skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, the military connection to the interstate highway system is almost certainly overplayed. From what I've read, it's something Eisenhower wanted to do and the military aspect made it easier to sell to congress.
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It is rare for the tier 2 graduate to make it into tier 1, but if they do they are super exceptional and stand out.
> Finally, in the early 00's, Firefox users had a reputation for letting you know about it. Forums of the day were full of signatures with a Get Firefox link in them. You don't really see that level of fervor anymore, because the difference between Firefox and Chrome today is nowhere near the difference between Firefox and IE back then.

I agree that is probably the main reason - but another is simply that we don't have signatures anymore. So many of those forums were replaced by Reddit and other platforms which don't have signatures. One could argue they were a waste of screen estate but they allowed users to share a bit of their personality (including, in some cases, their choice of browser/OS) with readers in a non-awkward way.
Ah yes, what a better world we would be living in if the Nazis had created the bomb first.
this made me think of a fun activity. ask chatgpt to come up with a new word and then google that word.
sometimes the word exists in the context of a scify show or a plant. sometimes gpt just added a "se" or "us" to existing words.
sometimes it changes a Z to a C
but it never actually came up with a new word
> don't have kids.

Kids have the to be the biggest spreaders of sickness in the US.
> Knowing that my computing resources just sit there unused bothers me.

Why? Does it bother you also that your car isn't driving when parked? Nothing bad about an idling CPU. Less power consumed, less CO2 produced.
Mesa Fixes a Large Performance Regression for Systems Using HPET
Lima wraps QEMU in a simple CLI, with neat features for container users, such as filesystem sharing and automatic localhost port forwarding, as well as DNS and proxy propagation for enterprise networks. Rancher Desktop wraps Lima with k3s integration and GUI.

* Github: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

* Talks: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/talks.md

Also see

* sshocker: ssh + reverse sshfs + port forwarder, in Docker-like CLI (predecessor of Lima), https://github.com/lima-vm/sshocker

* Lima-GUI: https://github.com/afbjorklund/lima-gui

* Colima: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
It's overly reductionist to assume that all herbal remedies are the result of 1, maybe 2 active ingredients. The incentive for making a pill is less about efficacy and more about patentability. I can't patent camphor, but I can patent a 3% menthol & 3% camphor ointment suspended in a gel base (Fast Freeze).

I don't think it's fair to say the west as a supposed monolith rejects "woo", especially given the popularity of pseudoscience re: vaccines, homeopathy, Reiki, acupuncture, cleanses, etc.

I'm reminded of the great anthropological paper titled Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner: https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacir...
> I almost wish that my complaints were nakedly political, partisan, so that they would be easier to convey in shorthand. The only such shorthand that I have to offer is that the tragedy of our mental health culture lies in the emptiness of positivity, the desert of validation, awareness, and respect. Those always break upon the rocks of tragedy.

Love the expression "the desert of validation, awareness, and respect." I think that's bang on -- all those things have no genuine nourishment to offer.
> Like add unique and random differences in the metal on each key and have the key slot read those and only turn on the car if it matches

So turn a $100 ignition switch assembly into a $3,000 1-of-1 monstrosity? Would you need to replace the entire ignition assembly if you lose your keys, or would you be able to generate a key from the ignition assembly (or VIN or other unique identifier)? Thieves would probably just do that for high end vehicles anyway.

> Or couldn’t the bumps on keys just be replaced by.. pretty much anything that is physically secure and not multiple hundreds of years old technology?

Isn't this exactly what push-to-start tech is? I'm not sure the percentage of vehicles that have push-to-start at this point but I'd imagine it's well into the majority, and increasing.
> electricity to run a computer that generates heat is more beneficial than generating heat directly from that electricity

While remembering electricity to run a heat pump is (usually) more efficient than using that energy to generate heat.
I've seen comments like this in a number of places and I'm sure the high degree of social cohesion is a big factor but I think that this list is perhaps too narrow. I would also add that the high degree of social cohesion is supported by high wages and a strong labor movement. Japan has a constitution that was written by New Deal Democrats that gives labor and unions a lot of rights. Labor is strong and well paid (Japanese CEOs are also strong and well paid but nothing like CEOs of American companies who feel no shame in taking a 10% pay bump while firing 16% of their workers). Japanese politics are simply different. American pundits would look at a mainline LDP and variably call him a fascist or a communist depending on the issue.
They don’t even need to hijack the actual
TLD. Just have an internal catch all that is defined on their internal DNS. Then the sender has to double confirm the addresses before it’d be passed through.
"Why does parking make us so crazy?"

I wonder who he means by "us"?

I guess, in this modern world, making "us" crazy doesn't require going very far...
Many other replies here are wrong - the primary reason is that the LLMs were used on completely out of distribution data (e.g. trained on English, evaluated on completely different language that shared some characters). The points about compression's relatedness to understanding are valid, but they are not the primary reason for LLMs underperforming relative to naive compression.
You’re splitting hairs, which I can also do:

There’s a giant parking lot with 10,000 spaces and 2 are free. There is ‘no parking’ unless you want to drive around for 2 hours.

For enough money you could probably get a permit from the cops and a security detail and park wherever you wanted, like in a city park. There is still ‘no parking’ in parks.

Within parameters that apply in the majority of cities I’ve tried to park in, there was no parking. In future I’ll download the app, book a spot and bring my phone charger and then I’ll be able to access the parking.
"What good will it do society to punish people who do heinous things to others?" It acts as a great deterrent to keep other corporate stooges from entering into high-risk activities. In many cases I advocate for "restorative justice" as opposed to punishment, but in the case of faceless corporations we can crash their value to 0 and call it even.

We have a system of private ownership where the owners get to reap the rewards of others' labor, but when they do something wrong they pull the "but think of the employees" bullshit. No. Full ownership, full liability.
Maybe it's a chicken and egg question?

Why is Japan able to do that, and the US isn't?

When practically everyone is a fellow Japanese, you don't have people griping about universal healthcare (or social safety nets in general) benefitting the "other" who "don't deserve it".

Or feeling that you need to own guns to "protect yourself from the other".
Edge comes preinstalled and is managed by one provider that manages the rest of your software.

If you add Firefox to a corporate standard computer, that's one thing more to manage.

When you really look at it, Firefox has nothing more than edge that really justifies it's existence in a corporate network.

The worst about it, now that edge is chromium based, more and more websites or saas are targeting chrome only and don't care about the "nerds" using Firefox.

IMHO, unless Linux gains more presence in the desktop world, Firefox usage won't increase much.
One example of this is removing the ability to open local files on mobile. Or forcing browser restarts on the desktop in the middle of browsing.
I disable it. I like vsc to be minimal like vim. I even use Vim extensions which help me avoid using scroll bar and use crtl-D/u/e/y instead.
A lot of the Nordic strips are only semi-distributed and near a central logistics hub. This lends itself to caching. There is definitely a tradeoff in how dispersed one can be before they are completely expeditionary vs. simply dispersed. It’s a continuum.
We could also consider failure to prevent bad actors from doing immoral things as immoral itself. The problem with this line of thinking is there is no tight definition of immorality.
> "What stops you, I think, is a combination of not really believing you’ll get it and not really caring. Is that too harsh – or is it somewhere close to the truth?"

This reminds me of the curse of working with really good senior engineers. They already know the answers, they've already solved the puzzles. It can be very easy to just defer to them all the time.

If you are a senior engineer who really understands a system, you need to be conscious of this effect if you ever want someone else to start learning your system.
Damn. I wanted to believe!
Doesn't make any practical difference. Soviet "republics" were as independent as Reichskommissariat Niederlande. Internal borders were freely redrawn and native populations resettled to satisfy Soviet colonial policies. If you want to start settling old scores and reversing "historical injustices", you can demonstrate good faith by giving Estonia back the 5% of its territory that is still occupied by Russia. Not to mention China's grievances about "humiliations" and "injustices" regarding the Russian Far East.
Thanks. The news articles I read last month regarding Eurozone technical recession mentioned Eurostat as their source. Eurostat themselves used the "2 quarters of declining GDP is a technical recession" line:

"The GDP decrease in the euro area is the second consecutive quarterly contraction, which means that the euro area economy is in a technical recession."

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

All a bit confusing to the layman!
It is very difficult to get into Japanese society. They are really friendly and helpful, but finding a common "wave length" is very difficult. Introverts have it much easier to live with that. Also, since there are a lot of introverts in Japan, the infrastructure for an introvert lifestyle exists.
> The most likely cause for this decline in support for latter-day Intel Macs is also the simplest one: It's simply in Apple's business interests to do so. Most cynically, if your old Mac gets fewer years of software updates, you have one more reason to buy a new Mac.

At least for me, one of the reasons I buy Apple hardware (e.g. iPhones) is that they’re supported longer than the competition. So I think if Apple are doing the above then it’s short-term thinking.

My Dad bought an 5K iMac in 2017. He just used it for browsing, email and YouTube etc. It works well. Very fast. Fantastic screen. Doesn’t support the new OS coming out in a few months (but presumably will still get security updates to its existing OS for a few years). There is no reason to fill our landfills with powerful machines like that! (I would say I regret telling him to buy a Mac, but Windows 10 will stop getting security updates in a few years too.)
And how did Russia come to "own" the peninsula again?

What happened to its original inhabitants?

Which treaty did the RF sign in 1994 pledging to respect existing borders of Ukraine -- including its sovereignty over the Crimea -- for perpetuity?

Tell us more, please.
at this point in time, if you give your private details to anyone, it seems you should expect that data to end up in the wrong hands.

There is no valid reason for law enforcement to share details with unrelated persons.

It's just adding insult to injury that it is a private corporation that will financially benefit from those details. It does not benefit the individual in the least.

I can't believe this needs to be said, but in this funhouse-mirror landscape it seems it does: corporations successfully targeting advertising to users is not a human right, it is not a valid reason for violating privacy rules, and it is most certainly NOT a public good or benefit to society in ANY WAY.
> J&J produces a lot of things that aren't talc

And I donate to charity, but if I put a poison in coffee before selling it to you, I will be in prison, but JJ gets to limit liability
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
It might be a specific security setting I've made more restrictive than the default, but Cloudflare's bot detector goes into an infinite loop on Firefox, thus making any site that puts that in front unusable, including OpenAI most notably. As a consequence, I don't use those sites, but I'm sure others would rather just give in and use a browser with settings that Cloudflare actually tests against and cares about.
One question I've always wondered is - what is the appropriate racial makeup of an Ivy League student body? Imagine that after the latest ruling from the Supreme Court regarding affirmative action that the racial makeup of Harvard's next class is unchanged - would you think that Harvard had already achieved the "appropriate" balance prior to the ruling or that they were up to something fishy?
>Some could say it is one of the things that turned the election of 2016 to Trump. Zuckerberg had no problem with this.

This is just patently false. There is no evidence for this whatsoever.

Also CA wasn't really Facebook's fault. A third party broke FB's TOS and committed perjury once FB caught them. Both parties have FAR more sophisticated ad targeting companies.
You could reduce your idle CPU time by turning off the computer when you're not using it.
Actually, I did install the APK directly from Apkpure, but it didn't seem to do anything apart from loading the splash screen.
Similar, but I've used Sanotize Enovid nitric oxide spray before going to a restaurant or other crowded place and when my spouse had covid at home.

https://sanotize.com/clinical-trials-covid/
Except that ST is not "simple" by any measure.

It uses the standard bindings I learned with Windows decades ago, and builds on that.

Vim forces me to change it all to the vim-like model.

It's about having to learn a new set of key bindings just for that program alone.
There is an interactive graph here [1]. The biggest polluters change with time. This data only goes to 2021.

It's easier to read if you adjust the slider to start somewhere around 1990.

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...
drive a manual - it's an inherent anti theft device
Loved this paper - so much opportunity to explore Retrieval-Augmented Generation with these longer input LLMs + Vector Databases & Search!
Most human-developed websites are pretty shitty. It's what people are used to, so if they can get it faster and without the excuses that mediocre web shops have for why stuff doesn't work very well, they will go for it.
> (I know - EVERYONE does it - that doesn't make it correct)

Maybe it does.
Possibly even outside the US
I wish I had the time or facility to take a snapshot of wikipedia now before the imminent deluge of Chat-GPT based updates that start materially modifying wikipedia is some weird and unpredictable manner.
I believe drones are actually projected to be smaller and MUCH cheaper.

We seem to be heading toward a plane with 1-2 people plus an AI that will cost $300M paired with 5-10 drones each costing around $30M. A real pilot nearby also reduces the efficiency of jamming to a large degree.

The idea is that smaller drones are harder to see on radar, they cost less, and they require many more missiles to fully intercept than one large drone.
Without targeted ads, everything will be behind a paywall.
30% of Russia isn't white.
On the topic of relative risk, millions of Americans spend time at firing ranges breathing in aerosolized lead and covering themselves in lead dust. They of course wash their clothing in the same washing machine that launders their family's clothing.

Hunted meat contains a detectable level of lead, and pigs fed lead-hunted venison have a detectable rise in blood-lead levels within days. [1]

So a sub-group of the population regularly and deliberately exposes itself to quite a bit of lead. It's the largest risk factor for high blood levels in children. [2]

Seems like a potential problem. Might be worth switching to lead-free ammunition and considering what effect these decades of selective lead exposure may have had on our communities.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669501/

[2] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/higher-rates-of-f...
I ignore the noise and watch what bubbles to the top. There's a lot of overlap between services, too, so it doesn't matter as much.
I previously used Firefox on Android for adblocking and other extensions, but the hoops I had to jump through to get working extensions became increasingly more ridiculous. I switched to Kiwi browser (Chromium based) and and have been very have a much easier time with extensions and it is much faster as well. The only disappointment is no syncing of tabs to a desktop browser.
I don't see the problem. If you need to travel long distances a few times a week or more, get a gas car or hybrid. If you need to do it once a month or less, buy an electric for your day to day and rent gas for that long haul. The money you save in weekly gas more than pays for an occasional gas rental.

Have folks who have regular small to medium commutes get an electric (or take public transit, bike, walk, etc.). For those with needs that extend beyond electric, especially rural folks, get gas or diesel. More than 90% of folks in the US fall into the former group. Leave the latter 10% to their needs, which are demonstrably distinct from the first.

One size fits all… doesn't.
That isn't what is being described here. They are just providing additional context to ChatGPT using its plugin API. It's still trained on large amounts of public text data.
Super common in simple vehicles used to "run into town" in rural areas. We call them "kill switches".

My previous vehicle was a '97 Jeep Wrangler. There were two kill switches installed when I bought it: one down by the driver's seatbelt latch for the fuel pump, and one reachable by inserting your finger into the opening for the 4wd shifter the disabled the starter. Neither was easily visible.
Like chrome has account sync? Like chrome has telemetry? Like chrome has a game built in? Like chrome has a read later feature?

You're mad because Firefox was silly enough to call it Pocket instead of Firefox Reading List.
I don’t think current times are playing out at all as they intended. The federal government is much too large and too powerful, and Congress is too insulated from their constituents. This emboldens their corruption and playing to special interests instead of the people they are supposed to represent.

This is more an indictment of 20th and 21st century politicians than it is the founders.
What Have We Done to the Languages?
A lot of comments/articles complaining about Object Oriented Programming -- especially the style implemented by C++ and similar languages -- start with premise that OOP is some academic prescription declared from up high like Moses and 10 Commandments.

But the reality is that the best practices of imperative programming where already much like object oriented programming and that OOP is a formalization of those practices.
The last Intel Macs were mind-numbingly expensive - my i9 MBP16 in 2020 was around £4.5K I think - and I would be seriously irritated at not being able to sweat this particular asset, or even sell it on. At least it still boots Windows. Still a good machine, the Touch Bar is a Power user’s dream.

Apple might well have reduced their turnover by making the M1 series too good to need replacing on the same timeframes as the Intel machines - either way, what’s the point of making hardware built to last without the software?
the real cost is less than half of that, the extra costs are because of shipping and govt duties and what not.

If such products were made in the country, or if a streamlined process existed for import, the cost could be reduced significantly.
Like you, my problem isn't advertising, but the tracking. Though unlike your position this isn't because I block the adverts regardless. I wouldn't block the advertising if it were not for it being intimately linked with the tracking & recording. Apart from simply avoiding sites that carry rudely irritating adverts (huge pop-overs, auto-playing audio & video, …) that is.

> People don't get sent to re-education camps (or worse) by companies trying to sell dog treats.

No, but they might by state agencies that gain access to the data (by fair means, at least as defined by their laws, or foul) to use as part of a larger profile.

My personal concern isn't state entities. Maybe this is some of my old-fashioned-ness speaking out but the idea of being followed around is just icky much like being followed home from the pub of an evening, or otherwise tracked in the real world, would be.

Of course, there are people for whom state agencies are a concern, and not just state agencies but various negative activist groups and other undesirables: I know a few people who don't want parts of their personal lives (gender status, abortion, the fact they consider themselves atheist, etc.) tracked because in the wrong hands it could, even in 2023, lead them and/or their loved ones to come to harm. They don't want an advertising company holding information about them because this is just one hack away from a lot of other groups having the information, and while it is highly unlikely that they are tracking such information they likely have something that could help derive it (location data being the most obvious factor there, and advertiser love to track that).
This is a very engineering solution to a very not-engineering problem.

Would this deter thieves? Possibly! Would thieves eventually be able to work around it? Also probably! Would it increase the friction of getting in and driving? Definitely!

Today, your house keys are basically useless for security -- getting into your house is trivially easy both destructively and not. But we all use house keys because they feel safer. Ask people to provide biometrics or long passkeys or keycards and eliminate the existing locks? It's a hassle most folks won't tolerate.

Likewise, people are comfortable with the walk up, push button, leave nature of fobs. Replacing that with "walk up, scan fingerprint" or "walk up, type in password" is going to tick off a lot of people.
You can download a full archive already.

edit, link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Yes, but it's only better survivability in two-car crashes, and it makes the overall survivability worse. The social cost is greater than the private benefit.

IOW, it's a market failure (externality).
Month of birth does have a little bit of predictive power, there are statistical differences between people born in winter vs. summer (and possibly the effect of being older/younger than their classmates in formative school years). Unusual things can be correlated. Also, I was not being entirely serious.