaceX top brass spends a good bit of their effort running schemes and cover so that Elon is bamboozled away from the actual work indicates that there is at least one clown there.
Do you realize you're describing a problem that shouldn't exist? People cheat on tests because they are there for reasons other than to learn.

If AI can "level the playing field" then we need to change the game?
archive link unpaywall : https://archive.ph/Txq8r

better source : https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/18/1326235/microsoft-r...
Yeah they just bombed a random street corner and then immediately admitted to it, uh, for TEH EB1LZ clearly. This makes a lot of sense and is definitely how the world works.

I shouldn't have to remind you that cartoon villains are not real and only exist in cartoons.
Ironically, all of these are NameSpaces (NS!) that... end up basically sharing the same namespace.
That's because the AI is so smart, it remembered that images from the telescope are flipped from the physics of the lens /s
Discussed last year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29814345

They migrated to Github Issues a year ago, so this is moot - https://discuss.python.org/t/github-issues-are-now-live/1496...

Yes it was a big, hairy investment for someone to submit a tiny change. But it was also the gigantic moat that kept bad actors away. I for one am thankful core python remains clean and safe because of this.
Ask HN: Is the US headed towards a race war or civil war?
Are we headed towards a race war or a civil war ?
Give me honest opinion
This is not a troll question.

Going forward what should one do to himself?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/06/how-close-is-the-us-to-civil-war-barbara-f-walter-stephen-march-christopher-parker

A large section of society is not happy with the current state of affairs.

Today we are a divided society.

Give me your honest opinion and please be frank.
We are here to help each other
Is having kids learn to read and write bullshit because text to speech and speech recognition software exist? The point of school work isn't the output, it's learning.
Same in higher (university-level) education in the UK due to legislation. It forces institutions not to become closed shops. In many cases the institution has a preferred internal candidate, but forcing them to open it up at least gets external people a foot in the door. In many cases the internal candidate is the best for the job because they know the institution well so they don't need to be brought up to speed on many systems and are familiar with its pedagogical philosophy, although there are obvious downsides where a department can become stagnant if it's always the internal candidate, like a kind of academic inbreeding. But I know of at least two cases where the external candidate won despite there being a preferred internal candidate because the external people were so much more suited to the role.
See my above comment, you and a bunch of other commenters are making wildly incorrect assumptions about a huge list of things.

It might surprise you that the Engineers running the current leader in space flight (tonnage to orbit, reliability, reusability, cost, pick your metric) aren't complete idiots.
"Unbiased" almost always means "has biases that are similar to mine". I can't think of very many exceptions to that, frankly.
Perl is meant to be written and read intuitively.

Which is a bad decision, in every language you're going by intuition 95% of the time, it's when a piece of code works in an unfamiliar way that you reason from first principles, and then having clear and rigid rules to fall back on gets you out of the rut more quickly. Perl's design makes this harder for purportedly giving you more tools to write code that looks about right.
All that stuff that could be done with a Java (or probably .net or php) server side webapp stack two decades ago...
Translation:

I am not a competent $language programmer. You will not understand my poorly written code.

In this case, language="perl".

perl is not special in this regard.
Nitpick: Apple Music uses both AAC and ALAC.
A true replica would probably involve spending a large amount of money on fabbing custom or otherwise out of production silicon.
I literally never had any conversation about using blockchain at work or in our personal lives and I don't know anybody that did. This hype is nothing like blockchain.
In 2003-13 I never would have said this but it sure looks like Iraq came out better.

Neither came out great but both are stable, Iraq is not destabilizing the region and Afghanistan isn't harboring people who want to attack the west and have the capability to.

That said, we never should have invaded Iraq and we probably could have accomplished what we accomplished in Afghanistan and more had we more seriously pursued diplomatic options in 2001.
They take those jobs for westerners because their local companies pay them shit in comparison.

So this is going to make them poorer and cut an income source for the country as well.