skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone that fasts for fun and has been 50+ lbs overweight before, I assure you that's not how it works. You buy cheap shit if you feel like shit. But if you're broke, which I have also been, not eating actually feels better than eating processed garbage. People buying cheap junk are on a feel like shit spiral, but money is not the problem. It would cost less to eat less and feel better, but for now they want to feel poorly.
It's not a strawman. There are many fundamentally unpredictable things where we can't make the benchmark be 100% accuracy.

To make it more concrete on work I am very familiar with: breast cancer screening. If you had a model that outperformed human radiologists at predicting whether there is pathology confirmed cancer within 1 year, but the accuracy was not 100%, would you want to use that model or not?
You gotta start somewhere. Throwing up your hands and saying you're not switching because no one else will isn't great.

I've used Firefox as my primary browser since it was Phoenix. Before that I used Netscape Communicator. It's not hard and I'm not missing out on anything.
> Any employee that did that might be subject to negative repercussions, first amendment notwithstanding.

The government is not any employer, though. They deal with their employees under First Amendment restrictions not present in private employment.
It would be very hard to fake the locking effect at 0:08 and 0:18 (and a few more times) with a fan.
Seriously? GP goes into a burnout at job #1 and your takeaway is “you should’ve worked harder”?
This is tangential but a new query language is inevitably based in the idea that SQL is deficient in some manner (hard, not ergonomic, whatever). More interestingly, it also implies that the countless alternatives aren't good enough either.

Is there an existing query language that anyone will argue is better than SQL? I have limited exposure on this, but if SQL is really not that good then I'd expect there to be a better one at this point. All the new entrants kinda suggest that maybe SQL isn't so bad after all. Even many noSQL db's use an SQL-like language (see PartiQL). I'm not that familiar with alternatives though.
Get Leupold f660c with silenced topre switches.
I'm not sure I agree with the fact that an abstraction is always the answer, but your last sentence outlines precisely one of our motivations behind Marsha. You can specify an imperative set of steps in the description of a function/program, or you can (in the future) write a Python function that you use from Marsha
Through various market forces, Unix (and its descendants/clones) and Windows killed most of the rest of the OS ecosystem over 20 years ago. There are generations of software engineers and computer scientists who’ve never studied operating systems that weren’t Unix- or Windows-based. Most leading OS textbooks (Tanenbaum’s books, the dinosaur book, Three Easy Pieces) have a Unix slant. Even the systems software research community is heavily Unix-centric; I say that as someone who used to be immersed in the research storage systems community. The only non-Unix or Windows operating systems many practitioners and even researchers may have used in their lives are MS-DOS and the classic Mac OS, and there’s a growing number of people who weren’t even born yet by the time these systems fell out of common use.

However, the history of computing contains examples of other operating systems that didn’t survive the marketplace but have interesting lessons that can apply to improving today’s operating systems. The Unix Hater’s Handbook is a nice example of alternative worlds of computing that were still alive in the 1980s and early 1990s. VMS, IBM mainframe systems, Smalltalk, Symbolics Genera, Xerox Mesa and Cedar, Xerox Interlisp-D, and the Apple Newton were all real-world systems that demonstrate alternatives to the Unix and Windows ways of thinking. Project Oberon is an entire system developed by Wirth (of Pascal fame) whose design goal is to build a complete OS and development environment that is small enough to be understood for pedagogical purposes, similar to MINIX but without any Unix compatibility. Reading the history of failed Apple projects such as the planned Lisp OS for the Newton and the ill-fated Pink/Taligent project are also instructive. Microsoft Research did a lot of interesting research in the 2000s on operating systems implemented in memory-safe languages, notably Singularity and Midori.

From learning about these past projects, we can then imagine future directions for OS design.
In 2017, the Bolt was one of my options. I couldn't wait for a Tesla M3 nor did I like the price, and was willing to settle for even a PHEV Prius (Volt only has 4 usable seats so was out of the running) but (with a lot of incentives) I pulled the trigger on a Ford Focus EV.

Bolt back then was $35k+ with incentives. Mine was less than $18k with incentives.

Range sucked on my FF (good enough to get me to work + back + leftover) but a) it cost half the Bolt b) had fast charging and c) I didn't have to go far to get one in stock.

I probably would have liked both of them - roomy enough to fit 5 + fast enough to enjoy the drive part. Ford discontinued the Focus, but honestly Bolt/Focus are decent EVs for a lot of people.
More important than the namespace is who published the package. I'm more inclined to trust an individual I know who takes security than a namespace that may change hands.

NPM exposes that info in the _npmUser field: https://github.com/npm/registry/blob/master/docs/REGISTRY-AP.... That gives "name" (NPM username) and email.

While there are thousands of packages, I bet there's a much smaller number of publishers to worry about.

Like this guy pretty much has a separate NPM package for every single function that he writes: https://www.npmjs.com/~sindresorhus (1162 packages under his name alone, maybe even more in other namespaces).
>Without knowing what was allegedly said, this is difficult to judge.

You have the opposite reaction than what should be called for, if no one could even remember what was said then there is zero chance what was said was inappropriate.
I love Bytewax. Really underrated as far as Python utilities go.
Why do people care so much about the rendering engine? They are also basically the same for most websites people actually care about, the important part is the UI.

That being said I’d strongly prefer the native WebKit be used since it wouldn’t make the thing 300mb.
Copying a comment I posted a while ago:

I listened to a podcast with Scott Aaronson that I'd highly recommend [0]. He's a theoretical computer scientist but he was recruited by OpenAI to work on AI safety. He has a very practical view on the matter and is focusing his efforts on leveraging the probabilistic nature of LLMs to provide a digital undetectable watermark. So it nudges certain words to be paired together slightly more than random and you can mathematically derive with some level of certainty whether an output or even a section of an output was generated by the LLM. It's really clever and apparently he has a working prototype in development.

Some work arounds he hasn't figured out yet is asking for an output in language X and then translating it into language Y. But those may still be eventually figured out.

I think watermarking would be a big step forward to practical AI safety and ideally this method would be adopted by all major LLMs.

That part starts around 1 hour 25 min in.

> Scott Aaronson: Exactly. In fact, we have a pseudorandom function that maps the N-gram to, let’s say, a real number from zero to one. Let’s say we call that real number ri for each possible choice i of the next token. And then let’s say that GPT has told us that the ith token should be chosen with probability pi.

https://axrp.net/episode/2023/04/11/episode-20-reform-ai-ali...
Stink bomb was honestly my 2nd favorite out of that collection (after magnetic rose). I think it was beautifully animated as well as just being really funny.
In the interactive environment _ automatically holds the value of the last statement executed.

>>> 1+1
2
>>> _ * 3
6
Be honest, what you really want is for the web to orient itself in a direction where users get to make fewer "illegal" copies of content produced by corporations. Never mind the fact that their computers might not support, even in theory, the level of DRM the corporations want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866372
As long as you only want them to hover over a magnet...
It is not, he's listening to the hippies that want the "real LSD". "real LSD" means weaker tabs, they weren't as strong back in the days, 200+ug gets you too high.
>It’s pretty clear from the article what the political leanings of the author are, so it almost comes off as hypocritical and tone deaf to start banging on the first amendment drum on this issue.

Could you clarify?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

All kinds of new OS ideas can be implemented on UNIX like Mach[1], FLASK[2] and 9P[3] while internally a UNIX-like system doesn't need to be anything like a UNIX[4]... So who cares? What are you worried about losing? What can't be implemented on a UNIX-like system?

1. see MacOS

2. see SELinux

3. see v9fs

4. see Windows and BeOS which both have POSIX APIs
We definitely have something like the Bill of Rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...

I think the US has more freedom of speech (although it's hard to tell without training in constitutional law over 24 official languages (25 if you want to count Welsh, is this EU, Europe, or Council of Europe? Might need to add more…) and a split between common and (multiple subtypes of) civil law), but also I think it's a difference in detail not in kind.
IIRC public universities are state actors and thus have to follow certain frost amendment restrictions.

Professors at state universities are state employees and you can't fire a state employee for criticizing an elected official.
This guy's case is way overstated and lacking in evidence, dunno if that's from Doctorow himself or just him repeating Varoufakis. Take this absurdity:

> Better still: don't found Uber, invest in Uber options and extract value from the people who invest in Uber. Even better, invest in derivatives of Uber options and extract value from people extracting value from people investing in Uber, who extract value from drivers and riders. Go meta.

People trading options and derivatives on $UBER does not somehow drain Uber shareholders' wealth over the long term. Doctorow makes it sound as if the net proceeds from derivatives trading have grown to dwarf the profits made from businesses themselves, which is far from the case.

A better point may have been made about financialization & the growth of transaction fees (perhaps I-banks making money underwriting Uber's IPO and the like), but the financial sector is still far from replacing the whole real economy with rent-extraction.
Bolt EUV is a great car! Reasonable price.

The only thing I wish is more capacity for the battery. Went for a road trip from SF to Monterey, and the battery almost drained by the time we arrived.
Does it make any sense to try this on a lower-end Mac (like a M2 Air)?
Look into autocross, if you haven't before. It's probably the most accessible way to get a taste of time-trial racing in real life, and events are held all over the place -- basically anywhere there's a community and a free, empty parking lot. You just need a car (any car as long as it runs and is safe), a helmet (probably the most annoying part), and usually less than $100 for admission.
Because if you work with other peoples money, there's a LOT more of it, so you can trade 100x more often and size your positions over a greater range.

Source: I'm a quant
This will be hard to break. It’s basically an hour long CAPTCHA. You can look at things like key stroke timing, mouse movement, revision pattern, etc. I don’t see LLM’s breaking this approach to classify human writing.
I don't really know what you're saying, can you say it another way? "Most realistic evolution"... why is that needed? If the problem is different database engines implementing the SQL spec differently, that's not something that can be papered over with another abstraction without a lot of wrinkles.
This.

If you are layering an abstraction on top of SQL to avoid the SQL, you fail that goal once something goes wrong.

The reason you fail the goal is that you end up having to have skills to troubleshoot the SQL anyway. Wrong here can be: bad result, bad performance, or even just bad syntax. Unless you're ready to accept being helpless and rely on the knowledge of others... you'll want to look at what's actually hitting the database to know if it's a database problem, a PRQL problem, or problem in your own code and to do that we'll you better be well versed in SQL, your database, and how your DB vendor have implemented their flavor of SQL. So to use this DSL truly competently, you need to know everything that you'd need to know to write plain SQL... and then PRQL and how it might translate into the target SQL of your application. And taking PRQL on its own it doesn't really seem any simpler than SQL from what I can see... what you get in increased compositional simplicity you have to pay back in understanding its own quirks.

To be fair this approach can be worth it, but I don't think for a stand alone DSL like PRQL. For example, in .NET land there's C# and Linq where you get a query DSL... but you also get a more seamless integration into C# and its paradigms. Same could be said of Elixir and the Ecto query DSL; all the other things I above remain true, but the DSL brings the value of clean integration in to the code base of your app.

Needless to say, I understand the why they'd try something like this... but I'm skeptical that the marketing here seems to oversell what you end up really getting.
The government isn’t “any employer” and has a lot more strict restrictions.
GM will provide all of that to you for $30 a month.

CarPlay gives it to you for free, using the data plan you already pay for on your phone to fetch maps and stream music.

My car does not need it's own internet connection to do these things, my phone can do them just fine. And as CarPlay and Android Auto have shown, it is borderline trivial to turn the giant touchscreen in my car into a dumb terminal for my smartphone.

It's one thing to charge me a subscription for something I use regularly, it's another entirely to make me pay a subscription for something I already get somewhere else, just so I can have it in my car.

Fuck GM.
That's really cool, great job!
Lots of people know what needs doing, but changing things up is tough when we're so used to doing things a certain way. Plus, it doesn't help that laws often slow down the changes we need. And let's be real, these changes might not be everyone's cup of tea, especially when there's so much distrust and confusion often spread by the media.

Our current problems:

- Climate Change (CC)

- Biodiversity Loss (BL)

- Deforestation (D)

- Water Scarcity (WS)

- Ocean Acidification (OA)

- Resource Depletion (RD)

- Pollution (P)

- Land Degradation (LD)

- Food Insecurity (FI)

- Social Inequity (SI)

We have to solve all those to have a chance to repair things. Repair too little and we'll end up as Rome did (they also tried to solve their problems when they realized they're facing the end, but did too little and paid the price). All those problems have their main culprits and plethora of solutions. It's not that we don't know what and how, but we don't have the will.

a] acknowledge that our problem is ecological overshoot, and climate change is just one of its symptoms

b] stop polluting atmosphere ... stop fossil fuels asap, stop adding unnecessary co2 + methane + n20 (CC, P)

c] stop polluting soils & water ... reform agriculture, stop animal agriculture, plant-based diets (BL, WS, OA, P)

d] stop economic drivers of exponential growth of humans ... reform political, economic & financial system, handle inequality, ubi, housing, etc. (SI, FI)

e] stop overconsumption ... degrowth, ubi, walkable cities & reform zone planning, public transport, wfh, remove subsidies for polluting & unsustainable sectors (CC, BL, D, OA, RD, P, LD, FI, SI)

f] stop overexploiting nature ... circular economy, degrowth (BL, D, RD, P)

g] store carbon - reforest, rewild (abolishment of animal ag frees up an area as big as Africa) (CC, BL, D, WS, OA, RD, P, LD, FI, SI)

h] store carbon - enable return of wildlife ... big, continuous primeval rain forests and grasslands (CC, BL, D, WS, LD)

i] store carbon - stop industrial fishing, let marine life rebound to previous levels (70-90% gone already, incl. plankton) (CC, BL, OA, SI)

I'm probably forgetting a lot. But that'd be enough to stop it and begin the path towards sustainability.
I'm dubious. The few news websites that started publishing LLM articles (CNET, etc) were already circling the drain. They'd probably have fired their journalists anyway because they're on the edge of bankruptcy.
I've begun to feel like myself.

How can you tell?
For what it’s worth, it looks really readable to me. I have decades of sql experience at this point so consider myself pretty proficient but I can see the appeal of having a terser syntax for transformations. I especially like the “it just makes sql” approach.

Stepping through the second example on that page I know how I could do the same in sql, and I also know that it would be harder for most people to follow.

Question about that example though - why is there an aggregate without an assignment to a variable (average gross_salary) like the other examples?
That video isn't very convincing. The usual test is that the material can float above the magnet.
> You want to both use your credentials to be taken seriously in your posts, but also you want to avoid too much scrutiny of who you are.

Apply some philosophy on top of your "science" and you may learn something new and potentially interesting about your claim.
> or 1.5C, we still have a budget of 200BN tonCO2e

> we currently emmit about 50BN tons/annum

So, 4 years till we definitively get there? That honestly sounds worse because this was a hypothetical, we absolutely cannot stop our emissions to any meaningful degree if we want to continue living in a society.

And even if we magically did stop all direct emissions, there are secondary warming processes that have started and cannot be stopped. The oceans absorb a quarter of all CO2 which they will start to outgass once the atmosphere concentration stops increasing. The melted glacial masses have reduced the planet's reflectivity, increasing the greenhouse effect. Permafrost thawing is causing methane releases, etc.

> Bashing the developing world is not helpful. The US account for a massive chunk of historical emissions and excess consumption.

Oh my bad, do keep doing it until all the fish are completely gone and we all starve to death because dumb people did things centuries ago. Yes the developed world has an obligation to assist in all ways possible to make sure progress and development can continue in a clean and sustainable way, but past crimes don't condone present ones.

I mentioned China here specifically since they're an outlier in the topic, with vast ocean going fishing fleets emptying stock in even less developed countries that need it, i.e. Indonesia, Africa.
In case you are interested in a wrapper for WebKit instead of for Chromium, but one that lets you use your favorite Chrome and Firefox extensions:

Orion Browser by Kagi: Very fast. Zero telemetry.

Lightweight, natively built with WebKit, made for you and your Mac. Industry-leading battery life, privacy respecting by design and native support for web extensions.

Orion supports Firefox and Chrome browser extensions natively. Whether you prefer getting them from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-Ons... as well as bringing support for as many as we can to iOS…

https://browser.kagi.com/
As Nilay Patel from the Verge put it [1]

>Your regular reminder that the biggest threat to free speech is the government.

> Complaining about social platforms moderating content according to their whims is just how politicians distract you from how fast they’ve all gotten sick of the First Amendment. This story is outrageous — no one will even say what this professor allegedly said that was so offensive!

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/25/23806946/your-regular-rem...
Poll: Remote vs. office vs. hybrid work requirements
Wanted to get some data for what kind of requirements HN audience has at their work.
need to be in the office every day
can fully work from home
hybrid - specific office days are mandated by the company; no requirements on other days
hybrid - no specific mandates, can work from home or office based on my choice
Because you want to know what it is like before installing it? From what I gather so far this is not an executable I trust and feel comfortable running on my personal computer.
> I think the long-term response is going to be more sorting of companies into all-remote or all in-person, with fewer companies in the "hybrid" space that's so common today.

I think the long-term is going to be a small percentage of fully-remote (mostly new co's), a small percentage of full office (mostly legacy co's) and a big plurality of hybrid companies where everyone is mandated to come to office on the same days of the week. I am seeing more and more SV companies taking that approach.

Started a poll here to get more data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868543
I can't deboonk it from what I can see. It would be interesting if it zoomed out to show the environment this was occurring in.
s/literally the original/a/
Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543)

Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples (https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899)

There's been some research in this vain. To answer your question, seemingly very valid.
A significant part of the culture was that Usenet was tied, almost exclusively, to selective-admission universities (and largely CompSci / EE students and faculty), a few high-tech companies (infotech and defence, largely), and a few government departments. Those institutions could exert reasonable disciplinary control over Usenet participants ... enough to avoid the grosser harms.

Yes, it was highly exclusive and exclusionary, and there were definitely toxic elements to the culture, but it wasn't entirely lacking in control or discipline as occurred later.

Note that Usenet did have some effective spam controls ("Cancelmoose", the Lumber Cabal, etc.), but overall effectiveness was limited by virtue of the distributed and noncentralised nature of the protocol, as well as the lack of any true participant authentication.

Slashdot was harshing on Usenet long before Reddit was, and various online forums (as you mention) before that.
Model M and Unicomp keyboards are way louder than typical Cherry MX and similar keyboards. It is very apparent from watching some videos on Youtube. For a completely silent keyboard check out the Realforce R2 (PFU Limited edition): https://fujitsuscannerstore.com/cg01000-290301/ It goes on sale for $220.
I had somewhat of a similar experience treating a different condition I had. I wanted to take the scientific approach of taking one supplement at a time and measuring my response, but I ended up taking everything at once, and that worked wonders. But I'm still not sure if it was one specific thing that did 90% of the heavy lifting or if each one did 5%.
What is there to judge? The original commenter is the one making an appeal to authority, then just saying they are skeptical. In short an anonymous giving their opinion. The parent is right saying it’s of way lower value than the study.
doesn't everyone use it in containers?
How do you do that generally? Drugs? PT?
Just remember to vote accordingly, don’t California Texas on us!
I tried arc for a while and I didnt stick with it just because of the tiling. I just miss the flexibility of being able to have more than 3 windows visible in a useful orientation. For me it simply didnt work on a huge screen.