skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you revise your statement when you read the second paragraph of the press release?
Yeah. It's also highly questionable whether the Political Compass test itself is neutral (there's a tendency for people on forums to report results a lot more libertarian left than they personally expected, not least because of a tendency for many of the questions to pose pretty extreme versions of the right wing or authoritarian policy e.g "nobody can feel naturally homosexual" which you'd expect a "friendly" bot to disagree with but also a sizeable proportion of Republicans, and a tendency to avoid more popular framings of issues like "lower taxes promote growth and individual freedom" versus "the rich are too highly taxed" which was the tax question last time I did it).

The study also doesn't really discuss the interesting question of whether ChatGPT's answers for either the Democrat or Republican are accurate, or just GPT trying to guess responses that fit the correct quadrants (possibly based on meta discussion of the test). Although given that the party labels apply to pretty broad ranges of politicians and voters, I'm not sure there is such thing as an "accurate" answer for the position of "a Republican" on Political Compass, especially when it comes to areas like use of the military overseas where the Republican party is both traditionally the most interventionist and presently the most anti interventionist. The Political Compass authors, notably, put candidates from both major US parties in the authoritarian right quadrant which is quite different from GPT's (though I find it hard to believe the academics' scoring of politicians is an accurate reflection of how the politicians would take the test either)

Plus of course there's also the question of what "politically neutral" is... and the idea that a "neutral" LLM is one which agrees with Jair Bolsonaro half the time on forced choice questions (perhaps if it disagrees with the proposition that people can't feel naturally homosexual it should balance it out by seeing significant drawbacks to democracy?!) is questionable to say the least
They are, but once in a while one gets out of control and burns people's stuff.
The blame is for starting the fire, not everything has 3 safety belts in the world, some things just have consequences.. leading to other consequences. There is just no defense or excuse for being carless and doing super stupid things here, no. Not knowing that.. not sure.
I feel like you might be helping to make Colbert's perhaps clumsily worded point. Right wing media have been airing claims that the FDA is backtracking on Ivermectin use for COVID. This is demonstrably not true. [1]

1. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/17/maria-bart...
>These models already work for software

Do they? You're talking the agricultural equivalent of something like "devise a new sorting algorithm with sota performance on x, y, z", not "write me some crud boilerplate".
Hackers, what's your favorite keynotes in the past year? And why?
Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112741
> did you make your client pay for each request _just as if you didn’t build such dsl_?

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. Should you be charging clients for time that you didn't have to spend because you made some good decisions upfront? That strikes me as odd. If you agreed upfront on the cost for a certain end result, then sure, charge that full agreed-upon amount even if it took you less time than expected. But it seems odd to say "this change only took me an hour, but it would have taken 10 hours if I had made worse choices in designing this system, therefore I'm going to bill you 10 hours." After all, there's always a hypothetical situation where any given change could have taken arbitrarily more time if you had made worse decisions in the past.
> What black magic do you have to cast to get devs to look at the documentation?

README.md files in each repo, and code level documentation. The readme file can point to useful links, such as diagrams or stuffy documents where needed.
Tesla doesnt lose money. It has been profitable for the past 14 quarters in a row. SpaceX clearly could be profitable if it wanted to be, and it clearly will be in the future. It will probably be very profitable.

Most tech companies lose money before they make money. Amazon lost a shitload of money before it started turning a profit, now Jeff Bezos is the 2nd richest person in the world.
You can think of what Apple would get from buying Disney: 2 movie studios, a major television network, 2 more streaming services, some cable channels, several theme parks, a cruise ship company... I can't see Apple wanting to shell out for this, especially in the middle of multiple strikes.

Apple might want the rights to existing IP for streaming as well as merchandising rights but I doubt they would buy several companies, not to mention invite antitrust complaints, that they don't want just to get it. Clearly they would grow their value more by concentrating on enterprise and finance.
Extreme political polarization is happening in democracies across the globe.

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/16/political-polarization-deve...

https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/01/how-to-understand-g...
I'd be curious to know how many of the units that caught fire never had the filter cleaned, were used in a dusty area, or otherwise poorly maintained.

You'd be surprised at how many people never change their furnace filter (or even know it exists).
It’s simple everyone should have the right to swing their fist up to the point where it hits someone else’s face.
While fears of PE is quite well founded in many cases, EQT might be one group that might actually have proper long term interests.

Ownership of EQT goes up to Investor and the Swedish Wallenberg family, they're the same people that among other things has held big stakes in Ericsson, Astra Zeneca (The British covid vaccine),etc over 90 years by now.
Oh man I remember doing that to eke out a little more life from several mp3 players, one or two Creatives and an Sansa e200. There was also one with a sliding door over an SD card with 32MB that I had to pop open and try to fix. I think that was around 2003? I'm pretty sure I upgraded to a 64MB card at some point.

Shims were plastic cards, subway tickets, and occasionally toothpicks as an adjustable clamp while I was trying to figure out where the failure was.
It's deprecated value isn't the most important part if they are no longer safe to use - The replacement value is what matters.
Ask HN: Front end which also works as a back end?
I know this sounds weird, but some web frameworks, such as SvelteKit, actually support doing this. What is your take on this? Would you do this yourself? Personally, I find this feature to be really interesting, and I want to see how far I can push this feature.
Jimmy I truly think you're awesome (And so is SpiceDB), but the irony here stands out:
"it presents opinion without any evidence or examples to justify the claim and concludes it as fact"

You mean stuff like:
1) "SpiceDB, the most mature open source project inspired by Zanzibar" (though I'd vouch for that one)
2) " it is necessary beyond a particular scale which is well beyond the point at which policy engines typically fall over."
3) "Zanzibar is novel because it is fundamentally designed to be ran at the edge"
4) "we recently managed to scale SpiceDB to >1M requests per second with 100B relationships while maintaining a 5ms p95 measured at the client application" - you should bundle that statement with you need to set it up within your own VPC for it to be fair.
5) "The claim that you absolutely need a service to run a Zanzibar system is a provably false claim based on the number of clusters in the wild running SpiceDB or Ory's Keto project" - how many clusters? :)

Re: "This article conveniently leaves out how other systems get data to the edge while still keeping it consistent for their authorization logic"
The article actually does mention OPAL [0]

[0]: https://www.permit.io/blog/introduction-to-opal
I presume their definition is “owned by some huge and/or evil parent corp”, together with viewing IBM and private equity firms as each having one or both of those attributes.

I’ve seen many valid criticisms of Canonical, but huge doesn’t seem applicable to them and evil seems to go beyond what’s fair for their flaws. As for their owner, again, few would place Mark Shuttleworth in the same category as either IBM or private equity firms, other than probably having had a peak (though not current) net worth of over $1 billion.
Ranked choice or single transferable vote or other such alternatives seem like a very good way to de-entrench parties some. Being able to vote for who you want to, without jeopardizing the more likely to win candidate you probably ought vote for, seems like a good way to allow potential upsets & changes. Letting other voices get meaningfully far & on the ballet would help representatives better understand what it is people want to vote for.
It’s not a new technique as i understood it from the article. It was just abandoned by the introduction of fast growing hybrid rice. Nonetheless it’s very interesting the experiment has not been done before, couldn’t have been discovered at a better time!

“Lansing, an ecological anthropologist, has studied Indonesia’s rice fields since he arrived in Bali in 1974 to work on his Ph.D. His focus was subak, a rice irrigation system managed by water temples, which had been in place since the 9th century until it was disrupted by the arrival of the Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Like their counterparts across the globe, Balinese farmers were encouraged to swap slow-growing local varieties for fast-growing hybrid rice, fertilizer and an extra harvest.”
Amazing, exactly what I was looking for! I've had luck on http://carinthia.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/ (the link you posted seems busy right now)

I was able to use the FSK decoder, it worked really well. For those curious, the C-based decoder extensions are here [0]

[0] https://github.com/jks-prv/Beagle_SDR_GPS/tree/master/extens...
So now they should put limits on how much time you can watch media?
"High-temperature semiconductor" sounds like an xkcd panel.
> What black magic do you have to cast to get devs to look at the documentation?

Not use Jira and Confluence?

More seriously, I have found that confluence is where documentation goes to die. Something about the tooling, the slowness, poor search, admin tools leading to overzealous compartmentalization, not-quite-good plain text format, awkward gui editing tools, versioning system, distance from the code[1]... something... just makes it not really great at being a repository for keeping documentation up to date, or easily usable.

[1]: eg. not using the same tools/editors to modify the documentation as you do the code
if everyone is expected to do it, then the character of the program changes.. I am guessing at that since many ordinary countries have mandatory government service. I doubt that everyone there is subjected to classical troops psychology training, which is not for everyone.
People forget that Colbert said this at the White House correspondents' dinner to the Bush Administration, and that it was specifically an in-character "conservative" parody dismissing Bush's low approval ratings as liberal media bias. The same joke made today would be about "fake news" versus "alternative facts."
To get overhead luggage space before it fills up, or does SW not allow for that?
The appliance bought at the brick-and-mortar store could get a recall; the random thing bought off Amazon wouldn't have one is it's at similar levels of setting things on fire.
I worry that labeling things as biased trains people to not identify it themselves.
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Safeway seems to be run pretty well, after being taken private by PE in the 80s.

Warren Buffet runs Berkshire Hathaway which is acts as a PE firm. Here's a list of everything they own and have owned for decades: https://finmasters.com/berkshire-hathaway-subsidiaries/#cons...

There are plenty of other examples.

PE is just "ownership not through the public stock markets" which is like...the default, actually.
How big of a population are we talking here
> I often wonder what should humanity do with extremely stupid people. Can't kill them all.

No, you can't kill them at all. And you shouldn't. And shouldn't want to. Extremely stupid people have rights as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenstein_Euthanasia_Centre
In a sorta remotely similar(ish) vein, on early Apple machines, we had Beagle Bros [0] (among others).

Man, I miss "the good ol' days" when technology was still full of wonder and magic.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros
He listened to people… 35 years later!

35 years!

In the meantime we were treated to a huge pile of pseudo intellectual babble he used to defend his position.
> If you work for a wage, you HAVE to work for somebody or you starve.

You really don't. There is no way you can starve in the USA unless you do it on purpose.
Tesla accumulated surplus/deficit (e.g. lifetime net consumption of cash) is much higher than it's lifetime gross burn ($6B) so it's definitely in material value creation territory.
We have prisons. Fires are still happening. Next idea?
Management by perkele!
Yes, it's literally a theory about a conspiracy. That doesn't mean it isn't true. And Elon Musk saying he wants to create Mars colonies doesn't make it true, anymore than Howard Hughes saying he wanted to mine magnesium nodules off the ocean floor made that true.

Look at Starship objectively. It's not a Mars rocket. That bellyflop through the atmosphere stunt won't work on Mars, and man-rating it even for operation around Earth is extremely dubious. The habitats which would supposedly be used for Mars colonization don't exist and aren't in development, so if you think Starship is a Mars rocket you should realize that it's a bridge to nowhere. Starship is being developed to launch tons of satellites cheap. It makes a lot of sense for that and it makes zero sense for Mars colonization.

Given the weight of the circumstantial evidence, particularly the entirety of Michael Griffin's career and role in SpaceX's existence, it is more reasonable to assume they're lying about Mars than to assume Mars is the true motivation. Your prior for Elon Musk lying about anything should be through the roof anyway.
Indeed, good times.

There's this bit too:

"users will continue to be able to buy backward-compatible games on newer Xbox consoles, including Xbox Series X/S, on which 360 games will receive “FPS Boost, Auto HDR, and faster loading times,” Microsoft says."

FYI These are some interesting articles on the XBox 360 architecture.

https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/05/xbox360-1/

https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/05/xbox360-2

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/xbox-360/
https://otiv.dev - Automation tool for teams that use Notion and Slack.

Basically got 0 paying customers right now, but we are using it on all our internal projects - just started running Google ads to see if I can get some conversions. Would love some feedback - especially if you are the target audience - a team that uses Slack and Notion.
Not stuffing it into some horrible slow "enterprise" webapp would be a start.
It is not possible to do a fair comparison of launch costs between Falcon 9 and other platforms without knowing the true cost of Falcon 9 launches.
Yes SpaceX loses money, but it doesn't matter because it's a nationally strategic company. It's valuation makes sense given the Griffin discussion below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37166675
> Krakow, my hometown is an excellent setting for that: the medieval city moved up by one floor, so we have a tonne of old dungeons/cellars

What does that mean? How did it come to be?
This relates to the concept that most of what we are offered to combat climate change are individual, consumer-side solutions but the biggest problems can't really be solved that way, one individual at a time.
And we still haven't outgrown that behavior. We as a species keep burning the proverbial forests to get an easy win.
Not sure why this is being upvoted. They are launching mass into space at between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude lower cost than anyone else. The R+D costs on that is insane. And they are almost profitable.

I 100% agree that du-jour saas companies raising 300MM on limited revenue is one thing, but this is not the same.
The way it's typically applied these days, I'd go much farther. Capital A Agile is often not only not the answer, but the problem.
> I can't pay for a single article

Yeah this is a super good idea. I would pay $5 a lot of the time to access these just so I don't have to deal. Would have to accept paypal and I'd do it.
What’s political bias ?

´left wing’ and ´right wing ´ mean completely different things in Europe and in the US , so I have a hard time understanding how you can give a global answer to that question for a global ´AI ´ ( yes I know it’s not intelligent)
Both things can be true: that ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, and that sea level rise cause a specific local species to go extinct when its habitat was fully flooded.
But cryptography has little to do with neutrality.
What you’re saying is that it’s inherently unethical (to yourself!) to accept hourly billing for work the whole point of which is exponential automation.
This looks awesome! Keep sharing. I think many newbies are looking exactly for something like that including me to get startet with AI :)
Did SuSE bother to read the GPL license before they made their statements about RHEL?
Come after who? And how?
That's difficult, motivation is the ultimate key.
I love to unwind, doing something else, startet wakeboarding and smashing my face in water.
Started a weird obsession of meeting real people playing some GO, chatting and loosing.

Something about trying new things and being horrible at them, makes the day to day the dorment state. I feel relaxed with task I can complete and excitement for what comes so natural to others but is beyond my abilities. I wish I could just slide on water or see the spaces for the stones.

Something different, something just for you.

Otherwise it is only the lonely mind against the void. Problems you can't explain to anyone, pushing the wheel of death to move at all.

There is no pushing through, there is no holding out, it is what it is. Kneip it, hot then cold, enjoy the change don't suffer one too long. Accept both states as what they are. It got me so far.

But what do I know. Not at it for so long, but I accept my depressions when autumn changes leafs.
This is a month away in the north, so enjoy the sun and don't worry so much. When it is cold and dark outside it is easy to be productive.
You can't post like this to HN. We have to ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again.

You may not owe arsonists better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. We want thoughtful, curious conversation.
FYI:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ashwindixit_censorship-facebo...
The nerve to tack on nonviolent communication after issuing the most sweeping damnation of peoples' circumstances...
Countries worldwide are addicted to fossil fuels because you need to burn fuel if you want to achieve almost anything.
As Jean-Marc Jancovici puts it, the oil consumption of a country is its GDP. There’s a lot of energy in an oil drop. It’s not easy to move a country without burning fossil fuels. You commute to work by car or bus? You probably burn fossil fuels. Your food is grown using tractors which plant seeds which were delivered using trucks.

You might replace those with energy but what about heavy machinery? We should just stop burning fossil fuels at all.

The solution to the climate apocalypse depends on overcoming capitalism. Give food and shelter to all the unemployed due to the GDP collapse.

We should have never reached such a level of addiction to a substance which destroys our environment. We have known it since the 19th century yet here we are, witnessing the apocalypse that the Cassandræ have forecasted.

There are more sustainable economic systems like the one in North Korea, etc. but look which economic and political systems get destroyed when the revenue rate of the Fossil fuels corporations is at stake.

We are bound for a termination shock or whatever it’s called because that’s in the interest of the big capital of the Fossil Fuels and its military branch
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> Agile is not always the answer

can be generalised to: Agile is never the answer.
Can confirm. I have 30 year fixed at 1.2% here in Spain
Appalachia has fires every summer now. They aren’t quite on the level of west coast or Canada, but they still are there.
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SLS hasn't yet been asked to launch a human.
It refers to Zanzibar as a "graphical" system, which I think was the first thing that snagged me on this. Your post does too; I assume this is a language snag? "Graphical" doesn't connote "graph-based" in American idiom, but rather "visual".

I don't think your writeup really captures OPA vs. Zanzibar especially well either, for the reasons given by the SpiceDB person upthread. It just sort of defines away the problem Zanzibar is trying to solve, while claiming that Zanzibar-type systems aren't deployable at the edge --- which is pretty clearly not true?
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There have been similar simulations for boarding airplanes. I wish I had never heard about them because now I get annoyed almost every time I fly.

As with de-boarding most time is wasted/spent by people standing in the aisle and waiting for someone who is putting their luggage in. The optimal solution has as many passengers loading their luggage in the overhead compartment in parallel as possible. The ideal way to do this would be that we first have passengers with window seats board with one person for each row. We should only use every other row to ensure people can maneuver. So we'd first board seats NA, N-2A, N-4A, etc. down to row 1 with N being the last row. Then NF, N-2F, N-4F etc. And then N-1A, N-3A and so on. Then we work our way through the middle seats and then aisle seats.

The current approach which commonly boards people starting from the front or back FORCES congestion and minimizes probability of two people reaching their seat at the same time and being able to put up their luggage in parallel.

Even if the approach I describe is broken because groups board together, it becomes at worst a random boarding order which is still much more efficient than the current nonsense.

The reason we cannot board more efficiently is because it's unintuitive, people don't like it and behave like wild animals in groups.
> not what people are actually talking about when they talk when they bring up Poppler's "paradox"

Yes, that's the point. The popular way of using it to justify starting violence yourself is not an accurate reading.
Yes, but they haven't spun Starlink out into a separate entity.
Oh in context it’s still a great joke! No shade on Colbert - just the folks who think this is some wise truth instead of a joke.
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