skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a great read, particularly the frequent hidden notes :) thanks for taking such an immense amount of time to research and write it all up.
30% of the entire penguin population is a massive number though. That's tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of penguins affected. If we wait for a problem to have to affect more than 50% before we worry then it'll already be long past a lost cause.
I have multiple questions regarding the methods of this test.

The biggest one is that, well... The test doesn't aim to see what GPT-4 can do and how well it does it, only whether the participant can guess the (possibly cherry-picked) answer the author decided on. In short, we don't know if he sampled answers and decided on the most probable answer (akin to consensus voting/self-consistency[1]), or if he asked a question and chose the first one.

Maybe GPT-4 guesses the correct answer for a question 80% of the time, but he got unlucky? You don't know, the author doesn't tell you. The answers are generated ahead of time and are the same every time you go through the test.

[1] https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.11171
That's not so bad. I still use dedicated GPS. I suppose the downside is that a couple times a year I have to pull down map updates for it. All of the other things you mention don't sound like requirements but rather additive data or interaction but not strictly required. Nice to have's I suppose.
Now put it on a GPU.
Actually the beta release of Steam with CSS worked fine and dandy (I recall fun times), but the general release was just plain crap for months afterwards.
I'm still surprised by how bad our "transformative" healthcare remains. People worth a billion dollars can afford extreme extravagances in day-to-day life (and frequently indulge in them), yet when it comes to extending lifespans, billionaires don't seem to live much longer than anyone else.

Regardless, RIP Jimmy Buffet. Some great songs and a seemingly very savvy businessman.
It might’ve served the greater good of bringing home to parents that their kids are, in fact, old enough to be sexual beings and suppression of their sexuality just isn’t possible anymore. Maybe that would lead to fewer cases of kids like the one in my classroom yesterday, who had just learned at the ripe old age of 14 in the 9th grade that he was going to be a father. The proud mother will join him in high school next year, after she completes the 8th grade. If she completes it, I suppose.
There was a very comprehensive bill put forth that was short a handful of votes.

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

There was lots of back and forth and attempts at cajoling representatives to vote for it, which did end up with a watered down version being passed. I do not see how one could conclude there was a “sincere lack of effort”.
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And the march continues ever onwards and upwards! What will we ever do with such tremendous quantities of insanely fast memory? (run Electron of course! 
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Only tangentially related… So nice that the chip shortages seem to have mostly worked their way out of the system.

Used server prices in particular have gotten almost ridiculously cheap lately. Just bought a 4 node EPYC server with 128 cores, 512GB DDR4, 16x NVMe slots with 15.3TB of P5500 storage populated for $2500.

Seems like almost insanity to get so much compute for that price, and yet in 5 years, as always, that machine will be considered slow and inefficient compared to the latest iteration.

It seems like progress continues unhindered by the death of Moore’s law. The hidden toiling of billions in R&D that make this possible is truly a modern marvel of capitalism.
Good point, I remember the smear campaign against a french car manufacturer for its cruise control (“I couldn’t stop it anymore, it went 200km/h through the toll booth” and 2-3 similar), when clearly it must have been competitors hyping or mounting an incident.

But Musk was popular in late-2021. It’s when he became the world’s first individual fortune in early-2022 that he started to be described as a stupid person. Why?
> making extra battery packs the go-to

I mean we are not talking about charging the vehicle to full. You only need like a hand portable battery to jump start the low voltage system.

The procedure is described in the owner's manual: "In the unlikely event that Model 3 loses electrical power, you cannot access the touchscreen and are therefore unable to release the parking brake without first jump starting (see Jump Starting)."[1]

And the jump starting procedure is described here: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_au/GUID-3567D5F...

1: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_au/GUID-3DFFB07...
And the ones they do lose are "difficult customers".

Not all customers are equal.
I didn't realize any of this existed. I play Minecraft Java edition, which is the original version, and has none of these things.

Now I know to be a bit more careful when recommending the game without specifying huh.
Your examples are more postconditions than invariants. Invariants are usually assertions for a given state object that always hold for that object throughout its lifetime. For example, a mutable list implementation based on a resizable array might have the invariant that the value of the length field is always less than or equal the current array size. Or for a loop invariant, that a certain predicate on the state mutated in the loop is true for all iterations of the loop.
It’s already difficult if you’re on Linux with FDE.
In the UK we pay less in tax for healthcare than Americans pay.

Despite that we also pay far less towards private healthcare than Americans pay, even though private insurance is far cheaper here (because they rent spare capacity from the NHS and offer their services as "topups" plugging holes where people want more.

Also in London, and never call my GP, it's all in an app, and most appointments are video calls. I've had waits sometimes, but I've also been seen within 10 minutes.
It's frustrating how "mobile-first" has become "mobile-only". I've encountered several utility companies, banks, and other important services, who have fairly important features only present in the mobile apps (whereas I prefer to do "important business" like that sitting at my desk with a large screen and physical keyboard). The worst is when they don't even tell you this, offering a desktop web UI that is essentially in maintenance-only mode, and you only discover things are missing if you happen to install the app
>Anything Europeans do eventually parts of the US will mimic.

Examples?

Nb I have closed a bank account because I refuse[d] to install WhatsApp.
You can absolutely render react components into non-root nodes to inject interactivity into static sites. It's a good approach if you're serving a bunch of static content and you want a calculator or interactive visualization, for example.

The point at which you should consider a SPA is when you are sharing data between most of the "pages" in your app, and there are multiple data sources surfaced in any given "page." In this case, you're going to have to jump through indexdb/localstorage hoops just to avoid losing that data on every page transition, dehydrating/rehydrating multiple types of records then passing them around via a context or somesuch. In that case you're on the hook for complexity either way, but the SPA version performs better at the cost of some SEO.
Great read. I love the obsession and I will now look out for things in the urban landscape that seem a bit unusual!
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I'm fairly certain that Toptal's "long selection process" is designed to weed out anyone who has other options, because they're harder to bully into putting their rates down.

That turned me off, but at the same time, they do do the hardest part of the contracting/freelancing world - finding clients. If you're willing to jump through their hoops and accept a lower rate than you'd get on the open market, then it's a decent arrangement.
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Why do you think this is being politicised?

The Telegraph is often referred to as The Torygraph due to its fandom of the Conservative Party and is generally right wing biased. As I'm not a fan of it, I had a look for other sources and found The Sun (also right wing) and The Daily Mail (infamously right wing and often referred to as The Daily Heil due to their support of Hitler and Nazism before WWII).

Personally, I'm a lefty cyclist and so tend to notice a lot of car related stories where they end up being driven into houses, shops, walls, schools etc. and the UK press doesn't seem biased against Teslas in my view though that might well be different if they were allowed to be driven "autonomously" over here.
Using a word like "evidence" freely without rigour is a big part of the problem we are in relating to misinformation and mistrust in institutions.

I ask without expectations that you refrain from using such words when talking about opinions, experiences or beliefs, so that we may protect our languages from further erosion.
This is great! Vyvanse/Elvanse is very expensive and i have to get the prescription specially approved everytime.
Let's hope the generics are as good as the real thing.
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I asked Karen Jex this question at her Djangocon 2023 talk on obscure postgres switches.

I used this among other things to build some model integration tests which exhibit best practices: https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory/tree/master/examples/...

I considered using tmpfs but since I wanted to cache the entire database volume after it had been built according to the fixtures and couldnt figure out how to do that with podman and tmpfs.
It's great for AI. Today's large language models are very hungry for RAM. Consumer electronics have been rocking just a few GB of RAM for the last decade because there was no real usecase for 100+GB, but that has changed since GPT3 came along. We'll likely see large language and image models integrated into all sorts of software stacks.
I'm trying to do something very similar (if not exactly the same) to semantic zoom with architecture diagrams [0]. It's of course much simpler when the components are view-only and have a fixed UI. An entire design system for any kind of desktop/tablet app would be amazing.

[0] https://twitter.com/ilographs/status/1651011570330206209?t=a...
It’s too bad - the replacement experience is beyond inferior.
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IMO it would be mobility. It's true that a logged in account can also offer validation but that identity is kept and stored on the provider's database whom in turn can withdraw consent to use that. There is some mobility on Mastodon but it still requires cooperation from the instance administrator.

On nostr if a relay or even client decides to ban you from posting you can just post from another client to another relay using the same identity.
Compared to recent issues in Germany and the UK, the American political system once again seems wise. Real change is difficult by design, there are only 2 parties, and the separation of powers prevents a president from being radical. I wouldn’t get rid of the electoral college because it seems to be part of the mystery that makes the US political system so successful.
For a long time Apple trailers was my go to place because it lacked the exploding pop ups and advertisements of other trailer sites.
This is the US, where environmental protection is under a relentless political assault.

States get sued by 3M for attempting to regulate PFAS/PFOS discharges into the drinking water supplies of 20 million people. I fully expect that in this case, people who live down wind are just screwed. They can take the loss on trying to sell their properties and go elsewhere, or hope they don’t get sick.
It tripped my “trying to hard to write eloquent, witty prose” senses. I proofread a lot of papers in college and wrote a lot of columns in the school newspaper. This is a common style. Thesaurus-driven word choice.
FTP (and friends) indeed are a factor as well, but what stuck in my mind was how Forth initially was supposed to be named "Fourth", but the OS didn't support file names this long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)#H...

HFS (and HFS+, and APFS) indeed has "resource forks", and supporting (or just not tripping over) them on non-Apple filesystems comes with a bag of surprises, even on Apple platforms. Just last week we've run into a problem with a script that globbed for "*.mp4" files to feed them into ffmpeg, but ran into and choked on the "._*.mp4"'s (which is how macOS stores the resource forks on FAT32/exFAT). The script was tested and worked fine on every Mac I tested it on, and everything was smooth until the customer plugged in an external HD to process videos off of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork

So unfortunately the most reliable way of knowing exactly what you're working with, is lots of heuristics, and very defensive coding.
>Also we sold the company

What companies are in the market to buy a ride sharing company?

I'm guessing Lyfy and Uber would (might?) buy you for your customer acquisition- but I'm not getting the feeling that is what happened.

Is there another genre of business that is interested in buying a ride-sharong business?
That’s a fixed cost versus variable cost. That’s just like asking why you can’t call Google when you want to perform a search and have someone do it for you.

I don’t believe people on HN don’t understand why you shouldn’t do things that don’t scale.
The UK pays less per capital PPP adjusted towards healthcare than most of Europe. The NHS has become atrociously underfunded. I'd still pick it over the US insurance mess any day, and they are amazing for how low amounts we pay for it, but it does badly need more funding.
Sorry, but it doesn't make sense why a Tesla would apply the parking brake when the big battery dies, since the separate 12V battery would power the brake mechanism. If that 12V also happened to die at the same moment (highly unlikely), the parking brake would have been stuck in the released position, not applied.

And 9 hours? They could have called one of those tow trucks who haul away an illegally parked vehicle in a matter of seconds.
Would this still be true if corruption wasn't so rampant (Gilded Age 2) right now?

Am I wearing rose colored glasses, or are there other times in history here and in other places, where the rule of law was either worshipped or feared by everyone enough to stamp out bad actors, or at least seek to, across parties?

Has it really _always_ just been kayfabe[1] and no moral rules apply if I don't get caught?

1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
>what's your actual problem here?

Post Steve Jobs Apple, especially after Scott Forstall and Katie Cotton left. ( Along with a few other top executives) Tim Cook's Apple were left with people of Harmony. These left aligning, DEI focus people have the same characteristic, their way is for the force of good, hence their way is the only way. Same as early Google in the 00s. ( Privacy is a fundamental human right? Actively securing and promoting Chinese components in their supply chains. )

I am sure CSAM started with good intention. As with most ideals do. But fundamentally they don't work in this complex world.

All roads to hell are paved with good intention.

I hope there are still enough of Steve Jobs' conviction left inside Apple.
> Anyone writing anything about election fraud without mentioning this is dishonest.

This is extremely overstated.
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I’m going to defend this set of complaints:

> “multiple encodings for the same code point”, “multiple code points for the same glyph”, and “an incomprehensible document describing all this nonsense”

One important factor for adoption was round trip idempotency. Unicode doesn’t simply encode every glyph but incorporates as many existing character sets as possible. (Of course “possible” is modulated by the fact there are/were competing encodings for the same language).

If you use a unicode-aware grep and use it to search for ‘.’, you want the result to be the same as `cat`, rather than having the result re-coded, objcopy-like.

Sure, this is less of a problem in 2023, but still a major problem that will continue indefinitely due to legacy files, legacy hardware, and small-resource devices. So there is no way in unicode to tell by inspection if ‘A’ is Latin or Greek..which is true also on the printed page.

Likewise the writing of different languages don’t merely have different appearance, but different semantics for the visually same shape. In some languages (e.g. French), diacritics are largely semantically silent: you can understand a sentence with them stripped out, though they can simplify reading in some cases by disambiguating some otherwise homonyms. In other languages (e.g. the German umlaut) they are simply contractions — fossils of medieval handwriting. Yet again, in Swedish they can be optional, like the acute accent or form completely different letters like ä. Capturing this is complicated and even discussing it requires, yes, an almost incomprehensible document.

And it has all been implemented but using those libraries is hard, because language processing is hard. In general I/O is hard.

Im not sure what you mean about “semantic meaning” but I do agree, mostly, with your other complaints.
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Thats interesting about the Swedish system, I've never seen that before.

Do you really say that in the university - supposedly filled with loads of smart people - no-one was able to come up with a solution for this trivial problem before Steve Jobs introduced the smartphone? Wow!

Not sure if you're familiar with UK Universities in the 90s, but no-one was spending much thought making laundry easier for the students. Or making anything easier for the students, for that matter. Least of all the students.
I've run amateur dream groups, where people get together and tell each other their dreams, and then each participant interprets the dream back to the dream-teller. One method was to start one's interpretation by saying, "If this were my dream..." This helps the interpreter relate what they are hearing to their own life, and anything they might say to the dream-teller is really about the interpreter and their own psyche. So you might try such a self-reflective stance if you ever get stuck having to listen to someone else's dream.

With that said, if I ever choose to tell a trusted friend about a compelling dream (in a non-dream-group context), I try to relate the story in about 20 seconds, just hitting the highlights, cause I know how you feel about having to listen to someone else's unsolicited dream story!
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How about the sincere lack of progress?
How are you evaluating LLM answers are right or wrong? Because I saw some wrong answers that were right and potentially right that were wrong. Are you just looking for keywords, etc? Or is this all run beforehand and graded by humans?
You realize a website can do the same thing don’t you?
Something similar to this idea is actually called internal family systems, and is a useful concept for certain types of dissociative disorders afaik. You may not be as far off as you think, but I don’t know if there’s conclusive evidence for this viewpoint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model
You should look up the split brain experiments. It sure seems like there are non verbal parts of the mind that have their own thoughts on everything.
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No its not. The election data from the 2020 election is completely different from the 2016 election. The whole concept of bellwether counties basically disappeared.
Examples?

Some cities have been installing concrete filled pipes to close of what used to be access streets into parts of cities forcing them to be "foot traffic only". This started in the EU and became trendy. Now its spreading in the US in big cities. I am not complaining. In some places this actually works out. In some places it hurts business. I guess that is a matter of city planning. Even the really old town I grew up in is doing this now in the part of town that has a bunch of small businesses to encourage more foot traffic.

Another example is roundabouts. Some of the small cities are putting these in new developments. I think it's still somewhat experimental in the US as not every small city is doing this.
I'd like to point out the existence of Chris Staecker's Youtube Channel, mainly focused on old analoguous devices used to compute and measure things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Q-QPsFKa4

He's a great sense of humor !
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Yes because we really need to give the government more power…
> or seeking of risk

Sure. I very much doubt anyone seeks risk because it's risk. They do it for the thrill, or for social reasons, or because calculating risk is hard, etc.

> having any other computable utility function on any other measurable that we’d have to accept as equally valid if we want to convince any non-economist that we aren’t just using utility as a weasely word for money

Almost anything else will do just as well. If you can buy it (or the means to acquire it) on the market, then there's always some point at which twice as much money buys less than twice as much. Maybe 10 million is not enough to hit that point, or 5 million is too much, but the curve flattens out somewhere. And if you can't, then the money makes no direct difference, but can still buy you food and shelter and free time with which to pursue your other projects.

I suppose in principle you could actively want to not have money (and not want to give it away either), in which case getting rid of 10 million is probably not twice as hard as getting rid of 5, but that hardly seems realistic.
I use generators to stringify a huge amount (several gigabytes) of generated JSON for transmission over http/ws. Node can only handle about 1-2 gigs in a single string or Buffer -- it's a hard-coded limit depending on CPU architecture, AFAIK. So these huge JSON blobs need to be chunked.

A generator is nice here because it makes it easy for the code that converts the JSON for transmission to wait until the OS has transmitted the previous chunks -- which helps avoid catastrophic back pressure and runaway memory use.
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> yet in 5 years, as always, that machine will be considered slow and inefficient

Keep in mind it's only that cheap because someone already considers it slow and inefficient.