skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been to Alice Springs. It’s basically a mall and a trailer park in the middle of the desert. If I lived there, I’d be an alcoholic too.
I would hesitate to arrest passengers that can't override the taxi. There are knock-on effects that can't be remediated by suing a robo taxi company, such as loss of job, violation of parole, or simply not having any money to begin the suit to begin with. [I know that it's unlikely that someone wealthy enough to hire a robotaxi for a trip may not be wealthy enough to hire a lawyer, but you never know and it would be a supremely nasty edge case]
How would you otherwise navigate that you find difficult with SvelteKit?
There is no username search field in that context. The "username search field" requires the person's username + their unique friend code (otherwise known as a discriminator). If you know to look for a "ryan" you would know their friend code. You either share a server with them, or met them outside the Discord exosystem.

It's that last point there, that Discord seems to want to tackle... We will have to wait to see how, but I hope they don't ruin the server paradigm and aim to become a subreddit type ecosystem.
They took OpenAI TECH and made 15x MORE money – Jasper AI [video]
I'm sure you've heard of OpenAI, and probably even tested ChatGPT. But have you heard of Jasper AI? The product that is completely based on OpenAI, has no unique technology under the hood, but has made 15 times more money than OpenAI.
> Nobody cares about a CoC

Totally, that's why no one is whining about it in this thread.
I’m wrong. My friend group has a Discord server, which I assumed my buddy was self-hosting (like Mastadon).

I hadn’t used Discord in the past and was really surprised to keep seeing promos for Boosts and stuff.
Zephyr has a lot of good points, but I really wish it didn't use Kconfig. Getting a working config seems to be mostly a matter of copying an already working example. It might be okay for hardware side of things, but it's a really bad at software/feature dependency.

Set https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/build/kconfig/tips.htm... and the issue: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/issues/52575. And don't even get me started on trying anything to group options together.
The linear plot in that Wolfram link is messed up. It doesn't show all the data (caps out at 800 billion GDP). Here's a corrected linear plot, from the script that I linked (commenting out the log-log scaling):

https://ibb.co/9bBgwH8

There is clearly a correlation, even on linear. It's a little messy, but it's undeniably there.

The starting point for this discussion was about the relationship between a country's size and population and it's power and influence. The correlation between area and GDP demonstrates that there is a meaningful relationship.

Btw, what is your specific complaint about a log-log plot? Country data points for area and GDP span many orders of magnitude, which makes it harder to visualize any patterns on a linear plot.

I also don't understand your point about the dispersion. The correlation and trend is pretty clear. No one said the correlation was 99%.

Edit: I've calculated Pearson's correlation coefficient for this data [1]. The result is 0.82, which indicates a strong positive correlation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_correlation_coefficien...
There are even better loopholes than that.
Instead of 2 rich assholes fighting in a cage, how about they skip that, and each give, say, 10 billion, to various charities, and compete to see who adds more value to society via that money?

The headlines of "Musk fights Zuckerberg in a cage match" don't appeal to me, but seeing something like "Musk donates 10 billion, eradicates XYZ disease" or "Zuck donates enough to make sure that all children in public schools nation wide have a nutritious healthy meal each day at school" definitely does.

Too bad it won't happen, and we'll see 2 billionaire dorks trying to punch each other.
It’s worse than speculative, it’s hype driven. Everyone wants to do something ai related right now. For those who view their role in the world as The Regulator of Things, this means regulating the newest thing. This stems from the fact that politicians in the US are mostly professional media personalities.
> Sometimes, but with single powerful IDE solutions from companies like jetbrains, setting up a "cushy" environment is barely any work.

I promise, installing a Jetbrains product on a traffic controller (which is what I was thinking of re: the field trip) would be a tremendous amount of work.

> The majority of developers don't even need to do this or don't even know what you're talking about as they only interact with cloud services nowadays.

Yes, and they're one geomagnetic storm away from being entirely useless. It might not be for everybody, but there's value in being able to work with a lean toolset.
Interesting. In my several decades of working in this industry, I've very rarely seen anyone get meaningful raises anyway. You get a raise by taking a job at another company.

But true, if you're worried about getting promotions, then that's an issue.
Surely this battle is in VR... Seeing either one of them in spandex is the stuff memes are made of, similar to "Beyonce grunt face." I can't imagine they'd be cool with those images and that video becoming available to AI.
I emailed the mods. I don't think they get notified for @'s.
I think that's part of the issue that polarizes people: it's not consistently slow and it's not consistently fast. So you get people who can't understand how it's usable, and others who can't understand how anyone has a problem with it.

Some other editors are consistently fast, for everyone, always (like [n]vim). Not because they're special but editing text just isn't that big a deal and these editors don't try to do too much graphically, so their performance is great.

Another problem is the combination of extensions probably has a significant impact on performance and resource usage. So person A uses it to edit JavaScript and has no problem, but person B uses it to edit Ruby and has one. It might not even be VS Code's fault, maybe an extension, but it is seen as if it's the editor since it's a whole package and the input latency is what's suffering.
Welcome to Johnny cab
We are a bullshit species. Our collective well being is secondary to each era's power games.

With the amount of brain power and resources that exist today and the relative triviality of orchestrating social media platforms it would take, like two or three months of banging some heads together and solving this little nuisance once and for all.

To the great relief and benefit of current and future generations. So that we can focus on some real problems.

But no, we have to stick to the rigged game.
Maybe blindingly obvious in hind-sight, but none of the IDEs I mentioned in my last comment have this feature. Nor does any other IDE I've ever used. It's not hard to imagine why a novel feature, without much prior art, potentially sitting on the blocking path for UI rendering, and contributed by an external person would face friction in being merged into core. Not to mention the onboarding complexity of making a change like this in core vs as a standalone extension for a new contributor.

Also, I don't understand at all what your last sentence there means.
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Nigerian reversal (of sorts): Indian vloggers are fullfilling the niche which Nigerians can't.

Of course it's always a question of how good the presenter and the course and how good are students actually learn the topic from these videos, but at least people themselves praise them so there are definitely a sense of gratitude.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Making bracket pair colorization faster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692470 - Sept 2021 (265 comments)
> Instead, get clear on what your values are. Then, find an environment where you're surrounded with people who share your values. You'll be much happier.

This is a nice thought in theory but if your values include something along the lines of "treat people like they have families and lives and don't use them like a resource until they burn out", that eliminates a surprisingly large number of companies.

Having worked at a few big tech companies at different stages in their lifecycle, I think I'm starting to see where the sweet spots for joining are where they are more likely to align with the ways I want to work (if not all of my values). Equally I'm also starting to learn when it's time to jump from the ship.
The Snowden revelations had profound consequences on the standardisation process, because mass surveilance was thereby proven as a real and present attack that has to be considered. Undue influence on standardisation processes by the NSA was also a relevant point. Later protocols and standards started to take both into account. All those are in scope for RFCs, there are quite a few about standardisation procedures, circumstances, etc.
How do you make the leap from this one company doing stupid management nonsense - 100% accurate in this case, it sounds like - to "the industry is broken beyond repair?"
It also linked to the GitHub releases page originally, I literally posted this as it went love on the Svelte blog, not sure what’s going on :)
I’ve been working with AWS the last year and a half, and the documentation sucks!!

It’s way too verbose, doesn’t have clear examples (if there are any at all), and even finding the right pages is much easier said than done.

For a while I used GPT-4 to help with AWS but the September 2021 knowledge cut-off became too much of an issue.

It actually got so bad that I built AWS Docs GPT for myself a few weeks ago and a friend told me to publish it — so here I am.

Hopefully this makes it much easier to query, search, and chat with every single item of documentation AWS has ever published.

Also, would love to hear your feedback and comments
That is not how the DMCA is supposed to work.

If you send a counter-notice it is not supposed to be auto-rejected, it is supposed to go to court.

This monster is created by Youtube, they are not using the DMCA process(as flawed and terrible as it is) but instead created something worse.

The best way to get attention? Maybe sue Youtube?
Yup. Waymo >>>>>>>>>> Cruise.

It’s not even close.

Still wouldn’t get into a Waymo for another 3-5 years, but the quality gap is huge.
I've seen it done twice in TX. They made a point to bend the hose enough to go through the passenger compartment.
While you have correctly pointed out that there is no evidence for any word that has been preserved from Dacian into Romanian or into Albanian or into any other language, after that you have been guilty yourself of enunciating an unsubstantiated hypothesis by writing: "The Romanian and Albanian languages both spread to their present areas from the Central Balkans".

There is no evidence about such a "spreading", and especially no linguistic evidence.

We know that Proto-Albanian and Proto-Romanian have been in contact, but that gives no information about the extent of the area inhabited by speakers of Proto-Romanian in the opposite direction. The contact has existed regardless whether the area inhabited by speakers of Proto-Romanian has extended to the North of the Danube or not.

Likewise, even if we knew for sure that no Dacian word has been preserved in Romanian, that would give absolutely no information either pro or contra the immigration theory, because that has nothing to do with the Dacians, but it is about whether the Roman citizens of Dacia have continued to inhabit Dacia permanently, or not.

Therefore all known linguistic data fails to provide any kind of evidence either in favor or against the immigration theory, so such a theory should not be mentioned in a linguistic discussion, unless some new evidence is discovered.

While there exists no direct evidence either in favor or against the immigration theory, this theory is pretty much unbelievable, because it requires for Dacia to have been depopulated.

For the lowlands at the North of Danube it is plausible that they might have been seriously depopulated, especially during several centuries when many invasions have passed through them.

On the other hand, it is completely implausible that the highlands of the Carpathian mountains have ever been depopulated. Those mountains offered exceptionally good life conditions, especially for people whose main activity was raising sheep. With the exception of a very well organized state, like the Roman Empire, no distant authority could have extended its influence into the mountains, so after the Roman Empire abandoned Dacia and there no longer was any central administration, the locals were left to themselves but they had no incentive whatsoever to abandon their good lands.

There is absolutely no chance that any invasion force passing through the lowlands would have risked to lose time and supplies and people by going up into the mountains in attempts to chase some locals who did not have anything valuable enough to be worth the effort.

So for me at least, such a theory based on the premise that some beautiful mountains with everything needed by humans for a decent life and well protected against outside intruders could at any time in history remain empty, waiting for the next passer-by to settle there, is absolutely ridiculous.

As said before, this has nothing to do with linguistics, so it should not be mentioned there without a good reason.
Could be the plugin was broken somehow. Happen all the time for me.
Even now the syntax highlighting and code formatting feature would break if I write the code the wrong way.

from my understanding the plugin does some clever tricks like insert some dummy code or create some dummy files to be consumed by the typescript language server. so it is not guaranteed to be correct 100% of the time.
I think the parent is referring to a concept much like this comic I read the other day.

Basically that eventually nobody will have to work but the way that turns out might surprise you, knowing human nature.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/balloon
The complaint that at ideal viewing angles, the resolution will only be 720p is silly.

720p is fine for watching movies, even if it's not home theater perfect. But it's absolutely fine and way better than the alternative of watching on a terrible IFE seatback (which probably gets the aspect ratio wrong)
Ya but even so they could have sent rescue ships there because "we think it could be here" - nothing given up.
But I didn't say whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. In fact, I'm happy with some heterogeneity in our values, but I feel like you jumping the gun kind of proves my earlier point.
In general I agree with the general concept, Scale up standard punishments to be in line with corporations.

* Robotaxi violates traffic laws like blocking a fire engine? Fine of $10,000

* Robotaxi drive into an active crime/fire scene? $100,000 fine

* Robotaxi actively hinder emergency services (ex parking on a hose)? Confiscate the vehicle.

Corporations are the same anywhere, until a problem becomes too expensive, they don't do anything about it. So sure, let them drive anytime anywhere, but if they make egregious mistakes the cost is not "oh darn, an minimum wage 'automation engagement specialist' will have to drive out to the car and move it", it will be a "We were fined $1 million last night due to interactions with emergency services".
I read the article, but I failed to understand the problem. What's happening when you pause? Why do you need your functions to pause?

The example robot involves taking a deterministic sequence of actions in a fixed order. The state machine is a line. The article seems to be pretty clear that this code is bad:

while(drivetrain.getDistanceInches() > -48)
{
drivetrain.arcadeDrive(0.5, 0);
}

and this code is good:

while(drivetrain.getDistanceInches() > -48)
{
yield drivetrain.arcadeDrive(0.5, 0);
}

But pausing doesn't seem to be the functionality that's missing. The first loop will drive backwards until getDistanceInches is at most -48. The second one will also drive backwards until getDistanceInches is at most -48, but it will "pause" intermittently while it drives there. If my robot drives all the way in, I guess, one step (?), what will go wrong?

The tick function is called 50 times per second. Is it constrained to terminate within 0.02 real-time seconds? What if you want to think hard about something?
What’s your angle here?

In practice humans frequently neglect to signal in instances where it is legally required (I don’t know if it is strictly legally required in California when parallel parking, but it’s certainly good common sense). Human drivers know that people don’t signal and account for that.

In this particular scenario the reverse lights would be a crystal clear indication of the driver’s intent, even if they failed to signal.

I don’t want to assume the intent of your comment, I don’t know what you’re getting at..
Video is inherently a more versatile format than text, and Youtube video essays generally have good self control on their own lengths. My favourite channels for these sorts of content generally keep their videos between 10-30mins which are long enough to get me hooked but short enough to avoid losing my attention.

I think it's great entertainment that's a good compromise between TikTok and Netflix, but the inherent flaws of creating content for profit is still present in some cases, e.g. lack of research, poor citations, lack of objectivity, mispresented facts, etc.
Red-Teaming Explained: How does it reduce toxicity in LLMs?
How red-teaming regulates LLMs, synthetic vs real data, and how red-teaming scales as LLMs get bigger.
Show HN: Mocker makes it easy it to mock a service running inside a cluster
Hi, it’s Mia again from Skyramp. A few weeks ago we announced the availability of the first of our Kubernetes testing tools, Mocker (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=skyramp.mocker-vscode) on the VS Code extension marketplace.

Today I want to show you how easy it is to mock a service running inside a cluster and debug if you already have your application deployed in that cluster. View this walkthrough with images here: https://bit.ly/3NK7vdm

First, deploy a new worker container in the namespace where your application is running.

Second, once the worker container is deployed, you can create a mock in six easy steps:

Step 1. Enter a port number

Step 2. Select an API protocol

Step 3. Choose the input API definition file

Step 4. Select a service to mock

Step 5. Enter the name of the K8s service that is running

Step 6. Review your choices, and confirm by clicking “Create Mock”

You’ll see a YAML of the generated configuration. If needed, you can edit default values here.

Third, apply the created mock. This will push the mock configurations to Mocker in-cluster. All calls to the mock service will now be routed to Mocker, which will respond with the configured default values.

If you’d like to update mock values, simply rerun the “apply mocks” command and change them.

We’ll have a video walkthrough of this entire process posted shortly!

If you have any feedback or requests, please let me know by replying here or at support@skyramp.dev.

We are adding more features continually, as well as new Kubernetes testing tools to accompany Mocker, including:

* a JS library to create complex in-cluster mocks

* Tester, Mocker’s powerful test client partner

Remember, Mocker is available today on the VSCode marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=skyramp.mocker-vscode

Thanks,
Mia
You may not have been part of the cool group.
"Things were hard for me, there's no way they're harder or even as hard for you!"

What purpose is this comment?
I find weed helps eliminate the "choice paralysis" that I have with my ADHD, but the other things it does, like making boring and tedious and repetitive things fun, make it TERRIBLE to self medicate with.
The next step would be to do a cost benefit analysis of these places to see if the benefits of a low alcohol society outweigh the downsides of what it takes to get there.

There are many bad things that come from living in states with heavy religious subjugation like the above examples of the Islamic world and the state of Utah, e.g. highly paternalistic and controlling attitudes toward women.
On my work's slack, we have a bot that says (I'm paraphrasing) "please use folks, as guys is exclusionary/gendered etc".
Iowa Meteorologist Resigns After Receiving Death Threats for Climate Coverage
RIP to these guys, yes it was a risky trip. But it was into international waters and they were AFAIC explorers.

Stuff like this can not be done without risk.

Hopefully future subs will have more safety features.
I guess that I'm weird. It never occurred to me to measure my performance in contrast to my coworkers!
Compensate white collar workers? I don't think so. They get the same tough love that blue collar workers have been getting for over a century with each machine innovation that upended their lives.

Learn to do plumbing.
alcohol consumption and addiction are different things and are genetic, and lead to different behaviors

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...
How is this any different from farm machinery 200 years ago or industrial automation 50 years ago? More production with far less people.

The same concerns that tithes would lead to massive unemployment. Instead, the economy and global living standards shot up and completely new fields opened up.
A driving exam also happens on the road. I'd suggest a similar, supervised test series with mandatory emergency drivers.
I agree with you that connecting consumers to products is valuable. I've bought several things from instagram ads (has the best targeting of any platform, IMO), but OP specifically mentioned public places.

Advertising in public places is privatizing the commons, and, taken to the extreme, is negative-sum.

Consider this billboard on a boat that ruins the view at a public beach: https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/i939xz/thi...

Yes, there might be small positive economic benefit to the one person on the beach who actually needed the advertised product, but a huge, diffuse negative externality to everyone else.

Most public advertising is not this bad, but if you drive on the highway in a state that has banned billboards, such as Vermont, and then you cross the border into a state that allows them, you notice it, and not in a good way. We'd be collectively better off if they were banned everywhere.

Allow advertising in private spaces, but ban in public.
Ooh, that's a much better explanation for my zillion half-finished projects. I'm not an undisciplined perfectionist, I'm just too intelligent. :)
The issue is that in 3d the mapping is less straightforward if you want avoid stange effects like being mirrored .
Compared to Sublime Text VSCode is sluggish and hilariously bad at handling large files. Compared to Android Studio, VSCode is lean and very fast.

In my opinion it's in a comfortable "fast enough" position, and from the very beginning the VSCode team has shown a great dedication to having the best possible performance in the particular technology stack they have chosen. It's just equally true that they have chosen a technology stack that puts easy extensibility over performance.
Well, there's also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess

1K ZX Chess's code takes up only 672 bytes in memory,[2] but implements chess rules except for castling, promotion, and en passant, including a computer opponent.[3] It was the smallest implementation of chess on any computer at the time.

672 bytes RAM, No ROM. No promotion is a killer though
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36172461