skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The fact that evolution exists also has nothing to do with it.

I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.
it's anecdata but I drive this this on the regular and don't have any issues! May be some regional differences
Railways in UK are great, if you can afford it and if they're not on strike themselves.

Flying is actually annoying because not many cities are connected, unlike Germany for example.

On top of that, the airports in smaller cities have very few connections outside Britain.
could this replace jQuery?
I found this striking:

> The flute from Divje babe is the only one that was definitely made by Neanderthals. It is about 20,000 years older than other known flutes, made by anatomically modern humans.

Does this suggest that for some period of history, the Neanderthals were "technologically" ahead of Homo sapiens? At least in terms of flutes?
I thought it was neat how this helped me understand that IPv4 addresses are represented in a in_addr_t using just 4 bytes.

https://memory-spy.wizardzines.com/game.html#example=convert...
Here's Deutsche Bahn for the same month: https://www.ksta.de/wirtschaft/deutsche-bahn-jeder-dritte-fe... - and note they use a much more generous definition of "on time" (up to 6 minutes late) than the UK does. And they don't seem to even be publishing the number of cancellations, which are specifically excluded from that delay figure.
you're better off letting people change lanes to the lane they want to be in, and if you're not camping in the left lane then typically you'll find people changing lanes from the left lane to exit, or will change lanes through yours into the left lane.

if you leave lots of space they can do so entirely safely.

trying to prevent other people from changing lanes does not enhance traffic safety.
Effect of HN front page posts on early WriteLaTeX (Overleaf) usage
I'm in Fort Collins and have had city fiber for a couple years now and it's a game changer. We got it during earlyish covid and having 4 of us on video calls was bringing Comcast gig service to it's knees, I imagine because of the limited outbound bandwidth. The city fiber service is gigabit symmetric, no caps, $70/mo, or 10gig for $200/mo. They also are introducing a 2.5gbps, I think that's $100.

I'm working on upgrading my internal network to be able to take advantage of upgrading to 10gig.

And one of the best parts is that when I had a weird networking issue, I was on the phone with a legit networking person in 15 minutes, rather than stuck with someone who couldn't do anything more than read from a script.

The issue ended up being a Comcast routing issue, which I told them from the top, but figured they'd like a heads-up about it. Me and one of my coworkers on the city fiber couldn't reach the office on Comcast, but 2 other coworkers also on city fiber could. I eventually got ahold of a Comcast Business network engineer later that day and they had it resolved the next day.
I had the chance to test drive a C8 and was a little unimpressed (I was planning to buy one but didn’t).

A good car but not a great one as I had been led to believe.

On paper and all the glowing reviews had me believing it was something very special. Maybe on a track it is (I just drove it spiritedly on public roads)

I tried a few other cars that week and found the C8 to be lacking in comparison. (Mclaren GT, M3/5/8 competitions, Aston Martin Vantage, a few others).

Granted many of the other cars were more expensive. But the M3/M4 comps arent much more and I thought they were a clear level above in every way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, of the 3 C8s I sat in one of them had laughably crooked stitching on the dash. I get that it’s a Chevy, but that to me shows the quality control is not there.
Great insight, thanks. I was tossing up on which one to take a stab at first, but I have a pretty strong preference for conversational tone.
Its not spoken about openly, but there is a decent correlation between % of DNA from neanderthals and IQ
The recommendations on https://teachyourselfcs.com/ are all pretty high quality and canonical.
The funnier thing may be the fact that Ukrainian railway at the moment may be better functioning than that of Germany or UK, despite decades of financial neglect of the former and the fact that nobody actually tried to bomb electric infrastructure of the latters'.
Companies generally don't require more engineers, ever.

However, if there is demand for your product, engineers are a good way to make it better. If you don't make it better, that demand will go to a vendor who does.

Either way, if you believe these companies never needed the engineers in the first place, it is an entirely separate claim from the claims in this article.
Interesting to see this.

I tried it in 2020 and was not very happy with it.

Serialization was (is?) deeply embedded in the API and my use case didn't need that and it was a large burden with no upside in my application.
Then there were fluent builders which instead of collecting parameters just executed on them and it made it highly order dependent with possible invalid states without any indication of why.

I'd love a lightweight job scheduler with metadata and a dashboard, but with less magic in the java world.

Maybe I should give it a go again, maybe it has changed.
All Android phones are Linux phones.
I welcome it as an opportunity to improve. Nobody knows everything and collective knowledge is powerful.
Thankfully they never made a sequel to Highlander.
My impression is that the site has gradually shifted right, but the Overton window has shifted right faster giving the illusion that it has gone left.

Edit: There is something ironic to be said about my very benign comment triggering someone to the point that they felt compelled to create an account and call me classically right wing slurs (subhuman, animal, low-iq). I think its worth considering that the internet/social media has contributed to a growing mental health crisis. Hurt, sick and lonely people seem to congregate online.
Two things can be true at the same time.

1. Most unintended acceleration events are user error across all vehicles.
2. Some small number of Toyota unintended acceleration events were caused by low quality software on the ECU and a very badly implemented watchdog that did not implement brake override or other safety measures.
The list of Mozilla bullshit you have to use about:config to get rid of grows ever longer. Still annoyed that Pocket can’t be removed like a regular extension, only disabled in about:config.
The route that Russia has been invaded through during WWII and Napoleon runs right through the plains of Ukraine. Putin's older brother died during the siege of Stalingrad as an infant. These memories are not that long ago. They obviously care much less about Finland on their borders.

But really, it's more about the money, the people and the control over trade routes and resources in my estimation and less about security.
Sir, we cannot allow a Flute Craft gap to develop.

I know this is astonishing, should be adjusting my world view on my own species ... but "no fighting in the WarRoom"
Any car with regenerative braking is obnoxious, by federal law they aren't required to flash the brake lights when decelerating, ONLY when they're applying the physical brake and not when the car is regenerating, etc.
Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working
Global entry is for gate to taxi vs taxi to gate which is TSA Pre. I find taxi to gate to be a lot slower than gate to taxi.
So instead of "This discovery confirms" the author should have written "This discovery is one of many pieces of evidence for".
The set of algorithms is countable

That is assuming finite algorithms. I’m curious if infinite algorithms exist and/or considered in maths.

The internet says that an algorithm is finite by definition, but it’s hard to search for “infinite algorithm” because everyone talks about termination instead.
Yep, I got this too. Absolutely unacceptable.
I always hear a lot of grousing about DB, but I took it a lot the two times I visited, and I liked it. Even when there was a horrible windstorm that blew trees all over the tracks and stopped the ICE from coming down to Ingolstadt, I was able to hop onto regional alternates to where the ICE was, and get back to Berlin without too much insanity. The trains are pleasant and clean, and the stations are massive and have lots of nice convenience stores.

Contrast this with Metrolink or Amtrak, and it's night and day. If your train gets cancelled, at least in SoCal, you're likely hosed. You will wait hours upon hours, and some stations that are in the middle of the biggest metro area in the US get 2 trains a day. You can't just hop on something going the right way. Furthermore they are often isolated and have no stores near them.

I also really disagree with the article's implicit assumption that passenger railways somehow, have to make a profit. At least here in the US, that's often implied too, yet the interstates are completely free and funded by the state and no one bats an eye. Why?
Seems like this might be a much harder problem? At least it is when I try to find a parking place.
And cars have multiple cameras simultaneously in 360° overlapping coverage. Plus you have motion parallax.
The aops books [0] will take you from prealgebra all the way to calculus and discrete math and will give you a foundation strong enough to enter any undergraduate math program in the world.

And the books all have complete solutions manuals available so you can get immediate feedback.

You could use programs like Anki to schedule your review of defintions you've understood and problems you've solved to supercharge your learning as well.

[0] https://artofproblemsolving.com/store
db-scheduler is also worth checking out: https://github.com/kagkarlsson/db-scheduler
Per the article, it appears Tesla only opened up the plug last year...
Either depending on the situation.
That's a perfect summary of it!
I imagine people will use cars with lower range as second vehicles. You’re not going to take it on a road trip, but it’s still good enough for driving around town.
That's nice, but all of the older cars are still on the road.
5 years headstart means very little advantage in car industry unless you are developing ICEs.

I don't know if people realize how expensive it is to engineer an engine. Mercedes spent 4B $ to develop their diesel OM654. 4 billions of R&D to build an engine!

EVs don't have the same complexity, barrier of entry is much lower which is why Chinese are doing so well in them, even though they didn't with ICEs.

Auto industry will never be one where margins are good for long, doesn't matter who you are, it's a very expensive, risky low margin business if Tesla inverstors think thei company is immune they are in for a very harsh reality.

This is like investing abc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_Democracy_Defense_Le...

"Any loan or lease of defense articles to the Government of Ukraine under paragraph (1) shall be subject to all applicable laws concerning the return of and reimbursement and repayment for defense articles loan or leased to foreign governments."

Can you provide a source for your statement that these were donations?
Marginal note: This statistic covers only the time span until Feb. 24th, so it doesnʼt comprise Germanyʼs “Biggest Military Aid Package Yet” (ca. 3 Billion) – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/world/europe/ukraine-germ... – which probably led to Zelenskyyʼs statement. Dividing by capita or GDP and making geographical, economical, strategical allowances is fine – one could do that in the case of Germany, its imports, exports, closings, openings and other decisions, too.

But this doesnʼt address the point stated by GP as follows: “The point is whether Russia could extort countries (eg: prevent from sending military aid to Ukraine) or not”, proceeding with a comparison in which Germany is heavily dependent, Finland is not, which implies: Germany could be extorted e.g. to prevent it from sending military aid to Ukraine. And this is hardly tenable when “Germany was now Ukraine’s second-largest backer after the United States”.

As I conjectured, the events indicate at some effective extortion, but a psychological one, that is leveraged by both sides drawing contradicting conclusions from the same premises (which does not mean that both arguments are equally sound).

I certainly did not mean to imply that Finland looked bad, of course it looks excellent.
iMessage vs. Snapchat: The Battle for Gen Z’s Texts
Ultra-high mileage vehicles driven over short timeframes where rust doesn’t get a chance to set would probably get into wear-and-tear of structural welds. Something like how airframes are rated for x number of decompression cycles.
Ford EVs will use Tesla’s charging plug starting next year
Yeah, this is actually a great point, and also a possible contributing factor.
https://archive.is/mPsMF
Even if that reasoning were true, the valuation for Tesla doesn’t make much sense, given they’re not remotely close to a self-driving car in the way that the average customer would understand it.

They’re not delayed by a few years. The problem is intractable, unless you can limit the journey to a controlled scope.

I drive over multiple pathways and grassy lanes a week that aren’t mapped and have no markings. A self-driving car can’t arbitrarily account for something like that any time soon.

Waymo is able to operate a limited route in Phoenix because they restrict to best-case routes.
I watched some flat earthers in debates, and they seemed to revel in their freedom to not be impressed by their opponents arguments. It seemed like a kind of rush for them, like a kind of power trip, that was more intense the stronger their opponents arguments. Like a kind of 'no matter how strong your argument is you can't make me agree with you' power trip.
I completely agree. For simple or short conversations, the models are similar enough, even for the low parameter models. But as the conversation gets more complicated, the difference between the models becomes more obvious. The benchmarks used today only give a basic understanding of the language model's abilities and you have to use it yourself to see how capable it really is.
> And what I say is true. There are multiple imperial instigators in this war. Russia is certainly one of them.

What you said is patently false there is only one imperial instigator in this war, that’s Russia what remains after that is the imagined fever dreams of people trying to justify and support a war of imperialism by Russia that is systematically doing what it can to wipe out the existence of the country it seems to subjugate.
I mean in general I agree with you. Just having a ton of money has its own kind of reputation.

But these guys have really traded far beyond their actual raw financial power due to reputation.
Yes, the US declared war first. (After Britain seized American ships.)

The US was "properly attacked" -- and capital burned -- though whether they were attacked first is a matter of debate.
> > And he’s admitted self driving was way more difficult than anyone realized,

Sure and the guy is getting paid right now in cold hard cash, while all the synchopants keep ranting about hopes and dreams.

As Jack Nicholson said in 'the Departed' and I quote :

"What we generally do - in this country... is one guy brings the items and the other guy pays him. No tickee, no laundry!"

First the self-driving car for all Americans (the item), then the big payday for Mr.Musk, that's what happened with Mr. Ford back in the day, but what did the guy know? Nowadays you can just bluff your way into riches using the marvelous phenomenon of cult of personality and stock appreciation.

> > It’s now 2013, want to see a video of Starship taking off?

Want to see a sample of what Microsoft's ChatGPT can do?? It's amazing! But that has nothing to do with Microsoft giving Apple a run for its money in the smartphone market like Ballmer predicted back in 2012

There is no correlation between the 2 things just like there is no correlation between rockets and self driving cars, and it's laughable that synchopants think they are correlated just because thought leader and cult of personality enthusiast Elon Musk is both the founder of SpaceX and the petty individual who sued for the right to be called the founder of Tesla
Also, about:config is disabled on mobile unless you're running a nightly build.
I'm a few minutes into it and it seems really well done, save for a few quirks, mostly pauses between words and misplaced accents.
Curiously, some English words were spoken in perfect English, while others sounded like coming from someone not aware of the pronunciation differences with respect to Italian.
Some compression artifacts can however be heard, especially when using headphones.

btw: not sure what slow means; to me the talking speed sounds quite normal.
I switched to LibreWolf (A fork of Firefox with privacy enhancements and ublock preinstalled) and haven't had to deal with anything like this since.
HN is essentially a single subreddit.

But its a fairly specific/topical subreddit, where a left-right score is questionably meaningful.
This happened to me while I was working on a site. It may even have been localhost. This seriously erodes my trust in Firefox
This is unacceptable. Mozilla has shown they are incapable of not abusing Firefox. There shouldn't be an advertising channel/system in the browser.

If you want to advertise, have a newsletter that people can opt into.

If you need money, allow people to pay for just Firefox.
Apparently the "fix" is to fix the bug in the idle time calculation.

They marked it Resolved but the popup will still happen after 20 mins of idle time after the fix, if I read the Bug details correctly.
Has anyone done a price comparison on running all of these models for common use cases? For example, to make a chatbot that searches a vector DB to answer questions.
On what issues has the Overton window shifted right?
The obvious disadvantage would be that they are now too old to kick ass. But that means you have to wait a decade or two before making the 3rd movie.
I'm excited about this. I hope this starts a snowball of other manufacturers. The NACS plug is much nicer than the monstrosity that is CCS1.

Hopefully, it gets us to a less fragmented ecosystem here in the US. Yes, I know Tesla could have gone CCS1, but that's a tall ask when the majority of EVs and majority of existing DCFC infrastructure in the US is Tesla's already.
It's a competitive market but also a really large one, people spend a LOT of money on their cars. Much more than they spend on iPhones or Netflix.
There's a [dead] comment that I agree with, making the point that HN is mostly a tech website, and so it shouldn't be surprising that the stories are "neutral" relative to - I'd say orthogonal to - the (historical) left/right political spectrum. Mostly HN doesn't allow political stories - if you lurk on "new" you can find them, usually they don't get discussed or get flagged, but a normal user would just see some tech stuff.

The comments are a different story, I don't think I could pin down a clear average directional bias, but there are lots of different opinions, most of which get downweighted if they're too strong. But I don't think the comments are what the linked website is considering anyway.

A more moderate version of the other post: is lobste.rs politically biased?
Per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1414266#answer-1...

> Thank you for reaching out with your concern. Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first, as such we quickly stopped running the ad experience, and are reviewing internally.
Hello fellow scientists!

Me and my colleagues are working on this course materials (almost finished), and any comment, suggestion or just kudos would be appreciated greatly!

It is all about intro to data science, but you will see that it goes in depth, comparing to other materials you can find on the internet. It is all about supervised learning.
"if there's gold in the hills why not dig gold"

.. well because the market in jeans, and picks and shovels is a certainty: you have miners, they need these inputs.

but the gold, is uncertain. its higher risk/return.

Therefore the thesis argues "why are you risk averse" and my answer is "because historically for the last 250 years the rate of return has been 6-7% and so your arguing against the mean" -but certainly that mean is informed both by stupid people who take risks and stupid people who over-hedge against risk. Mining has a rate of cost and return too. They spend big on the cost side to predict the oz/Tonne return rate. Now ask yourself: did those miners have access to the information BHP or Rio-Tinto do?

The thing is. Levi-Strauss was investing. He found a predictable, reliable, growing income.

Gold rush miners are speculating. Gold Mine owners are hedging, investing and speculating at the same time.
Also WW's Sr. and Junior, if you care to extend the pattern back, though those both began and ended under Democratic administrations. In the case of the latter, the Republican general leading the war effort became the next US President --- which suggests that there's some haziness to the attributions being made. That same administration participated in violent campaigns in Iran (overthrowing democratically-elected Mossedegh) and Guatemala, as well as planning the Bay of Pigs operation (which occurred as Kennedy's administration opened).

Antiwar sentiments existed for many of these, though it's notable that considerable anti-war sentiment in the US against entry into WWII had a distinctly hard-right flavour to it. Not all anti-war sentiment, as there can be many possible motiviations, but in this specific case, domestic groups sympathetic with (and often orchestrated by) rightest European belligerents had an outsized role.

The anti-war movement of the 1960s and 1970s became associated with Democrats as that party swung leftward and shed its own long-standing Southern affiliations, and grew our of anti-nuclear and civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, all of which saw Vietnam specifically as an unjustified and unjust war, with considerable merits to that viewpoint.

Painting pro- or anti-war sentiments as distinctly left or right, or aligned with either of the two present major parties is not historically accurate and misses considerable nuance.
I haven't read it but the summary here seems useful: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Ge...

> Giving an astonishing inside view of how the White House really works in a crisis, The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan’s military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (today an independent Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing to India—one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century.

> Nixon and Kissinger, unswayed by detailed warnings of genocide from American diplomats witnessing the bloodshed, stood behind Pakistan’s military rulers. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a bitter personal dislike of India and its leader Indira Gandhi, Nixon and Kissinger actively helped the Pakistani government even as it careened toward a devastating war against India. They silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military—an overlooked scandal that presages Watergate.
After driving a newer model I have to disagree. I find it more efficient and natural, not sure why people stress over it. Getting used to yoke was way quicker than regenerative breaking.
I've never heard of GP
GPT-4 has good calibration before RLHF 'finishing school' as you can see in Figure 8 in https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774