skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the archive isn't being disposed of, but will be going into the Science Museum long term storage. The photographs are not intended as a replacement for the collections.
And avoid Electron based apps as much as possible.

It is Chrome anyway.
Scalia joined the majority in Herrera v. Collins, where innocence could not be used to justify a Habeas claim.
This pisses me off to no small amount (as a Dutchman). Yes, the law says you have to be able to identity yourself, but you can only be asked if there's a good reason. Not a lawyer, but asking for directions is very much not a good reason (even when not speaking Dutch).

Interestingly the English explanation is much more ambiguous than the Dutch:

"These officials [police] may not ask to see proof of identity without giving a reason. "
https://www.government.nl/topics/identification-documents/co...

Whereas in the Dutch version:

"De politie mag alleen uw identificatiebewijs vragen als daar een goede reden voor is."
Translation:
"The police may only ask for your identification if there's a good reason to do so"
Typical.

I would lodge a complaint:
https://www.politie.nl/onderwerpen/klacht-over-de-politie-in... (page in Dutch)
Oh cool GB Studio is still going. Good for them.
I checked out MathB.in. Neat stuff!! I've started and stopped with the Lisp/Schema family several times. When other languages frustrate me, I go back to lisp for some therapy.
Security is a bullshit job? Would be a shame if anyone was to ever commit a crime and completely invalidate that argument. Why would you say “pizza delivery is bullshit” when some non ambulatory people rely on it as a life line. Then I hear “oh it’s these people who SAY their job is bullshit” to that I say ipse dixit. This whole line of thought is bullshit. There’s a profit shark at every company looking to eliminate bullshit jobs. I’m sure this author would call that job bullshit too.
tl;dr the dataset was nonsensical and the researchers used GPT-4 to rate its own answers in the tests.
Killer Whales Are Not Our Friends
You can go visit for yourself.
Probably you already know this, but it was a Steve Jobs thing:

Growing up, Jobs once helped his father build a fence around their family home in Mountain View. While working, Paul shared a piece of advice with Jobs: “You’ve got to make the back of the fence, that nobody will see, just as good looking as the front of the fence. Even though nobody will see it, you will know, and that will show that you’re dedicated to making something perfect.”

The idea stuck with Jobs.

While at the helm of Apple, Jobs insisted that every element of the Macintosh computer be beautiful, down to the circuit boards inside.

“Look at the memory chips. That’s ugly. The lines are too close together,” Jobs said of the circuits in Isaacson’s biography.

[…]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/how-steve-jobs-developed-his...
The problem is how things are taught.

Things are discovered, this is a messy, error prone process full of false leads, backwards reasoning and incorrect assumptions. Then this is compiled into a neatly ordered stream. and feed to others. the problem is that the neatly ordered stream is boring, uninteresting and hard to focus on.

There is a hidden aspect to teaching. When done well it is not to just impart knowledge on a subject. It is how to learn.

The best classes I have ever taken, the most interesting ones that have stuck with me the longest. Were with a teacher who did not know the subject well but was enthusiastic about learning it and was able to guide the class into learning it together. When you learn this way the process is more akin to discovering a thing for the first time. you first hand experience the things that don't work, you understand not only what the thing is but why it is.

The best teachers are able to recreate the experience of discovery when teaching. Most are unable. I know I have a hard time teaching in an interesting manner.
Do they serve tiny islands where it's likely very expensive to maintain a reliable connection to the “mainland”?
This tool is not great in my opinion. I had to edit the source files to get it running from source. Half the interface is not translated to english. And the product itself doesn’t provide much value. I had better experience with DBeaver and it's GPT plugin.
Maybe one reason a job becomes a bullshit job is because the objectives such a job is defined to achieve are themselves bullshit. And whoever has stated the objectives are critical to the mission of the enterprise is either bullshitting themselves or believes the bullshit premises of the objectives.

But then again, it's probably important to truly know what bullshit is. Is it, as expressed in the book "On Bullshit" intentional deception or even lying to advance the bullshitter's own interest? Or is it an unfounded or unsubstantiated belief in a value or goal that has not been subjected to enough careful scrutiny or deliberation?
> The only way this could work is if they charged people a refundable entrance fee of like $1000 or something.

I guess you'll be shocked to hear that shops with furnishings inside of them (including, but not limited to the Macy's department store) have been operating for decades without installing anti-homeless spikes on the floor samples, _or_ charging an entrance fee.

Having a human posted at the entrance whose job is to bounce away hobos is (based on my personal, first-hand observations) more than sufficiently effective.
> They will add moderation tools to their app.

Reddit has been promising this for about a decade with near zero to show for it.

> The mods who leave will be replaced.

The replacements will become annoyed for the same reasons the current mods are.
I always feel like Apple must have some grand 1000IQ concept for window management and I just don't get it. Stage Manager, Spaces, Mission Control, Expose, Window Zooming, Hiding, Minimizing (which is different from Hiding), Fullscreen/Splitscreen... yet the first thing I do is install a third-party window manager.

I tried for months to go vanilla and get my head around the features. But why, why do fullscreen windows create their own space when I want them to exist within a space? Why can't I briefly bring up Finder on top of my fullscreen window? Why are there lengthy animations to switch between spaces? Why do CMD+Tab and CMD+` have a million special rules for which windows they select? Why is there no way perfectly position more than two apps next to each other? Why are apps in splitscreen married to each other? Why can't I easily swap one of them? Why are some window operations keyboard-exclusive, while others can only be performed with the mouse?

There has got to be a perfect workflow where all this makes sense. Otherwise, they wouldn't build it like that? Right?
> That’s right: Two different people independently faked data for two different studies in a paper about dishonesty.
GPT-4 apparently can't recite the litany against fear from Dune
Elon Musk’s Twitter experiment with firing over jakf od the workforce is very interesting in regards of this book
If you don't care about rhyming you might as well just change the original song.

abcdefg, hijklmn, opq, rst, uvw xyz
I think this task is beyond the capabilities of what GPT4 can handle, this is simply asking too much out of it. For other languages I'm sure it has no problems.

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
The Westfield Mall was right off a BART stop, so it was a fairly convenient place to go shop in SF if you didn't have a car. It was also near the flagship stores around Union Square, which is the main hotel district and another destination shopping spot. So the mall (at least when I used to go there) would be pretty busy even on weekends or evenings when the financial district was dead silent.
With audio, accessing kernel interfaces directly in olden days lead to problems with multiple apps using the device & inability to provide inputs/sinks from userspace (eg post/preprocessing or hw driver implemented in userspace). It's still that way with video.

People have been using a out of tree loopback video kernel driver for these things which is hard to use and hacky and slow.
I think the most important trait of any CTO is to be technical enough to understand what the best choice of tools to use is to accomplish the goals of the business you are running. You will be doing all of the coding at the beginning since your co-founder is not technical, but the important thing to remember is that the choices you make now while acting as the only developer at the company will greatly influence decisions you will make later once you are able to do more CTO level duties (how many devs to hire, how easy it is to find good talent to hire, etc…)

It’s easy to just keep being a developer and making choices on how the tech stack works based on things engineers care about, but you need to be able to say no to things that don’t make sense for the business. The new engineer wants to rewrite the API in a language that no one else is familiar with for performance reasons? No. The team wants to go to a micro service architecture before you have product market for? No. There will be some cases where the answer is yes of course but it should be justified why this is needed and you need to be able to understand technically what the impact will be of each decision.
I have to admit that sound kinda fascinating to watch.
We just fundamentally disagree about what is important in life. If education does not become a public funded "burden" then it becomes a luxury of the rich. And yes, education can *and should* be more than just preparation for your role as a cog in society. I cannot take courses in philosophy if there is no one to teach those courses.

I never experienced anything like what you're talking about. I was happy to have elective courses because that meant I was able to study things that interested me outside of my planned career path. It sounds like you view education as some purely transactional profit driven, ROI, productivity is the only measure of success nonsense and to my previous comment - that is sad to me.
Keynes never actually suggested doing that. He merely said it would be sufficient to escape from a liquidity trap. He advocated for productive work to escape them - like the US did by for example building the Lincoln tunnel.

If he were around today to see e-digging holes and filling them up - bitcoin - he'd be horrified.
Is AI an Excuse for Not Learning to Code?
well yeah thats because gpt shamelessly bullshits while the truthcel humans are afraid their tribe will exile them. still not agi but nice try.
Another problem solvable by judicious use of trapdoors.
I would argue Keynesian economists are bullshit but not the entire astrological field of economics.
> Unhoused people are (sometimes) mentally ill, not murderers.

It is true that the mentally ill are overwhelmingly not dangerous. But as the number of mentally ill people in one place goes up, so do your odds of encountering that minority of mentally ill who are aggressive. In most of the world, you might see one mentally ill person in a day and they are harmless. In parts of California, sometimes it feels like you see a dozen mentally ill homeless in a day, and one of them is berating passersby or worse.
I agree with your last line, but it’s not just Destin. It’s all of YouTube.
The incentive system is driving creators to create longer videos filled with an insane amount of filler content.
That's not the only argument the majority made in Herrera. Habeas corpus is a specifically protected right by the Constitution. The argument wasn't just "this is impractical." The argument was "a guilty conviction that sentences a person to death is not a violation of habeas corpus even if you are actually innocent and we all agree that they are innocent".
The problem is, this doesn't show causation.

Obviously foot traffic is important to retail success, but retail success is important to vibrance. And crime is important to both retail success and foot traffic.
>What you miss is that the people working the jobs themselves describe their own job as bullshit.

The author uses a very broad definition of bullshit, then pivots to their own personal view. You'll see this tactic in a lot of manipulative/dishonest content.

“a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence.”

Are the Internet, phones, cars, planes, processed food, restaurants, sporting areas, payroll, loans necessary? Many would argue that some of these are downright pernicious. It comes down to the evaluation and perspective of the employee, and thus is very much a feeling of bullshit, rather than a fact of bullshit - contrary to what the author argues. This is mostly a misinterpreted job satisfaction survey.

This person has no actual domain expertise, but instead they set out to confirm their mostly naive belief.
The free market now sells this skill for $25/month.
A Beginner's Guide to Closures and Anonymous Functions in Ruby
Closures and anonymous functions are very useful concepts, especially in functional programming. Ruby makes working with them a pleasure via its flavors like blocks, procs, and lambdas. This post provides an in-depth tutorial and shows the subtle differences between them.
Yes, the guy was well known to act violently but was mostly harmless until he wasn’t (the police dealt with him many times, but didn’t make an arrest until he killed someone p). This is the same area where that poor girl who worked at Amazon got her head bashed in a coupe of years ago by some crazy guy in supportive housing. The streets aren’t really safe these days, and it isn’t just “fear mongering”.

Sorry, emotions are running pretty high right now. If you made this comment at her vigil, it wouldn’t have ended well I think.
Angry junkies are not lovable cuddlebugs, and don't always act in completely rational ways.
As I understand it, a claim of actual innocence based on new evidence that would have led no "reasonable jury" to convict is entertained, assuming that all procedural appeals were not exhausted.
> peer review...Their null is GPT4 can ace MIT and they haven't provided any evidence to reject.

I haven't been in research for a while, but I don't think that's how peer review works. You don't always have to assume the paper's claims (especially ones as novel as this one's) as a null hypothesis, and providing a compelling refutation.

The detection of sloppy question framing, and answer feeding via the few-shot learning examples, and the problems with checking with GPT-4 itself reasonably show that there are serious flaws in multiple parts of the experiments described in the paper.

> The real conclusion is "we think the paper's results might be weaker if repeated" and that's a good result on its own.

No, they don't know enough to say that. The paper's results might be better with better experimentation! Or they might be totally false.

The conclusion they provided is accurate precisely because it focuses on the methods and not the conclusions, like this:

> One particularly worrying trend is the technique of evaluating a model’s accuracy using a language-based model like GPT-4. While a useful tool, its conclusions should never be overstated or treated as ground truth.

...and this:

> Additionally, it is extremely important to reevaluate every data point and perform basic sanity checks before using data at all, whether for training, inference, benchmarking, or something else. Given the small size of the dataset in question, a simple manual validation would have been easily within the scope of the work.
I love Pipewire, Pipewire fixed bluetooth headphone reliability. For years I had frequent trouble where the bluetooth headphones and bluetoothctl would both say they were connected, but there was no audio sink for pulseaudio. Sometimes there would be audio, but it would be crappy mono audio in "headset mode". For three or four years I had this problem several times a week. I believed this was an issue with the linux bluetooth drivers until one day, after several unsuccessful cycles of reloading, restarting and rebooting everything I got fed up enough to install Pipewire (which was unexpectedly painless.) From that moment on, not once have my headphones failed to connect on the first attempt. I've concluded that there's something fundamentally wrong with the way Pulseaudio recognizes and responds to a bluetooth speaker being connected, and Pipewire obviously doesn't have this flaw.

There's a popular narrative of "linux enthusiasts hate anything that's new"; you hear this a lot from people defending Pulseaudio and SystemD from "the trolls". It was never true. People love new things when the new thing solves their problems, and hate the new thing when it introduces new problems. The haters narrative is little more than cope; a way for the authors of buggy software to rationalize the negative response to their software.
> or via boat through the suez canal?

Nah. Ship.
Ugh this again. If you have the source publicly available, it’s open source. I wish you guys would get over it! If people want to profit from this work they can pay for it.
Thought experiment: Take a remote control car. Damage the radio receiver or the chips that translate its signals into signals to the motors. Observe that this creates degraded performance (perhaps the car can only turn left now, not right). Does this disprove the idea that something operated the car other than those chips?
Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans
I don't disagree, but I think a followup question would be "how configurable do you really need your text editor to be?"

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for tinkering with stuff and customizing to oblivion, it's fun and cool, but realistically how much better of a JS engineer are you going to be if you've customized the hell out of Emacs? Maybe a bit more, I'll concede that, but fundamentally I don't think it's going to be categorical.
If you buy everything online, this is what happens. Maybe it’s what people want, maybe it’s unconscious.
> At the beginning he states very clearly that the people providing the labor are best positioned to determine if the labor is bullshit, which seems like a reasonable starting point

seems like a pretty questionable starting point tbh, especially when he starts conflating the idea of actual bullshit with would prefer to be doing something else, like his example of his corporate lawyer friend who thinks his job is bullshit mainly because he'd rather concentrate on being a 'poet-musician'. It's not 'managerial feudalism' causing people to get paid more to solve large organizations' legal problems than scratch their own musical itches. And at the other end of the scale, some of the most parasitical workers really love what they do, whether that's because they love the thrill of browbeating people into giving them money or because they have a genuinely bullshit "strategy" job for internal politics reasons which has been designed to make them feel much more important than they actually are.

(and there's lots of pre-existing material on the efficiencies and inefficiencies of fields like law and adverse selection problems within firms, most of which works from better assumptions. Plus of course Marx's theory of alienation - one of his better theories - offering a theory for why people become more dissatisfied with the work they do as industrial processes become more efficient)
It's some patent thing.
You set up an entirely new account to insult someone’s thought process? That’s very weak. Particularly because the conversation is about a totally different country.
Valley Fair is doing "well enough" to have customers pay for parking after 2 hours, and charging employees to park there as well at the rate of ~$10 a day.
Why Roses Smell Nice
> Have a look at https://prql-lang.org/. They got this right.

Yes, they absolutely got this right. But I agree with the author of TFA in that I don't want another query language. I just want this specific change to SQL. Maybe others as well. But I do not want another query language. PRQL is yet another query language.
Seems to cost €2 internationally on this french website : https://www.merci-facteur.com/tarifs.php
You could still be doing a bullshit job, though. Shareholders are institutional nowadays and what they ask for can very easily not be aligned to their needs. Not to speak of needs of the wider society.

Pension fund manager wants bonus, not to ensure livable conditions for the next couple of generations whose funds he's managing.
I had no idea it was that bad. Why do people park down there if their windows are just going to get smashed in?
There is also a web port of it you can play in the browser, works surprisingly well on mobile: https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/
Almost everyone I know immediately installs a third-party app to handle windows when they get their Mac. That includes me.
Nordstrom's is moving out, so is Anthropologie... but that's beside the point. IKEA's layouts are notoriously labyrinthine, the perfect kind where "associates" cannot scan to see what's going on a whole floor with a glance.
It would require a bit of space to do that. FCEVs already don’t have much storage space, I’m not sure what less compression (and less range) would lead to. Maybe a baluga car design like they did for hydrogen powered planes?
Yes, but there is nothing wrong with that! There is nothing wrong in committing to pay $200K but actually paying $250K.

They report actual pay to the IRS.
Liberal Muslims exist.
brew install rectangle
Even the salary component is higher than what the filings say.
No. Technically there's a plan to reach every household, but there are still tons of houses an hour from from Dublin with no broadband, so the chance of the NBI build out reaching these islands any time soon is remote.
> Unhoused people are (sometimes) mentally ill, not murderers.

The line is pretty thin here, you never know what's going to prompt mentally ill person to kill you.
I live in the neighborhood, and have for more than a decade. I fairly-frequently walk by Brenda's, and also walk through many other parts of the Tenderloin and into Union Square, and through the waterfront.

On bad days, I have seen single-digit numbers of cars with smashed windows. On typical days, I see zero. Your report just doesn't jive with my on-the-ground experience, whether past or present.

If you were in town for some big event of some sort, I guess you should consider the possibility that folks associated with the event decided to turn hooligan and smash shit.
Exactly - there were only 4 shooting in last 30 days in TL. That is less than two per week.

[1] jun 12: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/early-morning-...

[2] may 22 phttps://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/two-people-shot-in-f...

[3] Jun 2 https://www.ktvu.com/news/man-wounded-in-broad-daylight-shoo...

[4] jun 5 https://neighbors.ring.com/n/Z1elNLxc2Z
So we want to calculate the change in momentum caused by moving water from just under the surface to the surface.

Assume earth is a perfect sphere, let m be the mass of earth and r be the radius of earth. Let rdm be the relative mass of the water moved = 3e-8, let rdr be the relative distance of the water moved = 5e-6.

The change in momentum is rdm.m.(1+rdr)².r² - rdm.m.1².r² which is 2.rdm.rdr.m.r²= 3e-14mr². Looks about right for the change of axis you wanted.

There's other counter arguments but at least the oom analysis fits.
It is pretty much as he described. Much much worse in parts of Soma.