skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Well, we've been learning about `conflict and civilization` for six months, and you've been trying to build a better trebuchet for a while but in order to for you to improve it any more I'm going to have to teach you this thing called calculus".

Where do you find enough teachers to staff a nation full of secondary schools who can effortlessly move from competently teaching history to competently teaching calculus? I don't think that's realistic.
Yeah, the 200k+ salaries have only recently became available to much of the country thanks to the proliferation of remote work. Not everyone is willing to make the sacrifice of living in the bay area for those faang salaries. There are more important things in life than money once you earn enough to take care of your needs.
This is totally ridiculous. China is literally committing genocide. They are kidnapping innocent people and harvesting their organs.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Pett#/media/File:What_if_...
I use 1080p everyday... on purpose. How else am I going to get 144+ FPS when gaming?
It would be beneficial to your understanding if you read the article. The title is slightly misleading.

> Even though the dataset used for the unofficial record goes back only to 1979, Kapnick said that given other data, the world is likely seeing the hottest day in “several hundred years that we’ve experienced.”
Y'all sound like us Texans saying it's a nice Fall we're having this Winter
No, my argument is that / is completely useless and is a false signal in HTML, it really is just ignored. I never argued that it makes anything easier.

An unclosed <picture> doesn't automatically become valid, but at least there's nothing suggesting that it can be done.

PS - VS Code does not. Sublime Text does not.
How would one approach calculating the "average temperature" of something as large as a planet?

If you were to ask a child in a maths class, they might suggest taking temperature measurements across all of the planet, then calculating the numerical average of all those values.
> To be fair, broadcasting your hardware via topology isn't what I consider a safe practice.

Ah yes, security through obscurity.
Give people a thermostat to play with and there will be fights.
It will happily translate simple phrases into Chinese and automated translation software can read it back. As other commenters are saying the tokenizer works on bytes so a single Chinese character will be made of multiple tokens just as some English words are made of multiple tokens. GPT doesn’t see characters it sees bytes. Probably it would do better with a encoding scheme for the characters that was designed around some sort of logic or consistency, but it can go far with just memorization
Again this what I meant by we being too cooky. You're speaking about taking a water bottle, fill it with CO2 and use it to represent the entire planet.
I've written HTML for at least 20 years and far prefer the JSX syntax. It's simpler to learn and remember and has clearer whitespace behavior. JSX doesn't need to confirm to HTML5. Given the web's backwards compatibility requirements, something like JSX is the most successful way to create a stricter subset.
Mastodon Release v4.1.3
You mean "more willing to ostracize and marginalize those who point out obnoxious or harmful behavior", I think. Now everyone who can't read a room has an entire infrastructure helping convince them they're a martyr if someone points out they're acting like an asshole.
"they" didn't.

a GOP-controlled congress did, and that party remains the most opposed to section 230
> Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.

Maybe this actually IS, the natural way to grow and die for a global social network
I think you’re suggesting that some redundancy you get by accident — by having two ISPs — is better than the redundancy a single ISP could engineer.

That’s certainly possible in specific cases, but not a very good general principle to rely on. One CF could very well be better than two given ISPs.
Indeed, I lived that analogy. The best part is when someone says, "but what about ocean acidification?" or some other concern. That's why it's not whole-assed.
I dunno, I think the number will increase above dozens. They certainly won't start out doing dozens a year, then pare it down to one or two, and eventually realize the don't even really need it. More likely, the number of uses per year will creep up, until eventually it's not as controversial as it used to be, at which point it'll jump dramatically. As a comparison, in the U.S., no-knock warrants were controversial when they were first implemented, and they were stated as being only for very special circumstances—ya know, terrorists and such—and now they happen about 70,000 times a year, mostly for dangerous activities like marijuana possession or distribution. The ratchet only goes one way, which is why it's dangerous to grant the premise of "we'll only use this in exigent circumstances, we pinky swear".
“gets happy over their character”?

You mean their virtual character becomes happy because of the virtual sports car they now drive?

Tricking people to confuse their selves, possessions and lives with a simulation is some genius marketing. How did they pull this off?
Kind of - crack downs on "obscenity" always come from the right and rarely if ever from the left. For the most part, everybody seems to agree than "obscenity" should be an exception to freedom of speech, although there's quite a bit of disagreement on what constitutes it.
I’ve got lots of people asking. I do demos of it for people who contact me via the info in my profile.

I do have to make a slide deck or web page about it, I think there’s a lot of information that would be useful to other people who might want to try something similar but I have to make up my mind about directions for it to go.

On one hand I like it as an RSS reader and there is a direction where it gets mashed up with a bookmarks manager and is a sort of “consumer” product with the serious caveat that a self-hosted version is going to require you to classify maybe 200 articles for it to start really learning, it performs great with 1000 judgements and improves to around 8000 or so. There are techniques that could improve the “cold start” but they are not so interesting to me personally because I am swimming in judgements (although I could certainly subset the ones I have to do lots of experiments.)

There’s also a possible “pro” product which would be more configurable and aimed at say, professional patent searchers, recruiters, job seekers, people doing literature reviews and meta analysis and such.

There’s a definite tension between adding the features I want and doing the work that (I imagine) would make it useful for others, over time I am working on the architecture so I could put the features that I don’t want to share with others (like a mildly dangerous “engagement” model that I think many people would find annoying, social media share buttons for obscure platforms, etc.) into plugins and also get the data structures right so it can be forked w/o breaking the database.
I winced hard at the $70 price tag on Tears of the Kingdom - but damned if I didn't get more than my money's worth. One of the things that makes that game so fun is that the whole thing is just there in front of you and you are largely allowed to approach the game however you want. One of the best games ever in terms of respecting the player's intelligence and creativity - just gives you a set of tools and says "fuck around and find out."
> p.s. are you hiring?

We're always interested in talking to potential candidates, but unless you're in Ottawa work would be truly remote (we all WFH, but we get together at least monthly for lunch, save for the folks in the Maritimes, the UK, etc.).

My HN userid at sphyrnasecurity.com
> no kids yet

You will know no fury as when your kids intentionally mix up all the pieces for fun. We have hundreds of LEGO people, and my kids intentionally dismembered them into their individual pieces (including HANDS!). But how can you get angry at kids playing??? twitch
> And obviously that distinction should be messy when we go all the way back

No, the distinction has not been messier in the early times. On the contrary, the distinction was sharp in the beginning and it became messier later.

All the so-called eukaryotes, i.e. the living beings with nucleated cells, were animal-like in the beginning (perhaps close to two billion years ago), i.e. they were mobile and they fed by ingesting other living beings.

Much later, hundreds of millions of years later, various groups and subgroups of eukaryotes have become sedentary, in some cases because it was more efficient to wait the food to come to them, brought by water currents, than to pursue actively the food, in many other cases because they incorporated phototrophic living beings, e.g. blue-green algae, so they no longer needed organic food, and lastly, many groups have become sedentary after reverting to the mode of feeding of bacteria, i.e. instead of ingesting other living beings, which requires mobility, they went back to absorbing organic substances from the environment through their external surface, which does not require mobility for adults, but only for whatever kind of spores they use for reproduction. This last way of life is characteristic for fungi and for several other groups of living beings which resemble fungi without being related to them.

The first sedentary eukaryotes were the multicellular red algae and green algae (some green algae evolved much later to become the land plants), for which certain fossils are about one billion years old. Dubious fossils of red algae are a few hundred million years older.

During the early evolution of the multicellular animals, many groups have become sedentary as adults (e.g. the sponges), which in the beginning was somewhat unavoidable for any animals that became large, because a small larva could easily swim using cilia, a small adult could also use cilia, but for a big adult animal cilia are inefficient, so strong muscles are needed to move the body parts, to be able to use those parts for locomotion, and several tens of millions of years have passed until the animals evolved to have such muscles.

The start of the Cambrian is defined by the apparition of worms which were strong enough to burrow in the mud from the sea floor.
> If it doesn't do anything - if it doesn't matter, then why care?

Because it's confusing.

I've been doing this a long time and didn't actually know that /> is meaningless, and it would explain some
random bugs I've worked around in the past.
I really like that UX! Even Google dropped the ball there, I accidentally deleted our production gke cluster a handful of years back, through the bloodshot eyes of a forced all-nighter, because their deletion UX was two button clicks (may be different now).
It is very important, as this continues to accelerate, that we hold to account the people who knew about this, had the power to do better, and yet did not.
It wasn't until I started buying Lego for myself (in my 20s) that I learned that Lego came with instructions. When I was a kid my parents would open the box and discard the instructions before giving it to me.

Back then (60s/70s) the sets were quite general and open ended. Modern day Lego has the thinking done ahead of time, and has too many specialised pieces.
> US govt blames Ukrainian actors

pretty sure it doesnt, but the russian one does - maybe youve confused them?
The thing a lot of these AAA devs don’t seem to get is that what works for Clash of Clans doesn’t work for AAA games most of the time. Also, the Clash of Clans devs are liked by the player base because they take community feedback very seriously (and, as a counter point, the Clash Royale devs are despised because they don’t).

Buying a monthly pass for one of those games ends up feeling like a pretty good deal because it enables you to increase your engagement with the game by a lot for what feels like a good deal. AAA shooters that go down this rabbit hole feel like they’re spending more development effort pushing skins I don’t want while giving a half-backed game with the promise of improvement in the future that often never happens.

For the price of a monthly pass for Clash games, I’m easily getting more hours of enjoyment than dollars invested each month.
Don't.

Live as though you are poor and lay in stores for the long coming winter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/world/asia/india-heat-dea...
It’s Chinese fishing that is the concern.
You can always utilize no@thankyou.com and it will go straight into creating a local account.
Ultimately it's an article of faith. A leap. If it helps, here's a metaphor: you're in a vessel in the middle of a vast, swift river. You have a paddle. Do you have control? Yes. Can you control the outcome? No. More pithily, "Man plans, and God laughs."
It they could bring the current quality/price ratio to the medicine industry, it seems that it could be a good thing for the consumers. Speaking from someone having trouble finding doctors
> every single vehicle on Earth with BEVs, then the goal is already a dead one.

We might replace small/personal vehicles with BEV and larger ones with hydrogen.

It’s not a very good fuel source for small vehicles because of how unstable it is. You need significant amounts of energy to stop it from evaporating.

For large commercial vehicles that and distribution would be much easier.

> . We can see 85% efficiency and above pretty much right now

Multiply that by production efficiency and we’re just a bit above the level of ICE.
A good example of the importance of the Oxford comma.
Ha! That was a common competition between me and my friend around that age too.

He is very fortunate to be part of a reasonably affluent family, so he had like 6 60-liter boxes full of assorted Lego.

We would spill a couple at a time (who am I kidding we spilled all of them) on the floor, when the flow of pieces stopped, the game was on! So many arguments about the nature of the simple shapes, like "oh no this isn't a blue lightsaber, it is a cylinder of pure diamond!"
"Annualized", got it. Thought it has to be two hundred a ticket at the minimum to net that much of revenue a year.
It depends on the area. In very dense areas, it can be more accurate than you expect. It's also possible that they triggered a GPS response that told them rather precisely where the phone is.

I'm only speculating, of course.
wow, an open-source HoN... that's awesome! what a cool project!
> The best government is the smallest government

Yes you can clearly see that by the highest quality of life being in countries like The Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore.. all countries known for their small government bent.

> and how we always need to tax them more...

Because the wealth gap has been growing ever larger

> I have also seen it Move from "millionaires and billionaires" to just billionaires as many of the Democrats in congress entered the millionaire club

Or perhaps they’ve realized a lawyer that earns 300k a year still is working class?

It’s laughable how the same, folds-like-a-lawnchair arguments always keep being trotted out, as if they haven’t been proven wrong a million times over.
I think when GP says "address each time case by case", they mean "you sue them when they infringe", instead of "this human has an illegal brain because it remembers Taylor Swift's songs".

PS: your "#1" is really hard to do and I'd guess it is infeasible. Even Google (esp. Youtube) with their vast data capabilities, often gets it wrong.
The pricing page shows the old plan starts at 29$/month for row-based pricing, and the new one at 39$/month for resource-based pricing: https://planetscale.com/pricing
Congrats! Are you keeping the office space in Bushwick?
You don't get it, that is fine, you don't have to. I would like to correct you though, it's not real money. It's currency you earn in game by doing missions. You can supplement in game money with real money, but most people will be annoyed because in game currency represents time they spent doing missions, time they were hoping to trade for the cars. I can't help you understand why people enjoy it, but just like any hobby, it's enough that they do.

Though just a hobby, gaming is the biggest media industry on the planet, and GTA Online is one of the biggest single money makers in the industry. To the tune of billions of dollars, so it's not exactly a silly little niche, this change will likely shift the needle for them by millions of dollars, in which direction I don't know.
This statistic is meaningless without a discussion of the detection limit and whether it differs from the minimum harmful dose.
It works like a brick wall. The thing is that people often think that "theory" is something unproven, just a sudden idea out of left field. Well, that is probably better described as "hypothesis". Theory on the other hand is a proven thing, just maybe not finalized (sorry if I made any mistakes here in the simplifying terms).

So returning to the brick wall - scientists are doing research everywhere contributing to the climate change theory, adding new facts brick by brick. They look the directly measured CO2 levels in the atmosphere and see an alarming trend. The trend has never reproduced previously according to research (both magnitude AND acceleration rate simultaneously, so "cycles" don't explain). They measure ocean temperature. They dig into Antarctic ice and check elements in older layer. And so on, all around the planet.
When they encounter something that is hard to quantify, like say global atmosphere temperature over time they estimate. They also check if the existing data fits into an existing theory, and unsurprisingly it does. Unfortunately so far everything fits in the global climate change theory.
Why does there have to be just one cable?
Phones don’t just use triangulation. Modern smartphones will also use GPS (A-GPS).
Many people in the town I lived in have accomplished all that you’ve listed. Also 80k is a single income — with dual income it’s low six figures. In a LCOL location it’s not bad.

Now their job market may not be hot but layoffs also rarely happen because these are industries that value stability (diversified multinationals but based in a LCOL location). Many folks in my former company have worked there for 30 years. Plus today, there’s the remote market. I think the scenarios your are imagining don’t apply as universally as one might think.

Our perspectives are often shaped by our immediate experiences. I have a data point that deviates from the experiences of most people on this site (that I suspect much of non-tech America shares)
> shifting around the unpredictability

AFAICT it's actually worse - the exploratory phase always seems to get bogged down by theoretical discussions and imaginary scenarios that don't end up being very important (and putting off how long it takes to find the scenarios that actually do).
Chinese regulation around generative AI isn’t yet formalized, including provisions for censorship. The Cyberspace Administration of China published a set of draft measures[0] for public comment, but it doesn’t seem like a revised version has been released.

The draft indicates that there will be some level of censorship, but it’s unclear what the scope will be. This analysis[1] suggests that generative AI for research purposes could be exempted (section 1). The same analysis points out that there are other government bodies at play that are more focused on advancing AI as an industry within China.

It does seem likely that there will be some kind of censorship carve-out for AI research, whereas companies offering generative AI products to the public will need to self-censor to avoid fines and/or prosecution.

[0] https://digichina.stanford.edu/work/translation-measures-for...

[1] https://fpf.org/blog/unveiling-chinas-generative-ai-regulati...
Always has been. We haven't figured out how to get all of reality onto paper or in a computer yet.
> Thus, I think it is reasonable to rely on the decades of evidence and science that have led to a concensus among the people that spend their entire lifes studying the topic.

That's the thing, I could use the same argument to believe in "god" by saying that priest spend their entire lives studying the matter so I should believe them when they say it exists. Yet I'm an atheist. You see where I'm getting at right?

My entire take on this is that we should really do something about it. Specially since, in the chance they're actually right we'd be both saving the world and improving people's health. Going around in a city with smog is very bad for your lungs.

Edit: Though screwing over the mental health of an entire generation over it might defeat the purpose of "saving the world" or "saving humanity".
Cops can freely buy anything from one of Peter Thiel's panopticon products. He can buy all the data from brokers and companies for a pretty high price, and sell it to cops for an equally stupid price, and your tax dollars get used to bypass the entire concept of a warrant.
The three long, deep-water intake pipes were built as part of the original DWLC project, commissioned in 2004. Access to deep cold water is an important benefit of the system, but you're correct that they have a dual purpose, and access to cleaner water for the municipal supply was presumably a side benefit.

As part of a system expansion, they are currently building a 4th intake which would re-use one of the original, shallower municipal water intakes which was obsoleted by the 2004 system. This would be extended to reach colder water and would bypass the city water treatment plant to deliver raw water directly to the DLWC:

https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/get-involved/public-...
Yes, but the tokens are translated into bytes not characters. There are only 256 distinct bytes so GPT models can easily be trained to produce any character. Probably the problem will be how sensible or understandable the binary form of Chinese characters in Unicode are, but that will be a problem for the model, not the tokenizer
> What if we're wrong?

That is an excellent question to ask.

If climate change is not a thing or not man-made, the worst outcome would be missing a few percentage points of economic growth by unnecessarily restricting energy sources.

If climate change is a thing and it is man-made, the worst outcome would be everything that is described by the IPCC, which is bad for society as a whole.

So, just pondering the worst-case scenario is enough to give you an idea of a sensible course of action.
My experience is that Google search is best effort with a priority on latency. Lots of changes in quality, but never a significant delay in getting something back (internet infrastructure issues aside).

So sometimes site: gets dropped on the floor for me and sometimes "no I really want this" does.

These days everything in Google search is sharded, cached, and partitioned (remember when a page full of results in another language was not uncommon?).

Good luck.
Thank you for sharing this. I’m going to show it to my 6 year old and he’s going to lose his mind. Great way to make use of my massive box of childhood legos and empty summer hours.
I agree, but I'm specifically calling out the treatment of heat pumps here because that is the topic under discussion. A meta point about journalism as a whole wouldn't really be on topic, nor easily applicable.

I don't have heat pump experience, or even much central AC experience, but I do know that there has been many advancements that make them practical for a wider audience rather than the previous niche. I wish articles would describe these advancements rather than effectively saying "a heat pump is this new awesome invention, go buy one".
It doesn't seem "safe to assume" that Google's bots will dislike content created by other bots.