skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Journalists are typically the ones bringing any sort of credibility to topics.

Not at all. "Journalists" are as biased as they come. They'll sing any tune prescribed by the hand that feeds them. That hand is most often advertisers but may also be governments. Chances are the articles they produce are actually hidden advertisements or propaganda. How could anyone with such massive conflicts of interest bring credibility to literally anything? I want access to real information posted by real people, not agenda-pushing "credible authorities".

> Without journalists, it's just randos and bots shit-posting their hot takes.

What makes you think these "journalists" aren't just randoms themselves? They're not really any better than any person on this site. Their particular brand of hot take is not automatically more valid than anyone else's. As far as I'm concerned their only purpose is to generate material for us to comment on.

There is exactly one site in the entire internet I have enough respect for to call them true journalists: LWN. It's just excellent in every way and they don't need to posture as authorities for everyone else to believe it. Everything else ranks lower than HN's comment sections to me.
My speculation was not about LLM being an abstraction around CPU instructions. I don't think such a jump would produce a reliable code, so I hands down agree with you. In fact, your proposal is on par with what I had in mind.
I agree that Rust handles concurrency about as well as Java (in addition to its memory safety). But could you provide docs on Erlang or Haskell concurrent data structures that were better than Java’s, say, 10-20 years ago? Java’s support for concurrent data structures was pretty unprecedented in its heyday.
The original reCAPTCHA, with two words: It knew the answer to one of the words and didn't know the other. At one point some users were inserting purposefully wrong answers or slurs into the unknown word to mess with the data collection.

I expect the idea is the same with images, if there are 4 buses I expect 2 it knows are correct and used as a sanity test, 1 it's pretty sure it's correct (from majority of users selecting it), and 1 has some heuristics that might be a bus but it is currently testing to see whether users believe is or not. Similarly with the 5 not a bus images.
> https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1684960318718406656

Oh wow. If true, then that's that.

If they are stable, the original samples will validate, or they will not.

The researchers could wave their hands and claim the sample deteriorated, but I think that would still end optimism for replication.
I don't think commuting should be the main focus - if you want HSR to make sense ecologically, it should replace existing car and airplane trips, not enable people to make longer commutes.
There has naturally been a lot of research on the effectiveness of political advertising. From what I've read in the academic literature, it's recognized that no one's opinion gets changed, but exposure to a narrative will change the relative priority people give to issues. The purpose of political advertising is to focus public attention on issues were the party thinks they have stronger appeal. I'm speculating that political ads trend rather childish because they are targeted at those people who are most easily influenced.
It's useful for the dozen people you're transporting, but transporting a dozen people isn't exactly worth building a train system for.

The economics only make sense if you're hauling around masses of people, and you can't do that if all those people want to bring their cars with them.
I don't know either. It says it is open access and is CC-BY, but I cannot find how to access the file from that web page.

The URL ends with something with "10." so that would indicate a DOI, so I tried putting that in Sci-Hub but it says not found. I also tried Anna's Archive, which recognizes it as a DOI but also does not have that file, but it links to Sci-Hub (which doesn't have it, as I said) and to the same web page linked from here, which is the same one I could not figure it out.

(If anyone does figure it out, you should put it in Anna's Archive and Sci-Hub; the CC-BY would mean that it would be allowed (not that Sci-Hub cares if it is allowed or not anyways, but in my opinion it ought to be there either way).)
Sounds like construction started in 2015? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_High-S....
You are correct. Most of Washington state is empty. Few people live in the Cascades or the eastern plains.

Most of the population of Washington and Portland Metro live inside a long rectangle with an area of 10-15000 square miles. Call it 400 people per square mile. Or probably 15000 people per mile of track which likely is a better number.
I dunno, I'd be suspect of the argument was that the directions were perfect in Korean and merely totally hidden from industrious Americans.

Japanese and Korean professionals speak English. There will be one researcher for whom explaining the language is a minor dalliance.

I work in a very minor polymer materials field. There are two Japanese researchers who cheerfully banter. If somebody had hidden some transformative work behind their language, even as a student, they would have talked about it straightaway, if only for the conversation and a bit of competitive intellectual football. Can the foolish American grad student reason around it? Let's see!

The twitch channel was packed with interested Koreans. If there had been the tiniest bit of confusion there would have been 200 translations from which to utilize the Translation Of The Crowd.
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The difference in marathon times between Ethiopians or Kenyans and people from other countries is very very small, in the order of ~2%. How do you know it's not cultural? For example, in running, no one thought you could run a four minute mile, then as soon as one person did thousands did as as well. It could easily be explained that too athletic talent is far more likely to go into marathon running instead of other disciplines in those sports, as is the case for regional dominance in many other sports, so in reality the actual advantage is even slimmer if it isn't null at all.

I'll end with a question - competitive cycling requires the same abilities as marathon running, that is, optimal oxygen intake and usage, and great endurance in the buttock, leg, and foot muscles. Why are Ethiopians not dominant there?
Additional critical Metabase security vulnerabilities announced today
You could do that with a VR headset
The red flag is when they don’t compare it to GPT3.5
Yes there are different environmental factors in families. But that doesn't negate the fact that there's differences in individuals as well. Some people literally come out of the womb mentally handicapped or gifted or anywhere between. To talk things up 100% to environment for capability is a silly as saying height is 100% environment. It's unscientific and putting one's head in the sand. It is one factor but not the only Factor.
You don't see, I don't see, but I believe they saw.
i am unfamiliar with the condition of the tracks on that corridor but in general the vast majority of lines in the US are limited to below 80mph due to the infamous FRA 79 mph rule which mandates in cab signaling to exceed 80mph.

with the near ubiquity of positive train control now following the FRA's unfunded mandate (another brilliant piece of policy from the boys in blue) this rule should no longer apply. but due to reasons unknown to me (bureaucratic mire?) trains on many corridors are still limited.

there are also some grade crossing related speed restrictions

the FRA and its cronies should be hurled into the sun
Yes. The system broke down. I don't know anyone who thinks it works how it should

I've had pretty hard bounces which were deserved and I know how to get work over the threshold, but some review feedback has been petty, passive aggressive ignorance, and suspiciously similar stuff pops up from time to time in "3 papers and your phd is done" which makes me wonder if copycats are getting softballed through for career development.

the rules behind length, word count and mark-up are pretty silly too. I've seen some rather odd latex tricks to compensate for length inside word count because typographical checkers were bouncing.

I don't do this for a living, barely act as maybe helpful co author these days: it's hard work.
Ok, but how about South of Olympia? :-)
> I've met many developers not caring to read any of a git output and then claiming git is too complex and git broke their repo and it's "too complex to use".

This a hundred times over.
> Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their illegal and/or unethical businesses, and I don't give in to criminals or bullies

Trying to change the narrative to doxxing and harassment sounds a lot like the classic influencer playbook for dealing with controversies:

1. Influencer/organization screws up.

2. This attracts negative attention.

3. Influencer/organization comes out with a statement that they are being bullied, doxxed, harassed, etc. Often evidence of this is absent or questionable.

4. They use their network and media contacts to make the story about (3) instead of (1).

A manager who cares about their staff should be aware that the only way to deal with harassment and abuse is to publicly ignore it and handle matters internally. Don't give the trolls any attention whatsoever. Any response will exacerbate the issue. If someone has been doxxed and there is a credible threat, put them up in a hotel on the other side of town for a few nights and contact law enforcement.
In practice I'm not seeing much of a difference. Maybe it is just being in ML, where if you wait for conferences you're far behind. If a paper is that shitty, it is usually very apparent. Like if a paper isn't in latex you know... I mean there's a lot of garbage in conferences and journals too, I just haven't found it to be a meaningful signal.

And it is still silly that people call it "peer review." Peer review is not 3-4 randos briefly glancing my work in an adversarial setting who say my work is not novel because it is the same as some unrelated work that they didn't read either; peer review is the grad student building on top of my work, peer review is lucidrains rewriting my work from scratch, it is Ross Wightman integrating it into timm and retraining, it is the forks that use my work for projects (hobby or professional). Peer review is peers looking and reviewing. More peer review happens on Twitter than these conferences. You can say these conferences and journals are a form of peer review, but we gotta stop saying that just because something is a preprint that it isn't peer reviewed. That's just incorrect. Peer review is when peers review.
If you are not in the UK, you are not under the UK's jurisdiction.
A Polestar 2 has a co2e of 23 tons. 50 tons of fuel has a co2e of 50x(44/12) because co2 is heavier than c2, and x1.4 to account for refining and shipping. That's 256 tons or 10x as much, and we haven't included the embodied carbon incurred in the production of the car.

And the CO2 emissions for motive energy are also about an order of magnitude less. Nuclear, hydro wind and solar make up almost half the grid. Natgas turbines are twice as efficient as gasoline engines. EV's are 3x as efficient as gasoline cars.
Mojo is not Python.

The underlying pressure on the Python ecosystem is to transition to a post-Moore's law era and effectively become a HPC platform where the "same" code runs on a CPU, a GPU, multicore, clusters etc.

Python may feel the pressure more than others because of the GIL and the fact it is used in compute intensive tasks more than others.

But this major need to transition to easy and seamless HPC/heterogeneous computing is the same for all languages. The question is who will get there first.
Metabase announced a patch release for a critical vulnerability a little over a week ago: https://www.metabase.com/blog/security-advisory

Today they have announced further, related vulnerabilities, and if you're running your own instance you should patch again, or disable your instance until you have a chance to do so.

The vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands with the same privileges as the Metabase server on the server you are running Metabase on. This would allow arbitrary querying of any database that Metabase is connected to.
No they're right.

If all you're doing is keeping up with a tight-nit group of friends, you could use a million other services. Group SMS, I-message, discord, Hangouts, even plain old email.

Obviously there's a a key difference between instagram and all those others services I just mentioned and I posit that common difference is why you're using instagram instead. What is it?
I shared the content of an email I sent out to a few different groups the other day here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888156&p=2#36889971

There were some reasonable criticism that it was too long/wordy hopefully you can adapt and reformat to your liking.
> I find it hard to believe that they don’t profit on their products at least a bit.

Basically, they don’t. Over recent years, membership fees have accounted for, from what I can find, a low of 80% to a high of 110% of their net income, usually sitting right around 100%, and that’s not an accident, its their well-documented deliberate business model.

Selling stuff covers the costs associated with being able to sell the stuff, membership fees are what provides profit.
Protests? I would leave the country. I'm already disillusioned as it is.
In the developer documentation it mentions that the restricted activities involving UserDefaults involve writing data that other apps can read, or reading other app's data in UserDefaults. It seems odd to me that if this is a security or privacy issue it couldn't be addressed by a technical means, like preventing UserDefaults from reading from other app's data at all, rather than having every developer that wants to store preference data pinky promise that they won't performed the proscribed actions.

I'm not looking forward to any increase in the amount of nonsense I must deal with to develop for iOS. They seem to have a some kind of garbage boilerplate lower limit that they feel giving us macros and SwiftData has put in danger.
Oh this is the kind of blog I was looking for, thanks.
Python uses a GIL (global interpreter lock) which prevents both Python code and native C modules from executing in parallel in the interpreter. Removing the GIL means Python could provide in-process parallelism.
For a region with relatively low population and big mountains, this is surprising. Sure, Florida built Brightline, but Miami plus Orlando alone equals the population of Portland + Seattle + Vancouver... on flat ground, with few changes to an existing rail corridor, over a shorter distance, and most importantly, it's all in the same country, in the same state even.

On the other hand, if it can work in PacNo, that's a call-out to all of the laggard corridors that have it so much easier: Atlanta-Charlotte, Washington-Richmond, etc.
Can AT&T and Verizon escape managed decline?
>then proceeded to literally scream at me that I couldn't use my fathers card

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-press-la-noire-gif-1871...
Geeze I rarely bother to go read people's post histories here unless they strike me as uniquely insightful but yours inspired me to go read his comments and dude looks like a troll account who just came on here to cause flamewars and troll. All of his comments are argumentative.
Now that the 2G network shutdowns are done, there's no driving force to get a new phone, especially in this economy. The phones have gotten far more durable in the last decade as well, so breakage isn't as big of a driving factor either.
Right but way fewer restrictions
I work at a big company. We had probably millions of lines of Python. We migrated to c++ instead of to Python 3.
There's a hundred different ways to disincentivize commutes – without subsidies either: simple tax incentives.
I live 2 blocks from a Costco Small Business Center. It’s great as nobody else has chosen to put a grocery store in the neighborhood.
What about eating fewer chocolate/coconut covered almonds?

Dark chocolate, of course. Healthier.
Coming from a place of total ignorance, it would be nice if you could do this more incrementally, like have it be in no-gil mode by default, but then have a context manager you can use for gil sections, and have the interpreter bomb out if you try to enter gil-required code while still in no-gil mode.
Am I missing something, I was under the impression a lowering of birth rates was a positive thing because of limited resources?
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> Different with Netflix, you don’t buy actual products that they also profit on.

You don’t do that at Costco either, except by accident: Costco by design breaks even (there’s some variability because planning and reality diverge) on everything else and makes money on membership fees. That’s the value proposition: you pay for a membership, and you get stuff at what it costs Costco to get it to you.
if it's just(JUST) for the padlock icon, you can setup Cloudflare free plan with the proxying enabled
The reason that we don’t have those things is the rabid partisanship and graft, eg you ignoring the Homeless Industrial Complex and Sound Transit being black holes of tax money that deliver negative (homeless) or mediocre (transit) results for huge sums.

Obviously a lot of people object to writing checks that are perennially siphoned off by white collar crooks — but yes, the problem is those people from that town.

They’re just rubes who don’t understand your obvious greatness and should feel privileged to pay for your graft!
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Being a layman is a choice
“Single mile of track” is one of the dumbest memes ever. Yes, they lay the tracks last, because that is by far the easiest part of the project and there’s a machine that can poop out HSR tracks at 1km/hour.
What is it? Browsing on phone and all I see is an image.
I’m not from the area but does anyone actually fly from SEA to PDX assuming they have a car? It’s not like SeaTac is even that close to Seattle. And depending on where you live and destination plans it’s hard for me to imagine trading a less than 3 hour drive for a train trip.
Yes, that’s right… they are of dubious utility imho.
But shouldn't old GIL python versions be fine running code that is no-GIL compatible (assuming it is otherwise compatible)? Having a thread per process doesn't mean you cannot run code which is fine with having n threads per process. So if you maintain code which is otherwise compatible with e.g. python 3.6, after making it no-GIL compatible it should still be compatible to 3.6.
Adversarial compatibility is a good thing for users.

If the site doesn't want to implement what your extension would do then either they will try to shake you down, buy you out, or implement the feature on their site. The latter two seem like a positive for you.
I have a deep appreciation for Paul Graham's essays, finding them incredibly insightful and worth revisiting multiple times.

I developed a tool that helps me retrieve my previous readings and uncover new insights. It utilizes Retrieval-Augmented Generation, specifically based on PG's essays.

Additionally, I've created a similar tool for Sam Altman's writings: https://secondme.live/?to=sam_altman

Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts.
Nostalgia is powerful. I’m building way more complex and objectively better things now than I was then. The frustrations involved might not be any lesser, but it’s hard to argue the capabilities and level of productivity aren’t improved.
SoCal? LA/OC?
So you "stole" from them many times and then were surprised by the reaction the one time you got caught. You just felt justified because you didn't understand their business model.
california does indeed have it's own special brand of Process

it is truly amazing that san francisco, which would be one of the largest cities in the world if its growth weren't checked by its idiotic politics, remains the underdeveloped relative backwater that it is

and of course the high speed rail project, probably the most important transport megaproject in US history (by virtue of the influence its legacy it will have on the rest of the country), has been so spectacularly mismanaged through a combination of corruption and the California Process such that if i ever does reach the termini, political compromises made during its design will cripple both HSR and caltrain's operations and increase the journey time to no longer be competitive with airlines. in all likelihood the legacy will be the palatial viaducts built in literal cornfields that serve no purpose other than to enrich contractors (see: hanford viaduct)
It depends on the tool doing the diff on the snapshot and what you're putting into it to begin with. https://jestjs.io/docs/snapshot-testing

The components I test all use classes, so there aren't embedded styles. Occasionally the generated class names change across different versions, but it is a small price to pay and easy enough to just update the shots.

I'd also argue that I'd want that snapshot to fail. I'd want to know why someone made that change, especially if they were going in the other direction... f00 -> ff0000.