skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think complete plays is a pretty fair metric, though it hurts 45 minute long epics or Dj sets or w/e.

The bigger issue I have is with “number of times played.” I listen to some comfort-food music over and over again, but the most rewarding music I listen to is challenging in some way and maybe isn’t something I listen to over and over.

Basically, Spotify’s metrics aren’t my metrics.
Don't agree with this at all.

On one hand, it's kind of a tautology - sure, if you're in a city that is very car-dependent, it's a disadvantage to the working poor because owning a car costs money.

But in the US there are also (usually older) cities with relatively great public transportation that are more walkable that also have enormous amounts of wealth inequality.

Doesn't really have anything to do with inequality, in the US at least it's mostly just reflective of when cities were built and developed. Pre-WWII cities like NYC and Boston have (again, relatively) great public transit options and huge walkable parts, while newer cities (often in the South) developed around the car.
You have to provide public transport infrastructure _first_ if you want people to use it. You can't get rid of your car in the hope that 8 months down the line you can get a train; unless your boss is happy for you not physically attending work for 8 months, at least.
There are so many interesting stories on them,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=npr+talk+monarch+butterflies&atb=v...

But one thing thats reall interesting is that we have been decimating their only foodsource and breeding grounds ; milkweed.

We treat milkweed, as a weed and its decimated by RoundUp (monsatan)

https://www.nwf.org/Garden-For-Wildlife/About/Native-Plants/...

but its really interesting that there is a really large hippocampus in birds, and some insects - which allows for them to have a really spacial/geographic memory - they recall where they find food.

But the interesting thing about monarchs is that this information has some ability to encode over skipped generations...

But because we monsatan the "weeds" we are FN the monarchs up.

When I wasa child, in Lake Tahoe Monarchs were on the migration path and we would have entire pine trees covered in them

https://imgur.com/gallery/acxne3V

This was a regular for me in elemetary school...
Nothing the military puts out on leadership should be taken very seriously because of the UCMJ and because unhappy people can't quit with serious repercussions.

Anyone can make a team be productive when you can overwork people, if things don't get done you threaten to take their money and threaten a demotion, no one can quit to get away from you, and there is a steady stream of bodies to use.

Civilian leaders have to actually balance keeping people happy and getting things done.
OVH is a hosting company. I am not talking about hosting. Where are the companies with knowledge on how to deploy data center scale compute jobs? Where are the pioneers in this?

That knowledge exists now in Europe, but there was easily a lost decade in terms of capability. This is the price. Similar will happen in AI and you will be stuck relying on American products. I hope for your sake that I am wrong.
The issue is, as I said in another comment here, that his newsletter doesn't have his full-length articles. It links to his articles in The Atlantic, and you have to be a subscriber to The Atlantic to read them.
Maybe "Waymo kills" isn't a great way to start this headline, especially given many other words would convey the actual intent just fine...
Probably makes economic sense for most users to go with API. On the other hand - is it worth saving a couple of dollars to even have to worry about the risk of a huge bill? (You use it way too much, you accidentally leak your key, you make a mistake when coding a UI and put it in a loop, etc).
Sam Harris is contributing to modern philosophy. He wrote a book entitled "Lying" about on why we should not lie. His talk "Science can answer moral questions" is worth waching https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_answer_mora...
Is there any organized opposition (to curbs on freedom to work with AI) that you know of?
"Waymo's focus on ride-hailing makes some sense. The reliability requirements for ride-hailing are much lower than trucking, making it a more lenient business. If you have a truck full of cargo, it's a major issue if something goes wrong and it can't reach its destination on time. The truck routes are many hours long over long distances and usually have some kind of delivery time attached. Your self-driving hardware and software has to work perfectly during all that. Ride-hailing is way easier. Trips are usually measured in minutes and in a localized area where you can easily dispatch support people if something goes wrong. Because the app is a central point of customer bookings, you can easily pause and resume accepting customers anytime. That makes it easy to shut down the fleet to deal with technical difficulties or bad weather. You can also rigidly control your service area and accept or decline trips on a whim. Everyone can just use Lyft instead."

Most of this smells like bullshit to me.

If your technology can't hire extremely well-mapped, generally well-maintained highways, it can't possibly handle cities. Saying that you expect to fail and kick out the passengers and tell them to use some other service is in no way a usable service.

I think Waymo is toast, and they're trying for a soft landing and some kind of pivot.
Because if there weren’t some mechanism that has the effect of severely limiting liability beyond the class action settlement, corporate interests would be unhappy. Keeping corporate interests happy trumps your rights.
Yeah, I had a similar experience as a European travelling to the US. My coworkers were horrified at the idea that I'd take a bus.
> add to it a small company with a small team of support staff and it turns into an unfair battle

Totally agree and I feel for any any support staff, small or large, as it is unfair. I guess my point is insanely large, highly profitable organizations probably have a UX problem along with a much larger greed problem. No one should be stuck chatbotting or having non-existent support if they are a paying customer with Google.
I think things like folding and cameras on phone isn't why you go out looking for a phone.

It's just to nudge you towards their product when you're given the choices.
There are other factors that stop the kind of life we see on earth from appearing earlier in the universe’s history. For example the first stars (the pure hydrogen ones) could not have had planets that supported life and they burned too hot and quick to reasonably do so.
It was kind of a Thing for these movies in a way I don't think I've seen since. Can't forget about Jake Lloyd[1]. There are better articles out there somewhere, I just can't find them right now.

[1] https://www.suggest.com/jake-lloyd-star-wars-child-actor-wha...
The law states that Ofcom has to ask you for your risk assessments, and they can't ask you for those if they don't know you exist.

Good lord! That's the same logic one may employ as a criminal, say.. an inside trader!

Well of course you won't get nabbed, if they don't know!

So as soon as you do anything interesting, protest, stand up for a right, displease a cop, upset the wrong neighbour, you'll be noticed, eh?

What a great law!

Congrats, you made my neighbours wonder why I'm yelling at myself(seemingly) again.

"Poor bbarnett, yelling in his empty house again, wonder when they'll take him away Marge?"
This is not how they pay out subscription $. They do not pay per stream. While the payout algorithm is highly complicated, essentially it is a % of subscription dollars distributed pro-rata by stream count to copyright holders (where a 1 stream is at least 30s of listening).
Exactly, re-reading I think my phrasing (or rather use of question mark) was ambiguous but that's exactly what I mean, the problem isn't the lack of 'buzz', it's the taste not being as good.
> At least as fast as C++ or Fortran

That obviously has to be the goal, but is it really feasible to be faster than good C/C++ or Fortran? I did some research into the Python Compiler landscape and came to the conclusion that it almost always boils to LLVM. So, if you want to have fast code, just help the compiler make the most of your code and you'll be 99% of the way there and as fast as possible without significantly more effort.

Would you agree with my layman's understanding of this topic?
the thing about airplanes, is that although they are going fast, the margins for exceptions can be a lot wider. In a truck on a highway the margin of error is only feet. I don't know that a driver can really react meaningfully fast, especially if they are zoning out or idle. And, if they're not zoning out but instead paying close attention, what has been gained?

Agree on lane keeping, but my experience with emergency braking has been less than stellar. it seems to mostly react accidentally and occasionally not do what it is supposed to.
Hiding the adversarial prompt behind five minutes of research is silly. Bad people won’t be deterred, good people won’t bother and will remain ignorant and unable to build protections against it.
Looking down on cyclists is a common sentiment in some parts of the world. Meanwhile here in Cambridge (the UK one) there are numerous people who cycle around the city simply because it's a better way to get around for lots of reasons. Those people range from students at the universities who in many cases will have very little disposable income to professionals with some of the most highly paid jobs in the country.

The idea that cycling is "for poor people" seems quite bizarre after living somewhere like this. Indeed it is one of the few things - in a city among the worst in the UK for inequality - that truly spans almost all financial and social classes.

The idea that a lot more money and resources need to be invested in improving facilities to make cycling and walking more attractive does resonate though. The arguments made in the article look on point here.
> Science got along fine for thousands of years

doesn't upend your point, but just for the record, what we call science has only been around for about 500 years
Thank you and sorry you had to go through all that. Luckily I was able to get in and delete the account. I've had multiple experiences with older relatives losing their accounts as well. It's tough to help them with security when they have trouble even navigating the app/browser let alone figuring out how to use an authenticator app. I've tried to get them cheap tablets or chromebooks to use specifically for their social media then keep their other computers just for email/taxes and that seems to have helped, but still not ideal.

And yes using an authenticator app is my big takeaway here too. I was lazy and delayed migrating all my accounts over to it, but this has definitely spurred some action on that front.
Isn't there something about how erectile dysfunction is one of the earliest warning signs of cardiovascular disease? That may have something to do with it as well...
They aren't on https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors so probably not.
Counterterrorism internet surveillance is being retargeted at sex workers
RWKV-5: increased heads, matrix-valued states, no positional encodings
As a mathematician with a kid who thinks he loves math (but doesn't love effort), I try to expose him to fun math. I also casually reveal upcoming concepts (currently negative numbers and fractions), so he'll struggle less when his curriculum demands it. But I never push. When he asks for more, I'm always there. When his attention wanders, that's my cue to shut up.
Something similar is also described here: https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/claude-says-it-cant-d...

> This can be a way of getting Claude to comply with tasks it otherwise won’t complete, e.g. if the model will by default say “I don’t know how to do that” then a mini dialogue at the beginning where the model agrees to do the thing can help get around this.

This “vulnerability” definitely isn’t new, I’d even say it’s obvious to anyone who understands how LLMs work
Yes, I thought about this too. Also LLMs can or will be able to translate from one language to another, so perhaps the fact that LFortran/LPython can translate Fortran/Python to other languages like C++ or Julia might not be useful.

My approach is that it is still unclear to me what exactly will be possible in the future, while I know exactly how to deliver these compilers today. I suspect a traditional compiler will be more robust and also a lot faster than an LLM for tasks like translation to another language or compilation to binary. And speed of compilation is very important for development from the user perspective.

Conclusion: I don't know what the future will bring, but I suspect these compilers will still be very useful.
Add to that having kids at home that sometimes listen to Paw Patrol and you will end up with a daily mix that consists of (in my case): Death Metal, news, random clip from paw patrol, German rap (I only like one artist not that genre in general).

I’ve been longing for a “kids mode” for a long time.
Movie Soundtracks! You can start with all the ones nominated for awards and figure out what you like from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Original_...

I tend to like TV soundtracks for suspenseful shows. Action movies/shows are too bombastic generally.
I can assure you these ones are among the hallowed 0.01% of all users.
Could be, but it feels to me more that the Taiwan invasion aspect is based in the US's worries and not in specific Chinese actions from what I read, though I admittedly couldn't read the full article through paywall.

The invasion of Ukraine has been disastrous for Russia, I'm not sure I see the value for China to follow suit. Hopefully we can all trend towards peace.
A lot of the reason why your kid might be alienating themselves is being thrown into an environment where they're a couple standard deviations outside the mean and have to confront tedious busywork.

It's hard for many people to accept, but kids who are a couple sigma above the mean can end up having nearly as much problems in an inflexible academic environment from kids who are a couple sigma below.

My eldest is a very high performer who had behavioral issues in upper elementary. A whole lot of getting him to the point where he's maximally successful with peers, in other classrooms, and in sports and other endeavors was getting him into situations with appropriate challenge and opportunities for expression.
It's like idiocracy where they say something like "you drink water? like water, that you use to flush the toilet?". People are easily manipulated because they want to signal that they're valuable and/or rich; "walking is for poor people" ... well yes, also people who want to stay fit, or who care about the environment, or want to be closer to their community, or ...
To be fair, if the alternative was "searching confluence", almost anything is better than that, whether it's a chatbot or a third party search engine slapped on top of your confluence data. Confluence's search is an absolute joke, and a bad one at that.
Going fast when the child wants to go fast and slow when they need to go slow is I think most of what makes one-on-one teaching superior to classroom teaching. But, yeah, homeschooling can leave a big social gap.
If you're doing a cyberdeck, and you already include some form of AR display, then why include the keyboard? Haptic feedback gloves [1] are already a thing, and would allow typing wherever. They frankly need to get smaller, and not include such bulky hardware, even if it means "light, soft" feedback, yet they exist. I'd be happy with a floating "type zone" and soft "you touched a key" response. Wolfram's mobile computing piece [2] was one of the only tech things I've been a bit envious of lately.

Now if smart/digital contacts could just get around all the patent fortresses / other issues, and actually produce a working product. Saw research prototypes back in the early 2000's. Apparently people are still trying. [3]

[1] https://www.manus-meta.com/vr-gloves

[2] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...

[3] https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/augmented-reality-co...
Is the issue you have with the group of people doing the moderation, or with the idea of the moderation in the first place? Are you certain that its the 'SV engineers' that are doing the current moderation? If you think the problem is with the current group of moderators, who do you think should be moderating and what should be the criteria of their moderation? If you think we don't need any moderation, do you believe that people should have a fairly easy access to

* Learn how to make bombs (as mentioned in the article)
* Get away with committing crimes?

Are moderating these topics related to morality?
Great! Glad you recognized the fact it can have some valid usecases
You might have missed it in the Article, but this is about quarter over previous year (same quarter last year) earnings.

So the 95% decline in Q1 is being compared to Q1 the year before and so on.

This would mean we are not comparing sales in the spring to sales last fall or in the holidays when a new phone released.

Also mentioned is that their smartphone shipments are down more than 30% year over year.
Thanks for writing this. Loved this game, purchased from Jeff at a computer show or other in London. #FFFF is 65,535 BTW, not 65,532. Great to finally learn how fast-loader etc worked.
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/07/27/sex-2-dawkins-vs-r...

Richard Dawkins:

“New Statesman commissioned my piece out of the blue (rather to my surprise) on 29th March. I sent it in on 4th April, having been told it would be published the following week. In the event it wasn’t published for more than three months. I was eventually told the reason for the long delay. Perhaps under pressure from junior members of staff (that’s a pure guess, but it’s a common pattern in publishing today) they had decided they needed to publish an opposing view. They were having trouble finding one, and I think it shows.

I should make it clear that I’m not complaining about the delay. I was treated with the utmost consideration and courtesy throughout. And I think it may be the only piece of journalism I have ever written where my prose was not messed about by the editors but printed exactly as I wrote it. For that I am extremely grateful.

Moreover, I don’t think Jacqueline Rose can be blamed for not replying to my article, because I doubt that she was shown it. Whether she should be blamed for something else – such as writing an article that doesn’t make any coherent sense – is another matter. Perhaps “doesn’t make any coherent sense” is a badge of honour among postmodernists. I wouldn’t know, as I’ve never met anyone who could even begin to tell me what postmodernism is.”
The lack of features, is a feature.
I've never driven a truck, but I get the impression that even simple interstate driving still has lots of possibilities for most of the issues you mentioned but also the vehicle is the size and weight of a small building. I was surprised to learn for instance that you can fill a standard truck up so full of potatoes that it can come in over the legal weight limit and then subject the driver to a fine (I also note that in the US, the driver is subject to the fine, but in Europe it's the company that owns the truck who is liable which really sums up a lot of labor issues pretty nicely).

I suspect that for simple, regular routes, a train is going to be really effective already. Trucks are used because they are much more versatile.
That's what "15 min cities" is about. The YIMBYs also push for accessible amenities, through zoning changes, to make areas more walkable.
Wow this is a really cool idea. I feel like in the future we're going to have more of this kind of stuff, and move away from the idea that product engineering, and infrastructure engineering can be cleanly separated.

Infrastructural concerns are going to have to be embedded deeply into product development and vice versa.
Professional trucking companies tend to be small/medium are getting squeezed pretty hard by the larger businesses on either end. Any logistics company with a large enough fleet is probably investigating this themselves.
> Very serious question: Who is asking for foldable phones? Who is saying,

I don't own one, but having seen colleagues use them I plan to get one once it stops costing and arm and a leg.
About 35 years ago I was visiting my mum's uncle in the middle of nowhere India. His family had owned a village farm for time immemorial. There was a Ganesh statue at the side of a field. People walking to/from the field would touch it, leave something there, etc.

I asked why it was there (the village temple was elsewhere, by the road). He said that some years prior they'd encountered it in the field while digging so pulled it out, cleaned it up and put it there. Who knows how old it was...a hundred years? Hundreds of years? More? I certainly had no expertise to tell. But it still worked fine so was still "in use".

I imagine it's been stolen and/or sold off by now.

(Speaking of ancient relics: despite then-decades old land reform and civil rights, it seemed like the old feudal system still operated de facto. Sigh.)
I drive a Tesla model Y. Probably the smallest SUV I can buy.

Why are people in this thread jumping to these absolutely absurd ideas about the motivations somebody would have for the car they drive? Do some of you seriously have this idea of a deranged murderous psychopath gassing up their giant child squishing machine and going out into the world looking for children to run over or something?
Embossers can run to several thousand USD, but there's a DIY project based on a few hundred USD of parts, https://www.instructables.com/OpenBraille-a-DIY-Braille-Embo...

PixBlaster for braille and tactile graphics costs $4300, https://www.aph.org/product/pixblaster/ & https://www.aph.org/making-graphics-for-pixblaster-and-pageb...
Yes. ASR is as abstract as it can be, but it is still faithful to the original language, no information has been lost, nothing was lowered.
People don't read the docs. It is a tiny minority that will read the docs and the bot trained on your documentation does provide helpful answers based on your documentation.
If the bot answers are unhelpful, but then also the people reading wont get helpful answers from your docs - then you need to improve the documentation.
These are two separate problems.
The low density of wind power actually makes it much harder for an adversary to take out a country's energy production capacity. Currently, that well-aimed missile could hit a nuclear plant and cause devastation as well as the loss of multiple gigawatts of capacity. The equivalent wind power would be spread across hundreds or thousands of turbines, spaced kilometers apart. Destroying one wouldn't have the same impact.
B2B Churn Rates Across the SaaS Industry Are at Their Highest Level Since 2019
There is actually a simple solution, which is to put red lights on street lamps instead of white lights. You can buy LEDs which emit only in frequencies that won't disturb circadian rhythms.

They are a bit more expensive, but I think the reason we don't do this is because planners/governments are probably unaware of the problematic nature of light pollution.
I think that’s a factor. I would also hazard to guess that admitting to yourself that you’re done with sexuality is a symptom of other issues, physical or mental.

In my work I’ve run across a lot of internally generated statistics used to model programs and insurance schemes. If you want to bet on misfortune happening to someone, divorced men are sponges for almost any negative outcome.
The one time I had visited and hadto travel longer distance in the US I took a greyhound and boy, it was a interesting experience. Back home, going by bus was the norm but in the US it's... Really different.