skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Looking at an a propos use case, how would this approach have prevented the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

"What's going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path. And the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. And I believe that the policy that I'm advocating, which is neutralising Ukraine, and then building it up economically, and getting it out of the competition between Russia on one side, NATO on the other side is the best thing that could happen to the Ukrainians. What we're doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We're encouraging, the Ukrainians to think that they will ultimately become part of the West, because we will ultimately defeat Putin, and we will ultimately get our way, time is on our side. And of course, the Ukrainians are playing along with this."

-- John J. Mearsheimer, 2015
The ottoman has a much smaller contact surface with the pizza than a coffee cup has with the coffee.
I've always seen this thought experiment as implying that the key to decreasing entropy is a quantum of consciousness, whatever that may be.
"Buy in" is what you use for people acting in good faith. But managers aren't acting in good faith. They just want it done so that they look good to their own bosses. They don't actually care about the product/service. Their ask to "go faster" is a bad faith argument where there is no real need to go faster except for the manager to look good.

I don't feel the need to get "buy in" for bad faith managers.
On reparations my answer was "I support reparations to slaves from slave owners", which the quiz interpreted as socialist due to the support for reparations, without noting that the answer left out almost all reparations as currently proposed.

My other answers were more direct and the assumptions extracted from them were fairly accurate, so well done.

Perhaps there's a general difficulty for LLMs in recognizing the import of things that aren't said?
SwissMicros – Keeping the iconic HP RPN calculators alive
Love it. Want it. In the USA, the manufacturers would probably be sued out of existence when someone got killed or maimed in one, no matter whose fault it was.
Can’t you just allow Github/etc OAuth?
Computers speed up craftpersonship, so it doesn't feel like craftpersonship, but really if you slow it down, it has elements of craft. Software is often rushed out the door at breakneck speed these days so it seems shoddily made and rushed, but then it works, has few bugs, and doesn't suffer from technical debt. I think this is miraculous and shouldn't be taken for granted.
Only the government has a legalized monopoly on power. I can avoid any one tech company much easier than I can avoid government.
> the vast majority of public communication on the internet seems to be roughly the same quality in my mind.

I mean, could it be that it's just that the platforms you're familiar with are similar quality? There are major quality differences. Consider, for example, HN vs Instagram. Do you really see no difference in the quality of discourse, or do you just not use Instagram?
Car options are priced independently from what they actually cost to manufacture. A cheap luxury car will often include a host of features that cost quite a bit when you added as features to a lower end car. And sometimes it’s the reverse where missing features in luxury cars ends up being almost as expensive as the cheap cars they come standard in.

It’s a combination of price discrimination and the overhead of having multiple different specs being manufactured independently of whatever the actual differences are.

> at least without some DIY aspect.

Solar car battery chargers already exist for less than 30$. I’m assuming the overhead of including it into the cars design and modifying body panels etc significantly increases costs. But it’s the kind of thing Subaru could add to every car for diversification without significantly impacting final price.
Whatever you do, make sure your source is relevant to where you live. Every so often there's a tragic story about immigrants going foraging and poisoning their families because what they could safely identify and eat in their home country doesn't transfer to North America.
yeah, and there are REPL for C but hardly anyone uses them, Back in the day I would have used groovy or clojure if I wanted a REPL in Java.
Nope. The mother is guilty of murder.

Her felonious behavior caused the death of her unborn baby.

This has been codified into law for a very long time. Had the mother survived she would have been charged with what's called felony murder.

Section B:

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2903.02
They also have allies in low tax conservatives who seek to make taxes as painful as possible for everyone, including people who are actually getting a subsidy via the tax code.
I'm a scientist who has worked in these fields and I don't think there is any fundamental mystery here except the hard problem of consciousness, which has nothing to do with understanding.
> routinely treated with scorn for my approach

Seriously? I feel for you.

In my experience many companies do recognize tech debt now, and the value in fixing it or implementing it the right way, although that was not so much the case in early 2000s.

That said, many times we do still have to argue for time to refactor vs adding new features.

I think that the best software craftsman is the one that can quickly add features without accumulating tech debt and the best way to do that is to just fix/refactor the other stuff around the feature addition immediately. It seems like the OP's grandpa was that kind of person.

Speaking for myself, I sometimes do take longer because I want to get it right, even if it does mean missing an internal deadline. It has to have the right "smell". I have learned that if we don't do that then, as cruft accumulates, 3am production incidents will be inevitable.

So, do take this to heart: if others did not understand it, it does not matter. You have already benefited from your approach :)
It's eduction's choice of metric, not mine, and by that "multithreaded, preemptive multitasking OS" metric, OS/2 1.0 qualifies. eduction didn't say anything about graphics.

Presentation Manager was available in 1988, by the way, not 1990. Petzold's book on it came out in 1989. First (and only) edition sitting on my bookshelf as I type this.
If they are in a situation in which they can send W3W coordinates by text message, then they are in a situation in which they can send ordinary numerical coordinates by text message.
I have been this person and I'm trying to move away from it. It really is a great skill to enjoy lifting others and to be the glue of a team. But there are multiple slippery slopes inherent to that role that make it difficult. You can begin to confound the knowledge of others as your own, and almost certainly your own IC skills will atrophy if not purposefully maintained. I think it also requires the explicit buy in of the team, or at least other seniors who understand the benefits and can help keep balance.

It just takes one jealous colleague or one "efficiency minded" manager type to completely rug pull you. I know it's valuable because I have benefitted from that person many many times, but it takes empathy and a lot of balance.
I think 18/10 stainless steel is probably good enough for anything

It’s chemically inert, doesn’t corrode, etc etc.

Glass is also great imo and also extremely chemically inert (except that, of course, it can shatter if dropped, but that’s a whole other thing)

Obviously glazed cups (with not shitty glaze, but that’s a whole Other thing) are standard, and so on

We have options! Just not, uhh, single use ones
The CSAM scanning Apple abandoned, ie the topic at hand, was for the cloud, like the one operated by Google or Microsoft. You switched the topic to secure messaging platforms, which are irrelevant for the discussion at hand.
But is it item #1 or #9875?
None of these seem relevant to the question of why you feel the need to jump onto a thread about the colors found in Singapore with colonial mansplaining about authoritarianism.. backed up by writings from Cambridge, cherry on top by a writer specialized in Colonial Law.

Since all you do is basically spew links while ignoring any of the attempts to have a conversation, we thank you for your service of acting as a poster child for colonial mansplaining we shall be using in an upcoming article on the topic.
> I could tell that the technical approach they were taking was just not working.

Could you say more about that? How could you tell?
The article paints a pretty dire picture. Having never been to that part of the world, is the nearest place that could support Reno? I assume this would need a post-hurricane type support airdrop of supplies?
I think new cars are still required to report engine codes (ones that cause the CEL to trigger) on the OBD port. That’s still a large percentage of engine problems, and in particular, the ones that prevent you from getting registration renewed in many US states.
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Yeah almost every nonfiction book is like this which makes me hate reading them (plus half the stuff in psychology/behavioral economics books is unreplicated fabulation).

Small subthread derailment - nonfiction books which are worth the full length. I'll start:

The Making of the Atomic Bomb; Gödel, Escher, Bach; The Ancestor's Tale; Bad Pharma
Good, I mean why charge in the first place? So much other infrastructure gets rolled into tuition anyways.
There is also a massive difference between seeing the Grand Canyon or the Great Bahamas Basin in pictures and doing 54 kts on a jetski flying on water in such Basin.

We also have pretty nice pictures of the Olympus Mons so if you are snubbing the Grand Canyon and the Great Bahamas Basin just because someone else already took pics, then you should snub the Olympus Mons as well, otherwise you’d be committing a logical fallacy.

And besides, the frontier of the unknown as it pertains to humanity as a whole has moved to the micro and the nano, all stuff that requires boring research and experiments costing billions as opposed to Wild West adventure.
The Russians didn't starve enough people in the '20s. The Chinese didn't starve enough people in the '50s. The Cambodians in the '70s. The Ethiopians in the '80s. Zimbabweans in the '00s. Now they want to try again in Europe. We might not starve soon but look at the complaints caused by Ukraine not exporting grain the past 2 years.
There's only so much you can blame the pandemic for. You can say that you weren't given proper instruction, but that excuse does not go very far when you have the internet available to you. I've seen the resources available, and even the most popular are good enough to get you through any 'college' level course. You hardly even need to be an expert at evaluating quality to get there either.

But really, universities should grow a spine and reject students who do not meet their supposed 'high bar'.

I do find it really strange for someone to ace "honors physics" to then fail qualifications for intro calculus. Seems that credit is highly suspect.
It's like few cases per season per million people eating wild shrooms.
Last I checked IPFS has some real bandwidth problems, it uses enough at idle and everyone just accepts it, so it's mostly only usable through gateways for normal people, meanwhile BitTorrent has had full P2P for years with a very efficient DHT.

Which is still really cool, but there's only a few free pinning services and they don't have a very good UI.

I think what we really need is semi-P2P, everything still hosted on centralized servers, but you can choose more than one and your identity isn't tied to either, and with cache-ability through other servers. Then you can still pay with fiat money, you can still kick individuals off your server, you can still choose to use free youretheproductware, and most importantly you can use community servers without it just being madness to invest too much time.

Either that, or we git-like fork-able and mergable forums with all content creative commons like Wikipedia. Old forums were amazing for community building.
I just use the one built into Mac OSX actually. But Hearling.com is also a quick way to download audio files.
It is becoming more common that this function is part of an apartment building-wide electronic lock system. Still using the same model but using a RFID key fob which also opens many other locks: front entrance, mail box, basement, etc.

There is often a web interface to the booking system in addition to a wall-mounted terminal in a hallway.
But using that terminal is often more convenient, as you'd often pass it twice every day anyway and you'd only need the key fob to "log in".

(I have worked on developing such a system, but before that I had been a regular user of a competitor's system in my apartment block for years)
HP Prime doesn’t get much love and they are certainly pricey (though you can sometimes get a good priced import) but I think my Prime is the best calculator I’ve ever had and it beats my 49 and my 50.
Yes, even with SSDs it seems like 10x is very optimistic. It should be several orders of magnitude.
Then its no longer a physics education, its just fun tidbits.
Lenovo’s new 27-inch, 4K monitor offers glasses-free 3D
The main problem is the overall density on the subcontinent of 481 ppl/km².
(Compare with the density in Europe of 34 ppl/km².)

You can't have the quality of life of the latter at population densities of the former.
The worst programmer I knew never had any productivity problem; if anything he produced too much code, outpacing the others' ability to maintain certain levels of quality.

He ended up promoted; in many organizations, people that hack the code rather than properly design and build sustainable solutions are highly valued.
I guess that's the opposite side of the coin I'm looking at. Being able to remove "bad actors" also means it's too easy to remove "good actors" who might brush people the wrong way. Democratic leadership will optimize for easy answers and never saying "no", because the alternative is political suicide.

Imagine if Joe Biden went on TV tomorrow and said "we're taxing gasoline to USD100 per gallon to force private cars off the road. It's gonna be tough for a while, but you'll thank me in 2050 when the public transit is fully fleshed out and we hit a 1.5c climate goal." He'd be driven out of office in favour of someone who ran on a campaign of "let's roast the next generation so you can save a dime at the pump today." OTOH, Xi Jinping could probably get away with it.
Sure, if they were going to do layoffs in 6 months anyway, I guess this anti-pattern was coporate's wet dream. them quitting means they don't even have to bother with severance packages.

But it sure is a shame we're past the days where you actually want to retain and nurture tribal knowledge. imagine if other engineering disciplines simply hopped companies every 2 years, or if they cut half their civil engineers for a better earnings call (thankfully, he government doesn't have "shareholders". just taxpayers to disappoint).
The last article was published in 2010?
My first question about the CPU is “does it support ECC RAM?”.
If this is a server, it will need it.
I would be really interested in knowing if there's a correlation between number of rooms and the amount of mortgage paid for (i.e. how likely is it that a mortgage on a 2 bedroom home will be paid full before one with 5 bedrooms, or is it the other way around)
Mexico Became the Biggest User of the World’s Most Notorious Spy Tool
I'd recommend Dani Rodrik's Economics Rules that gives you a view of how economists work, what are their limitations and what is their skillset.

I'll try to answer your question through the lens of that book: the models that economists develop work under the models assumptions, and therefore they quite rarely fit well extremely complex phenomena like inflation; in general, economists treat the problems they face on a case per case basis by comparing different models outcomes', looking at the historical data, discussing the merits of the respective arguments for one or the other policy, and obviously depending on the specific goals you find more desirable (equality vs growth for example).
The way the economy is ran is not necessarily representative of the economists consensus, or even that of the economists that are employed by the biggest policymakers, as the policies chosen might be the ones deemed more politically feasible, or more desirable for the particular politician's interests, and not the ones that are economically most sound and well-founded.

By the way, a topic I've been always fascinated by but never inquired further is that of social choice, wherein the economists analyse the incentives of classes such as that of policymakers.
> Though the mileage part is tricky as its going to be a cat and mouse game of fraud and privacy concern.

It's not a privacy concern. The mileage is already recorded as part of the periodic safety test, annually in the UK, every two years in Norway (and the rest of EFTA I think).

> Do your road repair money not come from fuel tax on hundreds of liters of diesel per fill?

No that goes into the general treasury funds, as far as I know. It's about 0.60 GBP per litre in the UK. Typical fuel economy gives about 3 km/l so a tax of 0.20 GBP per km.

UK HGVs travel about 25 x 10^9 km per year so the income is about 5 x 10^9 GBP/year. The UK spends over 11 x 10^9 GBP per year on roads, mostly maintenance, more than double the income from diesel fuel duty.
Do people honestly think this kind of thing replicates with formally scheduled Zoom 1:1s? I don’t.
Yep. So I’m expecting it to cost me $2,000 as the consumer, and I wouldn’t want to spend that. If costs some trivial amount, I’d love to have a battery that basically never dies.
I had to look it up but apparently a playa is a dry lake bed.
Most SAP stuff is just horribly inefficient, especially the stuff that people "customize"... it's like with the cloud in general, a well designed bespoke software beats the "golden standard" by far in resource usage.
I am not sure why you keep changing the definition. The original point was on govt. funded news outlets.

The part about "to inform their own population" is secondary and irrelevant, especially if it is available online.
Jack Holloway, Project MAC researcher and respected programmer, dies at 77
Housing in the Los Angeles sprawl is still (relatively) affordable. Same with the Sacramento/Vacaville area.
Height profile on the route is one of the most useful features of Organic maps for hiking. Have not seen such functionality in most of other maps apps.
I think they’re playing it safe with their points of comparison. DDR5 supports 64,000 MB/s per channel and 4x NVMe PCIe5 SSDs support 10,000 MB/s. Depending on how many memory channels and what RAID you use, I think 10x improvement over high performance storage is unimpeachable. Memory latency being better than SSD latency will really benefit memory depending on workload, but I don’t think you can just throw one number out there to represent that.

Now if you’re comparing to spinning rust, memory is definitely going to blow it away, but commodity hardware isn’t running tens or hundreds of TBs of memory. Memory to SSD comparisons seem right.
Play Llama2 and play it well
Lenin was a mushroom (1991) [video]
I didn't notice the bad spelling! I do know what "hermeneutics" is, due to a misspent youth. I still like your title.
> Would be nice, but no one can really do that at the moment.

Why not? Someone could definitely build up database on why GPT is bad at some things and good at others. There is already good explanations for why it's terrible at math, why it doesn't handle single characters/numbers well and so on.
What makes you think looking at that google news search was the extent of the research they did to justify that assertion? Journalists typically do not show all their workings (though they could always show more). To me, the link is obviously just a moderately useful stepping stone/prompt for people to research the point themselves.
To become an expert you have to be a little bit adventurous. Average forager knows and gathers maybe 10 species of mushrooms that are hardest to mistake for anything else and leaves alone anything that looks just a little bit different.
Kind of #9875
This seems very close to Langchain's "summary" memory functionality (which seems to have existed since March 2023?) - granted I haven't read the paper just yet
I don't know if you've noticed, but in the short time since we have basically removed all gatekeepers things have not gone well.

Our democracy is on the verge of collapsing because liars and frauds have grabbed their newly available megaphone and convinced a very significant portion of the population that any election they lose is rigged.

If our democracy even survives this, which is questionable right now, we really need to rein in social media if we don't want to live under a despot.
I think GPT-3.5 can get confused a lot. When I was initially testing I used 4 and it could grade accurately without any help. My prompt was just "Rate this 1-5 on a scale where 1 means socialist and 5 means capitalist." 3.5, on the other hand, needs a lot of instructions and hand holding. I had to write a rubric spelling out what each of the scores should be and why, and iterate a few times on the rubric.

Without a good enough rubric 3.5 gives out basically random scores. I think if you are experiencing illogical scores it's likely pointing to a gap in the rubric. One way I hope to be able to improve is by looking at grades that are bad (users can click thumbs down if they don't like a grade) and using them to build a better rubric.
I think GPT-3.5 is not quite smart enough to do the grading well. It needs a lot of hand holding. I was experimenting with GPT-4 versus 3.5 and 4 grades questions pretty accurately with no more instructions than
To me it seems that it's an issue with the political class rather than with economical theory; at the very least, I've seen these policies denounced from the outset by the economists I follow.
I don’t know. I’ve met several people who see themselves like this and who are seen by senior leadership as being like this, but nothing they say tracks, even a little bit, with what I know about the system and problem space from my time actually immersed in working on it.
Or if it’s not Russia proper, then the object of right-wing idolatry is Orbán’s “illiberal democracy” in Hungary which is essentially Diet Putin.
The ironic thing is that even a broken clock is right twice a day. This is like scoring less than 25% on a multiple choice test.
> Technology and screen time aren't the problems; it's the lack of passion and interests that is the root problem.

Hard disagree. Many passions and interests take time to develop, and a big way they (used to, at least) develop naturally is through boredom. I remember well when I was a kid in the 80s who would get bored with my friends in the summer, and so we'd go and build forts or explore (illegally I guess) houses that were still under construction. A lot has been written about "the death of boredom" because smartphones are always there to give you that little dopamine fix to keep boredom at bay.

I agree with the general thrust of your post (technology is pretty unavoidable, and I've never seen a case where parents have been successful "hiding their kids from the real world" past a certain age), but I do think technology has had a severe negative impact on the mental development of youths since the advent of the smartphone, similar to how modern diets have had a severe negative impact to the development of their bodies.