skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's exactly the same because an LLM-based English=>Python translator is nowhere near as deterministic as compilers and assemblers. And English, being a language
whose tokens are subject to wide interpretation of meaning, may be a source of byzantine complexity. Then, of course, there is the "moving target" introduced by model upgrades and evolution in the public crawl dataset rewiring the neural network for the model's world knowledge.

There is a reason Python, as high level as it is, is still defined using an eBNF / PEG grammar[1] with only 35 or so keywords[2]. And there is a reason the Python bytecode interpreter is "just" a while loop on a minimal set of instructions[3]. All of this leads to a remarkable level of determinism, and determinism is your friend when trying to get code right. I haven't yet seen the equivalent in LLMs. I don't think it's an entirely intractable problem, but I'd be hesitant to leap straight into English language as a stable API today. I think code copilots are the right place to start. And maybe even copilots that help not just with code suggestions, but also with debug suggestions.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#ke...

[3]: https://devguide.python.org/internals/interpreter/
Nothing has changed in the 50-odd years since Bill Gates wrote his open letter. We still have the two camps of Closed-Source and Open-Source.

Open-Source still has the edge where knowledge is concerned. Closed-Source still has the edge where profits are concerned.
I'm not 100% on my reasoning, so I welcome alternate explanations. I suspect that a lot of part-time or odd-hour positions were most impacted by WFH. I'm guessing many of these have gone remote. Moreover, headway was cut back during the pandemic so folks who absolutely had to go into their positions may have invested in a car and don't feel the need to get back on transit because traffic off-peak is not too bad.
I had to throw my VPN on to see this, PornHub in Virginia now shows a message by Cherie Deville against age verification as it's currently being enforced.
The insight into publisher royalties is interesting for sure. Though I will say regarding ansible, I just can't like it. I rather use a python library like netmiko for configuration of vm's.
DNS overrides during failure times and cloning those repos in GH Enterprise would be next logical next step I guess
How do you define ‘power’. The unique aspect of government controls is that we grant the government a monopoly on force (imprisonment, seizure of property, etc). That is not the case with private actors and that is a significant and consequential difference in ‘power’.
Because it's further away. And lots of older applications (e.g. vim) were designed when most keyboards had the escape key placed in the same spot where the caps lock key is today.
Yes, as I said, the APIs exposed in regex-automata give a lot more power. It's an "expert" level crate. You could pretty easily build a scanner-like abstraction and get pretty close to the Python code.

I posted this because a lot of regex engines don't support this type of use case. Or don't support it well without having to give something up.
Yeah I like it too most other mac terminals have ugly text rendering, or are noticeably slow, or have a complex config DSL I don't want to learn. Stock terminal mangles ansi colors sometimes but is otherwise great.
Have they recovered in the bay? I thought the whole bay is still much less traffic due to WFH.
one of the main issues with Human languages is also one of it's strengths: flexibility. it would be a nightmare to test/assure quality, and worse, for security/auditing.
As such, I don't think it's going to empower business managers to query data in English, without the need for Developers.
> Being born black is a disadvantage to your life outcome.

You're sick and your mind is diseased. I'd like to see you try to tell this to a black child.

We’re okay helping handicapped people because it’s not racist. Duh. I’m okay helping disparaged kids get into college by subsidizing them with financial aid programs and creating compassionate admission standards. Why limit it to black people?

The supreme court seems to agree that it’s time to move forward and focus on the real issues, not the racial scapegoat.
What happens if USA joins the Euro in 2088?
> Congress passed legislation intended to make life better for people allergic to sesame seeds. Instead, it made things worse.

> The bill, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law by President Biden in 2021, requires manufacturers to label sesame on their products starting this year.

> In response, some companies began adding sesame to products that hadn’t included it in the past—saying it was safer to add sesame and label it, rather than certify they had eliminated all traces of it.

> People with sesame allergies say the result is fewer sesame-free food options, as well as new and unexpected risks from sesame in foods they used to eat without worry.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sesame-allergy-sufferers-wanted...
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The San Diego Trolley used (haven’t been there in 20 years) to be crawling with cops; you’d be hard pressed to do a longish ride without seeing at least one.and they responded fast.

The latter being important; if you see a situation, report it, and see it handled it fades away as a memory; if each time you see it it never gets resolved and you just leave, it stays as a bad memory.
In the sense that there are certainly people who could drive safely at 120 mph but we make the speed limit 70 mph because handling outliers isn't possible in a democracy with time being zero sum.
> We are a different generation of human beings with the power to create the world we want to live in.

i get your point but i'm of two minds about it because tbh thats easy to say when one is on the advantaged side....

doesn't it make sense that nation-states that have done direct damage to communities should be held liable, just as individuals?
If there were any quality journalism to be found and to be needed by people, posting headlines wouldn’t prevent them from clicking the link.
I'd be interested to know their math model expecting a certain percentage to not have a beneficiary exercise it once the original account holder passes away.
Classic VC bullshit.
Title is wrong. It is down 30%.
> Groups of people don't have guilt or automatic responsibility, only individuals do.

Companies and governments can be found guilty of wrong doing.

ChatGPT:

Yes, both companies and governments can be found guilty of wrongdoing. The extent and process of holding them accountable can vary depending on the jurisdiction and the specific circumstances involved. Companies can face legal consequences for actions such as fraud, environmental violations, or antitrust violations, among others. Similarly, governments can be held accountable through legal means, such as investigations, impeachment, or legal proceedings, for acts that are deemed illegal or in violation of their responsibilities. The nature of the wrongdoing and the applicable laws and regulations determine the process and consequences of holding them accountable.

Edit: Havard was ruled against as an organization. Of course organizations can be held responsible for what they do including the government.
> Discord screen share did not work at all. I guess the official app doesn’t support wayland.

This will probably get fixed somewhat soon. We have a branch with some work to improve screenshare on Linux, including xdg-desktop-portal support (via the implementation in webrtc), but it needs some more work before it's ready to merge and deploy. Unfortunately, the Wayland experience will still be worse than X11 when this lands because this branch also brings audio share to X11. We wanted to do the same for Wayland, but xdg-desktop-portal has no audio support and doesn't provide enough information to find the right audio source via pulse/pipewire manually.
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If they have long-term loans on their balance sheet of very long duration they are okay from a revenue-stream point of view. Current interest rates are still low from a historic point of view.

It could be a good hedge for them because if they have a lot of 30 year loans on the books, then they want a lot of low-liquidity deposits in case rates go up and the nominal value of the loans they have go down. 10 years of interest penalty is going to discourage people from withdrawing early. Also, it's probably not a bad marketing gimmick if they aren't going to issue too many of them.
Ad attribution is extremely difficult across any ad medium, especially while respecting user privacy.

You may see an online ad two weeks ago and buy the product today, how do you attribute that?
waypipe maybe?
I think the implication is that it's race warfare is a tool used by the "ruling" class to wage class warfare on the poor.
It is obvious to me that third-party sites are motivated to employ every trick to increase ad views. Google cannot show ads to bots, because it will be a fraud, but a third-party site can because they are in a different country and you won't hold them responsible anyway.
This is actually a fun one to point to. Replacing the Eastern span of the Bay Bridge happened recently, and has been one of the most expensive Californian infrastructure projects to date. It started with a price tag of $250 mil but it ended up costing $6.5 bil. In the meantime, BART has performed modifications on their tracks and has begun switching to new rolling stock, but it's been a lot cheaper than replacing the Eastern span of the Bay Bridge.
okay, chart shows: "activism & social themes" 44%, LGBTQ 24%, ... family 16%, etc, with the removal reason only being "mature" in 1.6% of the cases... and leads to the reasoning suggested being: "1) Virtue signal by people in positions of institutional power to voting-age parents interested in school choice, parental rights, and wedge social issues to the detriment of non-voting age students 2) Reject and exclude topics that challenge a perceived status quo from the public discourse (e.g. non-heteronormativity, non-cis identity, non-traditional gender roles, and non-Judeo-Christian books are targeted)"

this feels like "I don't understand evolution, and I can't let my kids understand it" from Futurama, but it's about civil rights or the existence of ⓣⓗⓔ ⓖⓐⓨ~
Is that miles total or commuting miles?

If its miles total, I would chock it up to people doing more leisure travel, seeing family etc.

I don't think RTO is in full swing in such force that its commuter miles, so I'd say you're seeing a big uptick in leisure travel right now, which makes sense, as more and more people are becoming comfortable with this again
Farebox recovery is so damn low that I can only think the fares remain as an excuse to kick homeless and other undesirables off who aren’t technically breaking any rules or laws.
Also, Gabies system for remembering passwords:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBnwHLMqtHWdgvhLyzcLtfrg...
Google has done the exact same thing with Google Search Partners for 15+ years. They never disclose who these search partners are, but are opted-in by default. Their performance is always around 5-10% of Google Search-- because they are random spam-search-type sites whose sole purpose is to serve ads.
Unless you're selling gold bars or boats, nobody want's to overpay to run next to Breitbart.
Only if you assume random victims of assault. That’s a pretty big assumption
DC is a state: of confusion, dismay, disarray.
Slavery systematically destroyed the family unit of slaves because it was a risk to the power structure. If there was any indication of healthy family structures forming they would split for children and men from women.
It's not just white people who argue this, though: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3040.Black_Rednecks_and_...
> Two cops on every train. One at every other station.

that will never ever happen.

I remember 15 years ago reading about how much BART police get paid, was supposed to be way up there to the point people got upset about it
Not to mention so very few families owned slaves back in the day. The way people talk, you'd think everyone had slaves - no, that was a very small minority of ultra-wealthy people.

What about people who's families immigrated here post-slavery? Their tax money has to pay reparations too?

Reparations is a non-starter. Any discussion or endeavor to push for reparations is a naked attempt to buy votes with lies.
teams of 2 or 1, self selecting. sometimes double up and compete on the same project with multiple implementations.
That could result in errors and features not working . Whole site downtimes are entirely SRE problems especially when static content like GH pages goes down.

This is more likely a network routing or some other layer 4 or below screw up. Most application changes would be rolling + canary released and rolled back pretty quickly if things go wrong
6/23/2003 --> 6/29/2023
Looks like the justices' expected illegality in 25 years was actually prophetic, 5 years from now in 2028 this has now all become illegal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger
Cops are expensive. You can run a bus line all day for the cost of 3 officers. If you want cops everywhere, aside from the fact that the HN demographic is much more open to this than lower income folks, you're gonna have to deal with a much more expensive transit system which will cost taxpayers more.

The disconnect is frustrating though. Middle and low income people do not trust the police. Don't believe me? Just listen in on any public meeting. Multiple community members and community groups call in to talk about how much they hate the police. Nobody calls in about how much they were helped by the police, unless they live in a wealthy district.
the cache subsystem might be smart enough to cache the first line, e.g. the size of the array etc, then pull the rest of array content from heap and cache the array as needed, should be fine to me, yes two cache misses instead of one at the beginning.
You laugh but what if a turkey sandwich caused all of this?
I’m going to guess that people still want to go to mixers and events and happy hours in SF and those still happen at the same time

If thats when peak hours are
Exactly. Amazon’s internal list of banned books gives a much more accurate impression of what ideas are suppressed in America than what gets taken off a school library shelf. A recent well-known example being When Harry Became Sally.
I think even your example is not actually proving GCD, just that the result is _a_ common divisor. E.g. it would succeed if GCD(a, b) = 1 for all a, b.
Sounds similar to https://dstack.ai/docs/
The meaning of "banned" can be misleading. When I looked into previous "banned books" data sets I found that some of the books were moved up an age level (e.g., from elementary school to high school) which is not what people think of when they hear the word "ban." Others were books that sounded religious in nature (e.g., I recall a book from the Christian publisher, "Zondervan") which is understandable for U.S. public schools.
There’s a lot of hobophobia in these comments.

Please remember that we are all one missed paycheck from smoking meth and jerking off on the train
It's insured, so...
Yeah it's wild that Google is trying to help disinformation outlets get around Check My Ads but I guess they need the money.
Right but say the mouse is a constant 1000hz. To get the most recent sample on the screen as quickly as possible you either need the entire rendering pipeline to run ridiculously fast (the 2000 fps example), render just in time before vsync with impossible accuracy, or bypass as many clocks and buffers as possible and blit the cursor with hardware magic. There’s a reason it’s still done this way after so many years of advancement
They eat unsweetened chocolate (usually marked 100% cacao these days) not so much cocoa powder which has the cocoa butter portion removed. Cocoa powder is pretty rough on its own. Unsweetened chocolate is an amazingly stable food source high in saturated fat which is way more stable and resistant to rancidity than seed oils or milk solids.
If any of that were true, this "secret cabal" that really runs the world wouldn't have allowed these things to be revealed in the first place. If they did, they're either inept because they couldn't see the scenario coming that you did or they don't actually control as much as you are suggesting they would (or don't exist at all).

This just comes across as conspiracy mongering. Yes, there will be people who think like that but those people already think like that. There wouldn't be some mass collapse in society or government. The most that would happen is people would be interested in the information released, acknowledge the government has secrets just like they did yesterday, and move on with life.
> Irregular bans tend to be ideologically driven. They are supplemental to and fall outside of the standard book exclusion process (e.g. standard exclusions prevent books that promote violent, hateful, or “mature/17+” topics from being placed on school bookshelves).

So that basically boils down to: "Most everyone agrees that mature/17+ content should be excluded and it regularly is. In contrast, irregular bans are for content that is not typically excluded or that falls beyond the lists of categories that would immediately spring to someone's mind when asked what types of content shouldn't be shown to kids."

On one hand, yeah, that's a subjective classification. Absolutely. On the other hand, anyone who argues that "I Am Rosa Parks" isn't an irregular ban is not really seriously engaging with that classification. There is a generally understood difference for most reasonable people between pornography and the history of Black activism (regardless of whether or not that portrayal of history is one that everyone likes).

And while blurry lines can be really problematic, to argue that censorship of adult/mature material grants carte blanch rights for governments and public school boards to exclude any book from school settings is to basically give up entirely on trying to find any way to protect 1st Amendment rights in lower education. You're really not even going to try to draw a line anywhere?

From the article:

> We did entertain the viewpoint from ban advocates that the books being banned are largely driven by age-inappropriate content. This viewpoint does not align with publisher provided maturity ratings as below:

> [...]

> Further, the particular age-inappropriate topics being referred to by ban advocates like violent or sexual content are specific to social violence and non-heteronormative sexual topics. Books that heavily feature heterosexual relationships and/or military violence are not being referred to by ban advocates nor are they disproportionally being targeted.

I have some sympathy for people who argue that these distinctions are subjective because blurry lines are how we get this type of censorship in the first place. Blurry lines are how we get people getting bolder and bolder about what books to exclude from libraries and curriculum. But that's not a defense of the current bans, if anything it's a warning to be even more careful about subjectively defined categories of censorship.

Especially when those categories are so clearly being expanded. I mean, come on, these books are obviously not getting excluded because they're too violent or too mature for kids. Even ban proponents are not arguing that; they're arguing that the books are "revisionist history", or that they're "propaganda", or that they're "unfair."

And yeah, that's pretty obviously an ideological ban and it's pretty obviously different from traditionally accepted categories of book bans around pornography and violence. We don't have to pretend that the motivations are a mystery; it is extremely clear why books on Rosa Parks and queer identity are getting banned from schools.
Quite a shift from Spez's original "we're not worried, really!"

Love or hate reddit, one really has to commend how quickly he's managed to utterly alienate the majority of the website and make its most ardent users want to look elsewhere
It's a pretty new topic in the US and studies are being conducted on this. AC Transit recently did one (I can link it if there's interest.) Indeed, farebox recovery is low enough that one of the main arguments for fare enforcement is to kick problem riders off. This is most impactful for operators who have to deal with the passengers in a way we riders do not.
how is AA fixing problem of crime in inner cities?

Absolute Majority (>75%) of beneficiaries from AA at Ivy League are kids of rich black people and rich immigrants from African continent

1. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/affirmative-action-helps-black-im...

2. https://www.jbhe.com/news_views/52_harvard-blackstudents.htm...
You have completely miss understood the complaint.

The complaint is about the FAA hold passenger items after the emergnecy is over while they "investigate"

The process should be

Evac -> Fire Dept clears the plane > Airline gets passengers there stuff

it should not be

Evac > Fire Dept > NTSB Looks at things > FAA Looks at things > Someone 3 years later Passengers get their things

because the FAA as the latter policy, people will be more prone to try to take their stuff, then if they knew once evacuated they would get their belongings before leaving the airport, not at some undetermined time later

FAA Policy increases the danger for everyone.
I’ve always thought that the jobs most “susceptible” to WFH are the traditional, 9-5 white collar jobs. Am interested to know if this is correct (outside of software industry, especially).
What exactly does Amazon have a monopoly in?

Online shopping? Nope - Walmart, Target, Overstock, and thousands of others.

Cloud hosting? Nope - Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, Digital Ocean, and several others.

Smart Speakers? Nope - Google, Apple, Sonos, and several others.
Not sure if this makes it more or less funny but that's almost verbatim a real prompt injection technique that actually worked earlier this year.
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I guess news outlets are realizing late that what they sold to the masses is largely the headline feed which is something the internet can re-aggregate for free. On the internet they can’t rely on gatekeeping the distribution to be their moat so they need regulation.

If it wasn’t Canadian outlet favouring, a generalized form of this bill would be like saying, aggregate feeds shouldn’t aggregate their competitor aggregate feeds for free.

I guess this could potentially make the ecosystem less organized around a few big sharing platforms, but I don’t feel like this helps a lot of the smaller outlets. It feels like it maybe just works for the big ones who already have a lot of mind share and can worry less about being linked to in a feed.
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"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

I... kind of hate this. I can understand it, but I hate it nonetheless. I don't think it can ever be a universal truth, though.

Of course, it does require discipline to know the difference between "the needs of the many" and "the needs of the corporate entity you're working for".
What causes the neutron to drip instead of beta decay? Isn't the neutron bound by the strong force, just like the proton? So why would it drip, but if some of the neutrons were actually protons, now it doesn't drip?
I had high hopes for NYC when they hired the new MTA guy before Covid. But then he got pushed out by Cuomo and it seems like he was prevented from carrying out the reforms needed to fix the subway properly. I highly doubt the state, which controls the budget, will ever make the subway free. I am doubtful they will even pony up the cash to perform the maintenance the system truly needs.