skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the costs people rarely consider for europeans is VAT (25% extra) and the decreasing price of european currencies. In the last ten years USD is 30% stronger against EUR and about 40% against my local currency. So for me this is more like a $60 dollar product than $30, and that's not just feelings.

The problem here is everyone thinks their product is so damn valuable. I happily pay $20/mo for OpenAI because it genuinely speeds up my work every day. I would easily pay twice that. In terms of saved time this product will maybe save me 20-30 minutes per month? It's individual for everyone, but judging by other responses I'm hardly alone here in this sentiment.
But how long do we have to wait for everyone around us to get AEB? 20 years? 30 years?

In meantime, every time it misfires, we’re risking an accident. Yes, it’s an accident caused by the poor following distance of the car behind us, but the blame isn’t much of a consolation when there’s no guarantee you can walk away from the crash without an injury.
The sometimes you can win on the face to face just like sometimes you can hire below market rates, but you are just wasting time on a site where other people do post photos and a high initial investment is required
Swedes have this figured out. Never would work in America, but I’m all for it.
Assembly "Hello World":

> just 600 lines of code
Python does return 5. JavaScript returns 7. Python is returning the number of code points, JavaScript is returning the number of UTF-16 code units.
> The risk of psychedelic drugs is more comparable to motorsports, the more involved action sports, heavy equipment operation, etc.

Yeah...I'm going to need to see some numbers to believe that.
It’s also worth noting that code generation (and therefore metaprogramming itself) are also not fundamentally innovations of Lisp. For example, in C++, it is entirely possible to link your application to libclang and build Clang ASTs inside your application C++ code, and use the Clang compiler to emit and run that code.

Ahem: can we discuss the word innovations and fundamentally above, and put two facts on the table:

LISP: 1959
C++: 1979

If they'd said "is not unique" I could agree. The innovation is a statement of origination. C++ did not originate this concept into a language system from 19 years prior to C++
In this case let’s consider “marriage” a stand-in for “committed, long-term romantic relationship between two people” since that’s really what’s being compared throughout the discussion.
Googling "audio visualizer SwiftUI" gives me these as the first, fourth, and seventh results:

https://medium.com/swlh/swiftui-create-a-sound-visualizer-ca...
https://audiokitpro.com/audiovisualizertutorial/
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/visuali...

I do tend to reach for GPT4 before Google for things like this now, but I feel like it should definitely be possible to get this up in only slightly longer with just Google, even if you want some mods.
It is quite the opposite. Every pair is meaningful. Extra parenthesis cannot be added just for the heck of it without changing the meaning of the code.
Nice. I’m very excited to see where the “jr dev ai” goes in the next 5-10yr.

I am a little worried more broadly about jr devs not getting work and thus never getting the experience to become sr devs. I imagine jr devs will come from locations where an ai is too expensive.
There's my mistake. Thank you. Flipped them in my head, it's ben a long day.
> if you're using API pay-as-you-go access, unless you wrote the very tools you use with that API, you're most likely using gpt-4, and not gpt-4-0314.

Do you know of any alternative ChatGPT UIs like chatbotui.com or typingmind.com that let you specify the model gpt-4-0314 ?

This feature alone would be enough for me to switch.
The last part hints they're probably just mocking that viewpoint, it's a reference to https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/money-printer-go-brrr
Fwiw I've overcome obstacles on LSD -- "run the algorithm backwards!" Nothing I couldn't have come up with sober, but I hadn't done so in several days.
> A string should be viewed as an opaque data type with views into it depending on what you're trying to do.

> The attribute shouldn't be 'length' it should be something like 'countOfCodePoints' or exposed via a `CodePoints` type view.

That’s a great way to explain it and something I’ll keep with me. Thanks
Scared?

Is it really that hard to understand why people don't get the hype around a Jackson Pollock or Voice of Fire? No need to invent weird reasons for this.
It's gotten this far because it would render a large amount of public land unreachable, and outdoor-related organizations not surprisingly care quite strongly about that.
What do you mean there is no such thing as a character when grapheme cluster is exactly that? This is also the out-of-context , and people get confused because instead of this human context attribute they've been forced to use all the other alternatives that require more knowledge
>"The Goodstein sequence of a number can be effectively enumerated by a Turing machine; thus the function which maps n to the number of steps required for the Goodstein sequence of n to terminate is computable by a particular Turing machine. This machine merely enumerates the Goodstein sequence of n and, when the sequence reaches 0, returns the length of the sequence. Because every Goodstein sequence eventually terminates, this function is total."

An interesting relationship between Goodstein Sequences and Turing Machines!
In England, it's really a wonderful experience. Most fences have points where you can simply walk over the fence and follow a path to some green space. It's ridiculous to think we can create islands of public property only accessible by paying a private land owner (or risking trespass).
Someone ported PGU code to MacOS:
https://github.com/lmartinho/pgubook-macos-x86-64

Seems very handy, since most assembly tutorials nowadays are Windows/Linux-specific.
Switch is at 125 and isn’t slowing.
Emergency services and social costs of crashes are immense.
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Have you thought about just making your own subreddit?
OP sure did! ( and wondered at Apple's brutality, and those prices.)
Lambda Calculus in 383 Bytes (2022)
This makes me think of unforeseen consequences of legislation. The outcome doesn't always match the intent.
Vertical everything. It makes everything so easy to read and scan. I encourage vertical definitions for jr devs, especially ones tempted to put a 20 conditional if statement horizontally (no I don't want to talk about it).
Starts with a bullshit premise -- "some people say there's no difference between men and women" -- and then goes downhill from there.
Very few people struggle with dating through no fault of their own. Most people have actionable things that they can do to get a date just like most can find a job. But not everyone can get to the level of dating models or working at FANG companies. That requires done combination hard work and natural gift.

If you don’t grind leetcode you won’t get that fang job, if you don’t grind social skills and status you won’t get that hot date.
Lsd is one of the hardest substances to synthesize but the effective dose is so small that the price is almost free. Therefore someone who has real LSD to sell would not bother contaminating it. (At least I have not heard of that.)

However you may be sold something that's not LSD at all but is advertised as such.
Yep, keep your arms tight and stop your arm and bring it back after a punch. Lots of posts on reddit of shoulder injuries from playing these boxing games without being careful:

https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+quest+boxing+shoulder...
Visual Basic .NET actually does have XML literals [1] - one of the few reasons to use it!

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/progra...
That's nitpicky, seeing as CIA was created as a consolidation of several preexisting organizations.
Google Evacuates Mexico City Offices After Reported Bomb Threat
HP ink for my printer.

Apple licensed strap for my watch.

Next... Nike licensed shoelaces for my shoes?
It's 1 in elixir which measures graphemes by default.

iex(3)> String.length(" ")
1

Edit: looks like HN doesn't support that emoji in code blocks, at least.
You can't make a meaningful comparison without numbers, so I'm not sure where you get your confidence. As it happens, my intuition is that your comparison is wrong.

I would bet that people who are predisposed to e.g. schizophrenia are, for the most part, going to experience some insult that makes it come on at some point before 30 years old. It's just a question of when, where, what, but it'll happen.

I bet the group of people who could develop schizophrenia were they to experience the right insult, but don't, is very small.
> I'm basing this all on the idea that it's almost always a mistake to confuse how a program manages some data, vs how a drawing lib might. Your language shouldn't concern it self with how many glyphs it needs to draw... until you actually try to draw them.

Well, why not? There are a lot of things that people would want to call string.length for — drawing little equals signs under text in a terminal, for a frivolous example — where that’s the whole reason they’re making the call. Off the top of my head I’m not really sure how you solve that with variable-width characters if there’s no way to separate out or count them.
...and the lack of friction. I'm not making a new account for your forum on your site.

And consistent UI. Threaded conversations rather than a single scroll by date. Upvoting. Following a user to see the content they've created in other forums. Easy discovery. Some guarantees of not being hacked by the site itself. Ways to block users. The auto-moderation tools. The fun bots in some reddits.

And yes, most of all, the mnemonic forums. /r/minnesota. I just guessed that, and I was right. There's good and bad to that land-grab. I kind of wish that there was one more layer of indirection... That if I made a /r/minnesota and you made an /r/minnesota, that whoever has the most engagement is the "default" /r/minnesota that some new user will see... but that if the other gets the most engagement, the "default" would change. And that a given user can pick which /r/minnesota they want to be what they see when they type /r/minnesota.

But that's just how I want to handle the case of tyrant mods who own popular mnemonics but have instituted terrible policies.
Porn was also a big thing in the binaries groups back in the day, specifically photos.
> The scenarios and questions you ask are easy to explore in the data.

This sounds like the beginnings of the McNamara fallacy: that there is some abstract "data" where all the relevant variables can be explored to decide the best course of action. The reason it's a fallacy is that data is itself only a reflection of conscientious decisions about what to measure and how to measure, and these are invariably limited to what we already appreciate and understand, not accounting for the things we don't know how to measure and don't know we should be measuring.

To be more concrete, let's say we follow your suggestion and focus on crashes. Maybe it's found that automatic breaking reduces the number of crashes so it's mandated. But maybe automatic breaking also increases the likelihood that a crash is deadly in some sub-population like pedestrians, construction workers, and motorcyclists. So overall we see crashes decline because a large number of minor crashes are averted but we also see deadly crashes increase because pedestrians, construction workers, and motorcyclists are killed more frequently.

So data isn't a free lunch. Every decision about what to measure and what to optimize involves some prior contextual understanding. A misunderstanding of the context means the data will misrepresent some aspect of the problem and you'll overoptimize yourself into a local maximum.
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“You are statistically more likely to die prematurely and painfully if you eat polonium” sure matters to individuals who eat polonium.

I don’t think you’re clear on the definition of “statistically”.
A little underwhelming for so much work, but I guess if you already have R installed, then it's just plug and play.

Thanks for sharing.
I wonder where the author learned English - there are a lot of words and phrases in this article/book that I’ve never heard before! To simper, adoration, put on airs, amorous, interlocutor, etc
> You can do everything right, and still come away with trauma and psych issues

Yes, but the question is: how likely are "trauma & psych issues"? How dangerous is the drug in comparison to going out and having six drinks over the course of the night, or (if you do LSD say once a year) a year's worth of drinking? Or, how about in comparison to living somewhere that means you need to drive to work every weekday?
Similarly, but not quite, I often find browsing new submits on HN more useful than simply going through the front page. Just because, uh, front page is decided by statistics, that is, the community's neurotypicals
They aren't always meant to exist. Why must everything be about the extraction if capital?
You can see this pattern all across the west, a result of land grants meant to subsidize railroad development. The federal government platted all the land into sections, then gave every other section along each new rail corridor to the developer. The idea was to encourage the creation of higher-quality infrastructure, by motivating the railroad to increase the value of their land holdings, instead of simply laying track as cheaply as possible like they might do if they were paid by the mile.
Characters in context are printable or non-printable/formatting marks right? I agree they probably meant grapheme clusters, but grapheme clusters can vary dramatically in width so the point of the conversation was to explain why a bounding box was a better approximation of their goals.
That seems incredibly advanced - how does the military already have AI that can reason that a comms tower should be destroyed to prevent it from receiving instructions like that?
No. As the article explains, it's illegal to physically block access to the land, and it's legal to climb over man-made obstacles like fences.
Ok, let say it's true. Running around yelling that the world is coming to an end does nothing to help. How about coming up with some actionable solutions that will help?

I think one of the biggest threats is income inequalities. People that feel that others are getting much more than they have will always rebel. We have seen it over and over again. The have-nots will eventually fight because they feel they have nothing to lose even if it means total destruction for both sides.

We need to make sure the super rich don't get any richer. AI i likely to make the rich even richer. If we don't we will see some nasty consequences.
Sorry to hear about the accidents. One part makes me wondr (tangential to your stories). Has honking really ever prevented any accidents? I don't even know why a car needs a horn, 99% it's abused out of frustration, and I cannot Eben imagine what that magic 1% situation is that requires car to have a horn. Honest question.
Because I have a different perspective than you, I am a pest.

This is precisely the issue at hand.

I'm not pestering you for sex; in fact I am not pestering anyone at all! Yet here you are pestering me for expressing an interest in it.

--

Am I a pest for leaving the Mormon Church? Am I a pest for drinking alcohol at home?

Whatever happened to the religious freedom y'all keep telling me about? Can I have some?
Reddit is very good at pitch forking opinions that aren't the majority. Thats why its considered the frontpage of the internet because its what "most" average people go for entertainment and engagement. Its not a place to cultivate meaningful discussions or debates. Really most of the people in this thread that doesn't like Reddit are people who don't follow the opinions of the general population.
TFA links a meta analysis. With a 38% impact, that is going to be tough to argue against. So... Consider it cited, but you aren't looking?
Profit-Price Spiral: Excess Profits Fuelling Inflation, Not Wages
This is probably going to be controversial.

I find salary to be really weird for many reasons. One of them is that I just can't imagine a sustainable world where salary is proactively offered, raised, etc. I think it necessarily must be negotiated. I say this as a person who spent most of my 20y career negotiating for my salary and hating the process.

It feels attractive on the surface to see a concrete number, kind of like coming to a car website and seeing cars sold at a fixed price, no bargaining. Or kind of like searching for loan refinancing and seeing a bank website show you the standard menu of rates they offer. You just pick from the menu.

However, the issue is that you're probably overpaying for the car, and getting a bad refinance rate every time. And your blanket "salary tier" is probably some safe hedge for the worth you may or may not be bringing. An estimation of vague plans they might have on where you may help.

Shouldn't this be reversed? Shouldn't it be you to tell them what you can do, the plans, explain how much you're worth? How can they know your salary if you haven't told them this stuff yet? Aren't you supposed to be an expert at something? That's just one of a few weirdnesses about salary.

Maybe it depends on a job, and some jobs are really _that_ predictable, but feels like in software dev industry it doesn't add up, except maybe for junior positions.

I used to be in the opposite camp, but nowadays every time I see a concrete salary range listed, it makes me feel silly. We all know that humans running the place can probably decide to pay whatever they want based on how they feel. I can't imagine a situation where they go "sorry, we really think we need you, but our job listing only goes up to this number, oops".
Yes, but how do we know it's doing what it claims? It can display the source code it wants you to think it has rather than its actual source code
This! Everything in the OS should follow that workflow. Even better if every text entry can be made modal like vim.
There has always been room for active strategies, and there will continue to be room for active strategies. It's very likely _your_ active strategy isn't as good as buying and holding an index fund.
I found learning about the binomial model to be particularly good at establishing intuition about option pricing. Nowadays it's considered a toy model but it makes the ideas of a replicating portfolio and risk neutral probabilities very clear with nothing more than basic high school math.
New cars they flicker rapidly I thought
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I am not scared of tax avoidance techniques.
The official city limits of Rome extend quite far out into the countryside (all the way to Ostia), so by this reckoning, I think the Vatican area would encompass the lion's share of the buildings/population.
Well first, people respond to perceived risk rather than actual risk, so those paradoxical instances where accidents increase comes when something seems safe - but isn't.

Secondly, consider you have to consider what compensation buys you. People bringing up risk compensation often forget that. Doing a task faster and with less concentration, these are real benefits that makes peoples lives better.

Third, people don't fully compensate for risk. Often a safety technology will both reduce accidents and let you get the job done faster.
Why would you want dumb???

(and it's not expected that a character's length is>1 unless you've been conditioned to excpect it)
This feels like sophistry to hinder progress. The OP is literally about studies done. Did you find problems with them? Or are you only imagining problems there could be?
There is an element of self-referentiality here: the basis for the plaintiff's valuation only makes sense if, only if and after the plaintiff prevails.
Anecdotal, but I was riding with my friend on the highway (~70 mph) with absolutely nobody in front of us, and the automatic braking kicked in out of nowhere. Thankfully the one other person on the road that was a bit behind us swerved and avoided rear ending us.

After that experience, I don't want a vehicle with that functionality in it, and don't want other cars on the road having it. It's half-baked at best.

It had happened enough times to him, and he complained to the dealership enough, that they bought the vehicle back from him. Who knows if these incidents were ever reported to the NHTSA since no physical collisions with other cars occurred.
Steve Rinella of Meateater interviewed the hunters in this case on his podcast.

It is quite an entertaining listen - 1:03 is where he explains the background and 1:08 onwards is where the interview starts: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-342-getting...
I don’t follow. Tabs are nothing like favorites. You go to a favorite and open links within it in new tabs. Eventually the tabs will be closed and you’ll often never visit those links ever again, as opposed to a favorite.

As for tab groups, I could never get used to them, but I do use vertical tabs and find them quite useful.
No. This ruling doesn’t say you can walk through the backyard. If you can jump over it without touching the privately owned ground, it’s applicable.
You are correct. I should have clarified. I meant I don't write many custom macros myself.
Well specifically the idea is that it's so uneven it might increase the danger for certain groups, and seatbelts are pretty good overall. But bringing up airbags is a great example. If you're short enough (or possibly if you're tall enough), a standard airbag is more dangerous than nothing at all.
that seems wrong.. don't llms runs on probability distributions? Won't they have confidence built in?
The MASM SDK project is still alive and pretty active.

https://www.masm32.com/download.htm.

Nowadays I mostly work on Linux and Mac, and wonder why there's no equivalent project exist. Perhaps those Unix coders are satisfied enough with C...
Super interesting, thanks for digging it up!
That's Wyoming in a nutshell.

"Do you know how much money I have?"

"Yeah, but we still don't like you, and saying that makes us like you less."

It's a really weird mix of respect for wealth/property (when you're a good neighbor) and disrespect for wealth/property (when you're an asshole).

E.g. see what happens when a millionaire pisses off the fishing community by ignoring laws and harming river habitat