skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some points in the article are hit and miss, but mostly correct.

For example, Istanbul is flourishing because it's the Turkish capital, so it necessarily is the most dense and rich city in the country. The high trust is a positive factor, but plenty of more rural cities and towns in Turkey look quite dumpy (perhaps not as bad a Philly, though)

The pictures don't really support that either. They depict a fairly average state of urban infrastructure, nothing particularly inviting or welcoming. The people look friendly though, as the culture actively discourages drug use and vice.
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>Only one counterexample of plausible harm is needed.

Ok, where's your example of plausible harm for a working sanitation system?

>It's even phrased as an opinion.

That sentence is, sure. Weird how you left out the supporting examples.

>Sounds like an opinion too.

Why? Because of phrasing? Consider the repercussions of a city having transportation issues vs a city having sanitation issues. Nobody who knows anything on these subjects would say transportation is more important than sanitation.

It boggles the mind you think it's just an opinion that cars are as important as a working sanitation system.

How many cities have car free districts? How many cities have sanitation free districts?
>A removal of resources for the majority, because of concerns over “misuse” of less than one percent of residents.

Ah yes, the American way. The same justification I have heard as to why bathroom stalls need to have gaps and be unpleasant, "What if someone were to have sex and/or do drugs in there?!" Let them do it, just let me have a minor moment of privacy while I am pooping.
> what we have now is a very capable and convincing liar.

I think things might get even wilder once companies start allowing advertisers to influence chat results like they do with search. Imagine a capable and convincing liar who has an ulterior motive when it talks to you.
Long-hidden ruins of 417 Maya cities dating to 1k B.C. could recast history
Yes, I access the API through Node Red which fills out the prompt template and returns Chat GPT's output to Home Assistant.

Costs about $3/year in API quota.
Empath mode is oxytocin injection. Joking? Or not?
https://archive.ph/RIkTI
It's a dense book, but I enjoyed it a lot. His newest book How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future is also really good!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56587388
I found the code more reliable if I kept the function as atomic and low level as possible and to start a new chat if it got off the rails and loopy. I'd start with a better and more conscience queery to get a mlre thoughtful answer.
1. "Accessibility" means more than just "blind people can use it."

2. "Tables" are primarily for static tabular data (but not exclusively). Excel is a "spreadsheet," a grid of interactive cells.

3. While accessibility is best thought of as an aspect of usability, the practical limitations of tables or spreadsheets on phones are usability problems for everyone, not just for people with disabilities. It's more about the touch interface than what you can see on the screen; a modern phone can display a lot more than the monitors used for the first spreadsheet programs.

4. While having vision can make it more efficient to take in and understand a lot of information in a table or spreadsheet, a screen reader user can navigate them in two dimensions if they're made correctly. Excel's core functionality is useable with a screen reader though not every single feature is.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/screen-reader-sup...
This isn't true. I am not dissociated when not actively undergoing the treatment.

If anything, the after-effects of ketamine treatment alleviate my lifelong dissociation and other symptoms depression and PTSD. Something about the induced dissociation "wraps around" and snaps people back into fully being present.

Have you ever had ketamine treatment? Where are you getting these conclusions?
I can recommend Smil's books quite easily.

There are a lot of renewable/green energy advocates that don't like him and try to paint him in a bad light.

The reason mainly is that Smil takes a look at energy transitions and tells you: it's hard. He just analyzes in a very methodical way and paints the picture that is just grim because of the numbers and momentous challenge.

Smil himself is very much pro green energy, pro rational energy use and all the jazz. He just is not that optimistic that this is going to be easy or even see how the global warming problem is solvable.

It's a bit sad that some green energy advocates are missing the whole point of Smil and attack him personally even tho he is in fact one of the most useful allies.

If you want to have his views/analysis in an hour long youtube video instead of the (well worthy of a read) stack of books he has written then there is this lecture [0].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szikg74kgnM

Edit: I have really crappy internet so I believe I actually meant this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJxmlNyu4sE
New Zealand short and long fin eels are also quite interesting. They live in rivers and go far inland, able to climb even 20m waterfalls, but breed only once right at the end of their life cycle somewhere in the sub-tropic Pacific, probably in deep trenches, but it is not known where.

The longfin eels are 2m in length, can weight up to 25kg and live 40-70 years.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/freshwater-fis...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/a...
Not that hard at all. Check on noon of each day to see if the offending loogie is present or not. Now your search is down to 24 hours where the loogie was not present on noon of one day and was present on noon of the next. Check at midnight, go forward or back six hours as necessary… 3 hours… 1.5 hours. Pretty simple as ping as we’re not using a linear access system like vhs, which we aren’t since it’s 2023 and scrubbing through 72 hours of video is trivial.
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This is a good point.

"During his life he committed many good deeds." It is a much rarer usage, and typically less specific. Possibly grammatically incorrect as you'd generally substitute "performed" for "committed" in such a case.
> I think the vast majority of people who are alive want to remain alive

I don't want to die because it's scary and likely painful, but I definitely would have preferred I wasn't here to begin with.
Study: Blind trust in (sham) enhancement technology encourages risk taking
We still have rent subsidies...
If someone who intended ill will got to the "scan my fake I'd with that app you have to download now" then it would already be too late.
Let me refine: consumers care about privacy but are OK sacrificing it for convenience.
I don’t think you needed to take it literally.
2, Toastmasters & Gym (YMCA) - both provide sustenance, learning and social.
The example you gave is actually quite telling actually. There are already 25 million people who pay for Youtube Premium today. By any account that is a tremendously large number for a product that really does not offer any innovation or advantage over the ad-supported version. So people are ready.

And ad-free search products like the one Kagi is building are able to offer much more value and features than their ad-supported counterparts (which are inherinetly restricted by the nature of the business model and their customer being different than their user).

To be clear, I do not think that in two or even five years paid search will rule the world in a way that ad-supported search does now, but I think that enough people will realize that access to information that has only their best interest in mind will make them more productive and competitive in the future world, and make paying for search a much more viable option than today.

Have more thoughts about this in "The age of pagerank is over" blog post if you want to spare a moment. [1]

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over
When was the last time a Waymo Vehicle "randomly drove straight into a highway divider full speed" ?
I upvoted this review because I thought that Smil's book was quite good as a history and I was only half way through reading the review. The second half of the review takes a surprising turn toward "WTF Happened in 1971" and excoriating energy efficiency.
> It's not only the government, it is also the EU. Almost all of the co-funding you can get as a new businessman is for tourism.

While EU provides the funds and has some oversight, ultimately the government decides which projects to back and which areas in the economy to focus on.
I prefer to say it is about understanding, which is closer to summarization, or having a model. A parrot or even a computer can recall blindly.
Yeah but I think the idea is that it is a knob that calls to be turned. "It's warm in here" -> "I'll make the light blue so you feel nice and cool". "How fast do sparrows fly?" -> "Making the light brown". Like it might want to do _something_ and tweaking the hue or brightness are all it can do.

Good reason to always try to include in a prompt a way-out, a do-nothing or I-don't-understand answer.
The TL;DR here is that California has a housing crisis, which caused homelessness, which caused people to look into a bus stop design which doesn’t serve as a proper shelter.

Here’s a data-driven argument that homelessness is a problem with lack of homes, more so than mental health or drugs or whatever else: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...

Fixing housing will have a lot of great downstream effects.
As long as their scalar and vector units still support packed 8/16/32-bit data, this seems fine? Too bad there’s no OS telemetry on the number of legacy apps still in operation.
Even for the pettiest shit.

https://daily.jstor.org/when-cities-closed-pools-to-avoid-in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_v._Thompson
Wow, this is a great interview. I didn't think I'd read the whole thing but I couldn't stop. What a candid and touching account of a person becoming themself.
He ruthlessly optimizes his time and brain space towards his life goals. He, famously, doesn’t use email directly[0]. Anything he can outsource, he does.

[0] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
Thanks for writing this, I like the trust/regulation mental model. I can also use it to explain my experiences as a European immigrant in the US. One of the biggest differences I feel is how belligerent and litigious American society is. Would you say this is one of the causes of this outcome? (i.e. when people are worried about being sued, they'd do the smallest and safest thing possible).

Anyway it'd be great to read more posts on this topic, and see examples of cultures you consider low trust/low regulation.
> If you think there’s a market and money to be made - start your own

I'm genuinely unsure if this is a parody of the American Way here. "There's no problem here, but if there was, the free market will solve it!"
Texas introduces high fees to register EVs
So unbridled Capitalism?
> directly help people

Indirect, I think you mean, and probably because people generally don’t trust their money to be spent well by institutions, and it’s not hard to figure out why.

Americans lead the world in charitable giving and much of that is more direct - anonymously giving money to help a church member or giving money to local charities both are avenues with more visible impact.
>Only a few people have been reported to not relapse before 24 weeks.

So what? Ketamine is a treatment, not a cure.

Would you apply the same logic to insulin for T1 diabetes?
As far as I can tell it's just a buzzword used by people strawmanning Trump.
wonderfully written, thank you!
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Segmented memory was not a "waste of development time" at the time. It allowed the 8086 to be compatible as far as source and machine-translated binaries with the 8080, while expanding the address space considerably. It allowed considerable advances while retaining some measure of backward compatibility.., like x86-64 did.
When AIs start ranking humans
Right now humans are trying to determine, based on their output, which AIs are the most intelligent. How long will it be before AIs are in the position to determine, based on our output, which living and historical humans are the most intelligent? Equally interesting will be how they explain their ranking system and how authoritative its results will be held to be by academia and the rest of the world. Here I'm referring to what IQ tests attempt to measure but it would also be interesting to learn how they will rank humans in the other kinds of intelligences like social, musical and athletic.
https://archive.is/5wQ0q
it’s not just in America. all over Europe you have "hostile architecture"[1]; for example, benches designed to be uncomfortable so that homeless people don’t sleep on them

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture
Can you clarify your question ?
There are? I have never felt inclined to wait for 15 minutes to talk to a stranger who unexpectedly called to chat.
I agree with you mostly. In some cases the performance might not be desirable to deliver the events. One minor nitpick, pollable endpoints on /proc means that a program can run select() or epoll() on the file descriptor. Those can be blocked to sleep, no need to re-poll at intervals.

Windows has WMI and other systems have SNMP MIB as a uniform interface to access system resource. Those never get anywhere.
I wonder if Apple’s trick would work for python packages. Pay a few (5? 10? 20?) bucks to become a Pypi developer/sponsor, it would also pay pypi’s operational bills. It raises the bar for malicious actors.

Additionally, if pypi provides keys to developers, pypi can also revoke certificates for developers making malicious packages.

It would need a system which checks package signatures on startup of a python app, or maybe there is some other way to do that. Pip —check or some thing which then runs in pipelines, specifically meant to check for malicious packages each day.

To decrease the barrier of entry on pypi, students could identify with their student number. Or pypi could work with a system where you have trusted users and packages and untrusted users. A bit like the blue checkmark, but without the negative connotation.
It might not make too much of a difference to software developers targeting x86, but dumping legacy crap might make Intel's job easier (and/or more profitable, because they can reclaim some die space) when it comes to implementing their future silicon.
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The US doesn't have a homeless problem, California has a homeless problem.
Thanks! I'm somewhat ignorant of these things, and I did not mean to offend anyone.
Market capture via corner cutting excuses lazy engineering by evil bloated monopolist. Got it.

(I'm still shocked how they've begun losing to AMD. Having all of the money, dirty benchmarking tricks, and "let's just hire all of the people" haven't worked out, incredibly.)
I didn’t take it that far but asked my parents for the Lojban book for Christmas and did find it fun to work through. Sometimes it’s fun to just nerd out about something totally different to normal :) The year after I got a lockpick tutorial set.
Ha, I created a whole site to remember which agents I'd been speaking to, and used it to test CDNs and ads!

https://www.jworkers.co.uk/
The public school grooming? Straight up pathology.
I don't think it's fair to say they're winning in drivers. Their driver is an absolute pain to work with. It's to the point that I'd rather have no GPU than an Nvidia one. I'm very much not the common user but their situation is abysmal.
I hope they get a handle on this and don't do anything else to alienate data portability folks like making Microsoft the only "Trusted Publisher".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35646436
I’m sure some aspect of this is the North American culture of high credentialism. Everything must be done by “properly trained” “experts” and whatnot. During the pandemic people on Han were talking about how N95 masks need you to be trained by professionals in a fit test. It’s a 15 min video on the 3M site…

Here’s the facts: I can do almost any job well without needing extensive training. But credentialism gets in the way of my helping myself and others.
ARM also is very backwards compatible, there have only been two major breaks in compatibility. The ARM6 (which dropped legacy memory addressing modes) and aarch64 (which made certain extensions required + dropped support for old ARM7 and ARM9 modes).
GPT counts letters as well as you precommit to taking exactly ten samples!
Spot in, yeaaahhh. It's a fun & enticing spinning up worlds & their undergirding, and muds are an approachable target!

I'd love to see muds evolve that are scripting/ai friendly. If development is so fun, why not play around with having a wonder api and/or sdk for your mud, to let people control & grow a character or characters programmatically?
Nah, I'm not in China.

I think that censorship in China is a whole different and quite unrelated story.
As I posted elsewhere in this thread, not a good diagnosis of homelessness. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...
The cafe at the local Barnes & Noble store.
> ...provide a reason in <250 characters

For what it's worth, I've been using something similar with my prompts and felt the completions did a poor job of honoring this, but do a better job when asked to use words instead of characters.
True. I shouldn't have used a universal qualifier. I should have, "all the data possible (that one corporation can get it's hands on)" or something qualified.
> I wrote "changing primary version number" instead of "using semver" on purpose.

I was making a general point. I wasn’t suggesting you were advocating semver specifically.

> can certainly have "we changed how configuration options work" at the very least

Any major change to your versioning scheme can signal that. Including having a year number as your major iteration.

But what’s more valuable to your end users in these types of scenarios is documentation about the change.

> Distros are so far managing that extremely well all things considered

You’ve completely lost me now. It sounds like you’re trying to defend Linux distributions but my comment was neither a criticism nor was it about Linux distributions per se. These are plenty of instances where several packages are distributed as a whole. Like with multimedia applications that might ship ffmpeg, a Python scripting environment and a multitude of other components.

Linux distros, of course, is another example (and one on a much bigger scale). It’s worth noting that no major distro uses semver either. Some don’t even have a minor release let alone a major version number. But their signalling around versions satisfies a different problem to what an API needs to signal. Hence my point that versioning is about sticking to a standard more than it is about trendy schemas.

> The OS problem is problem of having different components with different lifecycle.... but my iptables rules are working despise the fact iptables in kernel was entirely replaced by nftables so it certainly can be done just fine.

I don’t really understand your point here but I’m happy for you that your config is still working :)
> a high-regulation/low-trust society like the US

It used to be, we were the other way around.
...very rarely to the extent of US.
And it gives you the same PC like answer if you ask does God exist is gun control affective or any other conservative hot topics
I built a workflow engine with python and arangodb that I used to extract job listings from things like HN’s who’s hiring and America’s job bank and then evaluate if I want to apply, if I did apply, etc. The goal was to train a text classifier to filter job listings but I got a job with an A.I. company about as soon as I started using it by telling them about it.

After I left that place it took me a little longer to find my current job, if it had taken any longer I would have given myself a job cleaning out bogus job listings from the job bank (e.g. the Java job in Syracuse that is really COBOL and in Atlanta…)

I took the code out of mothballs and completed the classifier and now it is the smart RSS reader I knew was possible in 2005.
Looks like cliché won the war
Is this the right gameplay video? https://youtu.be/yZi7GF4NsNg
> all night movie theaters

We've lost a sense of community. Look, years ago, before the Internet, we would all go out to the movies together.

It used to be you give the creep-show at the window a couple of bucks, you could spend all day in there popping off. And the joy of it was there were people popping off at the same time. I mean, not that you looked at each other. It was dark. You weren't looking for the gay thing. But it gave you a sense of something bigger than yourself.

Now, they... you know, got rid of all these movie theatres. They're taking all the sex out of the movies. And what am I supposed to do? Go home, turn the lights off, and pop off in front of Charlie?

No, thanks.
> just because it's so long ago.

That's precisely why I would expect him the most. If anyone would dig deep into the history of mathematics to find and understand all of the origins of fundamental concepts in computer science, it's Knuth.
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I've recently become a big believer in Python notebooks to plan out these sorts of designs. It allows you to quickly mock up and iterate on a few prototypes to build your expertise, and then actually document a proposed design alongside working code that demonstrates the functionality.

The bonus is, being a Python notebook, you usually avoid the common pitfall of shipping crappy prototype code to production; you are forced to rewrite it because putting a Python notebook into prod would make any software engineer shudder.
Istanbul is a big city, but is not the capital. It was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and before that the East Roman Empire, though.
Well.
Allowing for 'safe haven' for drug abusers in 'private' spaces comes with the side effect of attracting unsanitary behavior aswell, not letting you have a 'poopoo-peepee' time whatsoever.
It'd make the chips easier to design, I guess. Maybe motherboards and BIOSes too?

I could imagine a more user-noticeable effect in VM cold-start times, perhaps, though I'd think physical hardware boot times would still be dominated by other things (e.g. actually loading the kernel into memory); the minimal implementation of transitioning from real mode to long mode is a few hundred instructions.
Watch 10 videos and then fall down a rabbit hole and forget what you were even there to look for - the even more best case!
> when surely as a Canadian, you're also American (i.e. living in North America).

North America includes México at least geographically, so does that mean Mexicans are Americans as well?

American means people from the US because the US has the word America in its name and other countries don't, that's all.

> Welsh person to also abide by that usage.

The Welsh don't like being called British?
i used to imagine similar opportunities with google books. but they have done basically nothing with it. and that's been like 20 years.

if anyone could have disrupted the corrupt and unfair academic publishing world, it was Google. they just found it an uninteresting task. they preferred to work on G+, Stadia, Google Code, etc, https://killedbygoogle.com/