skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in older jets the engines are controlled by electronic management units which take an electrical input from the throttle and decide how to turn that into valve actuations. There's a question (see sibling answer) about whether such electronics and wires are really vulnerable - maybe it only affects kilometers long runs - but if it is then I couldn't see the jet being flyable.
Yes, the fact that there are far more users than developers is my point. "All users have a choice! They just need to learn to write and debug software to address the bugs they'll encounter in the alternatives" is a bit of an unreasonable position.
It might be that you turned off playing DRM materials
Because broad swaths of US Evangelicals believe that Israel needs to be "re-established" for Jesus to return so there can be a holy war. No I am not kidding. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/h...)

79% of US Christians believe Jesus will have a second coming. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2009/04/09/christians-v...

The second coming of Jesus is not for fun times. It's for war that kills ~everyone except the true believers, who then get infinite utopia.

4 in 10 Americans and about half of US Christians overall believe we are living "in the end times," and two thirds of "highly religious" adults. I.e. we are approaching that second coming/holy war.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/11/17/how-religion...

Combine that with the fact that US Congress is 90% Christian –– dramatically more so than the US public –– and a pretty alarming decision-making environment emerges.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/23/lawmakers-more-religious-ge...
Yeah but you need online IDE to have sandboxing if you try to build something more fancy as global deps by default bite so hard in python.

I like JS for it’s node_modules solution.
In python you end up with libs conflicits and segfaults that you cannot debug unless you are deliberate about deps management.
I can comment that FF feels slower on iOS but it makes so little difference these days. We’re talking small fractions of a second.
This is not about being "hard". Python is, actually very hard... except you don't know it well, and mistakenly think it's easy. You probably had never seen more than half of the functionality available in the "standard" library, i.e. you don't even know it exists, for example. Now, add to this that there isn't really one Python. There's a succession of similar languages, all called Python. But, can you tell in which version object of "module" type gained all the attributes of their alleged superclass -- "object"? How many facts like this one do you think exist?

There are also different ways things can be hard. Some things are hard to understand once -- and then once you understand, no extra effort is required. You just go around knowing it. Some things could be hard because nobody can explain them to you, and you will be running up against the wall trying to figure them out. Some other things are hard because they are always in flux. You think you've understood them, but the next moment someone is pulling the carpet from under you, and you have to start understanding them all over again.

I still remember my disappointment, for example, when after second semester of automata theory, we ended up constructing "mini machines" -- short sequences of instructions that could be combined to build bigger programs. And then we went straight to Java. There was no continuity. Nobody cared or even could explain how, if you wanted to build from the first principles could you get Java. The step between "mini machines" and Java was never explained. There was no explanation for why should Java have such and such feature, or what would have happened if it hadn't etc.

People are masters of reconciling inconsistencies, and not in a good way. When something doesn't make sense, people will masterfully invent some cooked-up nonsense to replace the real explanation. And this is the case for most CS majors. When you ask them questions about basic things about their trade, what you hear back is some laughable excuse of an answer. We have several generations of programmers today who grew up with this nonsense, internalized it, made it into a cult. Python owes its popularity, in great part, to these generations of programmers with missing foundations, lacking ability of critical thinking which led to bizarrely distorted view of the world.
Why do you say it is trash? I use it regularly. I use it primarily to test and code (e.g. inspect and tweak styles) a few web apps I code. I really like some of its features.

What I didn't like was how it kept asking me to make it the default browser every time it upgraded.
How so?

If you run it at night, not an issue.

If you run it after lunch, not an issue, everything is available before it’s time to prepare dinner.

If you’re organized I don’t see how 4 hours is a problem, unless you cook every 3 hours?

And if you need things right away, even a 1hour dishwasher would be too long, if your issue is time just hand wash your dishes.
You appear to be confusing the cost of something verses the price of something.

I can eat junk food cheaply every day, I pay the price later.
Chrome Mobile is the largest reason I would not recommend an Android (specifically Pixel) device to friends or family. I bought one, and I found myself actively avoiding browsing the web on it.

Even after installing Firefox you can’t get rid of the Google Chrome web search bar on the home screen, and in-app web views are Chrome, so you’re never really free from Chrome.

I do understand the why of ads, and I’m okay with _some_ ads. On 99% of websites from a Google search you get a sticky top and/or bottom bar, and interstitial ads between paragraphs and they’re a little annoying but not so bad. But then on about 30% of search results one of those sticky ads is an autoplaying video, which means I can’t actually read the content (since 1/3 of my screen is video) and the “X” icon is 0.5mm wide so I can’t close it without clicking the video. Then there’s the email subscribe pop up on scroll, and after 15 seconds you get prompted to allow notifications for this website.

Using the web without an ad blocker feels like you’re being attacked, it’s aggressive and stressful.

I had hoped the ubiquity of ad blocking would result in advertisers going “hmmm, maybe we can drive fewer people to install these things by acting better”, but instead it’s been a race to who can exploit the smaller pool of users for clicks.
> IPv6 is a second class network.

Except it is not. Where it works, it works extremely well. IPv6 connections are, by default, always preferred on all modern operating systems.

I’d also take the entire article with a grain of salt, because it calls a fundamental impossibility (lack if interoperability of v6 and v4 addresses) as a “mistake”. Not having interoperability was the only way, not a “mistake”.

Virtually all the pain points have been dealt with. Any further transition to IPv6 is going to happen without anyone really noticing. Except for the couple of gamers and sysadmins who were wrongly advised to "disable IPv6" to fix "connectivity problems".
Let's decompose "our" data just a bit: data that we ourselves intentionally create (e.g., pictures we take, documents we write) and the observations of others about our activities (e.g., server logs, transaction data). The former seems (!) straightforward to address, while the latter seems fraught. After all, if I own all data about my comings and goings, then so does a corrupt politician his. If we go too far in restricting the recording and sharing of our observations about others, however automatic they may be, we might accidentally spring a speech-stifling genie.
1 in 3 news sites block OpenAI via robots.txt
The 392 news organizations listed at this URL have instructed OpenAI’s GPTBot to not scan their sites, according to a continual survey of 1,119 online publishers conducted by the homepages.news archive. That amounts to 35.0% of the total.

The artificial intelligence company has suggested it will not train future editions of ChatGPT using sites that opt out of GPTBot crawls via the robots.txt convention.

Our archiving system gathers each news organization’s robots.txt file twice per day. This page automatically updates with the latest results.

The sites we track are a best effort to cover a broad cross-section of news publishing.

That said, the sample is not comprehensive. It's also primarily focused on the English language market.
I didn't realize we were bumping up on the record high again. I have to say that when I look at that chart, it is hard to believe that anything matters anymore anyway, so I suppose it's fair not to worry about retirement.
> Nvidia is already very keen on emphasizing DLSS as the solution to this problem, and AMD is likewise tauting its own tech as well.

Personally I dislike DLSS so much:

If I enable it in Cyberpunk 2077, there are some visible noise patterns that pop in and out of view especially near shadows on flat textures all the time, it looks horrible and distracting. And if I disable DLSS, if the game updates sometimes it enables it back so I see the horrible things again!

Why do you need AI to upscale anyway if it looks this bad, why not just use Lanczos/bicubic/... upscaling? They are not only simpler and faster, but look better too, because they don't create the above mentioned horrible visible noise patterns.

Then they have the inter-frame thing that causes input lag, another bad degradation.

Then they 'solve' input lag by touting a vendor lock-in-sounding feature (Nvidia Reflex), while the real solution to input lag is not add vendor lock-in feature but ensure you compute 1 frame at the time and do so fast (which is of course not simple, but is a matter of optimization and not of brand-named features, and perhaps not generating and inserting additional frames would help).

Then there is the fact that DLSS is something that needs to be supported by games themselves: why? This again makes it sounds vendor-lock-in-ish because they can have it "exclusively" in some games. But nothing about upscaling, nor frame generation, sounds like something that requires game engine support to me. The graphics card should have enough info to do that by having all the pixels. I mean, it was always possible to play games at different resolutions (DLSS is basically also like playing the game at lower resolution), and there always has been some upscaling required for that (whether it's the monitor or the graphics card doing it). This never required special engine support.
Interesting, because everybody uses contactless there?

I wonder how well (or if) that works with European-issued cards – some issuers require these to be inserted and a PIN be entered every few payments to reset the internal risk counters.
No a bachelors. Post docs with a PhD are expected to work for about 48k.
Changing settings is useless. They will at some point “reengineer” settings with auto opt in and revert your decisions

Just get Firefox
>3. All services that you don’t pay for you are the product.

I certainly don't feel like I am the product when I use Wikipedia.
I've read an interesting comment on lobste.rs that this is basically a way to try to circumvent GDPR.
There is some evidence to indicate that the IQ-/life outcome relationship is stronger on the left half of the bell curve. That is to say, the improvement from 85 to 100 IQ is higher than the improvement from 100 to 115.
Because AI is going to give me a summary of what the article said. I don't want that. I want a summary of the relevant parts of what the article said. And if it's appropriate, I want a cynical, "this is baloney/marketing/clickbait/propaganda" summary.
In general - zoning causes the sprawl and the speculation, and worsens the labor shortage. It is the only root cause.
I agree with the person you’re replying to: there are certainly plenty of conservative Americans Jews even if they’re well in the minority (roughly a third) but there aren’t enough political districts where those numbers are decisive to explain the political lock and the “back Israel to the hilt” voices overwhelmingly tend not to be those districts but ones loaded with evangelical Christians.

This makes sense when you remember why they care so much: their interpretation of the Bible holds that the end times they’re looking forward to will begin with a war involving Israel. They are not looking for peace or long-term happiness, and support any policy which increases the odds of a war. I remember them being very excited by the Gulf War and various points in the Iraq war where it seemed like someone might attack Israel because they’re basically thinking that’s their ticket to heaven showing up.
ATA: Analog Telephone Adapter
I've seen it mostly in finance websites, where they often have keynotes at the top for a quick glance. I think the last time I've seen in this in a different context was probably an article in The Verge.
Fiat Currencies over Bitcoin Lightning
It's linked here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-methodol...

Essentially, it's a weighted metric of:

* Number of google search results for "X programming language" (w/ quotes)

* Number of questions asked about the language last month in StackOverflow

* Number of academic publications that mentioned "X programming" last year

* Number of job postings (on two different sites)

* Github repository counts (based on stars or recent PRs)

* Number of books published last year about said programming language

* Number of discords tagged with said programming language
There are supposedly many introverts frequenting HN and longing for any help they could get in building their network. Some of them probably reflexively upvoted the article without looking at it first. Since it's impossible to un-vote a story, those upvotes remained even as they came back here to complain about lack of meaningful content in the article.
Have you used any benchmark to test agents? I'm currently looking for REST API usage benchmark for LLMs.
>Taxing the rich at high rates and ensuring that lifestyles are slightly more equitable will enable everyone (both rich and non-rich

It doesn't work this way. Ambitious people either just move to a county that's more open to business, bringing jobs and economic growth there instead, or they go into politics and get rich just by leeching off the economically productive populace, like corrupt officials in Russia and China.

Europe is a good example of this: it's got the highest tax rates globally, and some of the lowest GDP growth rates (and number of new businesses) in the world. People in France, Germany and the UK are seeing their standards of living get worse year by year, not better
Yes, the Eco cycle often takes a very long time. However, modern machines are significantly better than the DOE limits even on a one-hour cycle (I assume your machine uses 10 litres, not gallons).
Obviously there are lots of short snippets of audio that are machine generated. But, no, at the current state of the art I'm not going to listen to a machine generated audiobook much less pay for it.
I’m on King on a 504a right now. It’s massively restricted. You just can’t tell by looking. “Lots” isn’t a measurement.
Give me a break. It is delusional to believe that corporations do not regularly float press releases to journalists, which then get recycled into articles, which sometimes include a tiny bit of original research.
And today we have such Terrorists ..

"The FBI came and picked him up from our home, they gave him a vehicle, gave him a fake bomb, and every means to make this happen," the statement said, adding that authorities "should not have aided and abetted a paranoid schizophrenic to commit this act."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-fbi-knew-oklahoma-bomb-p...
I don't know how it is in Japan with how fervently they defend spurious transmission but in the US we have people doing "key down contests" which is the radio equivalent of "side shows" or / road takeovers and there is barely any enforcement against them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6z3MaLOrU
Also so they can basically shape web standards and ecosystems however they want. Websites will do literally anything to stay listed and relevant in google search. Google does this by shaping a web that serves ads and thereby makes them more money
Oracle owns Java which cancels any pros of that language.
You can't now due to inflation (and inflation is higher than the gamed CPI). Those dollars you earn at the beginning will be worth pennies when you go to spend them. If you had a home you can offset this, but younger people aren't getting on the property ladder anymore due to, you guessed it, inflation.

Our money isn't a durable store of value since the gold standard was abandoned, you used to be able to make up for it by investing but the line can't go up forever.
I think the idea is "figure out a list of people who appear to have shared interests whom you might enjoy talking to", but the chatgpt reference does appear odd indeed
In cases where the test misfired, you would had higher IQ people recruited into canon fodder positions where they chance of dying is higher then normal.

Army aptitude tests do not test IQ directly. They test general knowledge (like basic math), ability to follow directions, that sort of thing. IQ is not the only mental issue that makes you unsuitable.

So kinda, reliability of those tests is not really relevant.
Thanks, I'm happy this exists. I think I'll start contributing this fall.
Way ahead of you
The amount of data we processed with pen and pencil was multiple orders of magnitude smaller than what we do in 2023. We might be able to maintain a few systems chugging along with pen and paper but just imagine the sheer magnitude of all industrial control systems that rely on automation, every single one of those won't exist. Processing 2023 taxes manually, that's another hell by itself.

We will regress much further than the 1940s, we don't have living knowledge of how to keep complex systems working that way, we will need to relearn all of that while in the midst of absolute chaos. The main issue won't be technical but social, when civilisation is collapsing it's pretty hard to maintain order to bootstrap these complex systems with pen and paper...
How many of you have boomer parents that ruined their retirement planning and now you're paying for their rent/nursing homes? I spend $1800/mo on my 70yo mothers rent. Disgusts me. I'm also paying $3100/mo for my own rent. I don't think I'll ever be able to buy another house after selling mine in 2019. Even votes against her own interests.

I'm putting my own retirement in jeopardy because of her failure to be responsible. I'm not even 40. My uncle pays his mothers nursing home, but he's 65 and she's well into her 80s. Another thing that shouldn't have to be paid for by someone else.
Hey Herman, how are you pulling the text from the provided url? and using that as input for your LLM?
The article is shit; I just wanted to encourage more discussion on the topic in the comments.
‘Synthetic Alcohol’ That Has None of the Negative Side-Effects of the Real Thing
> It seems that size wasn't the problem.

The lack of will to regulate seems to scale with industry lobbing.

I used to hope we consumers would stop reelecting corruption. We never did and now we're too busy trying to keep even worse people getting into office.
But if sodium does form insoluble rocks, why is there so much of it still in the oceans? And what about chloride?
The part of the Forest Gump story where he served in the military was based on this, someone on Reddit said.
If you are 40, you are one of about 5 people supporting those retired.

When you are retired, there will be about 2 people supporting you.
Who can blame them, I mean where's the motivation? Gamers aren't asking for 4k gaming, they want 2k gaming at high refresh rates.

Modern game engines aren't credibly capable of 4k gaming, given the market's desire for high refresh rates. The fine print will show that they are doing 4k@30Hz which is like going back in time to the PlayStation 2 era but with really fancy geometry.

The bar to clear is 4k@120Hz. However getting there requires a full stack refresh. A high end panel made in the last two years that not only can handle high refresh 4k, but has the required state of the art HDMI or DisplayPort tech to stream that many bits.

Since nobody else is in place yet -- the monitors, the game engines -- there's no incentive for the graphics card to be early to the party. RTX 40 series was for people with more money than market sense.

Nvidia is going to pay gaming lip service and bide its time until there's an actual growth vector in that space. All their attention is, and should be, on monetizing the 'AI' hype curve.
At best housing should roughly keep pace with inflation itself

That's Robert Shiller's claim when you look at average home prices across the entire country over a long enough period.

Contrary to popular belief, there has been no continuous uptrend in home prices in the US and the home prices show a strong tendency to return to their 1890 level in real terms. Moreover, he illustrates how the pattern of changes in home prices bears no relation to changes in construction costs, interest rates or population
SQL has been Turing complete since the 1999 standard https://stackoverflow.com/a/7580013
Hmm? The increase in average temperature from 1981 (the earliest on that chart) to now hasn't had any meaningful impact on people's standard of living. Why should a similar increase over the next 40 years be any different?
https://nitter.net/TitaniumSV5/status/1695724234339954779?t=...
> "We need to revolutionize how we think about our data and what value it holds" (last sentence)

The last line of the article for me is different: “We need to revolutionise how we think about our own data and what value it truly holds.” (Emphasis mine)

Which in context:

> Lastly, it’s good to remember nothing truly comes for free. Software costs money to develop. If you’re not paying towards that, then it’s likely you – or your data – are the product. We need to revolutionise how we think about our own data and what value it truly holds.

Is a very clear pro-privacy statement to me. This is our data and is owned by us and we should revolutionize how we think about that.
I submit without comment/intent: “Filial Responsibility Laws”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws
Seems like reasonable backfill for the countless books that will never get audio treatment.
I started my son on Python but he switched to Java because that's what you need to write Minecraft mods. That lasted for two or three years. Now, thanks to Advent of Code, he's coming back to Python again, as well as assembly language (he did the Nand to Tetris course and is very interested in designing his own CPU on FPGA). Eventually I'm going to show him Scheme and SICP.
No one said 10% real returns. It’s 10% counting inflation, which is the number I provided.

> The average stock market return is about 10% per year for nearly the last century, as measured by the S&P 500 index.

I don’t know why people are getting hung up on this 10%, it’s just the historic returns everyone in Boglehead and FI/RE communities uses. If you wanted to use the 6-7% real returns after inflation that is fine too. The numbers still are the same, you’ll just get an inflation adjusted number. You’ll need inflation adjusted numbers on your college earnings too though, I don’t think the “extra 1 million earned by a college grad” is inflation adjusted.
The article goes to lengths to explain that the aptitude tests for these draftees were regularly faked. The point was that people who were manifestly mentally unsuited for the military (whether because of a physical disability or lack of education due to poverty, etc.) were intentionally drafted; nobody is required to have a particular opinion on IQ to think that was probably a bad idea.