skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A car passing another at exactly 55mph while another car is going the same speed will take forever.

Why would either driver would try to pass the other if they are going the same speed? If they're not passing then they should move to the right out of courtesy. (And they're legally required to in some states.)

> The problem is that if you get too many people stacked up behind the truck who won't pass because they won't accelerate past a speed limit, nobody can pass and people will be trapped for hours at half the speed limit.

If the truck driver is traveling "at half the speed limit" at any point then it should be a simple matter for even the most principled drivers to pass them quickly and safely. Whereas if the truck driver is traveling near the speed limit then the line of people "trapped for hours" are also moving near speed limit which seems fine. Plus, drivers of slower vehicles (trucks, RVs, farm equipment) are often courteous and pull over occasionally to let other drivers pass.

So that leaves cases where someone is driving a bit under the speed limit and is unwilling or unable to move to the side to let others pass. I don't begrudge someone breaking the limit by ~5mph to pass in such a case, but I also don't mind being "trapped" behind someone who scrupulously obeys every single traffic law even if it slows my journey by a few minutes. That would certainly be preferable to the unsafe behavior I see out on the roadways on a daily basis.
That’s totally fixable, though. ReadyRunner handles it simply by scrolling all the way from the start, leaving space for the message to grow.
What's the scandal here? What law was broken, what rule violated? I can't tell...
Severance is a fantastic show.

I do also like For All Mankind, although its started to get a bit silly in later seasons. Season 1 is great however.
Only fake accounts that post news links.
Show HN: Quack, providing a link to beautifully rendered Markdown
Quack (Beta) is a simple utility to share a beautifully rendered version of Markdown text. We built it to scratch our own itch [1] and to test out an idea before building a whole persistent app [2].

We were definitely inspired by numbr.dev and txt.fyi (RIP) as we found both projects to be fun and fascinating. Yes, the links Quack provides are ginormous. Yes, they'll probably get too long to even work in some cases. That's the nature of the beast when compressing data into a URL.

We know that this isn't rocket science, but we like it!

[1]: https://goodenough.us/blog/2023-06-28-why-we-built-quack-bet...

[2]: https://goodenough.us/blog/2023-06-29-how-we-built-quack-bet...
The LLM's trained parameters are a lossy memory of their training data.
> Neither Valve nor potterharry97 were immediately available to respond to a request for comment.

I wanted to point out that journalists at least check their sources...
IIRC some med schools are getting rid of grades in favor of pass/fail. This makes it hard to tell which students are great and which ones barely passed.
Other thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524662
This is obviously nonsense because games and artists have been using AI and procedural generated content for decades, everything from textures, models, maps, animation, music and sound. Generative models are now even integrated in the NVIDIA drivers for upscaling and every photo you take with a recent samsung phone uses generative AI.

Just because now generative AI has made a significant leap doesn't mean its anything new. And copyright is irrelevant because models are clearly derivative works the same way artists remix existing works of art, if that were to change, copyright law would destroy the majority of all creative endeavors.
One explanation is that the officials involved are "true believers", not acting out of fear of pushback but out of their own values.
WTF. According to the press release, inflection-1 is not far from GPT3.5 or a instruction tuned LLAMA 65B in metrics. No mentions of products beyond chatbots on the website... And its worth $4B aleady? With Gates and Nvidia as investors?
I agree that there is nuance, but I think this is still accurate in terms of the ruling. Protected class discrimination is illegal in the absence of the compelling interest.

There are still tons of exemptions and hypocrisy, but in general you typical public university can not discriminate admissions based on sex, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, ect.

If a public university instituted a no-gays or no-immigrants admission policy it would be quickly struck down under the status quo, so there is no need to discuss that.

Im not sure how single gender schools fit into the whole scheme. is there a specific case about Wellesley I should look up? I didnt see anything about title 9 challenges on Wikipedia.
This is very misleading - the regulatory changes introduced by the ruling were 5-4 along ideological lines, even though the judgement in favor of the Sacketts was unanimous. In the case this year:

> The court voted unanimously to reverse the Ninth Circuit, but split 5–4 on the rationale. The majority opinion, by Alito, introduced a new test to define wetlands, which reversed five decades of EPA rule-making and limited the scope of the Clean Water Act's authority to regulate waters of the United States. Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the three liberal justices in agreeing that the CWA did not apply to the Sacketts' property, but argued that the majority's new definition was incorrect and will have significant effects on regulated waters.
This sci-fi writer seems to get a lot of air time where people interview him about AI. I think these people, in trusting him to know how AI works, may have forgotten how to distinguish fiction and reality. It's like thinking you can learn business lessons from watching Mad Men.

His main problem is that he's essentially doing one of those "tech won't save us and we need to overthrow capitalism" arguments; people just don't accept problems can be fixed unless that solution somehow punishes an evildoer. It's not true though, tech is going to save us and we'll just keep on being vaguely unhappy about this.
Emad (Stability AI CEO): “Largest H100 order I've seen is 80k”
I genuinely don't get why the race thing is part of the equation.

In the words of Chief Justice John Roberts, the US fought a civil war to end racial discrimination. In his opinion, he argued that affirmative action which is a race based policy is logically incompatible with the Equal Protection clause.

Affirmative Action was always about race. The US historically and systematically discriminated, disenfranchised, and disadvantaged slaves and children of slaves. The problem with race based policies like Affirmative Action is (a) like Roberts argues it is illogical to fix historical racial discrimination with modern racial affirmation (b) you have unintended consequences like discrimination against Asians (c) how do you even define race in today's hyper connected world? e.g., Is Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, an African-American? Are recent immigrants from West Africa also African-American? Race conscious policies are generally distasteful because you then dwell into how many generations of your ancestors were from X continent and what percentage you are of Y race.
The rock star thing is a bit creepy.
I'd like to be good at my job but not have the job turn into my entire life. Why does the conversation around tech imply that software jobs are either grey prisons or stress balls? Methinks reality is a bit more complex, but i'm just an undergrad.

Same thing with math academy honestly.
Yes, definitely. The first three chapters would be more than enough for that: 1) An Awk Tutorial, 2) Awk in Action, and 3) Exploratory Data Analysis. For most people who just want to use AWK for one-liners on the command line, you can stop there. The rest of the chapters are about writing larger (still small! but not one-liner) programs in AWK to create reports, little languages, and experiment with algorithms.
Why is it foolish? I get the cynical attitude around not feeling like you're being taken advantage of; feeling like a fool. Is that the core reason? It's the sentiment (nothing wrong with that)

I ask because while I don't reject this position, isn't there something to be said for intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation: one's internal notion of excellence, pride, discipline, respect, mastery, craft, grit... insert various honoring-self words.

Seems precarious to me, to let external dictate ones concept of value. Btw, I suffer from "doing my best" so that's why I'm curious, I am not shilling for BigCo.
Fully agree, if you complain about some specific usability pain point you encounter as a user, you are providing valuable feedback and you shouldn't be dismissed with a handwawy "oh yeah ? Well, are you even donating ?"

It's almost an admission of guilt
> I just saw the stats from a medical school— I believe it was UCSF but correct me if I’m wrong—

Given that affirmative action was banned at UC schools in 1996, I suspect that you're mistaken about at least the school in question.

Which, it should be noted, means that we've accrued ~25 years of data about the results of such a ban. And the answer is that it's bad: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-31/californ...
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System

in particular WGS-84

From what I remember there's also a 'hill' in the Pacific.
Look, you have a large stream of pure functions that exchange immutable data. There is a place where you can thread in the effects, and it's not entirely like using >>=, but after it, it's immutable data and pure functions again.

It's very different from jQuery and the callback hell, or from any two-way bindings all the way to Visual Basic.

It teaches you to value immutability and purity, to crave it (then comes Ramda, etc).

Also, Promises are not entirely monadic, and `async` is not entirely the do-notation, but you can use a lot of monadic approaches, and reap some of the benefits.
At a friend's company, the CEO had a calendar invite of "Fire Dan", for April 1. Dan went to confirm it was an April Fools' joke. It wasn't!
That list doesn't even contain "Not a carcinogen". So basically I don't take it seriously at all.
>> While Canada's bill may not be well-tuned, it is a welcome first attempt.

I normally agree with release early, collect data and iterate. I'm not sure the law, with a bill of this impact, dependent on a bunch of politicians with obvious bias, who just went on summer vacation for 3 months, falls into this category.
KDE? Sure it is.
I demand royalties for my shit posts!
We share a similar dislike for media news companies.. and Google. Like i said, i find the media companies boring and they abdicated a while ago being the "fourth" power.
I might also not understand all the consequences of the bill as well.
> Tesla strongly encourages providers to only collect data they need, limited to frequency that they need.

If only...
I think that using uniform price auctions for nvidias troublesome 3080 launch would have been beautiful, same for other things that have issues with scalpers and whatnot
Google is stopping to show results for news outlets, so everything is fine, right? What else do you criticize them for?
I'd say yes, keep going with them.

This kind of flubbing seems annoying when it happens, but it's just that -- not a sign of dishonesty or intentional neglect -- and far from the worst kind of stuff that companies do in hiring process (all too frequently). In fact it may be a simple matter of someone hitting the wrong button.

Plus (as in any social interaction) you gain slightly in traction with the other party when you forgive them for small mistakes like this.

If they drop more balls on the way you might reconsider, though.
I got my CPL the same year my first kid was born. The procedure/checklist culture transferred really well between baby tasking and training.
> It's like relying on a calculator. You still need mental math skills to know that 91 * 10 can't equal 2511. Similarly, when GPT starts hallucinating, it helps if you have a high sensitivity to smelling it out.

Well, at least my calculators don't have this error rate GPT4 still does. Especially for seemingly simple things like a command flag, I have zero trust if GPT doesn't give me something that will eventually erase all my data.
I'm skeptical that such explicit summaries are the only thing social networks display. Even if that is currently the case, it would be relatively trivial for a company the size of Meta to generate and show their own summary.
"inverse life insurance" that's an interesting way to describe a tontine
The programming might be straightforward. Trying to persuade the product owners to do it is a different matter.
The SC is, by design, a little undemocratic. They're a check against the more democratic parts of the government, with the limitation that they basically can only make things legal. Since the default is that people are free to do whatever, laws can only restrict people's abilities to do stuff. The Supreme Court gets to shoot down laws, so they can only let us do more stuff.
I don't visit reddit anymore so I need to see more substantiated claims before I give this any thought.

Besides my already established biases towards AI: It's threatening to creative endeavors, not because it exists, but because it will impact the earning potential of creatives.
The interest in Mars shows a lack of imagination. Mars is a tiny planet and it is at best going to be a sideshow compared to Earth.

This paper outlines a plan to build a habitat with a larger population than the Earth by disassembling the dwarf planet Ceres

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07487.pdf

It is not easy but it is a much larger prize than Mars and it is a straight line to colonization of water and carbon rich outer solar system and interstellar bodies. A species that masters that and deuterium-deuterium fusion could very well make it to the next star but they might very well stop at a rouge planet along the way.

That type of colony has prospects for manufacturing and shipping solar sail spacecraft all over the solar system (say you want to block out 0.5% of sunlight on Earth) whereas I've never seen an export product proposed from Mars.

Remember that most of the habitable space in the universe is in the large oceans that exist under the ice in generic outer solar system and (likely) interstellar bodies and if we were to modify our bodies and metabolism some way it might be to become creatures that can live in those habitats.

That we think otherwise is just our chauvinism of starting out on a very rare inner solar system body that's just slightly less dry than typical.
Just tax big companies more liberally, in general and everywhere. No need to target so specifically, e.g. there is so much value in all the data that citizens all around the world are providing, almost for free… maintenance costs for supporting usage are low in comparison, check yearly investor reports for profits.

Then we’d not only have enough financial resources to subsidize a free and healthy press but also for other worthy endeavours like better health care, open source software, science, etc.

All without hampering with basic pillars of the web.
"I can sue the government if they do something that jeopardizes my business without a solid reason."

No, you can't. Maybe in Finland or someplace like that.
This seems to be a very common experience. I suggested booking an AirBNB for a team off-site a few months ago and heard half a dozen variations on it from a ten person team: code wrong and no host overnight, blatantly misrepresented properties, toilets overflowing upon entry, no power, etc. I haven't travelled much in a good number of years so I was very surprised how much the situation had changed.
How is it impossible? There are no rules barring women from playing college football. They can try out for the team like any other student, and if they're good enough then they'll get playing time.
No one. That's why I commented to make the point that Google should not refuse to crawl commercial content.
Chapter 1 of the SICP book says that the main reason it uses Lisp is its convenience in manipulating procedures as data.

There is a "JavaScript Edition" of SICP. The preface says ECMAScript 2015 enabled a close match by adding lambda expressions, tail recursion, and block-scoped variables and constants.

It doesn't mention much downside except that JavaScript's "rigid syntactic structure complicated the implementation" of some programming language design book material.
Running an instance of github enterprise requires like 64GB of ram. Its an enormous beast!
So if I give away milk to convince people to buy my cheese, that means the milk isn't free?
People are so often surprised when the money in an industry funds an industry group. It's especially egregious in the defense industry when people turn it into conspiracy theories saying like "this think tank is a puppet because they got money from the people with money."
There aren't that many wheels that need inventing, even back in the so-called rockstar era.

> Two, the software talent market is bifurcated. There is basically commodity development of crud apps, and technically complex novel development.

This I think is the source of most of the wheel invention. Someone pays a good deal of money for 'talent' they do not actually require, and they end up working at cross purposes. Assign someone with cleverness to work on a crud app, and they're bound to try to reinvent something, if not to keep their resume fresh, at least to fight the boredom.

But it's not bifurcation, it's trifurcation. It's not build or invent, it's build, buy, or invent. We are too many of us writing applications that were never really needed in the first place. Not for any single reason, but a whole host of them, from empire building, to rent seeking from people who could have made a tool that adapted well to customers, but saw much more money in keeping them engaged with you instead of operating on their own steam. Open source is also driven by a lot of motivations, but 'your own steam' is a pretty compelling one.
Can someone ELI5 the argument for the bill?

My impression is it's something like "news websites provide content that creates engagement which drives ad revenue, and the news websites want a piece of that revenue."

Is my understanding correct? Also, I can see how it applies for Facebook, how does it apply to Google?
Again, they don't have to make assumptions. They can have their own engineers provide due diligence. These are people who can trivially afford that level of care on an experimental submersible.
In the right to privacy is so broad that it applies to abortion, it should also apply to self-medicating yourself with narcotics. I'm not saying that decriminalization of drugs is a bad thing, but it's something that obviously shouldn't be decided by the Supreme Court.
Actually I fear that people that say this are doing worse than anthropomorphizing.

Often rather than claiming human aspects to the machine, they are going further, and claiming machine aspects to the human.

Using mechanistic analogies for explaining the human body or mind isn't new, but as machines become better and better at imitating humans, those analogies become more seductive.

That's my rant; the danger with 'AI' isn't so much that humans are enslaved by machines, but that we enslave each other -- or dehumanize each other -- with machines.
Is your company's product a web application? While looking for jobs, maybe try looking into WebGL or WASM to see if you can apply your interests in a way that you cab still do graphics work at your company in the meantime.
Found my answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/14hyn3n/pink_qrcode_li...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release...
If writing is a form of thinking, and a picture is worth a thousand words, does drawing (instead of writing) give a 1000x boost to thinking in any way?
“Amazon had 38% of online retail market share”
I would recommend dabbling in different fields and writing open source stuff. If you like the work, you’ll probably build something cool that may get you hired. If you don’t like it, drip the project and try something else.

I got really into options trading and built a paper trading site that eventually got acquired (for actual money!), and that’s been the talking point of every interview since I sold it.

If you decide you like robotics and you build a library that does fast matrix multiplication leveraging webgl or something, I think a lot of people would be very interested in at least having a conversation with you at that point. People who can “get things done” are always valuable.
I understood basically 0 of this.
You don't need a monopoly to engage in anti-competitive behavior. Ffs. Antitrust isn't necessarily about monopolies. How is that so hard to understand?
They call #hash[(a . b)] modern? Maps should be a first class citizen with first class syntax and not ... that.
I think there really needs to be a micro-transaction mechanism on the web, but unfortunately it was needed ten years ago and there still isn't one.
"Immediately available" could mean "we sent out the email right before we pressed submit". That's better than nothing, but it's still not journalism.
This is bad and only getting to get much worse. The opening paragraph just grazes the issue but doesn’t bring it up in the rest of the article:

> The US Forest Service deputy fire chief had been deployed thousands of miles from home to battle an out-of-control blaze in the wooded bogs and swampland of Alberta, Canada.

These bogs and swampland are nothing like California. These are ecosystems so wet and cold most of the year that the detritus doesn’t fully decompose and instead builds up into a layer of peat meters thick that has been growing since the glaciers started receding. Imagine millions of square miles of wetlands and forest sitting on top of the largest contiguous carbon sink on the surface of the planet… and it burns so well humans have used it as a source of cheap and dirty fuel since ancient times.

This is it: this is one of those climate change death spirals. As the summers get hotter and drier, the peats dries out and becomes combustible. When it burns, it further dries out surrounding peat, increasing the amount of fuel available instead of burning it away. It can even burn underground between fire seasons, surviving rainy seasons! There is no stopping it and active control measures like controlled burns will do nothing but make it worse. Fire breaks? Can’t dig deep enough. Suppressant? Won’t penetrate the top layer of peat.

Siberia shares much of the same problems with peatlands and it’s been going rapidly downhill since the massive wildfires started in the early 2000s. Since 2010 [1], things have rapidly accelerated and now giant wildfires rip through Siberia on an annual basis. Canada is starting to enter that same death spiral.

When it comes to climate change I’m more of a techno-optimist than a doomer but this is one of those consequences that we can’t possibly stop, only mitigate. These fires are going to be the new normal for peatland ecosystems the world over. We should all get used to a northern hemisphere wrapped in smoke parts of the year.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires
My understanding is that they didn't can AA whole cloth - but that race cannot used as a consideration in admissions.
Ask HN: Google Glass alternatives just for reading?
I want a pair of glasses that allow me to read articles, watch YouTube tutorials, and maybe even read PDFs as I do laundry, cleaning, and other house chores. I'm still pissed off at Google for shutting down their Google glass project. I've been searching for alternatives, and I found a few options, but they're all geared towards corporations, and definitely not affordable for ordinary people like me. I've been thinking about 3-D printing, my own smart glass, but the resources that I found online are too old and they don't meet the requirements that I just mentioned above. I was just wondering if you have created your own or if you know any alternatives.