skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your car is stolen, you report this to the police, which report it to LoJack.

By which time it is already chopped up for parts or, in the case of places like Phoenix, is already in Mexico.

I used to have a roommate who grew up in NYC, had a somewhat dubious past and was talking about LoJack one day. He claimed it doesn’t work well enough in dense urban areas to get a precise location fix to actually impede theft. IIRC they would have enough time to disable it as long as they stayed around tall buildings. Something like they would park the car in an alley between buildings and find the LoJack before doing whatever with the car.

I’ve known a few youthful car thieves over the years with some interesting stories.
Here is a forked version that includes Lehman Brothers:

https://observablehq.com/d/dfe4257c84256e26
This kind of sounds true in a vacuum. Unfortunately we're not talking about a security thing in a vacuum. We're talking about 2 browsers, both of which are just making the user experience horrible in slightly different ways. Therefore all users are losers in this pre-school food fight.
For what it's worth my car was stolen last year and the Orlando police response was swift, professional, and effective.

I called in with my report, dispatch quickly verified that the car had not been towed then asked me some preemptive questions to make sure it really was stolen (no one else had keys to it, etc).

My car a tracker that the thieves disabled but I sent the dispatcher the last known flair location before the tracker shut off.

The police sent one officer to get my statement while three other cars of officers canvassed the area around the the flair location building by building until they found the car inside of a gated community.

Then they took me to it to confirm it was mine, dusted everything for fingerprints, and gave me a business card with the officer's name, department, etc. and a case number I could use to for reference with insurance or to follow up and see if they managed to catch the people who stole it.

The entire process only took about an hour and the police went above and beyond. I'll forever be grateful for their efforts.
It seems very convenient that "rob" doesn't include things like wage theft, destroying "the commons" for the sake of personal profit, or whatever the fuck happened in 2008. With a more expansive view of what "rob" means, one could argue that people have been getting robbed for years.
I don't decide it.

I just ask chatgpt to "summarize the article very concisely" and hope that it won't lose any important points. But chatgpt is really good at summarizing, so I don't worry much.

Having +/- buttons is a good idea, will add it to todo list as well.
BTC is an asset that moves around a lot.

If I put money in my savings account, I can use it tomorrow. If you put money in your BTC savings account a year ago, your BTC is worth less than money under a mattress (or in a modest yield savings account).

You may want to invest in BTC, and that's absolutely fine! But it's not a savings account.
Fantastic! This makes it easy to let humans write prompts and generate requests an API can consume.
Sigh, anywhere I can buy this for my wife and I in Australia? The shipping for 2 cups is $60 USD, and it all totals out to something like $250 AUD which is completely unjustifiable.

Insulated keep cup on display at any cafe is around $15-25 AUD.
A great use case for llms. I'm not expecting you to do this, but I would love to choose my own news sites. I'm a Brit living in Czech Republic. So I'd maybe have the guardian, BBC, and some Czech sources in there. Not so interested in American news, any American news that affects me will reach my local sources. But great work!
From the article:

> We think the tune icon [...] is more obviously clickable.

Yeah, because they made two changes and made it look like a button by modifying the surrounding area as well as changing the icon itself. The lock icon would also be more obviously clickable if it had the same changes in its surrounding area. How ridiculous of a comparison to make while changing two things.
> When many jobs go away

First of all, prove that. Second of all, prove they won’t be replaced by more interesting, more engaging jobs.

Then you might actually have a point instead of just FUD.
Seems like a home building problem then. Even if you're right (big if given out of country investment from rich Chinese ancestors was the cause of the Canadian housing bubble in the first place), you're ignoring the tax receipts and spending generated from high income techies who are only there because US immigration is shit.
Initially thought it was a giphy alternative (still kind of is). Maybe add a subtitle or CTA (at least on mobile) to make sure someone clicks into a gif to learn.

'Click to view film style'
'Select to find related gif'
...

May be overkill, but could change first impressions
> It is in this sense that there are infinities of different sizes.

They aren’t actually different sizes, though.

All this proves is that under specific set theoretic assumptions, a contradiction arises if you define “size” as “cardinality” and assume that a particular bijective relation exists between your two infinite sets.

It doesn’t actually mean the sets have different sizes, it just means they differ under a set of assumptions that may (or may not) be useful for your purposes.
>flipping cars when bank execs didn't get jail time for the financial crisis

It wouldn't have done any good. Those that benefitted would have started flipping houses anyway.
that's the definition of a rule.

> One could note the number of times that a 25% probability was quoted, over a long period, and compare this with the actual proportion of times that rain fell.

it still depends on many samples, or "over a long period" in your doc.

You can't escape the fact that there are only one or two samples, no matter how much math you throw around.
https://archive.ph/C8Qd3
I mean, the top 1% richest is somehow able to pocket nearly twice as much wealth as the other 99% of population of the world.

Money is power, at least until people are fairly represented...

So I'm not so optimistic.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly...
Drive to Faraday cage. Scan car for outgoing signals. Remove source of outgoing signals. Move the stolen car to safe zone. I'm talking out my ass but is this even difficult?
I think an overlooked issue here is that, beginning in 2020, SVB suddenly had tons of deposits. Yields all around were zero-ish and they had money burning holes in their pockets. I can sorta see how they could be incentivized to close some loans.

Also, I think that as with FRC, their loans tended to have fairly low credit risk, so again not super sketchy, just poorly hedged.
Nominally yes, but not when you consider borrowing cost and effects on deficit. The CBO has TARP costing 31 billion. [0]

FDIC is paid by the banks but it seems probable it will be passed down to customers in banking fees at the end of the day.

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59062
Marketing to developers is so effective specifically because developers imagine themselves immune to marketing.
In the escalation of security, some browsers or browsers with extensions only ever try https, so that change was necessary to handle those browsers.
The Lego Case T-515/19: A building block castle built up on sand
The Microsoft Surface Duo is in trouble
I mean.. sure. There are still more job openings for SWEs than there are SWEs. The inflated comps from the last few years are an outlier, as long as you don't expect that you should find a job pretty quickly.
While theoretically possible for something bad to happen, short phrases are much less likely to have actionable/sensitive info in them than the full document corpus of a company.
COM is a programming language model exposed as ABI, with language projections, successfully used for 25 years across multiple languages.

Basically it is like we are discussing how vtables work over here.
It was just playing dumb, until you revealed information that only the murderer would know.
> But there will never be any solidarity between say US and African workers

If you're a US worker you have an interest in workers in other countries being well paid, so that that they do not undercut you on price.

> China in particular violently suppresses unions

True

> because they believed it'll result in China outcompeting all other developing countries in manufacturing

I suspect the main reason is that independent unions would represent a separate locus of power, which would be a threat to the Communist party's rule.
Google’s blog was too polite to say it but the real point here is that whether a site has ssl support is now completely useless information. Any legit commercial site will have it, any malicious site will have it, the only sites that don’t are weird relics. So removing the lock icon makes sense regardless of how educated users are.
Letting Vercel handle developing half your infra for you. Expensive.

Paying twice the $300k engineers to develop your VC scale app in 2023 using HTML templates or Create React App. Priceless
Oh, I totally believe the company will still be there (although they could move the factory to another country, it's not unheard of.) My point is if you want to own that house, you need a job and they have most of the jobs. So if they fire you or you quit, you probably will have to sell the home back to the company. That's a lot of pressure they can exert on you.
This is an old thread but here goes my answer nonetheless, I hope you get to see it.

VO2 max capacity is an adaptation that all athletes develop through cardio training, so much so that there are drugs that make this adaptation in red blood cells abnormally abundant, like Epoetin Alfa/erythropoietin. If a drug can do it, making it permanent could be possible too.

As far as we know, the drug that Lance took makes you have high blood pressure, introduces iron deficiencies and (in people with previous heart conditions) may cause cardiac insufficiency, so it's not pure benefits.

In short, your argument of 'all mutations have benefits and drawbacks' is right, but if the benefits are that high, there's no question of who'll do it but what counter-indications are you willing to put up with for the massive benefits it brings in sports (and life!) performance. Lance said he felt like a god when he was on it, he slept like 3 hours a night, rode for 12 hours a day, and won the Tour de France with it, with no sequelae, neither (according to him, so take it with a grain of salt).

Before anyone says 'just take steroids, man', I'm all in favor for a separate league of juicers in all sorts of sports, be it team sports, combat sports and solo endeavors. To me it'd be super interesting to see what humans are really capable of.
> Yep. http/2 in browsers does not support plaintext, the same will likely be true for QUIC

This is mostly because internet middle boxes choke on plaintext http/2. Plaintext http/2 does not work for a not insignificant portion of users so browsers didn't bother to implement.

But its a thing that does exist and you can use if you really want. Just not on the public WWWW.
Bob Lee: how new details turned a tech-industry murder case upside down
More like nightmare fuel.
> Everyone else should be preparing their plan b for what happens if they impode and Next.js, Turborepo etc development fractures or grinds to a halt.

Isn't next.js too big to fail? Currently we are trying to define a modern stack for our front-end, and I always thought next.js/react to be the next java -> Perhaps Solid.js is much better (IMHO it surely is) but I probably won't get fired for choosing next.

If not, what would be the alternative? I really don't want to restart with the hassle of configuring a js project from scratch. Done it already a thousand times, and that's a thousand times too many :)
Here is an example. I often read HN as a single web page. Today this is about 5.1M for me and there are about 2945 items. In the text-only browser, opening this file works smoothly enough. Whereas if I try opening this 5.1M file in a popular browser, for me, it's sluggish and janky. NB. This is _not_ the sole reason I avoid using a popular browser. It's just an observation. I have been using text-only browsers (not lynx or w3m) for over 20 years and I will keep using them until I am dead.

The 5.1M is retrieved using a TCP client, in a shell script, not a browser, and it is saved to a single HTML file. Obviously, I want the HN pages returned in sequential order. Normally I use HTTP/1.1. pipelining for this, and most websites enable it. HN is a rare exception. I have custom utilities I wrote for HTTP/1.1. pipelining. (HTTP/2 fans will often DV comments where I praise 1.1 pipelining since "HOL blocking" is one of their "justifications" for creating HTTP/2. But I'm not using a web browser, I'm not rendering a complex, graphical web page, I'm not loading up advertising, I'm not waiting for real-time ad auctions to complete. "HOL blocking" is not a problem I have ever had because I do not use a web browser to do pipelining.)

TLS proxy listens on localhost address. Authoritative DNS on listens localhost address as well, using a custom root.zone file. DNS points to proxy address for all domains. (This "redirection" could also be accomplished by using a firewall if one is available.)

The proxy has all DNS data pre-loaded into memory. There's no DNS lookups when I access a website. The proxy knows the IP address for every domain name I am interested in.

That's a basic overview.
The difference is this is missing the biggest failures of 2008 (Lehman, Bear, Merrill) as well as Fannie, Freddie, AIG and TARP.
The current approach to AGI, as seen with projects like AutoGPT and BabyAGI, is to call an LLM (GPT-4 is the current choice) to solve and generate useful content recursively. Tasks are output, so for every task generated the LLM is asked to recursively solve that task, which could involve creating new tasks.

So far some small wins have been seen. Common problems involve looping and doing nothing. It's still early for these projects.
The appeal of a no-ops workflow for basic frontend apps is there. We’ve got a bunch of static docs sites built with vuepress and docusaurus that are a great fit for this. Not that we can’t whip up a CDN with terraform and a CI/CD pipeline with preview environments, but my team would rather spend its energy on our core product.

However we’ve been badly burned by vercel, netlify and render.com switching their pricing models to user based instead of infrastructure based pricing. We’re migrating to AWS amplify right now, which also happens to be wonderfully integrated into our wider IT landscape with an AWS landing zone, automated internal chargeback etc. It’s 90% the same for our use case and charges only for infra at standard AWS rates.

At this point I’m starting to wonder why it isn’t more popular.
Those instructions still aren't exposed to the user, are they?
The circles' areas are showing the failed assets. Observable Plot defaults to using a square root scale when encoding a quantity with the radius of a circle.

https://observablehq.com/plot/marks/dot#dot-options
What do you mean? They can use the same network of Apple devices.
Good point, I noticed this as well.

As you said analyzing news in other languages should help with bringing up different perspectives. I'll work on that.

But I'm still not sure what to do about chatgpt's bias. For now I just accept it.
> NaN == NaN
false

Reminds me of SQL, where NULL isn't equal to NULL.
This was mine, too, until I started regularly using a (university) network where the local resolver resolved example.com to 127.0.0.1. I complained, and was told that RFC2606 gave them license to override it to anything they wanted, and that this behavior would not be changed. Doesn't square with my reading of the RFC, but complaining further wasn't going to achieve anything.

Now I use neverssl.com.
I don't think it's a ploy. I think it's an accident of how the people who designed the credit score used credit. And then inertia keeping things from being updated.
It's not worth discussing this because the reasons are well documented.

You need to adjust for cost of living, universities, hospitals, non profits don't pay as much etc.

There is a prevailing wage determination check for granting a H1. That rule was revised a few times, that's the right lever to pull.

You could make the prevailing wage requirements == median wage for a given experience in an area. Right now it's the 35th percentile.
The average SAT score across all students (not just those who got into college) is ~1060.

The average SAT score across all people entering teaching colleges is ~1060.

When considering whether public school teachers are underpaid on average, and comparing their pay to that in other roles:

1. consider that they work for only 38 weeks per year (instead of 50)

2. consider that in many states, teachers are entitled to defined-benefit pensions and post-retirement healthcare

3. compare pay to other professions with similar entry standards (i.e. what other professions have average SAT scores of 1060).

#1 is equivalent to a pay increase of ~30%

#2 is equivalent to a pay increase of ~45%

So, take the base salary, multiply it by 1.89 (1.3*1.45), and then compare it to non-government jobs that you can get with similar academic performance.
> dependencies on _write time to the registry_, adding arbitrary retry loops to overcome time resolution

For what it's worth, around this time Microsoft's own API (which will only set Edge as default) messed this up occasionally if you ran it on the edge of a minute. When I implemented the equivalent feature for Firefox I checked the time, only one retry instead of Chrome's 5 and it's still not perfect, though my approach doesn't write the potentially out of date values first. That was already sufficiently stable that I couldn't make it fail.
News isn't significant, only relevant, as the significance is relative. Who's reading it, where they are, what their interests are, what impacts them, and so on. There's no way to generalize it because even some people who it directly impacts may simply not care; it's not significant for them. So the best way to deliver significant news is to personalize, not generalize.
The only thing that is a little off here to me is that I don't think there is mathematical notation for "many" or "few". And yet infinity does have mathematical notation and is used in some equations, no?
what does this mean, "each individual prediction of each of the 56 (enumerated upthread) distinct elections"?

how many predictions are there for each election? does 538 issue more than one per election? Or how many data points are there?

as for the last paragraph: I guess you don't really believe in their probabilities, then, which was my whole point. I have no idea what you're talking about, re "non-zero risk premium."
Self-supervised training doesn’t involve human labelers, and that’s what’s responsible for most of the recent gains in LLM performance.
I asked two questions. You pointed out the second question was a no. Try re-reading, i think you missed the "and" part.
The reason humans tend to tell the truth is if we don’t, other humans will call us out for it.

I wonder if there’s a way to mimic this “bs penalty” for GPT. Maybe you could have a setup where GPT gives an answer, then a second GPT has to guess whether a human would know if that answer is true or not.
>Wealth inequality is cyclical with the same outcomes throughout history - voluntary or violent wealth redistribution.

This is simply untrue. The only large labor revolutions, the communist revolutions in Russia, China and the like, led to a massive destruction of wealth, not a transfer, plunging those countries into extreme poverty with worse standard of living than before. For over a decade after the revolution Russia didn't even have weekends.

And if you're thinking of the French revolution, you should know it wasn't a revolution against the rich; it was a revolution _against the government_! That's why they beheaded the king..
And they're still not right, just like they weren't right in 2010, 2000, 1990, 1980...

The idea of the decline of the US as a reserve currency has been "about to happen" for me entire life, and yet another cherry-picked graph won't make it more likely.
I'm not supporting or attacking the dollar milkshake theory but I don't think this contradicts it.

I think the theory would say that this will counterintuitively result in an eventual huge dollar spike as new dollar demand but also liquidity dry up while existing demand from existing USD loans stay constant.

I think it's too early to tell. I don't believe in his USD superspike but I do think the underlying dynamic is real and this will not result in the dollar being substantially lower in the let's say 1-3 year time frame (ie DXY < 90)
NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Phone Calls and Text Messages
“Once you decide on your occupation, you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. Never complain about your job. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success and is the key to being regarded honorably.”

Jiro
Because most people who aren't car thieves don't.
Next.js is open source, forkable, and self deployable.
What does it mean to not want a country using the dollar? I’m not sure such a thing computes to those fighting these battles.
Not in an ‘08 sized crisis - yet. Wait until commercial property debt finally ‘looks down’. It’s been running off the cliff for a long time already, and is in exactly the same boat as the securities that took out SVB, etc.