skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure what you're saying. It seems to me the number of shills creating content is vastly outnumbered by normal people creating content, so the trick of adding "reddit" to the end of queries is still very much useful (blackout protests aside) since it's usefulness derives from getting information from normal people and then having normal people upvote the "best" comments. Just the other day I tried this with data recovery software very quickly found some free software that was highly praised. If I had just searched "data recovery software" on Google I get whichever data recovery place as the best SEO, including many of them who claim that a novice should be trying it at all and should use their services pronto. Using reddit in this case gave me the exact information I wanted, where Google alone was next to useless.
The company has to pay their labor expenses AND profit. Not just cover claims.
...or maybe my own taste sucks. Most movie historians adore the guy.
> Who's to say that the difficulty in understanding how the brain works is a defense mechanism of sorts?

I don't see why evolution would have optimised our brains for that specific goal. It's possible but it seems very unlikely, as there's no motivation for it AFAICT.
Vista, the OS which still looks pretty modern today, introduced sensible UAC features, and modern backup and restore features?

People love to shit on Vista and I’ve honestly never got it. Windows 7, ever glorified, was basically Windows Vista again. MS’s mistake was allowing Vista to be installed on bad hardware. Driver support got resolved. Vista after SP1 was fine.
Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari
I just watched the pilot episode of SNW based on the high praise here, and found it corny, derivative, and predictable.

Pike seemed to be cast as a Kirk clone, and seeing the many of the rest of the crew as recast versions of characters from the original series just made it seem like the writers/studios have no new ideas. At least TNG (and the original series) tried something new.

I don't think I'll be watching any more of this show.
Mostly one window, but I also use dedicated profiles for different purposes, so I should say one window per profile. Sometimes I'll branch off a search into another window. I also keep several different browsers for testing and for snotty websites. Tabs, but not so many I can't keep track of them. Up to a dozen at a time isn't bad.

Bookmarks, in categories. Lots of bookmarks. And I have a custom home page with quite a few links.

Plugins:Dark Background and Light Text because I can't stand the glare of white pages; I have . . . interesting eyesight :p. uBlock Origin is my usual sanity armor. Enhancer for YouTube also preserves sanity. Not much else I use regularly.

I'm friendly. More or less.
Coffee != Caffeine && Caffeine != Coffee.

Before I switched to drinking coffee, I used to drink carbonated caffeinated beverages like Coke and Pepsi. Up to twelve per day. I'm convinced that is what gave me diabetes. So, I switched to Diet Coke. But then I learned about all the bad chemicals in Diet Coke and Coke Zero, so I switched to coffee.

I drank caffeinated coffee for a long time. Decades. Occasionally, I would get to a state where if I had too much coffee, I would get caffeine headaches. And if I didn't drink enough coffee, I would get caffeine headaches. And there was no gap between those two states. I'd have to completely decaffeinate for a while, before I could reset my system.

A few years ago, I switched to cold brew coffee, because it has about 70% less acid than hot brew. That was much better for my stomach.

Then about a year ago, I switched to decaf cold brew, because the caffeine was causing too many problems with my heart rate, and my four different blood pressure medications weren't able to keep me in a good enough state.

So, I stopped drinking coffee altogether. Now, it's just plain water. And I do feel a lot better. No heart rate problems, no excess acid, etc....

Just my experience. YMMV.
I lie to people about programming all the time.

I tell them it's not about math, you just have to think logically through every step.

With more steps comes more scrutiny, so you study how to optimize.

You will read papers about optimization to reduce the number of steps.

Those papers have a suspicious amount of math.

By the time you discover, "...wait, its all math?"

"Always has been."

What I personally found helpful was the book The Algorithm Design Manual [0]. It starts right off with math, but in a way that connects it to basic primitives of programming. You start building up an algorithmic understanding as you increase the computation complexity. It was very intuitive for me, both for understanding the math and understanding Big O in a rigorous manner. From there it dives into actual algorithms and code, but the math returns periodically.

[0]: https://www.algorist.com/
Who enforces this?
Google Funds $20M Cybersecurity Clinics to Bolster Digital Defense
His troops aren’t going with him to Belarus, they have to sign loyalty to the mod.
The optimal way right now seems to be to train a gigantic model to get strong capabilities and use distillation to make a much smaller model stronger. But you seem to still need that gigantic model and we still don't know if we're running out of space to improve capability just by scaling up the model (for reference GPT-4 is likely 1.76T parameters and we may be able to get much better just by scaling up)
Then why shoot down your own aircraft/helicopters? Why have helicopters blow up fuel storage?
"from 2035 new cars and vans must not emit any CO2"

Wont this effectively kill any ICE vehicle? Biogas, ethanol, HVO diesel, etc.
At least part of the point is recognizing that this was a credible threat to Putin.

What would it take for the US president to leave Washington DC though? Obviously a real possibility of nuclear war. What else though?
The _tune_ we now commonly use for "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in the 1840s (for the Gutenberg Cantata that this blog post talks about) -- but the _lyrics_ were originally written in the 1730s by noted English Methodist Charles Wesley (who wrote many, many Christian hymns). The Wikipedia article on this song has a more accurate synopsis of its history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hark!_The_Herald_Angels_Sing
> You seem to be implying that this is a recent phenomenon of some kind though

Pretty recent, in the scheme of things - only the last few thousand years or so.

I do think we can turn it around; I mean, we fuckin better.
"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?" (in a letter to his son Johan written in 1648; in the original Latin it reads: An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?).
I quit being a gamer [video]
that's still a major win for AMD. 2x performance per core means you need half as many servers (which is way cheaper) and all your latency bound operations happen twice as quickly. (also I'm pretty sure you can underclock the AMD system to the point where it's the same power and 50% more performance)
> Am-I the only one that finds is odd how the British government brags about Alan Turing after what they did to him?

I also find this strange.

On the one hand I'm tempted to see this from a cynical lens of government propaganda ('we were always at war with Eastasia/Oceania').

On the other hand governments are somewhat the extension of the society they're in. The choices are to put [Turing of the £50 note](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-bank...) or to not put any British gay people who were persecuted by the government (and most were historically) on the £50 note. Maybe we should be glad that governments are flexible and not limited to the history it inherited.
> lived to talk about it

As of right this second. I hope his affairs are in order because the writing is on the wall.
It's a shame there is no RSS feed for your home timeline.
> Ironically, bigger and safer cars make both the driver and the roads a lot less safe as the prisoners dilemma means everyone loses. [6][7]

You can have safer cars, like cars with emergency braking, without having bigger cars. Americans have just been severely been marketed to to make horrible financial and social decisions on cars: how many people do you see buying giant SUVs the moment they have a kid and save zero dollar for their college? Absurd.
> But the impression the community gives is very much that you can always rollback and everything is in its own sandbox, which is sort of true, but not at all true as soon as malware happens.

This is more the case with something like Hydra where you have a remote nix store and builder. Then even if you compromise a given nixos instance, they store stays isolated and intact.

So then if you are doing things right, you should be able to optionally back up any mutable data you need and then blow away the entire instance from scratch, creating a new one immediately after.

And bonus points if you can run a UEFI-over-HTTPS image on boot so that your boot image and config are always being delivered (and signed) fresh from a locked down server you control. That way if you want, on boot all nix-store content is validated with `nix store verify --all` before ever being loaded in any trusted context.
The next iteration will be trained on your own data where "when it's a little wrong, you (the expert) can fix the issue and move on without friction" so that case will become "when it's right" and some amount of "when it's any amount of wrong" cases will become "when it's a little wrong". A few more cycles of this and we could be looking at GPT-10 which is a complete replacement for most tasks.
Unfortunately, they were dismantled so the car could take over.

Many city streetcar systems that were struggling in the great depression were purchased by a group of automakers (including General Motors) and chemical companies and then closed down. From my recollection, the goal was to remove the streetcar systems and increase adoption of buses and automobiles, thereby profiting on the sale of buses and tyres.
Yup, I assume faked backdrops are pretty common among politicians.

Again, President Biden has used a fake Oval Office several times:

https://www.newsweek.com/why-white-house-built-fake-oval-off...
Soz mate, I was a little enthusiastic in making my point and I picked on an easy target. I'm well aware how DevOps works.
Actually... the bigger insurance companies have arrangements, and even an ownership stake, in repair facilities. When I smacked a deer in my car, it got taken to a shop specified by the insurance company.
> Ever noticed that somehow only US enemies have "food shortages" ?

Why did China have famines when it was essentially a US ally after WW2 (note US supported and helped China during WW2)

> Ever noticed that somehow only US enemies have "food shortages" ?

Ever notice that communist countries can prosper only if they trade with non-communist countries?

You shouldn't believe everything you read.
The bigcorp I used to work for provided every employee with a bottomless metro card that could get you a free bus or train ride anywhere in a 20 mile radius. I would guess that maybe 1 in 5 people ever used it. Give someone enough disposable income that they have a choice between a 20 minute ride with their favorite podcast on the stereo vs. a 40 minute ride lurching along with a bunch of strangers and people tend to pick the first one. Our VP, to her credit, did take the bus every day, though.
They send Super Bigote
https://archive.is/ykNZX
Not sure if you just resurrected a fond memory or childhood trauma.

I can vividly remember dual booting and only having Internet access on the Windows install at first. DSL felt pretty fast!

Boot Windows, grab some info, reboot into Linux, get stuck, reboot, repeat.
Mercedes did a LOT of this over the decades in the US ; *'Constraint of product category availability"* - whereby you go to any other country and there were TONS CHEAP little mercedes trucks, trikes, pickups, box-trucks, desert crawlers, etc etc etc...

But they dont sell those in the US, as it allows them to keep *"luxury brand"* marketing hype to sieve money from the unsuspecting US consumer market.
Are you blaming the weaker country for doing what it can? You people are unconscionable.
Amazing, good to know, thanks
> that's one preprint on arxiv, that makes a wild claim about a new concept that they acronymise as "RASP". It's not any kind of established terminology, nor is it anything but a claim.

Would you change your mind for a different link, like this one? http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/weiss21a.html

I think you would enjoy learning about RASP, rather than taking such a hardline skeptical position.

> a function is a mapping between the elements of two sets, whereas an algorithm is a sequence of operations that calculates the result of a function and is guaranteed to terminate

I'm aware. Transformers (and RASP programs) are guaranteed to terminate; that's one of their nice properties.

> Is there a good reason not to do that?

Balanced against the value of my unpaid time, a probability of 10^-70 is low enough for the purposes of a quick and fun test.

Speaking of which, I'm going to enjoy my weekend now. I hope you enjoy yours!
I mean, even now, all the real time filters on Tiktok and Instagram are already capable of giving a no lag experience. When the more powerful AIs get stuffed into handheld devices, I expect them to paint the world however you want.

Apple is in prime position to do this btw. Their hardware is uniquely suited to AI stuff and now that they have officially step into the AR business, it is probably going to be strange.
You could see about getting in contact with them about that, haha. It does sound like they're considering the potential of the hybrids for aquaculture. The focus seems to be caviar, but if there's continued production, they might consider branching out.
This is a great article, it's nice to have someone else come to the same conclusions about life and ways to live.

I never considered it would be "counter-cultural life" but I agree with that phrase now that I read all this and it lets me be confused into thinking - am I just supposed to mirror what other people want? e.g. the American dream, the car in the driveway, the wife and 2.5 kids stereotype.

So it's nice.
In most of 2020, and large parts of 2021, the U.S. economy tanked, along with a substantial number of active road users, air travelers, manufacturing services, logistics, etc. Even today in my not-quite-urban living area, the traffic seems to be 2/3 what it was in 2019.

I live under a pretty big rock. Is there any explanation why this serious reduction of greenhouse has had no effect?
I wrote that before reading about this. However, my overall point is that trying to understand Kremlin politics is very difficult and those of us on this site don’t really understand the dynamics. Putin and his cabal are the last generation of Soviet trained leaders and their views and ways of operating are not all relatable to those not similarly trained.
> I'm surprised speeding tickets haven't been privatized yet

Red light tickets have. There's a company giving cameras for "free" to cities and then fining the drivers.

If they don't pay, they forward the info to the DMV and then it turns into a "real" traffic ticket/moving violation.
Several people in the community have confirmed it so while we don't "know know", it does seem like the dominant plausible rumor going around
I don't fully understand these proclamations. Can we really actually electrify everything, everywhere, by then? And what about long distance travel and haul? EV still seem somewhat of a niche in that they have clear restrictions and constraints.
Ask HN: App development in 2023 for C++ developer?
I have 10+ years of high-performance C++ development for distributed systems/databases/operating systems but have zero experience with web/app development. I wanted to try my hand at app development to prototype a few ideas. I looked at the landscape and I am struggling with the following questions:

1. Native apps vs a PWA (web app)- what is the recommendation these days?
2. If I want to build native apps, is there a stack that will make it easy for cross-platform development? React Native seems to be a popular suggestion online but it is only for business logic not UI?

3. Are there any useful resources/stacks suited for someone familiar with C++ development?
“My Class Year Is Harvard”
it's worded so that synthetic zero emission fuels can still come along and save the ice engine which is what mercedes etc are hoping for
No doubt a good 5-10% of that goes to ambulance chasing lawyers and fake chiros blowing up fender benders to policy maximums.
It’s just typical consumerism. Most people in Western culture are brought up to believe you need to have stuff to be happy. Especially in America. You need to live in a big house with way more space than you need, then you need to fill that space with stuff. Then that stuff gets old so it needs to be replaced with new stuff every few years. The more this is perpetuated via mocking people who don’t have stuff, the better it is for companies who make stuff.

A bed frame is the perfect example of stuff. The average western person believes this is a necessity even though it has no function. Especially the ones without storage. Yet if you sleep on the floor you will be mocked. People will scoff. “You’re an adult you need to buy a bed frame”. Why? Why would I spend money and consume resources on something that has absolutely zero benefit?
Yes, but as per usual this will most likely get pushed once the date gets closer, as I doubt the EU member states will all have the electric infrastructure for these vehicles.

However could be wrong, as there’s much more public transit in those countries so we’ll see.
Any good RDP deployment software
I have a bunch of different rdp servers I access remotely.

I’d like to be able to deploy DLL file changes to a program that run on these farms. I’d like to do this simply by:
Backing up current DLLs and exe
Stop process
Drop in new dll and exe changes
Start process

This gets annoying to do across multiple devices. Is there an easy way to automate this, so I don’t have to log into any of them
"hallucination" just means the AI produced incorrect information. Humans produce incorrect information all the time. But we know we are fallible. I've seen lots of people treating these AIs as infallible, that they can't get anything wrong. That's a huge problem with people, not the AI.

Obviously it's worth it to try and eliminate the incorrect information, but what grand-op is saying is we don't want to do that if it takes away some valuable emergent properties.
OAI revenue is 100m+ at least right now iirc and probably gonna grow quite a bit
What did you know exactly? I'm not seeing anything in your linked post that's now validated
Why you should skip a VPN and identity-theft monitoring
https://archive.ph/cFkSv
>stolen from the internet

Is it illegal to walk into a library, read a book, then walk back out with your memory of the book contents?
I think it does a fair job if you realize that the entire thing is semantics.

Every prompt is asking either one or both of these questions: "Is this a vehicle?" "Is it in the park?"

So you have to ask yourself what is a vehicle? Most people would not classify shoes as a vehicle. So why would attaching wheels to shoes make them vehicles? The definition of vehicle is rather vague, basically "something used to move people or goods, especially on land". Which skates kind of are. They use a machine, the wheel, to multiply work done.

Even though a matchbox car has all the appearances of something normally accepted as a vehicle, does the fact that it is incapable of transporting anything significant change that fact?

Then you get to "in the park". What is "in" the park as opposed to "out"? Yes, the grounds as defined by the property lines are definitely "in" the park. Someone driving a Civic through the grounds is definitely "in the park". Basically, do you count the airspace of the park and if so, where does it end? If something hovering 4 feet above the ground is in the park, then why isn't an airplane at 33,000 feet "in" in the park? Is it because we can't reasonably interact with it? If that's the case, do the boundaries of the park change depending on the height and reach of those in it? If no one is in the park, and you jump a Civic completely over the grounds, were you ever "in" the park?

Moderation is an attempt to define things like this. Sometimes more abstractly, sometimes way more directly. For instance, if you have a forum about sandwiches, you're going to have to have a rule about hot dogs. Whether or not they count.

You see it here all the time when someone asks "Why was this posted here?"

So if you have a rule that says "No slurs". That seems simple enough. But now you have to define what a slur is. If I call someone a "fucking idiot", is that slur or just an insult? What if I just said, "Americans, right?" Calling out someone's nationality shouldn't technically be a slur, but it's kind of the implication that turns it into one. Because I'm saying something about people from America, saying they all share a negative quality by virtue of where they are geographically from.

Do we just make a list of slurs? Do we try and account for tone? Where is the line between heated debate and a flamewar? Or even an engaged discussion and a heated debate. Even here, you can get rate limited for just interacting too much. Conversations killed because people were conversing too much.

But that's how they defined a vehicle, that's where they drew the lines of the park.
It's been literally just 3 months since GPT-4 was released. I think you're gonna see a lot of changes especially once GPT starts being trained on ChatGPT data
I'm not sure reading the article, but I think this $2600 may not account for deductibles (or self-pay):

> The study calculated the total societal cost of car crashes, borne by every American, not just those directly involved in car crashes.

Parsing this, and making the assumption, the $340 billion is the distributed cost ("borne by every American"), while the deductibles would be singular costs (borne by "those directly involved in car crashes").

I'd need to see the actually study though.
I think 9/11 did. Granted President George W. Bush was famously reading a book to school children when it happened, but I believe he stayed Airborne on Air Force One for several additional hours as a precaution.

Also President Madison evacuated Washington, DC during the War of 1812.
The prisoner’s dilemma I believe refers to the fact that bigger cars often total smaller ones, so others are now forced to adapt by buying a bigger car, which increases the number of big cars, which then creates a cycle.
This doesn’t change my point. There are a lot of people who were for mask mandates (whether you agree with them or not), and where I live, they typically didn’t confront people who were disobeying.
Bloomin onion is really the only reason to go to outback. Steaks are OK but I cook a better one at home.
Run a second device with the cell modem disabled or without one, and have it access the Internet via WiFi or bluetooth, to reduce the attack surface.