skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Speak for yourself! It varies greatly with the journalist and publication, of course, but journalists earn my trust every day in their articles.

I am speaking statistically. Trust in the media is at an all-time low: https://deadline.com/2021/10/news-media-trust-gallup-1234852.... I'm happy that you don't see that in your personal consumption, but I would urge you to take your own advice.

> But how do you maintain access to key information valuable to the public, while criticizing the people who provide it? It's a real challenge.

You do investigation. You hire private investigators. You find courageous individuals who will blow the whistle and have the courage to do so publically. You certainly do not continue to use "anonymous sources" when they have shows themselves completely worthless, while lying to your audience that you have vetted the information.

> If you can't take some disagreement, you are in the wrong place! Probably you shouldn't read journalism either.

Not at all. But your earlier comment implies that there could not be anything to GPs stance than ignorance. This showed your own ignorance as to the state of affairs re: trust in journalism, along with other institutions. Blaming rightly-earned distrust on ignorance... See my comment above.
What point is this article trying to make?
Generally those numbers are gross. The ones I posted were as well. Health care is of course a lot better for less money (unless you're rich).
No, classic Cray did have a fixed vector size (4096 bits, or 64 double precision floating point values) both in the HW and the ISA. What it did have, however, which most contemporary SIMD ISA's lack, was a vector length register which allowed masking the end of the vector register. That meant the compiler didn't have to generate a scalar loop tail to handle the final iterations of a vectorized loop, it just set the vector length register to mask of the end of the vector data register, which meant that load/store/arithmetic instructions only worked on the first N elements in the vector rather than the full 64.

I think the RISC-V V extension, as well as ARM SVE, both have something similar as well. What RVV and SVE have, that Cray vector ISA didn't, is the ability to support different HW vector register lengths with the same ISA.
i've always been curious about looking at the statistics of comments/points of hn posts. so this is up 10h, has 57 points and not a single comment so far. fascinating.
I'm against death penalty, not only for corruption but in general. But there's a huge spectrum between death penalty and the almost irrelevant penalties for corruption in most of the West.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

@Dang - maybe these could be linked in the header (or in Add Comment too)?
First Livestream of Images from Mars
This is an interesting problem, I might start by having ChatGPT try to infer a complete list of tools and skills each position involved along with a confidence score (even those you didn't originally tell it about)

From there you could allow it to remix the skills while maintaining an average level of confidence greater than some number: so it'd be allowed to include things slightly out of your wheelhouse only if most of the job skills matched up perfectly.

You wouldn't need the math to check out perfectly there, the score would just be a heuristic it could use internally
> It's best to think of this as an OS/distro detail; if you can reasonably expect /dev/urandom to give you insecure bits, your distro has a vulnerability.

Isn't that more a function of hardware than software? The hardware random number generators on modern CPUs pretty much eliminate the need to worry about entropy...
U.S. Proposes Requiring New Cars to Have Automatic Braking Systems
Compilers are pretty good at restructuring code. As a programmer you need know some common situations when the compiler would like to reorder your code, but can't.

E.g. when you do summation using a for loop, and the compiler is trying to preserve the rounding-correctness your float operations. Or because you created a dependency graph with a for loop where each iteration requires the previous iteration's result.
The salary in the ad is always a jumping off point for negotiations. They can go always lower than that if they feel like you don't meet the criteria given in ad, or higher if you're particularly attractive. But, at least, it gives the ballpark.

Personal anecdote - for the past couple of years, I've complelety stopped applying to offers which don't advertise salary. My salary expectations are at the top end of the market and, I've found, if the companies are willing to pay as much, they usually put it in the job ad, as it draws more candidates. And conversely, if the company doesn't advertise their salary, it's usually because it's "market level" or below, i.e. nothing to brag about. There are of course exceptions such as FAANGs, where they don't have to advertise their high salaries because they're practically public information anyway.
> Not until they have to explain to their designer why they can't limit a label to '10 characters.'

Or in a single font. It's impossible to render any mixed combination of simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Japanese with a single font (Korean might be also involved, but not sure about that). Even in Unicode, characters might share the the same space which don't have anything common in their looks, nor in their meaning. That applies to the shared CJK space as well.
Btw. Japanese has halfwidth and fullwidth characters.
I don't think probability of tokens can be mistaken for confidence of knowledge being correct. I'd take it more as a fitness whether the tokens fit naturally in the sentence.
I occasionally ponder if I should send many small changes at the company I work for. Not because I'm not a real boy but because every so often my manager will be impressed by my commit count. Not that I'm trying to inflate it (I just try really hard to avoid meetings so I can write code which I actually enjoy), but...sure seems like it encourages the wrong behavior.
They do a Randomized Controlled Trial on parachutes, but due to ethical reasons the plane is only a few feet off the ground and there's no effect (the parachutes don't have time to deploy).
You're right this is a huge shift and unless the balance of power shifts users will get screwed over. If you think (as some people do) that one of the primary methods of consumption of information is going to be to have stuff tailored for purpose first by some sort of model, then it stands to reason that lots of the existing "attention monetization" mechanisms just won't work.

Imagine a future where you can just store a reoccuring prompt along the lines of: Hey Jarvis, search and give me a summary of the top things from the last 12 hours in all the topics and sites I'm interested in. Make its length about 5 mins of my reading speed. I'll prompt you for more details if I want to go deeper on any one thing.

That seems like the sort of thing that would be pretty compelling. So it follows logically from that that people have to figure out some sort of licensing or new revenue model to replace the fact that people are going to be reading LLM outputs like that rather than viewing ads on your current webpage.
Maybe we could define consciousness as a threshold of attention. Maybe some complex systems exhibit what we call consciousness when it can muster enough attention to become reflexive.
Poland is unique here in the matter that it has banned Sunday shopping only recently to pander to the religious voter base. Germany has modified their labor laws to give the states freedom to regulate opening hours on 6 days of the week, but never extended this to Sundays (as Sunday is a constitutionally protected day of rest).
Well of course the prices are just fraud. Maybe it’s legal fraud, but it’s fraud nonetheless. I mean you’ll see bills for 20k that insurance would have covered for 1k. It’s just bullshit.

Frankly negotiated prices should just be illegal. They should just provide prices for services. Insurers should have plans on how much they’ll cover you, but they don’t change any pricing. The hidden bullshit smoke and mirrors producing fraudulent pricing that may or may cover you depending on a million different reason is as far from market competition as it gets.
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Hello, I am a mid-level (~4 years of professional Experience) Developer, with mostly professional experience in Lower-level Programming (currently, C++) and Back-end Development (Go, C++, C# and a bit of vanilla Javascript).
I code in my spare time, love to do that, and have recently (Oct '22) started to more regularly contribute to open-source projects, in which i have also learned Rust quite a bit better and enjoy my journey so far.

I would say i have a strong system-programmer mindset, however, i believe that my area of interest for a Full-Time job would be more in the area of backend development.

I also have a very deep interest for Cybersecurity topics, Games and even good engineering practices.
Agreed, I think this is where its "stochastic parrot" nature shines through. All those version numbers are probably equally well represented in internet text.
My same experience, I have built fairly big projects with Python and I like it for general tasks but whenever I have something data analytics/visualization related I find myself reaching for R. There is so much functionality built into the language that just makes me so efficient.
I worked on Unicode parsers for several years and the single most indispensable tool was https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/
Not once in the history of my consumption of digital content has me not pirating something turned into a sale.

Sometimes I pirate it, sometimes I buy it. Sometimes I consume something free instead. Sometimes I pay for the stuff I don't consume at all. But the substitution is always in the direction of cheaper, more available solution. Never in the direction of buying something.

There were cases however when me pirating something eventually turned into a sale or even few sales.
>> Do you think it's physically impossible for any intelligence to be superhuman, even a natural intelligence?

> No, I think a godlike being...

Superhuman intelligence is a reality in many fields already: chess, Go, self-driving cars at certain conditions, calculations and many more. This is not necessary to have it for everything at all.
It's hybrid actually, I'm not really that much into remote working and I enjoy the office but I am still in the process of relocating so I do wfh for half the week.
You can set the system codepage to CP_UTF8 since Win 10, I guess, although IIRC it still doesn't work for input. But a) there is a lot of programs using A() functions that don't expect that and break in subtle ways, e.g. DBCS-encoding-aware programs suddenly break because they don't expect a codepoint to span for more than 2 bytes; b) most of the sanely written programs either use UTF-16 explicitly, or use UTF-8 internally and convert between UTF-8 and UTF-16 before/after calling W() functions.
Really? You think we can use AI for free to code all our work and write all our essays but the army doesn't have something that reasons who to kill?
That's fair - but I think that the cozyness you're referring to is more a product of someone building their entire world view off of a core "truth" that cannot be undermined. That kind of thing is pretty common among religious people (Edit: I think that a lot of modern materialists have the same problem); however, if you're willing to engage with non-empirical philosophy in general, there's a lot of interesting stuff in texts that you might otherwise dismiss as religious dogma. Not the stuff that is promoted by organized churches/gurus/etc for consumption by their followers, but writings from people who seem to have been genuinely trying to figure out WTF this whole existence thing is about. In my experience, a lot of Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist writings are in this genre (at least they are no worse than modern, western philosophy in this regard).

A lot of very deep thinkers from the ancient world have been relegated to the pile of "religion", but if you give them a shot, you might find something interesting. If you engage with practically any text written more than a thousand years ago, you'll find things that seem silly from a modern perspective, but if you grant them some leeway re: how their cultural context influenced their thought, there are some real gems.

(Edit: as a relevant example from Buddhism, check out the Diamond Sutra)
We can't. It's likely impossible to completely remove these latent visues from our bodies.

I've been reading into how they establish latentcy and in what cell types. They can infect almost any cell and establish latentcy, they prefer some cells that do not undergo apoptosis, near the brain.

There isn't enough funding in the area either.
Yes I was using western as synonymous with ASCII users, and it’s not. My bad.
Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases
Many European countries still have freedom to roam.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
There are plenty of full-size games and UHD movies being distributed over alt.binaries. Pirates pay to use newsservers that carry the massive alt.binaries.
Depends on the policy, but in my experience the out of pocket deductible is usually before any insurance is used, so you pay 100% up to the max deductible (no help from insurance on many costs), then you pay 5-10% of bills after that. But that was a few years ago so maybe policies are different now (though I doubt it).
Also:

rec.arts.int-fiction

rec.games.int-fiction

rec.games.roguelike.nethack
Every person on the planet believes they’re an above average driver. No one thinks they need these types of safety features in their car because they’re a safe driver and the problem is every other driver.

It terrifies me that people are so oblivious to their own flaws that they would willingly disable features such as AEB if they could. I’m extremely thankful for regulations that prevent such life-saving safety features from being disabled.
Interesting. How do the devs decide on the lowest common denominator? Do you happen to know any blog or resources that explains the process?
Svelte Broke Up with TypeScript?
The denial of x-risk is crazy here. This is literally a demo of what researchers like Hinton and Bengio are afraid of but most comments don't believe it happened and the other think that it's not a big deal. The human psyche never ceases to amaze.
I don't think we'll cure HSV.

A drug to limit cell to cell transfer and a vaccine to prevent new spread to other people.

But those living with the virus, it is unfortunate it will remain in our bodies forever, it is just too clever, hidden deep within our bodies in many cell types and impossible to remove without rna editing.
I have an impression that K8s to some extent benefits from a positive feedback loop - developers/ops advocate it usage to learn and put it on their CV (even if otherwise it is a bad choose), managers choose it thinking that it would be easy to hire people with K8s experience given that a lot of people around trying to learn it. I could not tell about my experience with K8s (NDA) but it doesn't look pretty to me too.
4 years - the magic number...
Is it typical for clinical trials to completely miss the point like this? I’d like to read a followup meta-analysis that focuses on the actual physiology — “Parachute use to prevent death … when hitting the ground”.

[shurely some mistake?]
> In fairness, somebody has to pay for the actors

Using open source software is stealing because in fairness somebody has to pay software developers.

Also watching ads and not buying the product is stealing because somebody has to pay the actors in those ads and people who make those ads.
£ is still just a byte
This para, buried deep in the paper, is the point:

A minor caveat to our findings is that the rate of
the primary outcome was substantially lower in this
study than was anticipated at the time of its conception
and design, which potentially underpowered our
ability to detect clinically meaningful differences, as
well as important interactions. Although randomized
participants had similar characteristics compared with
those who were screened but did not enroll, they could
have been at lower risk of death or major trauma because
they jumped from an average altitude of 0.6 m (SD 0.1) on
aircraft moving at an average of 0 km/h (SD 0). Clinicians
will need to consider this information when extrapolating
to their own settings of parachute use

Real studies have an equivalent para far too often.
Nice. For some reason, vertical tabs just have never taken for me.
And here is the article on the status of SQL:2023 support in PostgreSQL https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-...
Really the correct way to design string APIs would be to not have an ambiguous "length" at all, but to always require specifying whether you want UTF8-bytes, memory bytes, code points, graphemes, whatever.

However such an API would be pretty cumbersome because for all non-edge cases (read: a western language and a reasonable encoding that language - which when looking at world demographics is a very narrow way of saying non-edge case) we just want to ignore all that fancy stuff and assume it's latin-1/ascii and use "Length" and get on with it, usually accepting that it doesn't work for many scripts or emoji.

So almost every api I have encountered has both the dangerous or ambiguous "length" and any number of the more specific counts. Good? No. But good enough, I guess.

A much worse related API that exists every where is that for parsing and formatting numbers to and from text. How that's done "depends" but most languages I have seen - unfortunately - offers a "default way". In the worst examples - looking at you .NET - this default uses the system env and assumes formatting and parsing numbers should us the OS locale. Horrible horrible idea when used in conjunction with automatic type conversions. WriteLine($"The size is {3.5}"); shouldn't print "3.5" in the US and "3,5" somewhere else.
You were unsure if corner crossing was legal?
Well, from 5th century the Western world spread it over Europe and then across the pond.

Pretty much 50/50.

Christianity it's a mix between the Greek and Abrahamic views of the world.
You're going against the evidence present in front of you (eg, read the article). If the fertility is collapsing, people don't have children. In particular, elders don't have children. Elders don't have anyone to take care of them.
Your comment diverges from what I actually meant, but it's actually very interesting.

I believe that part of the process of maturing is to master your emotions. Don't repress them but acknowledge them. They are there, but you don't need to let them lead your live.

I think lots of people suffer from emotional traumas like your uncle's, me being one of them. And a lot of people are no even aware of them. Introspection is actually not that easy.
I bet you also believe Kremlin when they deny things.
I want this for my phone
>Our response to issues like obesity and other long-term things is just horrendous - almost always trying to treat symptoms instead of causes.

There isn't much you can do about the causes: many of them are intrinsic to the American lifestyle. Come to a country/city where people have to walk everywhere, and you won't see many obese people. That isn't doable in America because almost the entire country (except Manhattan NYC) is designed around everyone using cars to go everywhere, and walking being almost impossible or at least horribly dangerous without getting in your car and going someplace far away specifically meant for that activity.
27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
Indeed, and this is why we must surgically remove free will from all humans. It’s the only way to be safe.

Actually, if we were to simply euthanise all humans at birth then there would be no risk of them ever coming to harm.
> The resulting norms have steadily eroded institutional competency, causing America’s complex systems to fail with increasing regularity.

Really? As fewer people than ever are dying in plane crashes. Medical malpractice claims are declining. There are far fewer errors in banking, communications, convictions, far fewer deaths in fires (and fires in general). There are certainly some things getting worse such as homelessness and drug addiction, but most things have dramatically improved over the past generation.

It is great to have anecdotes, but you need to demonstrate that reliability is declining in some numerical way, as "increasing regularity" is by definition somehow numerical.

> Following three completely avoidable collisions of U.S. Navy warships in 2017 and a fire in 2020 that resulted in the scuttling of USS Bonhomme Richard

The US Navy has a pretty lengthy record of hitting things, losing boats to stupid, and killing its sailors for want of training.

Is it all that unusual for the US armed forces to lose dozens of people in accidents a year? Admittedly anecdotal from Wikipedia reading, but it doesn't seem to be so.

> Recently, the tremendous U.S. record for air safety established since the 1970s has been fraying at the edges.

A bunch of people have died due to ATC failures between now and the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Logan_Airport_runway_incu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Express_Flight_2415

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_runway_disaster

It is obviously not good that these incidents have happened, but they are not exactly new. The "tremendous record for air safety" still has a lot of bodies attached to it.

> Shortly after releasing the 737 MAX, 346 people died in two nearly identical 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Exactly as many people died when McDonnell Douglas (the real predecessor to Boeing in terms of organization culture) cut corners on cargo doors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981

Airline manufacturers killing people due to being sloppy is not new. They are arguably killing the fewest flyers per capita in history.

> The modern U.S. is a system of systems interacting together in intricate ways. All these complex systems are simply assumed to work. In February of 2021, cold weather in Texas caused shutdowns at unwinterized natural gas power plants. The failure rippled through the systems with interlocking dependencies. As a result, 246 people died. In straightforward work, declining competency means that things happen more slowly, and products are lower quality or more expensive.

That is not lack of competency at all. That is a deliberate choice by Texas to not spend extra money on a resilient system. They deliberately keep their grid disconnected from the rest of the USA so they do not need to comply with Federal standards.
I've already posted it on Product Hunt.

Here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/pot/reviews/new
PostgreSQL and SQL:2023
That is horrible if true (I find it hard to believe that US military personnel is trained to use "tactical" hand signals when trying to communicate with the general public).

However, it says that the policy is to first hand signal, then fire warning shots, and then they are authorized to use deadly force.

So, if these killings are because people don't understand hand gestures, and assuming policy is followed, they also don't understand warning shots, which seems like a stretch.