skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets politically loaded quickly. But it's interesting to note few people say "business funded" the same way they say "government funded". Maybe "customer funded" or "tax funded" are better, if the question is about the source of the funding and not the middlemen to the transaction?

Perhaps more importantly, tax payer funding can be done in a multitude of different ways, each as unique as with other types of funding. There can, for example, exist a commitment to create a long term endowment outside of political control.

This is a close parallel to how justice works, which in civilized countries with proper separation of powers can guarantee civilians due process not under direct political control.
Totally - the most positive ad experience I've ever had was when I was looking for a gift for my then-girlfriend and was served an ad for a company that offered private tours of the SF Zoo where you got to meet the red pandas. I got a great experience that I otherwise would never have known about, and the company + zoo both made money. This is good!
I feel like crypto mining is the computer equivalent of rolling coal.
OpenAI Announces Function Calling, Allowing Developers to Describe Function
Does it work well with scanned PDF?
In my experiments it was not giving the correct output.
I was going to criticize this, but they actually sum up my complaint themselves:

> Several planned carbon tax policies have been rejected by the public because they put a high burden on low-income households.29,30 However, carbon taxes can even decrease poverty and inequality if revenue is redistributed appropriately. Lump-sum recycling of revenues, for instance, is progressive because the amount of money received by low-income households is much higher relative to their income than it is for high-income households.27,31

Why go to the extra trouble of deciding what is luxury and what is not when you can either just return the money raised on a per capita basis or offset currently regressive taxes?
> In the meantime, I can just Ctrl+P and install what I need in vscode and be on my way in a few minutes.

Vim's built-in package management means all my plugins are stored as git submodules that are installed alongside my configs. I don't have to remember what extensions I have and Ctrl + P and install them one at a time.

VSCode's settings.json and extension-level configuration is also extremely cumbersome. You're paying a time tax no matter what tools you're using if you want to customize them to fit your workflow. Personally I'd rather pay that tax 1 time with Vim and then carry the same setup with me to any PC than have to eat that cost every time I need to configure VSCode on a new machine.
Congratulations, you have re-discovered DC++

Get a client: https://sourceforge.net/projects/eiskaltdcpp/

And get started with a public hub: https://vacuum.name/en/dc/hubs
Even if that was the case: compared to the subscribing companies themselves selling not only that information, but also your personal data to the highest (and lowest) bidder?
Um no. Unless you qualify as a refugee, you'll need a verified employment offer (or perhaps proof of self-sustaining wealth) to visit Norway as anything other than a tourist. Very few countries have an "open border" to allow anyone to just come in and start drawing on their social services.
My high school language was Japanese. Attempting European languages in adulthood, I'm always thrown off by the object-verb order. My brain subconsciously skips over the action, hears the object and then is left waiting to hear what we're supposed to do with it.
And Emily Wilson has a translation of the Iliad releasing in the US later this year - https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/1324001801
A safety culture and C++: We need to talk about <filesystem>
Fishing weights come to mind, as do tire/wheel balancing weights.
> I don't think that's a fair criticism of wikipedia.

It's not a fair criticism of Wikipedia, but it is a fair criticism of using Wikipedia as a single-source.
My point of view came from personal experience, but it's encoded in all sorts of safety requirements concerning tires, brakes, suspension, etc.

Good handling is also very important for safety. SUVs before stability control are a perfect example of this.
I don't think you really understand what "Limited liability" means, nor who these supposed capitalists are. All those public pension plans & unionized retirement funds probably appreciate that they're not on the hook for unlimited liability from J&J.
https://www.telia.se/privat/om/5g/nu-slacker-vi-3g-och-2g-na...
> It's hardly unique - how do you think Walmart keeps its prices as low as possible? By leveraging their power.

Walmart is subject to competitive pressure. If they squeeze suppliers too hard and quality suffers or some suppliers refuse to meet their demands, consumers can go buy products from a different retailer.

In cases where you actually do have a private monopolist, is is terrible.

> And all your aguments seem a bit moot when you look at countries with single-payer systems - they just work, at a per-person cost that is far lower than the US

In the US the medical providers have significant political influence which results in a regulatory environment that favors high prices and there is no reason to expect a single payer system in the same environment to change that.

In some systems the providers have less political influence, but many of those systems have long queues or refuse care on the basis of cost or have other deficiencies with no recourse.

It's also entirely possible to have a socialized system which is more efficient than the status quo in the US but less efficient than a system that actually exposed providers to competitive pressure. The cost efficiency of the existing US healthcare system is a bar level with the ground.
Yeah, just uses/abuses Opticom—the same Fire/Ambulance/Police override that many traffic lights already have installed.

Crucially—since it is easy to jump to conclusions—it is not a full hostile takeover of the PLC controlling the lights. You can't make a dangerous "all green" scenario here; it's just using an restricted-access feature that's basically security through obscurity.

Though, the idea that someone can be prosecuted because they can cycle IR LEDs at 14 Hz—the rate of an Opticom—is just hilariously dumb. Pick a more secure, authenticated protocol!
I forgot the sarcasm tag. Politicans who quack about stuff like this are generally full of shit.

Pretending to care about “the beast” means you make sure firefighters make less than McDonald’s managers, while “supporting the troops” by making sure your local defense contractors continue to get paid for making overpriced bolts or whatever.
>And why is it suddenly OK to force players into doing stuff like this?

That's pretty hyperbolic; nobody is forced to play a game. Maybe it sounds like I'm being pedantic, but you don't see anyone using the same language to talk about other parts of a game players are "forced" to go through. Nobody says you're forced to beat a tough boss, for example, even though you usually are if you want to make progress in the game.

You can probably make a good argument for treating tutorials differently from the rest of a game, but I think it's worth acknowledging that it's the norm for games to gate their content by making you complete other content first, with no way to bypass the gate. Tutorials are just a special case of that.
Where I see the benefit is in dialogue replacement. It takes a lot of time to call back an actor to the stage after they have finished the project. They might have moved onto another project or depending on how in demand they are they have a tight schedule and you're time with them is limited. Then on top of all that, some actors are just not very good at the process. So you have them in a room for a long time trying to get the right performance; sometimes which is difficult because that performance was done in some type of specific environment.

Having a tool at my fingertips where I can feed it some of the actor's previous lines and be able to belch out something to fill the gaps with set parameters and be able to move along in the project without all the logistics would be heaven.

It would however, kill an entire field of expertise. It would also devalue the actor as well. Though it's already happening. There are already programs on the market that replace voice actors all together and are being used in the video game space.

For the work I do, I can see the benefits it could bring. But I am also fully aware it probably will be heavily abused.
Been living in Tokyo for 4 years now with my grandparents being from the Tokyo suburbs. The cool thing with Tokyo is as author says, it build upon itself, chaotically, while maintaining drops of ancient cultures.

But compared to the Big5 of trendy mega cities (NY, London, Paris, Tokyo and HK) the biggest thing is just that things *just works* ik Tokyo. Infrastructure is reliable, streets are clean (except maybe Kabukicho), people follow the rules, no Parisians, safe, trains come in time, things are clustered around stations so everything is close. I haven't lived in the 5 cities but talking/working for an extended time with people from there, the big feature seems to be that somehow Tokyo have so far dodged a lot of the issues big cities fall in to. There's some annoying quirks too, such as all the public transport stopping at around midnight, but that somehow added more to color an unique nightlife.

The biggest downside, probably compared to NY/London/HK is that it can feel quite lonely at times if you don't look or speak like a local. But there are hard-to-find microcosm of mini-communities, my recent favorite being SF-styled, mostly US expat populated Harry's Sandwich bar. When you come as a tourist you'll probably not find those, and like many of my friend just draw the conclusion that it's a lonely, isolating mega city, from all the "solo-friendly" stores and trains cladded with tired salary mens in suit you'll inevitably walk by。

But I do wonder why the sudden tourist surge? It have been crazy crowded after covid and almost all my friends decided to go to Tokyo this year. Is it really just opening up and the weak yen?
Ask HN: How are you staying up-to-date with the latest on LLM-assisted coding?
There's a flood of information out there around ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. and how they can be used for coding, and it's been hard to keep up with the breakneck pace of discoveries and new techniques.

A lot of the easily discoverable stuff around coding with LLMs is more content-marketing, surface level information. Where are people finding high quality discussions on the current strengths and limitations of prompt engineering or similar topics? Are these conversations happening on Twitter? Mastodon? Communities on Discord?

I've tried using ChatGPT for coding, and even when the scope of the question is small, I often get wrong answers. This is very different form the many anecdotes I've read, including on this site of people who have used these type of tools to code non-trivial apps and services. Are these people building in public? I'd love to see how they work and what techniques they recommend currently, but I'm not sure where they hang out or how to discover them. I'd prefer to follow content that is more technical in nature vs someone who is good at marketing and is mostly using the LLM hype train to attract views.
Well, we thought the same thing about aluminum [0].

[0]: https://hero.epa.gov/hero/index.cfm/reference/details/refere... "Exposure, bioavailability, distribution and excretion of aluminum and its toxicological relevance to humans"
Can you elaborate on what made it crap?
Yes, I saw that — but does the article in its entirety appear above that notice? I can't tell.
Hm, might just be your circles? Anecdotally, lots of people I know have been to Japan in the past decade.

I do notice less people talking about going in the past couple years (but that's due to COVID restrictions, etc)
I feel like I'm in a constant state of realizing how stupid I was 5-10 years ago doing X or Y or Z either the wrong way or in a suboptimal way.
Why Game and Fish Should Have Fed Deer This Winter
In 2008 Russia attacked Georgia
I've seen agile done extremely well two companies ago, fairly well at my last company, and decently at my current company.

I've never seen it done poorly. It's the standard for a reason.
sometime ordinals are more natural sometimes cardinals are more natural.

In the case of vectors (especially of C-style arrays) I would say that A[0] is the first element in the array. I agree that things should have names, but names serve us, not us them.
This is a non-issue. There is a reason laws aren't written in one line.
On the other hand our school was moving to Moodle from something else (I think it was called Blackboard? Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learn?) and it was an absolute pleasure compared to the alternative (which a few courses still used). There were definitely a few clunky parts (like the form) but overall it worked, was reasonably fast and wasn't awful. This was a student PoV though, really I just needed it to render some rich-text content provided by the prof and the occasional assignment submission or quiz. IDK if setting these things up was particularly painful.

This was about 8 years ago now, IDK if it got worse or better since then.
CTO of Edge here.

You could contribute it to our green network, and get paid for your idle time.

https://edge.network/

https://wiki.edge.network/contributing-to-the-network/settin...
>>How many public sector workers for instance who have pensions or retirees who have dividend paying stocks like J and J

All of them.
I'm not sure I follow your public transport argument. Both Tokyo and London have had many decades of significant government investment and support into their transport infrastructure. E.g. The billions from the taxpayer for the recent Elizabeth Line in London. Neither system would exist without very large gov support.
Both projects stem from the same root, TXT=EXE. However, both branch in totally different directions. One says "any printable goes" whereas the other says "only the smallest subset (preferably also for ASCII art) goes", mainly being being “0123456789acemnorsuvwxz”.

These are two different projects with different design goals and challenges. Tom's built a compiler around it, I created a bootloader that consists of only MUL and XOR.

I don't understand why I feel that I have to defend myself, I thought hackers love these kind of projects, yet it seems I got cancelled.

A true innovation would be to combine both projects. One that inputs source code plus an image and outputs ASCII art that runs like a program.
No, but throwing disparate groups, each with their own interests, into the same pot, is not as conducive to harmony versus everyone belonging to more or less the same "in" group.

Both a melting pot society and a homogenous one have their pros and cons. I love the former, but I also don't pretend to think there aren't serious cons to a melting pot and pros to a homogeneity.
Whats disturbing to me if this is true is the number of "top voices" in ML on ML-Twitter were head over heals with this paper. How many of them actually read it at all?
I think this is an interesting piece of semi-related anecdata from 2021 [0]

> The Japanese cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto have earned the first, second and third spots respectively on Condé Nast Traveler’s 2021 list of the best major cities in the world.

> The cities were selected in a poll of over 800,000 Condé Nast readers as part of the publication’s prestigious, long-running Reader’s Choice Awards, and won particular acclaim for their world-class cuisine, inspiring cultural attractions and seamless blending of tradition and modernity.

[0] https://theincentivist.com/japanese-cities-conde-nast-best-m...
Ok, so that's the full article. I think it's a bit short on explaining why Tokyo is replacing Paris.

I fully honour the author's preference. There are so many ways of judging a city, and looking at cocoa bars and speed of building construction seem very arbitrary to me. Are we talking about travelling? Living? A mix of both?

I can imagine that some of the similarities with Paris could be the size, a certain authenticity and history mixed with modernity, some kind of atmosphere, a food culture, lots of tourists amd crazy busy transportation systems?

I've never been to Tokyo, so it's hard for me to judge. But I've lived in Paris for a few years. Beautiful city to visit, atrocious to live in (by my standards, I know lots of people love it there, but also 3/4 of my friends kept explaining how they hated it there and would move, without acting on it... How Parisian!). This pretty much cured me against large cities.

I can imagine that you can do much better in livability, maybe that's what Tokyo achieved?
It doesn’t paywall anything, you can’t say that only people who support you on StackAid gets A or B.

(One idea I think we toyed with at Flattr, which was also a flat fee donation system, was to potentially enable people to lock something down on whether you donated to anything at all, but ultimately decided that the internet was meant to be opened and thus we added mechanisms to Flattr to make it really hard to abuse it as a paywall, which eg Germans loved but most Americans was really confused by )
LLM based pipelines with PostgresML and DBT
My major issue with RFID in Passports is that Nationality is NOT an encrypted part of the publicly-broadcast Document No.
Was the training data quality checked?
If so then LLMs are search engines for catalogs like Yahoo once was and not a good search engine for SEO optimized click farms.

Google search once was great too but then ads and SEO killed it.
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/cancer-survival-rates...

It's not cherry picking, I just didn't add a whole chart. It's on par, considering our different populations, climate (most of the country is frozen for half the year), and the extent of our coverage. I'm not saying it's worse, it's as on par as you can get given the variation in such a thing.

The uninsured don't count towards cancer rates if they don't receive a diagnosis. If you're uninsured and losing weight, anemic, night sweats, and your doctor says it could be serious so you walk away because you won't be able to afford it, you don't count as a cancer diagnosis. Assuming you went to the doctor at all. That does no count against my point.
Cool. CEO is still a title of a person representing the face of the company, regardless of whether he or Gwyneth Shotwell actually runs the company (which, i believe, is very common knowledge at this point that Shotwell is).

My point being, sure, you can say complaints should be directed towards Shotwell instead of Musk, despite Musk being the CEO. However, claiming that directing complaints towards entirely unaffiliated random HN users makes as much sense as directing them towards the company CEO is just bs.
I am rather left of center myself, but there’s something sooo… San Francisco? Not sure how to call it, a sort of special holier than though liberal take like:

> There's a lot to like about Tokyo, but there is a tendency toward conservatism

Where someone complains about a foreign culture being, well, foreign. At a certain point, I think, it’s critically important to stop comparing like this and instead frame it as a question.
We have 6.2 billion worth of extra war crime equipment available but couldn't afford a few extra bucks for firefighters. Is that better?
Email hack prompts call for Microsoft to make security logs free
Yeah, Metaculus trains, identifies, and hires "Metaculus Pro Forecasters" for particular projects: https://www.metaculus.com/help/faq/#what-are-pros
I lived in Tokyo for a year and Nara for three. Tell me about Sapporo!
Especially when that "someone" is literally the Nazis.
Owner of Cybercrime Website BreachForums Pleads Guilty
LLMs do logic by mimicking logical structures on the text level (and that's why they often need be ordered to do step-by-step for correct answers), so this one may also have the same ability as long as memories are properly utilized.
Hands-On Kubernetes Operator Development: Kubebuilder
not this fake syndrome again, for reference : https://www.slate.fr/story/47495/folies-voyage-paris-choc-re...
You may want to consider adding a note to the top. Seems like a lot of people are lazily skimming/reading the headline and see it as "gzip paper full of beans, gzip approach sucks" when really I see this as "gzip approach not better than dnn models but mostly competes and much cheaper to run". The paper is still solid.
Was this not on GitHub for long time now?
Racism exists everywhere. Often, one or more groups are downtrodden, and that leads to the social grievances that result in things like crime.

Racism exists in countries like Japan too. Except the number of non-Japanese (or non East Asian who can often pass for Japanese) are statistically so insignificant that it is far less of an issue than say, the US.
$9k for the little car and $11k for the pickup isn't bad
It is true that very frequent words (whether nouns, prepositions, conjunctions, or whatever part of speech) can undergo one-off changes, usually involving dropping syllables. But the phonetic details don't make sense here as a reduction: with is arguably harder to pronounce than mid.

You're basically arguing for a rare and poorly understood kind of lexical change with no evidence to support it, against a well-understood and very common kind of change with multiple different strands of converging evidence.

It's not impossible that the phonological similarity of "mid" and "with" made it easier for the meanings to coalesce in "with". But it is certain, at least as certain as you can get in historical linguistics, that these were originally two prepositions with independent origins.
Local stores have always existed.
Medicines from the Slimiest of Worms (2021)
A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
But even from a code perspective I'm not sure comparing repos is always all that useful. I'm not sure about Grav but on the Kirby side, if I'm not mistaken, the current official repo started with the v3 and the two previous versions were archived. So you're only comparing the code activity from ~2019 onwards but Kirby has been around for more than 10 years at this point.
> this process also allows them to protect their business

Obviously, yes.

> to pay less than they would normally.

Not necessarily.

You missed the part where they have a specialist court divide up the claims in a single go, rather than have ad-hoc juries hand out different awards to different claimants.

> aren't actually going bankrupt

You’re missing the part that this is kind of allowed in Texas courts. It’s not unrestricted - the court kicked back the first attempt.
Occam’s razor: the forgotten key to science literacy
> that they help a few people with a mouse problem is tangential at best to the topic at hand

No, they help the people who are putting food on your plate. Good luck living your life if the farmers can’t do their job.
I’m going to have to install some screen mesh around the tops of the pillars around my home entryway, because birds keep perching and trying to build nests there. Just yesterday had to remove a house finch nest that appeared the other day. As much as I like them, I’m not letting them do that there.

The problem is when birds hang around someplace, they quickly cover the ledges, walls and ground with shit.

That and I don’t want baby birds screaming at 4am a few meters from where I sleep.
there is no comparison between these cars, they're vastly different
Because some things are too expensive to keep in stock (at least with any variety in styles/brands/etc) at local retail stores? Clothing, hobby supplies, computer peripherals, etc.
Japan ramps up support for startups venturing overseas
Because it's not as good as it used to be. Due poor management I suppose.

Chrome is far for ideal too, but at least it works for user and developer without much pain.