skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But air travel is usually much safer then other means. Similarly, nuclear power is also safer than many other sources, from what I know (not much).

Isn't it a bit absurd? Why we require this high level of scrutiny for these industries, but not for others, where our effort can get higher results?
It is clickbait. ABC transporters are not Maxwell (sic) Demons but billion-year-old electrochemical-mechanical one-way valves. Would you click on that?
On the rare occasions when I order books from amazon, they are usually books that I've already read or borrowed from elsewhere, that I need for further reference or research.

Aside from AI-generated garbage, there are large numbers of works that are of just poor quality, with little to no editing, spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes, formatting and layout problems, and (on one occasion) very smelly paper.

AI-generated rubbish is only the latest incarnation of this problem. I recall many years ago, purchasing a book on health and fitness that had many 4- and 5-star reviews. It was not cheap. It turned out to be a 50-60 page booklet that looked like someone had taken a bunch of webpages and clicked "print to PDF" on the browser - absolutely no proofreading or formatting. There were pages with the old IE missing image icon in place of what should have been photographs.

There is no reliable curation, a reputation scheme, or any trustworthy process on amazon to discover new works or explore new topics that return genuine material. This also extends to other goods such as household items, utility items, foods, and so on. It's scary that amazon also sells medicines - what's the guarantee that they are not fake, adulterated or toxic?

Amazon is a cesspool.
My point is failing to learn the basics is a huge hurdle to learning more advanced things. You posit that one could learn the basics and the advanced math at the same time. Maybe, but that would clearly be harder than doing them in order.

Fluency in arithmetic isn't something drilled into kids just to be obnoxious, it's foundational to almost all future math skills.
Heh, this is pretty great. Is it good or bad that I know almost all of these?

Not sure "SERIAL is non-transactional" belongs at the bottom, I thought that was common knowledge... but that might be from years doing Oracle where sequences are more explicit.
Url changed from https://www.boatblurb.com/post/appearance-of-pirates-in-san-..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really wish it was possible for users browsers to opt-out of stuff like this. I don’t want some unhinged developer deciding they’d like to arbitrarily delay things like this, just render the page and stop making things worse.
While I have preferences that are generally respected, I'm still forced to work on whatever work digs up for me. In my spare time where I have the mental energy to still write code, I'm working on things I want to work on using whatever tools I feel like. If they're useful for my resume, great, if not, oh well.

I learned a lesson when trying to create my personal website using GatsbyJS, thinking it would be a great resume builder for future web dev roles. I found that framework massively frustrating. I rewrote the whole site in pure HTML and CSS (no JS at all), and deployed with a few shell scripts. I love working on my site now, it's beautiful and simple.
It is there already. Still, I kept site as a sort of monument.
What makes you think I don't have "screen time" on myself and wifi scheduled at the router already?

And why is this antagonizing "full of shit" comment at the top of an important post?
I don't have kids, but I do want kids some day, and I think about this kind of thing a lot.

I didn't have a phone of any kind until I was 18, and I didn't have a smartphone until I was 23. I had restricted internet access up until I was 16.

Personally, I want to wait as long as possible before giving my kids smart devices. I see little kids with smart phones and it just rubs me the wrong way. But I'm totally willing to admit I might be in the one in the wrong here, and maybe I'm being too cautious. I don't know. The internet is a very different place than when I was a kid.
Check out unlogged tables!

https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgresl-unlogged-tables
Title was originally about "pirates" in San Francisco Bay. It has since been changed. A dictionary definition of "pirate" refers to (a) robbery and (b) international waters, aka the "high seas". HN commenters often react negatively to dictionary definitions.
The attic I would think
> When there's plenty of opportunity to search for and find evidence, and multiple researchers do try, and repeatedly fail to find evidence (or they have mild "success" every one try out of ten, by pure luck

You're doing it too! Again, this review looked at a SINGLE study. They discounted other studies. Those other studies were not taken into account at all. Those other studies didn't "fail to find evidence"
Although I have limited expertise in Boston, there, anyway, "pushing" is part of the driving protocol and expected.
I'd be stoked if you wrote more about this experience and shared it somewhere.
There’s no walking directions. But they can definitely do it. I was able to start a walking route on a hiking trail in Rocky Mountain National Park at 12k feet. Then switch into airplane mode and see exactly how far we had left.

All of that impossible if I didn’t have signal to start the walking route.
Singapore is one of the few places I’ve been where the government is both highly competent and is predominantly focused on the best interests of its people rather than itself. POFMA is an issue. It’s a socially conservative country, but the government is a little more liberal than its people; I get the impression the government leans more conservative than it would like to, just to keep the pioneer generation happy.
This article does not have enough information about the base rate. It is impossible to assess this situation without knowing how often do human drivers get in the way of emergency service vehicles.
Yeah how many have they saved to date? It’s a valid point and I’d love to know the answer now that we know self-driving vehicles are responsible for >= 1 person’s death
Good video, thanks!
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Cruise is a self-driving service for anyone who didn’t know trying to figure out why police cruisers were blocking an ambulance like me.
I checked out a community that on the tin is about learning coding and found Trumpers, bigots and antivaxxers. It reminded me of pro free speech fork of Reddit. It wasn't a bad idea AT ALL on the face of it but in practice its front page was never without a racial slur and no decent people stayed long.

If everyone cares about privacy then privacy focused places ought to be full of on average smart people having intelligent conversations. If few people feel the need to bother you end of serving largely the paranoid and the odious and this can easily be a self re-enforcing trend as bad drives out the good.

I feel like the space could use some innovation if its produce communities worth attending to without strong centralized moderation. Instead of bubbling up the top 100 things the community as a whole thinks are worth reading or the top 100 things that someone thinks I might be willing to engage with including 60 things selected because they are liable to make me angry or succeed in wasting my time why not have a personalized analysis done on MY side or on a computer I rent to pull in 10,000 things and figure out which 100 I actually want to engage with based on my own aims not advertisers.

I would probably pay for that especially if it could be plugged into a lot of common platforms to filter out the crap.
> I realize that a large cohort finds desktop applications uncool today, but I'm just so frustrated with the idea that serious and powerful desktop interfaces need to crippled in order to fit into a "mobile-first" (a.k.a. "lowest-common denominator") paradigm.

Yeah, my primary issue with this sort of thing is that there is very little personal A/V content I'd feel comfortable uploading to some random server in the first place, but I agree that there are some tools better suited for the desktop and more specifically a keyboard and mouse.

The problem is that a very sizable part of the population doesn't have a desktop. It's not that they think it's uncool exactly but for a lot of people, kids especially, all they have are cell phones and tablets which were designed first and foremost for content consumption. I can't blame developers for wanting to target the needs of that audience to whatever extent they can.
This is truly mind-boggling because it’s Apple and such an important topic. We are right to expect better from these bright people.

It worries me that Sarah Gardner seems to be truthful when she hints at that no one at Apple reached out to her after Apple killed the plan in December 2022. She must have also missed articles like the one at The Verge [1].

Gardner’s message to Tim is dated 2023-08-30 03:24:37 (CEST).

Erik Neuenschwander's reply was printed out 2023-08-31 14:41:00 (probably PDT).

So that’s a period of about 44 hours that the print out [0] represents.

It would be helpful to know the time when Apple’s reply was sent to deduce whether Apple had time for additional deliberations before writing the email to Gardner.

Regardless, as reported by The Verge they obviously had deliberations shortly after the public outcry, killed the plan in December 2022, and then presumably failed to inform Gardner about the reasons.

If that’s the case, far smaller companies have checks and balances in place to keep that from happening.

[0]: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23933180/apple-letter...

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/9/23500838/apple-csam-plans...
I didn't use the internet until I was about 25 or so and took to it like a duck to water. Stayed "surfing" late at work and realized how addictive it was quickly as well.

When people say things like "kids need it so they don't get left behind," I laugh inside. It's not hard to learn how to use the internet these days, in fact toddlers are being pacified on tablets at this very moment. The idea that you need ten years to learn it is silly. Sure, have kids take an online safety class, since they apparently cancelled drivers Ed.

I'm glad I got to face it when already mature, not sorry.
You might want to watch this short video a couple of times - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rowWM-MijXU

A simple way to think about Linear Algebra is as a set of rules i.e. functions (aka Matrices) applied to input points (aka vectors) to give output points in a vector (i.e. multidimensional) space. Thus multi-valued inputs give multi-valued outputs. The key is to keep both the algebraic manipulations and what they may mean in the geometric interpretation simultaneously in mind. The basic example of solving a system of linear equations in two variables will cement this idea when you map it to the XY coordinate system.

You might find the book Practical Linear Algebra : A Geometry Toolbox by Farin and Hansford useful for further study.
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> It will not be solved until teachers and professors figure out that understanding and the ability to work with knowledge is what counts, and that anything you can instantly Google, or store in your calculator, or retrieve via quick text-message or phone call need not be remembered, nor tested, because, obviously, you will always be able to instantly Google it, or store it in your cellphone, or get someone to text it to you.

Except in the real world you have meetings and real-time conversations with people where you're expected to know certain things, and can't just reply with "let me ask Google", or ask ChatGPT as is this case these days.
I don't know how you'd even measure the numbers of deaths that would've resulted from accidents that didn't happen because an autonomous car avoided it in a situation where an inattentive, reckless, or unskilled human driver wouldn't have... especially without an otherwise identical control environment.

Or even situations where partial self-driving (such as Tesla's system) reduced driver fatigue that would've later contributed to a more exhausted driver causing an accident.

I'm the furthest thing from a Tesla fanboy, but I did try one for a while in order to have a more unbiased view and I will say that "autopilot" subjectively reduced my stress and fatigue during and after 5 mph bumper to bumper traffic jams and left me feeling more attentive afterwards compared to those same types of traffic conditions in cars being operated 100% by me.
Unicycle: A digital document or data stream in Unicode with no distinct beginning or end, allowing for continuous looping.
That sounds like the source! Thanks.
ChatGPT is a hybrid system; it isn't "just" an LLM any longer. What people associate with "LLM" is fluid. It changes over time.

So it is essential to clarify architecture when making claims about capabilities.

I'll start simple: Plain sequence to sequence feed-forward NN models are not Turing complete. Therefore they cannot do full reasoning, because that requires arbitrary chaining.
What it’s actually going to do is provide a new library of primitives like “audio to text” and “image classification” that will make formerly hard problems simple library usage. Then, since any beginner can glue together these things, we’ll become more ambitious in the problems we try to solve. So, we’ll never run out of work for programmers because the problems to be solved will grow more complex to absorb any raising of the floor.
Nobody born has signed up for anything.
I have a 12 year old and a 9 year old. They pretty much grew up during the smartphone age. We teach them to understand smartphone is not a toy but a gateway to information, knowledge and communication. When we use our personal smartphones around the kids - it is primarily for work purposes and that is the explanation. iOS implementation of screentime, when properly configured is great. It is like a real information firewall.
found another youtube video that explain the seme meme

https://youtu.be/JZRWkfXNQOk
It's a pity that Unicode forgot its purpose and added:

1. formatting

2. fonts

3. semantic meaning

4. multiple encodings for the same code point

5. you vote for my invented character and I'll vote for your invented character

6. multiple code points for the same glyph

7. an incomprehensible document describing all this nonsense

8. an impossibility to implement it all
What exactly makes the challenge of cycle so much harder than walking? Also is there really 0 ways you could use pedestrian mode data for biking directions? Even if marginally or to confirm hypotheses mostly based on cycling data

Lastly, is there anything stopping you from contributing potential innovations to open source alternatives?
I wish I could remember one of these games in which players were tiny cars with ridiculously ominous names like Monsieur Murder (i'm paraphrasing but that was the vibe)
Oh yeah that is true. I think it needs to be selective, not every meeting. Probably about 0-5% would qualify for recording and preservation.
I think this is one of the best comments on the thread. Most are about setting restrictions that, at best, will lead to the kids finding a way around them.

If you set restrictions, your kids will almost certainly find ways around them. Maybe they figure out how to do it on their own device, but they almost certainly have a friend with unrestricted internet access anyways.

If you reason with your kids and set boundaries (at an appropriate age), they learn _why_ restrictions might be set. This means that after you would have stopped directly applying restrictions, they use self control to moderate themselves.

Obviously it depends on the kid. My parents went both routes and _every single time_ they set a hard restriction I found a way around it. When they blocked websites with online games, I learned how to set up a proxy to a computer on the network without restrictions. When they added parental controls on an iOS device, I found out that factory resetting from Find My wipes the restrictions (factory reset on the device is blocked when parental controls are enabled). When a more stringent network block was applied, I learned about DNS and how to bypass DNS-based internet restrictions.

But they reasoned with my about social media and generally nurtured my curiosity, so I just don’t find myself interested in any traditional social apps. I’m definitely not immune to digital addiction, but I’d rather be addicted to interesting link aggregators than Instagram.

Also- consider setting different limits for different kinds of content. I think video games are probably a better use of time than TV since they’re engaging and typically require thought, but a good documentary is educational and should be considered as such (a strict passive-consumption limit may encourage a kid to watch more “junk food” content while eschewing content that’s actually educational). Maybe defined limits aren’t the way to go, or maybe exceptions should just be the norm.

One thing I’d add is that you should apply similar standards to yourself when setting boundaries. Even if I wasn’t feeling obstinate about a particular restriction, seeing my parents flagrantly violate that themselves just made me want to bypass it—and I did!

tl;dr at a certain point kids are people and can reason for themselves—to a degree; consider this when setting limits, restrictions, or boundaries.
UCS2 was not a mistake. Unicode forgot its mission.
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Ask HN: Any of you run Kubernetes clusters in-house?
I have a small SaaS and I am interested in slowly bringing everything in-house, those of you who run k8s cluster, can you describe your setup? Ex. how do you provision new hardware, HA, what kind of servers do you use?
I did find some IM papers, I can look through them again tomorrow and see what I can turn up.
Google Maps was a nightmare at the top 100 US News university I went to. It'd constantly be unaware of bike routes and try to take me an absurdly wrong way around. Even as I was taking the bikable shortcut paths it would just keep rerouting telling me to turn around 180° even when I was more than halfway near the other road. You'd think there's be sufficient data on a major university campus...
It's not the 90s anymore—things have significantly changed. Be shocked at the sophisticated teams of PHDs at BigTech with million dollar salaries figuring out the best ways to create psychological addiction in their product... er subjects.

Start with the docs "The Corporation", and "The Social Dilemma". If you are interested in some more of the history from the government surveillance side, "The United States of Secrets."
Right on.

> my content would probably just add noise to the internet

Maybe, but there is worse noise out there for sure. :) Anyhow, some unsolicited advice from me: don't replay this quote to yourself any more than necessary; it isn't exactly a motivational mantra masterpiece. Share what you think is important.

Why? Even small, "improbable" improvements to knowledge can to matter. Given enough of them, statistically speaking, we can move the needle. Yeah, and we need to be able to find the relevant stuff; a big problem in of itself.
Same. When I hear things like that I don’t see how it relates to Singapore at all. Maybe if you’re a tourist here for a few days and never leave the city centre, or if you’ve never visited and just read that Disneyland article that is mentioned every time Singapore comes up on Hacker News. I spent yesterday wandering around nature, saw a giant atlas moth, some snakes, and some crocodiles. The very opposite of “existentially-horrifying”.
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They did have google desktop search which seems a valid excuse to not have a second desktop indexing tool.
I didn’t touch LLMs yet, but was hardcore learning SD and satellite nets last two weeks in a full workday mode. If they are similar, then I assure you that the complexity of being able to create something detailed that you want is on par with bare full-stack of stacks style programming. My brain melts down at the end of every day. It will put people out of jobs. But the hiring pool for that new domain will consist of the exact same people and double the deficit. Random, seemingly effortless examples may wow-trick one into thinking that it’s over. Doesn’t feel like it once you try it yourself. But when you succeed, the results are indeed impressive.
I was quite similar, asking just programming books for birthday/christmas presents since I was 10, but my parents took a different route. I'm neurodivergent so I behaved different from other people, and coming from small town conservative family they just wanted me to be "normal" and blamed the computer on my differences. For me it was crazy as it was obvious I'm different way before the computer and I just couldn't understand why they wouldn't want a kid that's spending his free time studying programming (and science). The constant stress of somebody coming to my room and whining that I'm sitting on computer (and behaving weirdly) made concentrating on programming really hard and my life really anxious and stressful. Some point at my teens I noticed that going to drinking with my friends was way more relaxing, even though I hated drinking and just wanted to study. The anxiety+stress+drinking really left a mess in my life.

Now I have my own kid and I'm finding it hard to put limits on phone usage as her peers are on tiktok etc. all the time. But the most important thing I'm trying to do is have these discussions and then that's it, try to act on what we've agreed, but not arbitrarily whine about too much usage or anything else that would make her constantly stress about it. And try to guide her to spend the screen time in better ways, like spending time playing Factorio / Minecraft multiplayer with her so we get creative time together instead of her looking short videos.
Are you going to care about some base rate when it's your loved one dying?
It's not true if you count current languages of East Asia, such as Chinese. Or does the document address that omission somehow?

EDIT: Skimming it, I don't see how the issue is addressed, except in a diagram that says,

* Modern-Use Ideographs: 54x256 = 13,824

* Added Ideographs: 64x256 = 16,384

Also it talks about deduplicating identical characters in Chinese, the Japanese alphabets, and Korean (Hangul).

More interesting is the full explanation of modern use:

Distinction of "moderm-use" characters: Unicode gives higher priority to ensuring utility for the future than to preserving past antiquities. Unicode aims in the first instance at the characters published in modern text (e.g. in the union of all newspapers and magazines printed in the world in 1988), whose number is undoubtedly far below 2^14 = 16,384. Beyond those modern-use characters, all others may be defined to be obsolete or rare; these are better candidates for private-use registration than for congesting the public list of generally-useful Unicodes.

It's very interesting, and revealing about the author, to define use as newspaper and magazine publishing.
This sibling thread is apropos too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37356435
How does this compare to the OTel Operator feature-wise? I'm loving auto-instrumentation with Grafana Cloud, but operator config is painful and I've hit (and helped fix) a lot of bugs