skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Queen City: remembering the black neighbourhood erased for The Pentagon
My experience has differed from yours then.

I think you overstate the frequency of which it hallucinates for simpler questions. I am usually using GPT-4, which is more reliable.
For the types of questions I’m talking about, I’d say GPT-4 is at least 90% accurate.

Often times, I’m just looking something up due to curiosity while discussing with friends. It’s replacing a google search. The failure mode is that there is small chance I’m passing along incorrect information to my friends. Not a big deal.

If 90% accuracy is not good enough or if the question is not simple, then I’ll take more care.

Perhaps we are also getting into a semantic debates about what “trustiworthiness” means…
Years ago, I started a project along those lines and collected a bunch of reference material about a lot of the various units. But, at some point, I had a working program but lost interest in entering all the information that would have needed to have been typed in. (This was long enough ago that there wasn't really an option to cut and paste a lot of it from online.)
I would think that if they can grow meat, they can grow the things that bones contribute to flavor and stock.
I couldn't find a way of converting from US teaspoons to cubic light-seconds, which is my favorite demo of the GNU utility. Also, do you have a way of adding a time dimension to the conversions? E.g from kibibytes per day to megabits per second?
Portuguese here.

I don't know the state of AI in two years from now, but if there's one thing I know, is that this smells largely of bull####.

The government is entangled in a miriad of corruption cases.

There were massive fires in 2017, many people died in trapped in their cars trying to escape the fires...

The national air carrier is so deep in scandals for the past 10 years or so that it has become amusing. While having no profit whatsoever, requiring regular money injection by the government, they awarded a fleet of new BMWs for the manager caste, which were not delivered because of the polemic it raised. Managers quit their job and had a clause of €500000 that they had to receive when leaving. Performance meetings are trialed between CEO and the government body so that questions and answers match... I'll stop here.

Advisors to certain Ministries are fired by WhatsApp, enter the Ministry building to recover a laptop, police is called, and somehow, the PT secret service is involved although having 0 jurisdiction on this case, and now no one knows who called them. Inquiries are rolling where lies upon lies are thrown on the table.

0 accountability, no one is to blame. The corruption in this country is rampant ever since we joined the CEE in 1986 or so.

The government as the majority of parlment, they approve absurd decrees just because they were started by the tilling party, and disapprove those started by any party of the opposition.

And don't get me started on the President of the Republic. Is blame is through inaction.
Apple will lose this one for sure. There is no way a European court will decide for an American 800lb gorilla company bullying a swiss company that has been around for over a century. Good for them that they can't be bought as easily as American courts.
Especially when archive.org has been caught deleting stuff from family members of the board. Lost a lot of respect for them that they were willing to delete any content when that's the supposed exact opposite of their stated goals.
Console Overwatch's playerbase begs to differ. This isn't StarCraft 2 era Blizzard.
PM for variables here as well! Happy to answer any q's you have regarding variables and conditional logic!
Click ops is great for most shops, as long as it has advanced configs available and you have at least one expert on staff for when those configs are needed.

At Netflix our goal was always to build tools where the majority of devs just check into source control and click a few buttons, but could go as far as configuring kernel tunables if necessary (but also making that as unnecessary as possible).
I read twice what you wrote and I still don't understand what is going. Who did what ?
Also the US government threatens (and occasionally delivers) military and financial harm on entities that refuse to use USD for certain transactions.
Yes, it's an issue of price gouging as well. If a basic plan is say 10TB/mo for $100, then overages shouldn't be allowed to be greater than $10/TB. In general plans should have to be a linear (or sublinear) combination of connection fee and data used.

(Not that I have a dog in this fight. Municipal fiber ftfw. Unless you live somewhere that already has 3+ competing providers, the only question you should be asking is "what will it take?")
They can’t, I think, but nothing prevents your support contract (and thus access to subsequent updates in any form) from terminating when you release the source. You can do it, IBM will just refuse to do any more business with you from that point on.

This kind of GPL not-a-workaround always made me feel a bit queasy, but open access to RH code (even if a bit stale and hard as hell to get to build) alleviated that feeling somewhat. I guess it no longer does.
It's quite common for one service to depend on another (or multiple others), on the network/firewall state, on configurations that might affect or be affected by other services, etc.

What looks simple when you're the king of your own little kingdom suddenly doesn't seem as simple when that fantasy meets the reality of sharing the world with others.
Singapore is effectively a single party system too, but look how well they live. It's definitely a mentality / cultural / tribal / ethnicity thing; btw just look within the US: Blacks don't do well, but Asians do. Regardless of how many parties participate in decision-making.

Given my own experiences from travelling to 43 countries, the difference in drive, willingness to work, abilities or lack thereof / lazyness shown in daily life is certainly very visible between Africa and Asia, Europe, America.
IDK having everyone check out on social media to interact with definite humans in meatspace probably is net positive.
Thanks for your reasoned answer. I agree with what you are saying. A couple more comments, not to correct anything but simply for conversation.

> Btw there is a third option beyond "scientific knowledge" and "faith"

The three I usually see mentioned are: I know because "argument" (reason/scientific); I believe (faith) and mysticism (I just know/I had a revelation). I agree with you, different ways of not taking a position are positions in themselves. Skepticism, nihilism, etc.

> Accurate models of people could be similar: it might simply be that they cannot be meaningfully reduced to simple formulas.

I agree. All models are false but some are useful.
> Has anyone else

Yes, absolutely, and it's among the worst ways to develop software. Designers kept coming up with controls that required coding custom behavior not already provided by the toolkit, either by modifying and extending components or creating new ones from scratch. Designers blamed developers for causing "rework" when it was found that the design included things that didn't exist, and developers took the blame when it took longer to implement the mocks than designers had led project leadership to believe. The lead designer's solution was to more-or-less abandon the team's pretense of being agile and get everything completely frozen well in advance of any coding.

Also, the backend was horrific, as might be expected when leadership treated it as an afterthought. I got the impression that because the system was built to replace an existing front end, leadership believed that it was just matter of wiring the UI up to the services that already existed. Some very legacy services, think mainframe-era fronted by a thin SOAP-to-json layer. Yeah and some of the backend services that turned out to be required didn't even exist.

I'm glad I'm done with that consulting gig. It was not fun, it wasn't challenging, it was just a grind, and if it is complete and they are able to turn off the existing front end on schedule I'll be shocked, and I'd want to know what kind of dumpster fire they end up with.
Go through your eight other closest coworkers. If at least two of them (including you) have billionaires as friends, I'll accept that it's normal.
Does it have any https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_planet?
> Similar to Amazon/AWS RedHat seems to be moving to Open Source of convenience, where you have portions of your software Open Source when it helps your business, and not so much if it does not.

I guess it’s quite pragmatic from the short- and even medium-term perspective, although it likely may become well poisoning in the long term.

There used to be an understanding that since Red Hat is making a lot of buck on the shoulders of contributors making FOSS available, they have an obligation of giving a considerable amount of goodwill in return. It looks like they are now pulling a Reddit, but making it a long game.

I mean, right now it looks like they are protecting their business (you really want to get paid for having to backport fixes to some library which has been EOLed and forgotten by its upstream half a decade ago, and for all stability promises no vendor is giving!), but it’s opening a way to shittier practices, if you get my drift.
Our objectives are to live and propagate, due to our evolution. Computers can be programmed to pursue any objective. I don't know how we can constrain that. You could enact laws, but will that deter someone from releasing an unsanctioned objective surreptitiously? How will we prevent sociopathic hackers from turning a benign AGI evil?
I-95 Collapse in Philadelphia Didn't Cause a Traffic Disaster
From the guidelines: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I'm curious why you think it doesn't fit the bill. It seems like it does to me.
That's a shame. Seems like aggressive acquisitions are ruining almost all companies in the name of pure profits. Get the name, lose all the soul
is it really? the wikipedia article says it was first broadcast in 1981
I'd suggest you try them both, and pick what you like better or what feels safer to bet on for your project.

I know some of our users use both, zapatos for codegen and kysely for querying.
The skill you are describing is usually called “absolute pitch”—someone without absolute pitch cannot easily tell the difference between A=440 and A=432 in isolation (to say nothing of something like A=442).

> And I think every musician hates out of tune music :)

The notion of “out of tune” is different for people with and without absolute pitch. Someone with absolute pitch can hear something as “out of tune” just because it uses A=432 instead of A=440, whereas someone without absolute pitch will hear it as in tune. That is, more or less, THE characteristic difference between having absolute pitch and not having absolute pitch.

I don’t have absolute pitch. I’ll hear a guitar as out of tune if it is not tuned to itself. Like, if one string is flat relative to the others. However, if you tune a guitar to standard tuning in A=432, that sounds “in tune” to me. I think I have a decent sense of tuning—you can tune to equal temperament, and you can tune to just intonation, and I can tell the difference between the two. But I cannot tell the difference between A=440 and A=432.

The difference between 440 and 442 is exceptionally small, I’d be surprised if you could hear the difference in an A/B test.
Currently you need a Red Hat account to download an ISO image, but you don't need to be a customer. IBM/Red Hat's announcement says that you need to be a customer or partner to download the source, so one could be able to download binary but refused the source.

I also wonder how it will go if AWS provides RHEL for a server, and you ask them for the source.
the agile manifesto is even shorter and look at the industry it's been build from that.
It's a nice argument. But it probably isn't a great way to explain a decline in performance that was larger in math than in reading!
There certainly were. Eldridge Cleaver (former Black Panther and Presidential candidate) invented the 'Cleavers'.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/01/the-1970s-politica...
Just wanted to say thank you, again. Your project gave me a lot to think about.
Tailwind simplifies part of that problem since you don't need to map to the myriad of custom class names in use, rather you solely need to preprocess off the tailwind config.

Companies like Bifrost (YC W22) are working on this problem and already automatically generate React components from Figma autolayout designs.
Yeah I agree, seems like most of the comments here are talking about slightly different things, with different tradeoffs

Including memory safety
A four part video on Oceangate's Titanic tour(2022)
The four part video produced in 2022 by Mexican youtuber Alanxelmundo after taking Oceangate's Titanic submersible tour.
This. If you're not "teaching to the test", what are you teaching, exactly?
The FDA and USDA have been handling this question on a case-by-case basis. The approvals announced today are both for the label “cell-cultivated chicken”.
Even if you're never deployed to a combat zone, you may be involved in the planning of missions which kill or maim civilians with undue care.

I'm not some hippie peacenik but the US government (and every gov I've seen) does a very poor job of picking its battles and avoiding civilian casualties. I decided not to volunteer because I can't trust them to tell me who to kill.
I agree with you. There's clearly been a lot of work put into this but it's sooooo busy that I find it unpleasant to use.

For me, a different UI could fix the problem. Give me a field where I can ask directly "how many cups are in 4.37 cubic meters?"

As it stands now, I can get the answer from any search engine or voice assistant more quickly than from this site.
I think one approach in (re)designing an OS should be to go back to fundamentals: what makes an Operating System?

I think fundamentally, there are only a few things it has to do: Allow applications to run (on the CPU/other hardware), Allow applications to communicate between themselves (establish communication standards), Allow access to disk, Manage the time given to each application well/fairly, Define permissions around resources (who can talk to whom and who can access what). Depending on who you ask, shells/desktop environments should be part of the OS too.

When I think of the minimum that can accomplish that, I think something like a simple communication standard (with authentication mechanisms) would be interesting (with possibility to support more specialized standards). A standard for defining app. share of resources (CPU/disk). Maybe hardware resources like disks, devices like cameras, etc.. could be treated as applications via a driver (or application <-> disk application <-> disk driver). Then instead of 'opening' files, you're just communicating your intentions with a disk driver, and you can do essentially anything. Maybe then instead of a Filesystem Hierarchy standard, there could simply be "OS (standard) applications" that for example list what users are in the OS, what applications are available, and so on (without a filesystem hierarchy at all, if you wish!). An FHS could be provided for legacy reasons.

I also think permissions should take a more fine grained approach than Unix/Linux does (closer to Android permission systems), I think by default applications should have minimum permissions and should be whitelisted as needed.
The racial grouping is brought up because it's a common claim that Asians (the children are half Asian if it's not clear enough from the text) have (or are born with) AP more often than other races. The author counters that while it's statistically true it might be not because of race but exposure to a tonal language (% wise more Asians speak a tonal language than Caucasians and those are the two that are relevant here).
most sane people disable webgl and enable per domain
I followed up with clarification and i like playing with ChatGPT but everything I write is my own truth.

I am traveling in hotels helping with HIPAA compliance so I get flagged a lot
They probably mean the name as written in the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) name field of the passport. Each issuing country chooses how to transliterate names to match the MRZ encoding as needed. The MRZ allows the characters 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ< and no others. The Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ) CAN contain characters outside this set, though SEVIS recommends including a transliteration into the MRZ character set as well.
> 7.7x more input than caloric output, eggs are 5x

Fun fact, for octopuses that number is 3x, which (not that I've researched it) is the most efficient number I've found.

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/marine-life/octopus5.htm#:....
Timezones and additional administrative overhead mostly.
No questions yet.

I remember making very complex prototypes with choices represented as branching sequences of nearly identical frames, and thinking "if I could set a variable and just show or hide some layer based on that variable, my life would be so much easier", so I'm happy y'all added this. It must have been a ton of work to implement this by you and your team, so good on you for doing it.
They will terminate your contract if they can trace it back to you. Their ToS prohibit this.
I agree with many other comments here that this is more an effect of the practical purpose that maps are created for than any presumed nefarious motivation. Look at the list of supported projections in the PROJ database - it's a very long list, and they're all there to solve some particular problem.

Also, it's worth acknowledging that projections like the Robinson projection are often used now instead of Mercator on general-purpose wall maps.

Since the topic came up, this is one of my favourite special-purpose global maps: a map of global ocean circulation, centred around Antarctica:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/c4et3x/global_ocea...
Need smarter labelers
It's much more than a year. Microsoft pledged full Call of Duty availability on rival platforms for at least 10 years[1]. Sony refused to sign, Nintendo signed it[2].

1: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/23494886/microsoft-sony-1...

2: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/microsoft-signs-10-ye...
How I installed TrueNAS on my new ASUSTOR NAS
“The map is not the territory.” — Alfred Korzybski
It was donated to the public domain by the creators. If you follow the link to IA it's explained there.
If the data is taken from a wide range of plentiful sources, then even a small variance can be very significant. What is the 95%, 99%, or 99.9% confidence intervals for this data?
We could begin by accepting that operations work often deals with far more complex problems than feature work.

Yes, the tooling is bad, all tooling is bad, but hearing the same old 'Infrastructure should "just work"' trope is getting old. Such developers should stop grandstanding and roll up their sleeves. Learning about TCP isn't beneath you.
The Windows NT kernel is surprisingly well-designed. Everything is an 'object' to the kernel (or file descriptor). Concepts like ACLs apply to all kernel objects. I summarized about some of its capabilities previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34914776

One concrete example of its design: exercising administrator (sudo) permissions causes a User Account Control (UAC) dialog to pop up, which takes over the screen from the current WindowStation -- making it impossible for any software to mess with approval or password entry [1].

IO Completion Ports (IOCP) also stand out as a powerful way to perform asynchronous IO that NT has had since ... I'm not sure how long, but I believe probably since the 90s. As one HN commenter wrote in 2016, "IOCP is the top item on my (short) list of things Windows simply does better. The performance boost you see from designing a server for IOCP from the ground up is jaw-dropping." [2] And it works for a variety of different IO tasks (including disk IO).

Windows gets a lot of hate, but most of the criticism you read about it online is not usually a well-considered critique of how its kernel APIs operate.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11867345
I've gotten to the point where when I put on jeans, my dog gets excited (assuming that we're going for a walk).
At least in Europe, protein extracts like pea protein are much more expensive that chicken meat, e.g. 5 times more expensive.

I do not believe that paying such prices is rational, so for many years I thought about eating only vegan food, but I could not see any way to get enough proteins without gaining weight.

I could switch to vegan food only after I have discovered that I can make a home-made bread that is highly enriched in protein by removing about 75% of the starch during a 6 to 7 minute washing of the dough. With a longer washing time it is possible to separate completely the gluten from the starch, but I am not willing to spend more time every morning with breakfast preparation, and this is enough to provide on adequate protein to calories ratio.

For Omega3, the only good alternative to fish oil is Schizochytrium oil. A few years ago, it was 8 times more expensive than fish oil, but the price has been declining slowly and now Schizochytrium oil is only 3 times more expensive than fish oil (e.g. with taxes and shipping included, EUR 300/L for double concentration Schizochytrium oil vs. EUR 50/L for cod liver oil). This is still very expensive, so hopefully the price will continue to decrease.

Vitamin D3 is normally made from sheep wool, which seems a perfectly sustainable source. There exist products which claim to contain "vegan" D3, but until proven otherwise I believe that this is a scam for extracting money from naive vegans.

The "vegan" D3 is claimed to be extracted from some kind of lichen, but it is irrational to pay money for such a product unless the vendor discloses which is the exact species of lichen, whether it is a wild lichen or a cultivated lichen, how it is cultivated and how the vitamin D3 is extracted from it.

If the lichen is not cultivated, but wild, that is not acceptable. Wild lichens grow extremely slowly and exploiting a species for vitamin extraction is guaranteed to cause the extinction of that species in a short time.
Hwy 17 here is notorious for being windy, slippery when wet, difficult to see very far ahead, blind curves, poorly-marked entrances and exits, and: the only path between Silicon Valley (Los Gatos in the south) and Santa Cruz and points south. Over the years, I've seen better signage, more aggressive road clearing of debris after rain, and more police enforcement.

When I lived near Santa Cruz for a year and had to commute to Silicon Valley, I got very good at driving that stretch, knowing when I could do the curves fast, and when I needed to be cautious.

But if you're not a 'regular' on that road? Your advice was well-warranted.
> The "Web Mercator is racist" meme is just lazy.

It is lazy, but here's a good reason to not use Web Mercator: Unlike regular Mercator, Web Mercator is not conformal. Mercator preserves shape locally, but Web Mercator distorts shapes by +/- 1%-ish depending on latitude. Web Mercator doesn't do the thing that makes Mercator a good projection.

Does that +/- 1%-ish actually matter? Maybe, I dunno. It annoys me though.