skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 6'6". Planes have basically always been torture chambers, and it has gotten noticeably worse over the years. I'm tall enough to where the person in front of me is automatically unable to recline their seat because my femurs get in the way. People tend to react to the news that they can't recline in one or more of three ways:

- Repeatedly and aggressively attempt to recline hoping that I will just stop being in the way. Quite painful for me.

- Getting up and yelling at me

- Waiting for me to go to the bathroom and then just leaning back anyway.

There was a time you could get an exit row or bulkhead if a flight attendant took pity on you, but those days are gone. Those seats are considered "premium" and cost money. It's a tax on tall people. I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action suit by now.

Just looking at those double decker seats makes my kneecaps hurt. I can't wait to have someone's ass in my face for an entire flight.
Is there a way to disable or hide the suggested responses?

I've been a Duolingo French learner for 11months and I'm adept at reading French aloud or at least well enough to have it recognized by speech to text. However, my response synthesis skill is severely under-developed - I have a difficult time choosing how to respond when spoken to. I can see the suggested responses being useful to someone practicing their pronunciation, but for what I want to improve upon, they act as a crutch.

Additionally, is text-to-speech on the roadmap? It would be nice to have a fully audio conversation, even to the extent of disabling the text output of the agent or instituting touch-to-reveal. Like a lot of language learners, I am quite a bit more adept at reading and writing than I am at speaking and listening.

Finally, a small bug(?). When I've selected a language to practice, speech to text shouldn't generate text which is outside of the practice language. I purposefully got sloppy a few times and Portuguese and Arabic were generated from my speech. I understand this isn't a deal-breaker, but it broke the immersivity of the experience for me.
You said "ANY arm processor". If you'd like to further constrain the exact requirements, that would be a useful clarification. (Although, I suspect that some Chromebook will still work)
Unless it is running a JIT internally as part of the game engine, Rosetta should take the whole executable and rebuild it ahead-of-time.
My point is somewhat nuanced so I'll try to explain it more clearly. When these types of polls come out, often the reaction is "Wow, <other side> is definitely crazy, how can they want this?" But when you get down to the details, I think you'll find that the envisioned "actual implementation" of how this would play out is not as different as people think.

Simple example that could at least explain some of the difference. Younger people and poorer people (and, it the US, there is a strong correlation between economic status and race) are much more likely to live in communal setups, e.g. dormatories and apartment buildings, compared to older and more affluent people. So it's possible one group is thinking about this more as "There are already cameras in our hallways, why not hook them up to stop abuse?" while the other group is thinking "You want to put cameras in my bedroom."

That is, any pollster knows you can give extremely different responses solely based on how you word the question. I'm arguing that you could likely word this question differently and you would see responses that didn't nearly differ as much.

More than that, though, I totally agree that "'to protect people' will absolutely be the reasoning used." But I think even then it's important to understand the real underlying fears people have, and then point out that there can be other solutions that are much less intrusive and open to abuse, rather than completely discounting those fears to begin with.
I type between 80-120 wpm with reasonable accuracy on qwerty and I feel super slow compared to the pace of thinking.

It's a constant source of stress. I'm only ever comfortable if I force myself to think slower.
> Efficiency gains don't create unemployment, they create economic growth.

Stated as a blanket rule, this is simply untrue. As is its opposite. Reality is much more nuanced than that.

For instance, even if things become less expensive, how much would that matter to people who have no income?
Or perhaps eventually the other way around: the primary reason they had to build the R1 was the required extreme power effiency in headset. Using 25-50 watts for this is okay in an EV.
Please explain yourself then. This kind of criticism is very unproductive and demoralizing to people who put hard work into making something.

I'm not for or against either side, but I was put off by your comment.
I've been looking to buy a Tesla, however I want to get an insurance quote before I get a new vehicle. I went out to Teslas website, and their current inventory page has no VIN numbers whatsoever. Legacy auto manufacturers do this, and it's really frustrating that Tesla doesn't do this.
Perhaps you could give some examples of where it still occurs, having not been rooted out. I'd be very interested as I'm not aware of any.
Thank you, this is very specific feedback and helps me prioritize what to add next. I used to have a dictionary for English but wasn't happy with the UI. I'll try to figure something that would fit just this: looking up words (via a dictionary or otherwise – translator, explanation.)
Search engines don't always help chatbot accuracy
It may not have been conscious, proactive “training”, but before you ever picked up your camera you’d been exposed (pardon the pun) to thousands (at least) of photos others had taken. That unconscious exposure still counts, even if you don’t think of it as training.
> The idea of whole departments in the US government being staffed with them is absurdist nonsense.

Someone who works in astrophysics for a govt entity in the US told me they have such massive budgets that it's not uncommon to throw some of it to some weird department just as a favor or to keep up the public's interest in "space stuff". Another person (working at ESA) confirmed it, they both rolled their eyes and claimed it was all BS.

NOT saying this is definitive truth.
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Assuming a security analyst is allowed to look at content that's been identified as malicious beyond some threshold like 99.9%...

And in order to address emerging threats, they should be able to apply their judgement based on threat indicators like known bad hashes, origin from known bad email addresses or IPs, etc. to call something malicious beyond that threshold...

Does that mean that if they know your account is under attack they can just read all of your emails?

I would give that a big "no" because unless your account has 999 malicious emails in it for every benign one, they have not met the criteria.
Not much would change. The idiotic idea of removing traffic lights in favor of self driving cars zipping past each other forgets about those pesky pedestrians we should be designing cities for.
>She’s now living something like the public-intellectual dream: shaping German energy policy one day

Is there a worse indictment for a person?
Whisper takes a prompt as well, it would be a good idea to try that out.
You can already do that to some extent with ChatGPT. Paste in the assembly and it gives pretty good results
Former submariner here with a quibble on this:

> one of the primary reasons subs need to surface , in order to GPS lock

While getting a GPS position is helpful, the primary reason a submarine goes to periscope depth regularly is for communications. The Navy needs to send information to submarines and know that they'll get it and take action within a certain timeframe. That's by far the primary driver.
Thanks to a change by dang, I filter out my karma on HN and would highly recommend others try it.

news.ycombinator.com###karma
> Workers do all that, not landlords.

A carpenter does not fix a leaky toilet, nor does a plumber decide if a kitchen needs a new floor.

Someone is responsible for ensuring that the right job is performed by the right expert at the right time and is the one ultimately responsible for its success. This is the person you call and yell at if the job is poorly done. It's also the person you pay when it's done correctly. He is the landlord.

Workers don't spontaneously come together to erect and maintain buildings, they need a driving force behind them that swallows the risks on top of having the skills required to organise, synchronise and negotiate with many specialists covering many different fields and trades.
> I’ve already replace two out of three led light fixtures that are supposed to last at least a decade and it hasn’t even been 5 years.

I think you must be getting cheap bulbs. I bought a bunch before my kid was born, and he's 10 and none have gone out. I've even taken them with me when I moved.
>(Could they even have supported it consistently across platforms due to the iOS limitation on all browsers needing to be implemented on WebKit?)

They same is true to WebP and AVIF?
Welcome to capitalism, baby!
Always has been, it's only blocked in EU and a few more countries.
Leace: Perfect linear concept erasure in closed form
They just updated them fyi
Thanks, after a few paragraphs of blabla I went straight to the comments to look for a TL;DR.
It's really weird how it just assumes that the question should be answered as a code snippet in Python.

It's weirder that Google thinks that this is a good showcase of better logic and reasoning.
I once decided that since I broke my left hand, it would be a good opportunity to learn Right Hand Dvorak. I was wrong. I was a terrible idea. Instead of being somewhat able to type with QWERTY, I was barely able to type at all with RH Dvorak. I tried it for a day, went back to QWERTY.
And every 2-3 years they throw-out whatever that huge investment was for a new incompatible project.
I think you're making the point better than I can --- scepticism isn't innocent.
The fact that I can pipe text into a network connection, and it just arrives at the other end, in perfect order, secured over the wire, and with nothing more than the network stack that’s implemented in every serious programmable environment imaginable, is still insane to me. I don’t even care that it’s mostly 40 year old technology technically.
That is a good question!

Training datasets should be pretty trivial for this, all open source software that is buildable on the internet could provide training sets (source code & compiled code).

But I guess it would have to be trained specifically for every architechture.
I believe that was just their demonstration. They're calling it implicit code execution so it's ought to be done transparently to the user for the queries that qualify as requiring code.
Love this!

I have built a small business to solve a similar problem for Property Managers: to manage all their phone-based intercoms (Doorking, LiftMaster, etc.) in one easy-to-use (and patented) SAAS UI. I did work with a similar integrators like RemoteLock.com (but love your approach a lot more).

Would love to work with you, check it out at www.DropBy.io and feel free to reach out to me at camille@dropby.io

Again, great great idea!
Another example are opposition's politicians.
> I am convinced you are influenced by ads, you just don't notice it (and that's the point of ads, you shouldn't notice)

Yeah that’s why I explicitly mentioned the difference between what I consciously notice and my subconscious and why I mentioned this as another reason to have an adblocker :I
...and the same folks who rail against immigration can often be found lamenting the low national birth rate. It makes one suspect their complaint isn't with the rate of population growth, but with its hue.
Here is the property rights index: https://www.internationalpropertyrightsindex.org/

Scroll to the list, sort by highest score. Why are all the first world nations at the top?

Here is the corruption perceptions index (pdf): https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/Report_CPI2022_Eng...

Why are the most corrupt nations considered third world?
More recently:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/dangerously-hungry-link-betwee...

https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2022/07/12/food-insec...

Less recently:
https://law.uoregon.edu/sites/law2.uoregon.edu/files/fakhri_...

Boyd Orr also wrote on the subject and won the Nobel peace price in 1949 for his work.
This is amazing. I tried coffeshop with Spanish and worked great. I wouldnt mind paying subscriptions for this like i do for duolingo. Congrats!
> I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action suit by now.

Height isn’t a protected characterisric in general, and being tall isn’t recognized as an ADA-covered disability, so what would the basis of a lawsuit be?

Sure, its private discrimination, but on a completely legal basis.
Certainly available in the UK
Remember 20 years ago when the war against terror was just getting started and we were worried about the US debt level at $4 trillion? Now we're over six.

It costs 13% of all federal spending just to keep the plates spinning. I don't know if there's a way to dig out of those kinds of figures.
I briefly tried to go without blocking anything through uBlock. I was willing to give sites a chance because I felt if they needed ads to survive, I'd put up with them. They're insufferable. Pop-ups, changing the layout after the page has already "loaded", interrupting content and forcing me to scroll over it, making it difficult to recognize what's an ad or what's just an embedded video related to the article, etc. Then there's Youtube, who'll insert 30s ads in the beginning and in the middle. Even if I just want to browse videos and I haven't committed a watching a specific one all the way through.

I gave up quickly.
Have people here not tried Proton and DXVK? This is not impressive at all
From the point of view of the experienced patient it's not a single circle, it's a Venn diagram with the patient at the center of multiple overlapping circles.

But sure, uninvited third parties shouldn't butt their head in often, except for the occasional regulator.
> Huge stimulus programs over the past five years absolutely overcooked the economy and fueled high inflation.

The primary driver of inflation is record-breaking corporate profits, not stimulii or wages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4KMCQuQYE
You can't become early man.
In theory yes, but in practice this hasn't happened and I really don't expect it to happen. I've seen enough of LE in NL up close to have an idea of how it all hangs together and this article definitely has a point: the law should be worded more carefully but at the same time it isn't going to get out of hand the way the article would have you believe. Plenty of oversight here and judges that take conflicting laws fairly seriously (such as the GDPR, but also laws regarding the gathering of evidence and such).

NL has lots of problems, but lack of judicial oversight over both the police and the intelligence services isn't one of them, in fact you could make a pretty good argument that the degree of oversight actually hinders going after tech savvy criminals. But better too much than too little. This law won't change that by much as far as I can see.
If only.

The average Canadian house price is over $700,000 [1], and over $1.2 million in Vancouver, $1.1 million in Toronto. Rentals are also extremely expensive in metro areas, with 1 BR apartments over $2,700 in Vancouver and $2,500 in Toronto. [2]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-housing-data-1.6843592
[2] https://rentals.ca/national-rent-report
mRNA vaccines are completely safe - Obviously false just like it is false for any vaccine since there are always going to be rare side effects in some members of the population. They very well may be just as safe as any other vaccine, but the truth is there are some things we won't know until a lot more time goes by. You can't say what the long term side effects are of something until it has been around for a long time.

Wind power is better for the environment - Similar to above, we don't really have data on the full lifecycle environmental costs of large scale wind farms. This is especially true because a good portion of the impact depends on how long the turbines last, what type of repair/recycle technologies are developed, and what type of policies get applied to recycling them. We see some things that look promising but others that are concerning.
It completely misunderstood me as well in spanish, it actually inputted english instead of spanish. I like the idea but this is not working at all for me, at least for now.

For the creator: Do not get discouraged, I hope you do get this working properly and see a lot of traction.
Overall Antarctica in total has steadily gained ice mass since 4200 BC. Sea levels are currently 9 meters below what they were at that time.

See: Figure 6 (Zwartz et al. 1998) reproduced in link below:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222450369_Holocene_...
As a summary, the article argues for greater central control of the economy.
Don't tell IBM they are doing it wrong: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/301863-ibm-our-mac-usi...
The Day After Roswell, Philip Corso, 1998

Backed by documents newly declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army, has come forward to reveal his personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the Roswell crash. He tells us how he spearheaded the Army’s reverse-engineering project that led to today’s integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, and super-tenacity fibers, and “seeded” the Roswell alien technology to giants of American industry. Laying bare the US government’s shocking role in the Roswell incident—what was found, the cover-up, and how they used alien artifacts to change the course of twentieth-century history—The Day After Roswell is an extraordinary memoir that not only forces us to reconsider the past, but also our role in the universe.

https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Roswell-Philip-Corso/dp/067...

The Day Before Roswell, James Easton, 1997

If we accept the Project Mogul explanation as infinitely more likely and supported by the evidence, there is no reason why anyone who was open-minded to the possibilities should feel contrite.

So the Army Air Force hadn't actually recovered our popular conception of a flying saucer at all...but that's what was suggested by the press release. And when the issue is confused by a dramatic testimony from such an ostensibly credible witness as Glenn Dennis, it seemed there was a solid foundation to place the further evidence in context.

Crash sites galore, wreckage with alien writing, alien bodies recovered and possibly even survivors, autopsies witnessed, a grandiose and cynical cover-up which spanned decades...

But it was clearly a specious foundation. All of it.

This perception of the Roswell story will be doubtless be an anathema to the Roswell fundamentalists.

But it isn't for them, it's for those who are interested in any objective rationalisation of the truth, even, to paraphrase Kent Jeffrey, if it does mean there is no Santa Claus.

http://geocitiessites.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/roswell030...
Do you think Aliens would (if they wanted to) rather make first contact in a place where it's relevant now more than ever to own guns, or in a place where it's less so?
Solitary confinement in US prisons: A research-based primer
I think it still exists in some extreme groups. Just think about any cause worth dying for an you essentially find an argument for a sacrifice.

In fact I remember the Texas governor Dan Patrick saying a lot of grandparents would be willing to sacrifice themselves during Covid for the economy (oddly he did not seem to be willing to lead by example).
Probably not in the summer time.
I've used Bard a few times. it just doe not stack up to what I am getting from ChatGPT or even BingAI. I can take the same request copy it in all three and Bard always gives me code that is wildly inaccurate.
Hey Peter, that's a great point! I've listed my thoughts below:

A couple things:
1. From a compliance / risk point of view, the customers we've spoke to treat AI-enabled tools differently from standard enterprise products. The main reason is because the standard terms for free-tier usage specifies that model developers might use your inputs to train future iterations unless a user opts out. For that reason, a single third party that doesn't do anything with your data is better than the various AI tools that employees might use (and if you don't have an enterprise license with one provider like ChatGPT, that won't stop your employees from using free alternatives).

2. When it comes to sensitive data, there are different tiers. Companies like to keep their customer lists private, for example, but many tools in the sales stack rely on reading that data out of Salesforce as long as those vendors pass a security/compliance audit. Private keys are another tier of sensitivity, and we absolutely don't expect our users to share those. They can, however flag other text strings like "key=" or "API_KEY" or "username"
> Typically the gods did not look favorably on inferior product being placed on the alter.

I bet "the gods" were especially apt to take that attitude in the cultures where people ate the sacrifice afterwards.
I write the simplest incarnation of an idea onto an app, and just share it out with colleagues. I have no expectations. I'd say my hit rate is about 1/5. I consider it very high. It's also that high because my audience is my coworkers and I have a good idea of what they want. It's also that low because I just cobble together stuff that barely works, with the ultimate intent to see if i'd get more questions/requests out of it.
Yeah, people asking to reverse the word 'lollipop' are notoriously luddite bunch.
The only way for the record profits was an increase in funds to spend at the corporations. There is no magic behind this. People had more money to chase fewer goods and companies were able to raise their prices.
Nope (Switzerland). I wonder why this idiocy happens.
Demo-driven development is a great forcing function and it can work.

Also when you demo something to the management/stakeholders, you communicate progress, and even can get some additional funding/budget/time.

When you demoing for yourself/team, you can get more confidence in yourself and some dopamine.

This can be relevant:

My approach to building large technical projects (mitchellh.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36161397
Met police office monitors children online
Think morals are declining? So has everyone, ever, study says
I keep checking in, but it still has a lot of catching up to do.
> proves the point that optimal programs are very inhuman

Maybe there should be an AI that produces optimally-readable/understandable programs? That's what I would want if I was adding the output to a codebase.
I actually prefer keyboard alone due to the concise control, I find mice pretty clumsy. But there are things that it can do that I can't achieve on a keyboard and same for VR, perhaps we'll end up with blended work stations.

On the note of tiring out, I have been strength training for 12ish years now and I still get tired quickly when holding my arms above my head to work on my car. I think because they are a smaller muscle group, they can be saturated easily. I don't have the same issue with repetitive motions, it's just holding the arm in a similar position that does it.

Maybe if AR gestures take into account full motions rather than holding the arm in a similar position for too long, it might not tire so easily.

I have VR already and I will say it's an exhausting experience in general, I can flat screen game for hours, but in VR I want out in less than an hour. I think it's the full focus it forces on you, and the split world spatial reasoning going on.