skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exact scam was also performed in developed countries.

The money (cash only for.. reasons..) was collected by a "friend" who would happen to be just right there in the neighborhood.

Very often a car broke down and being stranded far away, no way to pay repairs, credit cards declined for "reasons"..

We called it the "grandmother scam". It does not work with mothers because they tend to recognize their son/daughter voice, even over "bad" connection. But grandma's, aunts and more distant relatives would fall for it.

Unfortunately, if you willingly give cash money to a stranger knocking on your door, there is very little protection/recourse..
I’m not clear how we’re in disagreement here since I agree with this. When I say your keys/creds should be guarded I mean while they’re still valid.
Reddit is so much better if you unsubscribe from all the big subs and turn off recommendations so they aren’t constantly shoved in your face.
The problem is that any system that's built around cheap redundant parts will gradually degrade to it's minimum viable state because the humans who maintain it will eventually be lazy| greedy| stupid enough. So it also has to fail early by design before reaching that state.
Human-AI collaboration in decision-making
Retrofitting loading docks to work with lower-floor vehicles would be trivial, not to mention many buildings that could not accept deliveries would be able to.
Farmers Insurance Group stops writing new property policies in Florida
Rerender a Video: Zero-Shot Text-Guided Video-to-Video Translation
There's also a notable ideological split, a schism, in this amazing instrument combining both the aspects of a positional indicator and a navigational device in a single widget that we call a scrollbar.

Namely, it's about the question, whether the scroll thumb should be flexible in size, thus representing the size of the viewport in relation to the total dimension of the document, or not. If it is, the user can obtain information about the approximate size of the entire document nearly immediately. On the other hand, if it does not, it rather emphasizes the position of the viewport in a document and allows for more precise navigation to a certain location in the given document. Moreover, this second type of scrollbar doesn't suffer from issues with very long or very short documents. (As the second option provides a bit more usability, it was quite naturally removed in the process, we know as the history of user interfaces.)
Congratulations on shipping! This is pretty cool. Building next-gen Zapier on top of this would be a great use of this.

There is a finite number of public APIs (100K?) which keeps the problem manageable. IMO, adding support for custom/private APIs (something like OpenAI functions) will make this a very powerful tool.
> You could run a company that sustains itself and its employees, maybe makes a modest profit.

Reddit is not profitable, though.

They're burning through investment cash just to keep the lights on. That can't last forever, so they have to do something.
He made the offer. No one forced him to make it.

He can’t cry if he made a bad business decision. Or well he can, but it has no legal bearing.
Yes, and? This was obvious to anyone with a brain since early 2020.

Are we going to ask China for reparations?
Yes, it's called the five-paragraph essay [0] :) Or at least, it's a variant of it, with more specific constraints on some of the paragraphs (e.g. "establishing empathy" in the introduction).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-paragraph_essay
Possibly because over a hundred million links were repressed by Twitter and Facebook for this.

Or because people who spoke up about received every kind of pushback - firing, demotion, smears, even death threats.

That Trump posed it as a likelihood means nothing in comparison to millions of posts getting flagged, shadowbanned, repressed and completely wiped. You get that, right?
I'm curious what is the normal equity share given to board members? Is their advisory worth six years of engineering?
I'm having a hard time buying this anecdote. Not even the bit where its implied that multiple people read the same script multiple times and that worked for soothing people, but the actual content of the before and after; the gpt version doesn't explain it any differently and the 'compassionate' writing was absurd.

My most charitable interpretation is that the anecdote is true but the article itself was written by some one else and is more of an 'inspired by real events' situation.

Side note; does anyone actually think that chat gpt succeeds at rewriting things 'compassionately' or 'more intelligently'? From what I have seen the actual output more resembles caricature than the requested results, in the same way that corporate communications frequently parody earnest communication.
> Pretty sure a collision with any 2000lb metal shape isn't going to go well.

In spite of that weight, lower speeds plus more awareness from the locals driving cars combine to mean lower risk of fatality.

> Rather than fixing the root cause

What is it to fix the “root cause” according to you? Sometimes the building of a new motorway to take trucks away from those roads, takes years. To build other roads in a village where children can play may not be feasible in the short-term due to surrounding agriculture or marshy ground. If, as you favour, trucks were allowed to run through every day in the meantime, there would be no day of the week children could play so safely outside.
Many years ago it was my job to design and procure control systems for natural gas power plants - this included mostly valves and instrumentation. Of course, once you're dealing with superheated steam (whether fired by natural gas, coal, angry isotopes, etc) it's all the same valves and thermocouples. So I got to know the product lines of the handful of suppliers very well. A few had nuclear product lines (USA only) which were identical in spec to everything else...with two major differences:

1) Everything had to be manufactured in the US with all the requisite paperwork

2) Every non-destructive test under the sun was required for every distinct part, including an encyclopedia's-worth of paperwork per test per part

In this case, it's not the parts, or even the design that breaks the bank. It's the validation.
Content created for universal consumption was the dream of the early internet. It powered several generations intellectually forward at light speed (or backward in some circles).

Segmentation, paywalls clickbait and SEO are, unfortunately, the Monday morning reality we’re waking up to.
Freudian typo?
No one said wifi is the only thing they need, of course that is absurd
This is incredibly unfair.

While I’m familiar with many of those tricks, I haven’t even thought about them in probably, literally years.

The current Reddit UX does not encourage and maybe doesn’t even support that view. If that’s something you’re doing, I can say with some level of confidence that you’re a Reddit Poweruser. The only time I ever really thought about tricks like that is when I used the Reddit Enhancement Suite, which, as far as I know, is not a part of New Reddit, at all.

And despite what anyone’s insular, private group of friends may say, I strongly suspect that New Reddit is the one that the vast, vast majority of users user.
You don't need that full documentation. Really, I could simplify what most programmers would need to understand about memory ordering down to this text:

There are a few models of cross-thread memory ordering that you can choose between. If you have never been exposed to this field before, the naïve model of memory ordering you probably think is going on is sequential consistency. This is not implemented in hardware because oh-gosh-it's-expensive, and if there's no indication of what memory ordering model your library or language is using, it's likely defaulting to sequential consistency.

But don't worry, you don't have to worry about the more complex memory orderings, because you get to pretend everything is sequentially consistent if you write proper synchronization. The easiest way to satisfy proper synchronization is an acquire-release model. Before reading any data that may have been written by a different thread, you need to do an acquire load. After writing any data that may be read by a different thread, you need to do a release store. The basic flow is write then release store, then change thread, then acquire load, then read. Follow this rules, and things stay simple.

There is a theoretical slight relaxation of the above model that works on most hardware called release-consume in the C/C++ memory model. It isn't implemented by any compiler for arcane compiler reasons I won't get into, but the Linux kernel (which implements the memory model itself for $REASONS) does rely heavily on it.

The final major memory ordering is relaxed atomics. Their semantics are... weird. Essentially, you get what the hardware gives you, plus whatever fun the compiler can toss in, and the guarantees are minimal. I can't recommend many cases where you can safely use it, and if you have to ask if you should use it, the answer is no.
The test question used to conclude ChatGPT fails at logic is “What is the first name of the father of Sebastian’s children?”

WTF
Thanks I missed that line regarding the O states. Still, a word about write reordering on ARM would probably be useful (unless I missed that also).

I understand that synchronization in code vs hardware is different, but the blog explicitly moves out of hardware-land into source code land with references to Java volatile and such.
Edit: They did approve the ad in follow-up. I still hate the faceless nature of these things and the absoluteness of their decisions with no recourse than to plea for another look.
I actually did not enjoy using a vim pedal in clutch or toggle mode. YMMV

Mostly because my pedal was too sensitive and so I could not rest my foot on it.
Don't forget the handy "z commands":

z<CR> redraw, cursor line to top of window, cursor on first non-blank
z- redraw, cursor line at bottom of window, cursor on first non-blank
z. redraw, cursor line to center of window, cursor on first non-blank

(source: :help z)
is ruby dead?
I would love this!
> Lets add Flamanville 3 to the "experience" graph in the article. The only reason it gets pushed through is for France to have an industrial base enabling nuclear submarines, carriers and weapons.

That's garbage.

- The reason Flamanville 3 takes so much time is precisely because it is a prototype on a new design that never have been produces in series, nor even tested. That supports 100% what is said here: If you want to reduce cost, mass produce.

- Submarines and carrier nuclear reactors are completely different beast that have nothing to do with either Flammanville 3 or the existing nuclear park.
My biggest project right now is training a multi-label ViT-L/16 model for a few hundred million samples. Mostly a big experiment, so not something I want to invest serious money into.

I have a 2x3090 rig as my local machine, which has been useful for early experimentation, but I'm at the stage now where my runs are at 200 million samples which would take ages on that rig. 8xA100 can do it in tens of hours, which allows me to iterate faster.

An 8x 3090 or 4090 machine locally would be great, but is a huge hassle to build. Last I looked into it there really wasn't a lot of knowledge available online on how to even do it. I did find an EPYC server motherboard and such that I could theoretically use, but couldn't find a great source for a >3,200 Watt server power supply. Everything in that domain is geared towards either B2LargeCorp, or B2ServerBuilders2SmallBusinesses.

I could of course buy an 8xA100 rig no problem for some ungodly amount of money, but as noted above that's not appropriate for this project.

In both cases, I now have to figure out what to do with 3,200kW of heat output in my office which I'm trying to avoid turning into sauna. Or co-lo it for more money out of pocket.

So renting off the cloud has worked well enough at this scale.
This has been capitalism at large since the days of "there's no such thing as society." and I mean that literally. When the edict became shareholder value over all else, the nosedive began and now we get to feel it in earnest.
"Central banking" is an excessively broad interpretation of regulating commerce between the several states. Further, delegation of enumerated powers is not itself an enumerated power. Just these two interpretations alone are enough to give the federal government near limitless economic intervention power, which it is blindingly obvious the Constitution's authors did not favor (see their extensive writings and the Preamble to the Bill of Rights).
Any suggestions on which middleware companies to look at if one was interested in learning more about what services they offer.
Guilty as charged but complaints about "tinkering with Vim" kind of miss the point to me. Tinkering isn't a bug, it's a feature. Vim was designed in the UNIX philosophy of small tools that allow you to modify them to your needs.

Also, modern IDE layers for Neovim such as LunarVim or AstroVim make managing plugins trivial.
This is not going to be revelatory.

This is just a stamp on various anonymous "sources" on what we have heard already.
It's probably mostly standardization, I'd guess.

I think a more sensible design would be to have the middle of the trailer low to the ground with a floor hump above the rear wheel well and the front where it hitches on to the truck, but that would make loading and unloading awkward.

One could imagine having a side door instead of or in addition to a back door, and a lower loading dock.

I get that a rectanglar storage compartment is easier to deal with in a lot of ways, but it just seems ridiculous to have a box riding four feet off the ground, with the wheels causing as much atmospheric drag as they possibly can. This seems like a solution you'd arrive at if you think energy is practically free, and wasting energy has no consequence. It also seems unnecessarily top-heavy, in addition to the safety problems mentioned in the article (and the underride guards proposed to mitigate the safety issue would most likely create even more wind resistance).
I've been using the "LeechBlock" extension on Firefox mobile in the same way. I find it works well for sites like (ironically) Hacker News, where I get diminishing returns for browsing more in the same day.

On the flip side, reducing friction is also important. I practice my saxophone a lot more than my piano, partly because the sax lives a few feet behind my desk and the piano is down the hallway in the living room.
Pass in an agent message with "Sure here is the answer in json format:" after the user message. Gpt will think it has already done the preamble and the rest of the message will start right with the json.
> 80/20 rule: 20% of customers were responsible for 80% of revenues

> Sometimes you will see a 90/10 relationship or a 75/25 split.

It's funny that his examples add up to a nice round 100, but it doesn't have to. The number of customers and percentage of revenue are two independent measures, and they don't have to sum to 100. You could have 20% of customers giving 99% of revenue (a 99/20 relationship) or 10% of customers giving 60% of revenue (a 60/10 split). I assume the author is well aware of this, but likes his examples to sound like the well-known 80/20.
> Which time?

I mean the original appearance, thousands of years ago, when it definitely was not a lab leak. The point is that our worst viruses have come from nature, likely zoonotic sources.
It's better to learn tools that will improve over time rather than being stuck with all the design mistakes of the past (for your example, selecting "synt" from a command palette that autoselects node or ruby depending on your file is more powerful than having to remember individual invocations)
I often use this example when teaching calculus: https://youtu.be/BjmypdFCl-Q
Does Advertising Work? (2020)
Tldr: seems like it doesn't match its cost
Tbh I’d swap vim with vscode if it allowed to program keys with the same ease that you can imap to keys or function calls that operate like vimscript. It doesn’t matter if an editor cannot b/e/etc if you can just program alt-b/e/etc to a corresponding action. But that’s out of reach in practice in all traditional ms-style editors.
if they are reading the news these seti scientists must be so excited about how the government got some aliens and their spaceships
I've seen them on a recent flight on a Delta A339. When the flight attendants send meals to the pilots it comically looked like a prison for them.
>I don't think "Natives were less racist" is a convincing explanation for...

No, it doesn't explain that part at all. It does explain why the Natives never tried joining and integrating into the white colonial society.

Honestly, I'm curious why white people who had been taken prisoner wanted to go back so badly, but sadly, I doubt anyone ever asked them and then accurately recorded their testimony for people to read 250 years later.
Nope! It's alive and well both at giants like Shopify and at smaller orgs like my own.
ChatGPT moves fast. The API version doesn’t seem to change except with the model and documented API changes.
I passed this article & discussion on to physician spouse, who would specifically like me to reply to this comment: "You are being very emotional."

Digging deeper (as the comment above alone isn't worthy of HN, IMO): "People believe what they want to believe because of small sample sizes. When there isn't a black & white answer people go back to their personal experience, which is limited. They will not be right in the way you want to be right if you're practicing medicine." The family members are certainly exhibiting this. Are any of us, in this discussion?

Additional question: "Who is the patient? Is it the anxious family members who are being treated, or the person with fluid in the lungs?" The person with fluid in the lungs is the patient and the doc needs to be spending time on that person (the one who will die if not treated correctly). The family members are important but not in need of medical care. They can be handed off to an AI in the short term.

From my own vantage point, I've observed that the context switching between "caring for patient" and "dealing with family" can put a substantial drag on cognitive function for physicians. They do need to suck it up and deal with it since family members are the primary way in which patients receive post-release care in the US due to the non-existent safety net, and family member presence can really improve outcomes, but I'm not surprised that ChatGPT helps in producing the sort of bland prose that is well-received by family members.
Why do they put deer crossing signs on busy highways? It’s such a terrible place to suggest deer cross the road.

Yes, that’s an example of a clear misunderstanding of what’s going on.

The signs are not causing deer to cross, and neither is the stove concern about aggravating asthmatics. Because yes, people who know they have asthma could get an electric stove if they want.
No, it’s got an active community and fresh developments, so it’s definitely not dead. The concurrency story is/was poor, so some people left Ruby but many remain and many still join.
Mostly the latter as far I know.
People who never master vim will never know the high of pounding combo after combo and watching lines of code morph and manifest before their eyes at the speed of thought. Once you’ve experienced this, no other editor will satisfy you. Combine this with the sounds of a clicky keyboard, and it feels like heaven.
Internal abuse and attacks aren’t as rare as they should be. You’d be amazed what someone will do to risk their job or even career on impulse or poorly considered risks.
Show HN: Horizontal News, a column-based Hacker News reader
Motorcycle helmets bought online had counterfeit safety certifications(2022)
The DOT certification is to be enforced by the manufacturer, the opposite of SNELL and ECE. There have been many examples of DOT helmets tested at random that did not respect certification.

Snell isn't all that better, as they have a double standard, with one of them being mich weaker.

It is generally recommended to stick to ECE and FIM.

I wonder how much this weights into motorcycle deaths - since most of them involve the helmet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Billion_Years_of_Solitude
Last year after I posted a innocuous, benign comment on a certain subreddit I was permanently banned from that subreddit because I was allegedly "ban evading" (I wasn't, I have a single account). I contacted the mod from that subreddit saying I wasn't ban evading, and they replied "Sure" and blocked me from messaging mods for a year.

An hour later (without doing anything else) I got banned site wide for 3 days for "ban evading".

That really pissed me off and I haven't used reddit ever since (except for google search results). I'm definitely happier without reddit.
Are you suggesting ChatGPT is merely an overhyped search engine?
The last great effort with resources, experts, etc. was VSCode.
If they can't nail it, can it be done?
Odd question but are you reading Algorithms to Live By? This quote & a related anecdote features in the book. Or maybe this is just a really famous Knuth quote.
Reddit has built a reputation for being "not social media", but in my opinion it has come to embody most of what people say they hate about social media. If I visit Reddit without logging in, the content on the home page is disastrously bad: Videos of fights with comments from people cheering on the violence. Screenshots of exaggerated Tweets taken out of context. 10 different stories about the latest tragedy somewhere in the world and editorialization about how it's a sign the world is coming to an end. Ragebait videos taken from TikTok and other social medias for the express purpose of getting Redditors riled up and angry.

I know the story goes that you can avoid it by carefully selecting the right subreddits, but in my experience the trash content bleeds into everything. Even the technical subreddits I followed have become inundated with low-effort posts and people who just want to pick fights.

> I don't think they're losing anything of value when I stop browsing. I've been using old. for years, and always been pretty strict about blocking ads.

Thanks for being honest about it. I suspect Reddit is well aware that the average user (who views ads) is not likely to be among the angrier power users who are pulling the strings. If anything, I'm starting to get a sense that the non-commenters and casual users are getting sick of the mods using their power to shut the conversation down. The average user doesn't use Apollo and doesn't care about this drama. I think it's easy to forget this when the vocal minority of power users are upvoting angry topics and mods are shutting down subreddits.
There's huge money to be made pretending spam isn't a real problem. It used to be that spam was universally despised, fought and even prosecuted in some jurisdictions. But it turns out that it's cheaper (and actually profitable) to join the spammers than to fight them, especially if you have an endless supply of marks that will guzzle the spam without second thoughts.
Nothing about vim is “small tool”.
Maybe it was 40 years ago, but now it feels much more bloated and with too much tech debt accumulated during the years.
An epiphany I had years ago was realizing that keyboard-based commands enables semantically dense editor interaction. Specifically, vi(m?) has a large number of commands available as 1+ letter combinations. This allows for a very large set of operations usually available within 5 or less characters.

Compared to WYSIWYG editors, the theoretical efficiency difference is tremendous.

Of course, for any given person using such a powerful editor, no two usage patterns will be the same. This is a testament as to why vi(m?) has lasted so long IMHO.