skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the question is intentionally ambiguous. I disagree that laws aren’t relevant, precisely because they will disambiguate. This isn’t specific to US laws, most countries globally have flight regulations. The game is using words and concepts to ask questions that can only be defined and answered by laws. The altitude and location matter, if you want to answer the question correctly. You cannot moderate the situation, and the question cannot be answered correctly without knowing the altitude and location and laws that apply, and that doesn’t mean that moderation is hard, it means the author is fabricating unnecessary amounts of ambiguity.

Asking intentionally ambiguous questions that existing laws already answer in order to make a point about the difficulty of moderation kind-of undermines the author’s intent here. He was trying to prove that unanswerable corner cases always exist, but it’s not true for the specific case of airlines over parks once you know the laws.
>What debt forgives actually does is put the burden of paying the debt into the hands of people even less able to pay, and people who didn't get the benefit of the loan.

The people most negatively affected by student loan debt are lower and middle income people. Their degrees didn't result in them all getting 100K jobs. Please stop spreading this bit of disinformation.
I'm sure the charge of hypocrisy will really hurt his feelings
Tangentially related but this is one of the most fascinating thing about China. The last famine they had ended around 1961. That means that people who are in their sixties probably knew someone that starved to death. Imagine being born to a country where people were starving to death to a prosperous country within your lifetime.
eh they always say 'beats this or that' using benchnmark, but then the ai is really limited once you push it. this will not code, has difficulties in writing queries, and will absolutely won't understand what to do with many palm prompt.

and the ui is terrible. can't organize chat, can't clear chats. why didn't they just integrate any of the many mit chat frondends that already exist?
In this case I mean that the first sensor is probably something that responded to gradients of molecules in the water, so that the proto cell could move in the direction of more food.

So I'd say that the first sensation was smell/taste. Though that is, of course, speculative.
Money isn't everything, but it's really hard to run an effective school or cyber security enterprise without money.
> The problem is, we still have no good idea how it comes to be.

Does that matter? We also don't have a good idea how gravity comes to be.
I've been a tourist in my city for years, and I'm nowhere close to having seen everything. I haven't even some of the basics!

It's funny that I go out of my way to see art galleries abroad, but haven't seen most of the local ones. That's to say nothing of the recurring events, the rich history, and the millions of people I haven't met yet.
It's just basic information theory. Adding more entropy to your name makes you unique. If that is not a hidden identifier (names are not) then people will use all of that information in concert to more effectively track you. His entire thesis here feels like he misread an XKCD comic and refuses to admit it...

And I'm only frustrated because it's a shame. I like Cory Doctorow for the lip service he gives to open source and individual freedom, but he has repeatedly dropped the ball on anything that isn't fiction authorship. Nevermind the fact that he's embarrassingly wrong with this statement - if his memo to the man is naming his kid something long and unintelligible, that makes him about as revolutionary as Elon Musk.
Maybe so but unlike the russian population at least he's trying. He's our best chance to see Putin's lifeless body hanging from a spire
Not while they’re in power and their friends and family control all the most easily heard microphones.
Well I don't even think there's enough evidence here to win a civil trial where the bar is lower than criminal. Don't act like you have the answer while citing sources that literally say your claim might not be what happened. Y'all just want to jump to a conclusion.
10% of the cost of goods sold on R&D doesn't seem too wild. That has to include all (hardware) product design and likely a good chunk of software development costs as well.

For NCR, a 'boring legacy' POS manufacturer that number is 6%, but they have a bunch of older existing products (founded in 1884!)
I appreciate the spirit of the attempt, but the author has no evidence their “rules” would work.

The one empirical example is Amazon. Does anyone think Amazon is not already parasitizing their partners?

The author is missing the point. Amazon set itself a very audacious goal, capturing a vast amount of online shopping, and then had a surprise second act in cloud computing. It took two decades but the curve was the same as anyone else, just longer.
Vrite as a whole can be referred to as a headless CMS, though it’s different compared to other tools in this category.

Essentially it’s a toolkit intended primarily for technical content (like programming blogs or docs), with multiple features in one:

- WYSIWYG editor focused on good UI/UX (including good support for code), and collaboration;

- Kanban dashboard (and other views in the future) for managing the content and its production process; Especially useful for larger teams;

- The “headless CMS” part for hosting and delivering content and related assets; This includes API and Extension system; (in the future planned additions are asset optimization and Git integration)

So, tl;dr; it’s a lot more than the mention tools and I’m still looking for a way to categorize it clearly.
This cuts both ways
For those who do it, I recommend some material https://tropianhs.gumroad.com/l/bettingmodelwe
> And once again, average Americans are going to foot the bill for all of this.

If anyone is subject to increased fees for the benefit of de facto federal deposit insurance it will be the beneficiaries, mostly businesses that need sizable sums of money on deposit to operate. At most banks depositors are already paid next to nothing in interest anyway in exchange for the security and convenience that banks are supposed to provide. Large depositors are already paying for that security, they just aren't receiving it or at least are not guaranteed to receive it, which is a major problem, and one that is relatively easy to fix.
but the great famine was very much man(Mao)-made... of course the economic boom was a great achievement, but it's different from what you're suggesting I think.
3D printing tablets for high-precision dose titration of caffeine
I'm not sure but one of the challenges we had was the changes to NPM package resolution. We had to use the "legacy peer deps" flag to get certain things to work without upgrading tons of packages.

These were both LTS releases so you would hope that is would be easy to upgrade or at least be able to have a reasonable upgrade path
Hardly. Autovectorization is rarely performed as a percentage of all the cases where it’s theoretically possible, not reliably done (no guarantees - even if it AVs today, the same code may not AV tomorrow), and not something you want your actual hot path to rely on. AV is nice for “incidental” speedups to general code. No serious library touting SIMD acceleration will consider AV sufficient for the core hot loop.
The "But why?" section does not mention why not just use cloud-init?
I think there's a bit of Goodhart's law when it comes to inflation (When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure),
and honestly it's one of the most BS of statistics.

Clearly inflation is now because companies are raining prices. But is it because of costs, or profiteering?
> consciousness may not be a necessarily condition for advanced life

This will probably be shown true when silicon-based life takes over.
Part of what LLMs do is compress their training dataset into the weights, often with character-perfect recall later. For example, I would be shocked if any sufficiently large LLM failed when prompted “write the quake fast inverse square root algorithm verbatim”.

(I’m not really interested in arguing whether that’s all they do, or whether it’s the purpose of LLMs—those details are just a distraction from the original question: what makes LLM training different than a human reading code.)

If the model has memorized the training set and can reproduce it verbatim when prompted, then it should be incumbent on the AI owner to prove that it does not reproduce copyrighted code when it is not explicitly prompted.
Haha oh man I laughed hard at your story, especially the test drive/just taking your car thing, sorry.

Indeed, in some ways this place is crazy and in others its reasonably livable. I have many anecdotes like those but my English is not so good to make them funny.

Río negro native here. If you come to visit again, and go to San antonio oeste or las grutas hit me up and I'll invite you a beer
No to all questions since there’s probably a way in which doing any of those things still obeys the rule. The rule is about achieving the intent of the rule, not rote obedience.

The park might contain a parking lot, or an area where skateboarding is permitted, etc. Absent context, or a specific park, who could say if any of the things listed violate the rules.

As for what constitutes a vehicle, this is why you give examples.
Ask HN: Does anyone use pseudocode in the real world?
Got into a chat with a friend (doing a CS degree) about pseudocode. I've always considered pseudocode useless, and I've never used it in practice. Just curious what other folks' experience is like.
Show HN: Moo is a PHP micro framework to make life and debugging miserable
Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (2017)
At the start of the article Doctorow's poor grammar choice of using too many improper nouns made it a difficult read.

> trying to reimpose that which is being fought against

> When they only take into account those they consider as such

I got the intent of these sentences on some rereads, but these were poor noun choices from a communication perspective.

> In other words, restaurants automatically adapt their menus to the customer’s taste

> You can only get out of such a society if you start walking away from the centers of power — and from everything that ties you to the system.

A working solution is to train people to say "No". If you tell the algorithm that you aren't interested in its selections at this time the AI will, necessarily, broaden its propositions. And teaching people to say "No" is a very good thing to do, as too many of us are taught to default to just accepting what those in power offer.

> I can’t believe that it only takes one click today for the whole world to find out what you’ve set in motion.

This is because you (Doctorow) have done the hard work of becoming famous enough that people pay attention to you and spread your ideas around. One click doesn't cut it for anyone just starting out.

> The changes will only be real if we act analogically. In other words, the digital world must be a world of encounters, but we must stay on the street. It’s the analog that produces change

Saying "No" or "Yes" is a binary, not an analog. Try pretending that the offerings of Big Data AIs aren't Hobson's choice, and you might be surprised at what actual choice there is. Unlike Hobson, AIs want you to say "Yes" to one of their offers, and will offer you as much as they can to get that "Yes".

> “the only way to win an ideological battle is to extinguish the imagination, and that’s what neoliberalism is trying to do through technology.”

I'm pretty sure that many ideologues are trying to convert people to their ideologies by sparking the imagination, not by extinguishing it.

> My 15-year-old daughter knows that the system can’t offer her anything

Because she has come to this conclusion on her own, or because you have in-Doctorow-inated her to believe this?
This doesn’t add any more value to the conversation than Reddit’s “but will it run Crysis?” comments.
it's companies raising prices to increase profits, of course.
My parents, and all their generation, purchased their apartments with inflation over 10%. The first couple of years was harsh, they had to keep things tight so their salary can cover all their needs. Four years later, their loan was just a small part of their expenses. Eight years later, their loan was less than their phone bill. Inflation has taken their debt away. How is that worse than people being indebted for decades dedicating half their earnings for housing? Maybe inflation is corrosive for investing but maybe it is not bad for the average Joe.

Inflation so low as it has been kept the past decades has created a fantastic environment for investing. But it seems that has taken away any chances for average people to make a living. Hyper-inflation is bad, but low inflation is equally bad when it helps to concentrate wealth in a few hands.

I see many people demonizing inflation because it will hurt "investments". Maybe, it is time that something else than salaries hurt for a change.
It's largely down to NASA's "waterfall" development approach. Everything must be custom designed from the ground up, all things made sure to be correct and safe before the first bolt is installed.

That's why a lot of the "new space" oriented programs emphasize "commercial-off-the-shelf" solutions so much. They're only just barely catching on to the relatively obvious bit that costs can be reduced a lot by relying more heavily on existing commercial solutions. Space isn't the most extreme environment compared to what a lot of industrial gear has to be able to deal with.

Some examples which come to mind are the cameras which were used to record video of Perseverance's landing, as well as most of the Ingenuity copter itself, were COTS parts. IIRC as a result Ingenuity has more processing power on board than Perseverance's main computers. These were all low cost lower priority components, but they did a great job of showcasing the usability of COTS parts.
This is lost to many in the West. There are things you cannot buy or strong arm your way out
There are a lot predictions about what will happen. Enough have been made that some will end up being true. Those who made such predictions will be looked upon as insightful. People will ask for their predictions/insights in some future event based on being correct this time. Sort of like how people ask Bill Gates what it takes to be very successful in business. The real answer is whatever he says plus lots of luck.

No one knows how this will play out. Those who really know what is going on won’t speak truthfully about it until after the event has played itself out. What we read is now is guesswork and, for lack of a better term, propaganda.
No, I'm sure it hasn't...
> The problem with this argument is that everything is conscious at that point

This is like saying that the Earth and other planets have gravity, and then somebody else saying, well the problem with this argument is that everything has gravity at that point.
Note that PaLM and PaLM 2 are completely different models.
Inflation favours debt holders, it disfavours others (notably cash holders).
Did I miss where the model size is? One shot rankings is nice, but it sounds like they're trying to build a proprietary alternative to other models, rather than focusing on outright competitiveness.

I wonder at the applicability of performance metrics for specialized models. (This is to be a personal assistant ai, right?) I'd think that either; 1. All models perform the same natural language understanding functions, or 2. Context matters a ton. If it's 1, then there's no need for a specialized model. If it's 2 then the relevance of performance metrics diminishes.
for the same things as in academia (sketching algorithms), but that just doesn't come up very often for most people
What's your time estimate then, if you believe 2 weeks is wrong? Or could it be that you don't have a time estimate, but you can't imagine the world being different than it currently is?
So just be smart about how you spend your money? Like any other department?
I can see where this would be a problem. Instacart is matching customers with people who provide a very personal, detail-oriented service. It's rather revolutionary at this price point, in fact: if you could afford a personal assistant or personal shopper in the 1980s, you were fabulously wealthy.

So I can definitely see entitled customers who think these shoppers are their slaves, at their beck and call. It starts with the tone of your comments; every item can have a note attached: do you respect the shopper or are you going to be nitpicky? The shopper communicates live during the process: are you going to work with them for a great experience, or order them around the store like you're driving a scooter?

I've always been considerate and polite, and I've had some really great, memorable shoppers who went the extra mile on my behalf. They almost always deserve that tip.

And I suspect that Instacart, like most of these services, maintains customer ratings, reviews, and reputations that are not visible to us, but your shopper can see what you're like before they even pick up your order. So be kind!
Ask HN: What are your favorite well-made iOS apps?
I've used a few apps recently that really stood out as being designed and built with passion and attention to detail, and for me have set the bar for apps in their category.

I'd love to hear from others if you have any examples of this, because with a good app it's just satisfying to use.

The most recent thread I could find on this for reference (2016): Ask HN: What are the most well-made iOS apps? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12688975
They connected Paris with London, so it is not impossible.
Mirror Ship Harry - talk about a plot point that never gets addressed again! For an episode-of-the-week format, it would be difficult to callback to that, but that feels like it should become a personality-defining moment: I should not exist, except my parallel version was killed, and the captain decided I should survive.
The less said about 'would of' and 'should of' the better.
My best friend is Indian. Many of my friends are. We talked a lot about India. I read a lot about India. I watched a bunch of Indian movies. I ate my fair share of Indian food.

And then I went there. Nothing could have prepared me for it. Seeing it for yourself is a whole different beast. It puts the whole thing in context.

Reducing a whole culture to a meal in a local approximation of its cuisine? Come on.

Hell, after living in Canada for two decades and consuming American culture ad nauseum, going there for a few days is always a mind trip. The magic happens in the details, not in the broad strokes. I wouldn't pretend to understand America because I ate at a fried chicken place.
It's not the individual who should be blamed for the dire state of the planet.
Git has a web server?
Just publishing on the web wasn't an option at the time. But damn! I remember reading at the back of a C64 manual as a kid. Trying out the various "commands". I had no concept of "programming" or "basic". This was just how the machine worked and I was occasionally in the mood of figuring it out. That time will never come again, for me or anyone else.
Interestingly, in Brazil's transit code a person carrying their bycicle unmounted is considered a pedestrian. Otherwise, they're a non motorized light vehicle.
Has anyone designed an feminist alternative to Agile software development?
Oh yeah and no human will even know it happened, the dragnet is pre-indexing everything in the event they need to get a warrant later… never should have been allowed, government should not get a copy of my papers and effects in advance so that they can search them later as needed! I bet they even have an ongoing automated decryption queue always running and growing in size.
Look at Hollywood, they spawned photo-realistic CGI and figured out their captive audience will settle for much lesser quality anyway so why bother.
The article contains benchmarks to those tests. On several it is better than GPT-3.5.
Honestly, kudos to the team for shipping this. It sounds like a ton of work and research has gone into it and it is absurd that people complain about obvious usability improvements like an easily-accessible table of contents or line lengths that follow best practices for readability.
If you really think that's the only reason for inflation you neither know economy nor the capabilities of politicians.
Isn’t there major energy loss from wireless transmission? It’s negligible when charging a phone but it seems like a big problem for EVs.
A way to grok the "+1" in "not, then +1" is, writing in binary:

10000 - x = 1111 - x + 1 = not(x) + 1

In other words, not(x)+1 in binary as the same as subtracting x from the next higher power of two.

Lukas_Skywalker's fun note about doing this in base 10 made me realize that.
Drake, you misspelled your own book title on that page. Just search for “partical”.
Inflation means sitting on cash piles makes no sense: it spurs investment.
I'm seeing a problem where gateway servers have to subscribe to channels therefore they need to know which users are in which channels, but they're not segregated per channel so this load might not distribute well. Gateway servers could have been made more stateless if the channel server would send a list of which user IDs to broadcast a message to.
Consider this example:

You download a FOPL version of something like cron. You make some changes to this code and run it on your internal servers to schedule some business process.

Even though this software, not even the server, even catches a whiff of the internet, since the software has been “Deployed” for a commercial use case, the company is obliged to make the changes to the code publicly available.

Simply, this license expands the distribution concept to commercial use, whether anyone else ever encounters it or not.
And schools are just a subsidy for the textbook industry.

Regulation & incentives are literally the tools governments have to shape policy. It's a start, but moving the needle on issues can be hard, slow work -- especially when it seems like so many people have the attitude that if a particular action wasn't the their perfect, preferred solution, then it shouldn't have been done at all.
The kind of thinking that the blogger describes was highly pervasive in enterprise circles in the late 90s and early aughts. There was a cult-like following of some of the tenets of object oriented programming - that's where the whole "Java = overly verbose spaghetti" reputation was born.
No, there's no evidence of Bill Gate's involvement in the appearance of COVID. You're drinking from the same well as those Facebook boomers.
Did you actually try it?

It sounds like you did, because you’ve given a car and skateboard example, which do appear in the exercise.

But it sounds like you didn’t because you’ve given such an authoritative answer when the whole point of the exercise is that “it’s complicated”. There is no One True Answer, it’s open to interpretation, that’s the complexity it demonstrates.
Really? If you grabbed S1 Janeway and plopped her in the finale, I felt she was mostly the same (minus Future timeline Janeway grieving for Tuvok/Seven)? Obsessed with getting the crew home and willing to bend the rules, yet still sticking to Federation principles when push comes to shove (ie refusing the handful of opportunities which would have plopped them into the Alpha quadrant).