skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author suggests that using ChatGPT to remove commas is a good use of programming. While I totally agree that LLMs are great for those kind of programmatic transformations, that doesn't replace programming and most people who are not programmers wouldn't even think of using programming to do that kind of work.

The hard parts of programming are architecting and debugging complex systems, and creating user interfaces -- neither of which is possible with today's LLMs.
both worlds can co-exist. M i rite? Haha
> Interestingly, child sacrifice is still with us, in the form of state-sanctioned castration. Plus ça change...

This isn't happening.

Intersex children being force-ably sexually re-assigned, that was a thing we did for a long time and which has only barely slowed in recent times. The only sexual modification of children going on is the regularization of the body.
He has cred, but I also felt that this was from someone outside the finance industry because we have seen this all before.

After the FX scandals with the 'Cartel' chatroom, the libor scandals, we've seen compliance digging through all your Bloomberg chats and mails to find just about anything that sounds dodgy.

Crypto is new to this game, the other players have seen it before.
I paid a ton of money for my top of the line M2 Max because I build large rust systems that are high bandwidth and low latency and it’s as good as it gets for that. I also like to play games, but I don’t need the cutting edge. I would rather eat glass than buy a windows bing advertisement device and find another footprint in my home to install it just so I can get a higher frame rate than my eye can see. In fact, my strategy for gaming over the last 20 years has been to buy games 3 years old and devices that run them at their top end. No bugs, tons of reviews to guide my purchases, tons of mods, full DLC sets, always on sale. As long as I don’t sit around feeling envy looking at what’s cutting edge, following the 3 year wave front gives me precisely the experience folks had 3 years ago - but better. I’ll have their current experience in 3 years, so long as I don’t die, without all the bleeding edge problems.

So, great. Apple lets me stay away from bard directed bing advertising and OS level spy ware on my desktop, simplify my computing footprint in my household, and provides me games from a few years ago. Seems like a win win.

Source: I am someone who paid significantly more money for a Max M2 Max
Are those low MSRP Corollas or Imprezzas something you can actually buy? I was car shopping last year and all the "entry level" sedans were priced at $35,000+.
I think everyone in the USA knows that retailers will add stick a new label for $100 over the original $50 label, and then announce "50% off sale!" with impunity. I've literally peeled off the $100 sticker to find the $50 sticker underneath. In the UK and other places, this is illegal.
Thanks, yeah that's basically what I thought, but it's nice to know it was the same year!

If only UTF-8 had been invented a little earlier, we could have avoided so much pain :-(

The idea of global varables like LANG= and LC_TYPE= in C is utterly incoherent.

Python's notion of "default file system encoding" is likewise incoherent.

You can obviously process strings with two different encodings in the same program !!! Encodings are metadata, and metadata should be attached to data. Encodings shouldn't be global variables!

Python 3 made things worse in many ways, largely due to adherence to Windows legacy, and then finally introduced UTF-8 mode:

https://vstinner.github.io/painful-history-python-filesystem...
You don’t necessarily want the cursor to be as fast as the human eye
Game Changer? American Football Play Prediction
Will the game of football change forever with real-time play predictions provided to the defense? How might it change?
Make an account on their pro site --- still nonsense, but the prices stay much more consistent
Eastern U.S. air quality reaches harmful levels as Canadian wildfires rage
>Twitter had an apparent and now resolved regression allowing CSAM to be posted to public profiles [...]

Props to @elonmusk for making this one of their priorities when he let the sink in, and it was quickly resolved. An open question for the reader is "why was this ignored for almost a decade?".
They are disingenuously referencing trans affirmative care.
UTF-8 should never contain surrogates as they serve no purpose when all code points can be encoded directly. That doesn't prevent programmers doing stupid things with them but that's not a Unicode problem.
The title implies it found an entirely new algorithmic approach to sorting (like quick sort) which would have been a fantastic discovery. But it feels a lot like micro-optimizing the control flow and codegen.
why not also throw in how much money you make to complete the dunk?
If someone finds a way, I'm in.
Because they want to make sure that the sorting algorithm works well for all possible workloads, not just the most preferable ones.

If we measured sorting algorithms by the fastest measurement, we might conclude that BubbleSort is the fastest possible sort algorithm on some inputs. (Bubblesorting an already-sorted list makes at most one comparison per list element)
There are multiple filings from publicly traded companies that show the wild benefits to corporations that issue gift cards. They essentially boil down to:

- Revenue on the books now, almost pure profit until redeemed.

- A substantial portion of them never get redeemed at all, and almost none get redeemed to their full “value”.

Gift cards are a money printing machine for entities that issue them. Short of consumers shunning them completely they’re not going away.
I have this distinct impression whenever I watch Youtube from my TV's app and Youtube serves me 6 different unskippable ads on a 10-minute video.
It’s not even those professionals, I’m talking people who are highly skilled and trained (CS/Engineering degrees). Like they could tell you off the top of their head HOW to build an adblocker, but they don’t use one themselves. That type of disconnect that is weird to me. People who don’t know any better I can understand.
https://archive.is/50pK6
None of the machines on that list are more hackable than a Mac though.

Some are more "hackable" than an iPhone, but only in some strange symbolic way, since once you de-googled android is somehow more user-hostile than iOS and completely unhackable in practice (in the sense that I can't make it do what I want and also be usable as a daily driver that lets me do stuff like pay for stuff, use public transit, charge my car, park, or take an uber/lyft).

I'm a happy owner of a pine book pro, and a pc engines router; I get it. However, I don't think there are any viable Linux laptops or phones that compare favorably to the linux laptop + phone I had a decade ago.
Which is more likely: ancient people sacificing their children, or ancient writers wanting to mess with future historians or simply writing horror?
Sure, not publicly listing every meal you have followed by every bowel movement would be a good start that is never going to happen because the world needs to know this information.

However, that's not the only data that is gathered and sold. The information that is gathered passively from extensive efforts to track individuals across the internet is the elephant in the room that you seemingly want to ignore. These are direct attempts by companies to subvert individuals that might actually NOT be posting every little thing they do on social platforms. Things like tracking people as they move about brick & mortar stores or other types of beacons for whatever purposes they are being used for are examples. SmartTVs gather metrics, grocery stores gather metrics, and the million other "little" things that when gathered together all paint a very very detailed picture about someone without them necessarily knowing about.

so you're "don't be so public on the internet" is not such a simple little thing
Rediscover Safari Developer Features
Plus the knowledge and intuition that, for example

Firetruck >_____________< Fire Hydrant

Something that looks flat but is actually a fire hose means you should stop instead of driving over it - this was actually issue in Phoenix(?)

A homeless lady was killed by a self-driving car. She was walking a loaded bicycle, at 2am, on a road that doesn't usually have pedestrians. The self-driving car couldn't decide if she was a bike or a human so it didn't brake and the human-driver backup had zoned out as the car had made 99.99% of the correct decisions.

A self-driving car is like a jigsaw puzzle - there's one way to do it right, and infinite ways for it to be completely or subtly wrong.

"What do you see" and "What does it mean"

Humans and cameras have the same "What do you see" input, but the "What does it mean" category hasn't been conquered by cars.
Less of a scale problem than a type problem usually in my experience.

My rule of thumb is when it’s easy to specify a reward function but infinite ways to traverse the action space - versus having a constrained state and action space (small n solution traversal pathways) and only a few possible paths to traverse.
Much of the last twenty+ years can be summed up as "low margin business sold as a high-margin tech company to investors".
Something related to this? https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503050993279759
> Others just want to write literally anything to get the job done and be on with it.

this is not compatible in team-based software development. Once you want to collaborate with others, the #1 priority becomes not "anything that gets job done", but "anything that team can read, maintain, support, and continue developing"

if you are solo dev or writing bash scripts for your own workflow - then of course you can use anything literally, as long as it is on your computer and nobody sees it
That's a shame. Like many 70's movies, part of the whole point is that the protagonist is a messed up antihero. He's not supposed to be some wholesome character you aspire to, but a genuine reflection of the real-life figures the film is based upon. What's debatable is whether there is a hidden implication made, that people like this are necessary for society.

This bleeds over into the making of The French Connection itself. The train/car chase was shot in traffic, not on a closed road; they almost maimed/killed others/themselves. It was incredibly reckless and "wrong" by modern standards. All of this is discussed in the full-length director commentary.
Those all sound like things for a network engineer to know. I’d rather a web developer spend their time mastering the intricacies of CSS than learning someone else’s specialty.
Congrats! Exciting news!!
Makes a lot of sense. I guess the only requirement that would still be helpful is minimum password length?
they mean “exclusive to VR” not exclusive to a particular headset
Browsing the web without an adblocker is... illuminating. A vision into a corporate hellscape of garbage constantly screaming for your attention.

I'm sure they don't allow adblockers in Hell.
Definitely more. There are lots of things that might be more optimal in terms of raw complexity but end up having abysmal performance due to things like cache locality. Anything with pointer chasing usually kills performance.
Life in a Hologram
https://www.statista.com/topics/3201/ad-blocking/#topicOverv... suggests adblocker usage was around 26% in the US [2020], which is much higher than I would have guessed, but still well under 50%.
Not necessarily; I find it doubtful a person can stay alert and ready to take the wheel at a moment's notice after the car has minded its own business for however long.

Hence, either /you/ drive, or /the car/ drives. If the car doesn't understand what is going on, it should stop. (Humans really suck at monitoring boring, monotonous processes. We cannot expect people to do so in a self-driving car for hour after hour on the off chance something happens.)
I use it to erase those chat popups.
Show HN: Read Something Wonderful - Timeless internet writing
I love that podcast. Too bad there are only a few episodes, but I get it, if you make everything yourself, you can only be this fast.
Computational model mimics humans’ ability to predict emotions
No; with MacOS running an Ubuntu Multipass VM. :-(
IMO, this is fine. The original isn't gone, it's just been improved. The original artist's intent isn't sacrosanct. It arguably isn't even relevant. Certainly not to a for-profit media company that owns the rights. As someone who remembers watching Do The Right Thing on basic cable with all the curses dubbed with grade-school profanity, this isn't a new thing at all. It just makes it accessible to wider audience.
Then what happens when you mount it with the utf-8 option on one machine, and without it on another. The one without the utf-8 options writes a filename that breaks utf-8 encoding. You then try to mount it again with the utf-8 option. What happens then?
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy strikes again.

"SG-CSAM". Talk about jumping the shark. I don't know if it's possible to demonstrate consent any harder than someone taking pictures of themselves. And to the point that minors might be doing something that they don't fully understand the implications of - that is an issue of age-appropriateness better addressed by parental guidance rather than federal felonies. And the current legal regime is basically the strongest possible set up for parents to avoid trying to engage with their children's activities.
Except that you're totally wrong. If you care about JXL, and only want to support JXL, and you put a JXL in your picture tag, then the browser still won't render it, even if you use a picture tag.
>Why aren't Japanese exchanges more popular, then?

Fair question: Japanese exchanges are only open to Japanese residents (and NOT to US citizens even if they are Japanese residents).

>"you can't sell unregistered securities to the US general public

Sounds easy, just let us know what counts as a security. Because the SEC doesn't seem sure. Or rather it's very sure but cannot tell anyone, but definitely know, but has changed it mind and won't go on record.

As it is, this will be decided by the courts. Let's see how that goes...
There's a difference between publicly launching something and having private discussions with key potential customers.

If you can't find pre-launch early adopters, you probably don't have a product.
tbh it _was_ quite easy to spot.
The gold standard would be making it opt-in, but I can guess barely no-one would enable it.

I don't have strong opinions either way in this. But it's usually something that sparks a big flaming thread.
Perhaps they knew something we didn't know. I'm convinced human sacrifice is more than just, lets appease this deity or usher in a form of eugenics/genocide. These people were far more advanced then we give them credit for.
I don't think anyone expected anything different but the housing and childcare benefits basically account for 80% of the welfare trap.
I’ve definitely had the experience of demo-ing something half baked and gotten stares, then completed the product and those same people who couldn’t connect the dots before understood the product and its value in its entirety. It’s highly dependent on the abstraction level of the product though. An SEO keyword search tool is relatively un-abstract in 2023, in 1999 this might have been a little harder for people to wrap their heads around. Maybe another way to say that is when you decide to make something novel, not only do you run the risk of building a bad product, but you run a very high risk of being early. I don’t think OP is running these risks with their current product though. It’s analogous enough to current products that it’s conceptually easy to pitch. Every founder has some slightly modified view on this philosophy. I’m personally a big proponent of talking to users and figuring out what they don’t understand about what you’re doing early on but not letting early external feedback dissuade you from completing a product when you see a need.
The story is much deeper than you give it credit:

1. God promises Abraham that his descendants will be numerous as 'stars in the sky'

2. Abraham and Sarah have 1 kid in their old age: Isaac, the only chance for God to fulfill the promise

3. God tells Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, his compliance indicates his faith in God's promise (that it can happen outside of his control, and beyond his knowledge)

4. God stops it and provides a 'ram in the thicket' as substitute, note the sacrifice still occurs.

5. Sacrifice is required to save the Israelites in Egypt from the angel of death, Passover begins.

6. We see a whole system and culture of sacrifices instituted in the tabernacle and later the temple as a method of 'atonement'

7. Jesus presents himself as the ultimate atonement or 'propitiation', closing the circle

Essentially in the Bible sacrifice is integral to the entire story, beginning to end. In some ways the story of the sacrifice of Isaac is a peek into the nature of justice and how in the Biblical God's conception of justice wrongdoing must be paid for by blood, just not necessarily the blood of the perpetrator themselves. All members of Israel are responsible for providing their sacrifices indicating that no one is free from guilt providing the backdrop for Christianity's pessimistic take on the nature of Man.
I think that CNN is so disconnected from anything related to the rest of America that it's remarkable. It's not possible to make it successful after how badly they fucked up Trump/Covid/etc.

Whenever I watch CNN, I get the feeling that they hate me, and everyone like me. I don't think I'm alone on that one, given their ratings. Ideally, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon would never have to deal with "those people" - aka everyone I know and care about.
Oh god yes. It filters out ~50% of my youtube. I'm at the point where I can't view websites on my phone anymore because I can't stand all the ads, three popup videos all autoplaying and talking over each other ... ublock origin provides such a stark contrast.
most "recreational/party drugs” change the hardware, like pupils dilate, heart rate, pores open or close

psychedelics, specifically LSD and psilocybin, are like a software change, enough is like a firmware change. When it comes to sight, its more like some side image decoder in the image processing pipeline is modified, as opposed to your eye hardware or brain/storage itself. some people experience a latent side effect called HPPD (Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder) where they get these visual distortions for days to years after every other affect has gone away. this is an area that needs research but is quite obscure and getting there is too vilified right now.
No, you would know about these things if you ever deployed an application (and you cannot convince me otherwise.)
I see ad blockers as good filters for them. Someone that feels annoyed by ads to the extent of making the effort to install ad blockers is not a good target for ads too. Less tech-savvy and caring users are perfect targets for ads.
Vector Search for Apache Cassandra and AstraDB
Stay safe east coast. I remember a couple years ago when the sun was just gone from San Francisco.
> What is his crime

You should familiarize yourself with the charges: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assa...

> Of course his lawyers would be using ever legal avenue

Yes, but don't call it a "treatment". More like, "using the rights afforded to him".
Besides the nuclear thing, I’ve also heard breathless hysterical comparisons with chemical weapons. Think of the _worst_ thing, and now imagine something MUCH WORSE! That’s how dangerous LLMs are according to these bridgetrolls.

They just want a moat, and the game is on to frighten the politicians and other unwashed masses into giving them one.
Is that true in all cases?

It seems for example for Cost-per-mille (CPM) advertising if a user has an ad-blocker, they will not see the ad, but it would still count towards the number of impressions if the ad request is made?
It's hard to understate how much wiggle room Tesla has with the amount of profit they have in each of their EVs compared to their competition.
I don’t think he was encouraging people to read about or discuss UFOs as he called the topic a CIA psyop.
But isn't that pretty telling information to have learned? As evangelists against tracking, we hope that by spreading the gospel of evil tracking uses to those unaware might actually convert them into the flock and they would change their habits. instead, we learned we are outcasts in society, and that if we keep singing the hymns in places people are not interested in hearing them, that we will become (have become) a mocked group of society that becomes meme-worthy and never taken seriously. so, the Prophecies of Idiocracy are doomed to come true.
I wish there was a way to auto-hide Cookie consent and Subscribe banner prompt automatically on each and every site
I just see span.p-inline elements, which appear to be their way of representing inline code (the <code> element would be a better choice, but meh, not a big deal)
The best YouTubers also make the sponsored part of their videos a distinct block that can be skipped. I appreciate that.
Eh, if they can't anchor virtual content at the millimeter level they'll probably be stuck in the uncanny valley.
> after a quick email, you can get a huge “discount” to show your boss. Just ignore the fact that you’re still paying 2-3x market value.

This is rampant across a lot of enterprise & mid-large B2B vendors because of purchasing departments getting evaluated on the %discount and not by any measure of value for money / market pricing. If purchasing requires a >20% discount to ok your deal, of course the incentive for the seller is to bump the price accordingly and see it waved through.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, and has only had her sentence commuted--she's not free.

That was the army, which is arguably much less dangerous for whistleblowers than the NSA.
That was interesting, well worth the read.
> You should start one, you'd have a monopoly!

> Unfortunately, there's no money in that

Not to mention that you'd be outcompeted by the crooks.

> before deciding all crypto is illegal

Except they didn't do that.
> Go ahead and do it then. Show them how it is done. :)

One of my weekend projects is a POC demo for how something like this works. Maybe I'll launch it here, or maybe I'll use it to establish a new autonomous region with an air defense perimeter, tbh, I haven't quite decided, but your insight is valuable.

I'm saying what people think is a "self-driving car" is effectively a fully autonomous robot that has to navigate among humans, and presenting it as just solving a car operation problem is misleading.

The problem they are solving is creating a virtual android to replace taxi, bus and truck drivers, which is surely a great and noble pursuit, but as a consumer product, it's the wrong problem.

Some of the smartest people I have ever met have given it a lot of thought and disagree with me, but when you look at what every single other generalized robot product has succeeded at, it's in scaling human ability and in very limited tasks. Self-driving cars do neither of these things. It's not a car problem and using cars is a misleading constraint.

Your maximum upside is some nuanced variation of a train or a streetcar on dedicated roads or paths/rails that is totally dependant on new public infrastructure to support it. Maybe you get self-driving golf carts and ATVs for limited contexts, just like other robots, but a general purpose one to replace drivers without dedicated lanes, air routes, or infrastructure is implausible.

I'd focus on solving autonomous navigation in more narrow contexts like dedicated lanes and rails, flying, trails, and anything that doesn't have to deal with human obstacles. Otherwise, the failure mode of self driving cars is just a hunter/killer robot with limited commercial applications.