skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The critical thing that appears to have happened is that a feature was rolled back because it hurt search queries. What feature it was is unclear from the email, since they never discuss it directly, but it was noted that users in the experiment were asking if it was a bug in public. Furthermore, the feature was newly added months prior.

So if I'm following it correctly, the email boils down to "please revert $POPULAR_CHANGE because it makes us less money on search ads, but don't tell people that's why we're doing it!"

(Someone who is a more diligent sleuth than I could probably figure out, but I don't know how to search Reddit for threads in ~April 2019 asking about bugs in Chrome related to features that launched ~October 2018.)
Researchers discover learning and memory deficits after ingestion of aspartame
The Anarchist Cookbook - anyone have a link?

THE ISSUE ISNT ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE! And alignment isn’t the main issue.

The main issue is SWARMS OF BOTS running permissionlessly wreaking havoc at scale. Being superhuman at ~30 different things all the time. Not that they’re saying a racist thought.
I don't know what it's like in Vancouver, but I have lived in Massachusetts and there it's not really a union issue: the corruption is equally present in, say, government (e.g. until recently there was a whole county all of whose land had been taken away but that remained solely so jobs like sheriff, bailiff etc could be handed out to relatives in cronies. Anything with a large flow of money (e.g. the Big Dig) gets openly looted. I've been told the same is true in Chicago, but I don't know directly. As far as the unions go, indeed, the lack of seriousness about the work is how, for example, the Ted Williams tunnel killed people, with no repercussions.

OTOH what passes for corruption in California, where I live now, would make an east coast politician laugh. Certainly in the trades (welding in particular, but all sorts of construction I needed) the quality of work was top notch. And why not? In construction, at least, there is no reason to use union if you don't want to and most don't, which leads to the the shitty quality of residential construction (there should be more of it but that's another issue).

Perhaps one thing is regulation. We once bought a pressure vessel that arrived with a small ding (if bad, it's an opportunity for an explosion). We called the pressure vessel unit in Oakland and someone arrived in 45 minutes which means he'd dropped anything else and and hopped into his car as soon as we hung up the phone. Even before he arrived we got an annoyed call from the mfr (as it turned out all was well...but the pressure vessel unit wanted to see for themselves). While he was there we showed him a piece done by a former contractor who had not been able to produce the union tickets. We had fired them because the work was safety critical (high pressure steam is no joke) and the contractor was suing us. One look at the piece and he yanked out his phone. Let's just say later that day the contractor's lawyer couriered over a document cancelling the lawsuit, a cashier's check for money already paid, and a request that we not countersue. Those guys are not fucking around.
From 2018:

"They are building full-scale, break-even-or-better that is to be ready in 2018. [...] If all goes well this year then Helion Energy machine that proves commercial energy gain would be a 50 Megawatt system built in 2021."

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/10/helion-energy-got-fund...

When people stop believing you, just double down. Not 50MW in 2021, but 500MW in 2030. In 2027 they will announce a 5GW plant in 2035.
can't wait to see how these things go once Linus steps down and Linux continues without him.

You think egos are big now...
completely agree. legos last for DECADES. That shit ain't going in a landfill. they retain their value pretty well. if anything, its jsut another sequesterization method as far as I'm concerned.

those stopit plastic wrappers they put on everything though...
You need to work on your reading comprehension. This will be my last reply to you.
As opposed to Anti Tesla folks who are impressed by MB's (who doesn't make EVs in any meaningful quantity) PR puff piece? Great, they're on track for 150k EV sales this year. Tesla will sell ~2M units, 4x total Mercedes Benz annual volume.

We get it, "Tesla Bad." They are the only automaker selling EVs at volume besides Chineses automakers (which are limited to the Chinese auto market), and they are what consumers are preferring (with the Model Y being a best seller in various large markets). You might not agree with consumer preferences, but their dollars and how they vote with them are what matter, while regulators are sufficiently tolerant of Tesla's various Autopilot driver assist flavors (AP1, AP2, AP2.5, Enhanced Autopilot with Auto Lane Change) as well as their Full Self Driving beta to not require they be pulled from the US consumer fleet.

One can be "Elon musk is not a decent human being" but also "Tesla makes EVs people will trip over themselves to buy, and we need as many popular EVs as possible to contribute towards solving for the transportation emissions component of climate change." PR pieces do not destroy demand for petroleum or reduce combustion emissions, EVs shipped do.
I'll buy that, there are certainly small local mountains out there you can find. I don't know that I'd say the skiing is "great" (or even worth moving for) but they do exist.

It may not be popular to say on this site, but there is an issue with living in places like that though... if you're not white, it's going to be really rough going for you, even in "blue" states. I say this as a non-white person who grew up in rural America. The racism is off the charts, you will experience it in every facet of your life, which is really unfortunate because there are a lot of beautiful rural locations in this country that would otherwise be inhabitable if it weren't for that major issue.
While I do miss the number pads it was leading me to bad posture and messing up my back. I like how some keyboards have detached numberpad but they are rare.
Any thoughts here on Fly's Corrosion? https://github.com/superfly/corrosion
Since you're going to be pedantic, I will be too.

Language is more than syntax. Language is the combination of Syntax and Meaning; its a system of communication. The word "Fooloofol" is syntactically correct English, but meaningless within the English language; and thus is not English. The english word "bark" is syntactically identical across more than one meaning; a dog barks next to the tree bark. Language isn't just syntax; its the entire system of understanding.

The statement "fetch("https://example.com")" is syntactically valid in any ECMAScript-compatible language. Its also syntactically correct Python, Go, Rust, and probably a few other languages as well. But: it is not meaningfully correct code in many of the runtimes which implement that language. It was only valid in NodeJS after version 18, after all.

What you're really asserting is: Node is not a syntax. That's more accurate; but still inaccurate. Node does have its own syntax. For example; if you were to execute "await myFunc()" in NodeJS v6, you would get a syntax error. So, if Node isn't a syntax; what syntax does it use? JavaScript? By what definition? ECMAScript? Certainly a subset of the global standard, or a version of the standard released in the past. They're quite bad at keeping up. 99% syntactic compatibility with another syntax is still a different syntax; and thus it has its own syntax.

The old "you're writing HTML and CSS, that's not programming" runs in a similar vein. It is programming, by any reasonable definition of programming. You're instructing a computer to do something. The real assertion is that its not procedural programming; which seems like a pretty dumb differentiation to lose sleep over to me.
I have my doubts about that common explanation.

A few years ago I tried to find historical tuition data but only found it online for a couple schools, Stanford and some state school that I don't remember.

For Stanford what I found is that a plot of log(tuition) vs time [1] for the last 100 years is almost linear. I think I got similar results for the state school.

[1] https://imgur.com/fXnjDNn
D'oh! Looks like there's still room for improvement :-/
As I read the piece I was having the same increasing unease, and then my eye wandered to the top right of the frame . .

EDIT OK, I can hear the keyboards spinning up with their ADDRESS THE ARGUMENT NOT THE SOURCE thing they do. I'm going to make something completely, absolutely clear: if Andrew Wakefield self-publishes a Fantastic Miracle Cure, and you do not read that with icy suspicion, you are - and I am so sorry to say this - a fool. An easy mark that stands out in a landscape of very, very easy marks. So yeah, the source matters, especially when THEY DON'T CITE ANYTHING.
We'd love to see it!
I think I wasn't clear enough -- these habits I'm talking about are things like "press cold water button, press start" or "press warm water button, press start" or "tap 'News' app grouping, tap 'NY Times' icon".

There's nothing to infer. The sequence is already short. There are no benefits from AI here.

But you raise a good point, which is that there are occasionally things like 15-step processes that people repeat a bunch of times, that the AI can observe and then take over. So basically useful in programming macros/shortcuts as well. But that still requires the original UI -- it doesn't replace it.
XWin 70B already claims to beat GPT4 in some metrics:

https://huggingface.co/models?search=Xwin%2070B

I briefly tried it on my 3090 desktop. I dunno about beating GPT4, but its quite unaligned.
"Don't jump off a cliff just because everyone else is doing it" basically

I guess the next logical exercise would be asking them to do something with instructions that are complete, but incorrect or at least inefficient, to teach the lesson of questioning superior orders rather than just peers. Actually, I'm honestly not sure it that's desired in military discipline or not (no direct experience here)
I 100% agree! I made a post earlier in the thread about this. Cleaning the fans on my T530 was so tough!

You basically have to take apart the entire computer from the keyboard down to the fan. The MBP Unibody 2012, which came out around the time of the T530, is way, way easier to clean the fans of.
Boxes at the back are a more modern invention and would only be found in very large theatres where there is a full "level" of boxes in a ring.
The Royal Opera House in London springs to mind.

If you've ever been to a west-end show you'd be surprised how small the theatres are by modern standards.

There a box is at the side and has surprisingly bad view of the stage. It's to be seen by others. Which is why most west-end theatres don't sell seats in them - you'd not see much.
There are exceptions of course.
I think 46 takes the cake in this whole comment section
Pick battles that you have a chance of winning. That's to say: dual boot.

The only reason I boot into windows is for windows-only games. Life gets a little less stressful when you have some options and choices.
>It's only over-prescription if the prevalence hasn't changed.

Actually you've missed one other classification.

Was it previously under diagnosed?

So we have underdiagnosis, increase in base rate, increase in fraudulent diagnosis. At least anecdotally based on the older people in my family that seem to snore hard and have poor sleep habits, underdiagnosis seems pretty likely to me, but I guess we'd need to see studies of randomly selected patients to know for sure.
I bought a few Philips Avent dummies (pacifier in US English) for my 1 year old ~2016. Just before we gave one of them to him we noticed a smell black fleck inside the clear chewing section, photoed it and complained to Philips.
Hearing about black flecks now I wonder if it's the manufacturing facilities...
Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones
"I’m in a weird spot where I like both equally, but for slightly different reasons."

It's not weird. Weird is "I have a language I use for everything. Quick scripts! Network servers! My shell! Games! Batch processing CSV records from random FTP servers! Everything! Any implication that my language is not the best choice for all these things must be met with maximum hostility!" is the weird thing. Popular, but weird.

A professional programmer should have at a bare minimum a static language, a dynamic scripting language, basic shell familiarity (be it Unix or Powershell, I'm OS agnostic here, but you should be able to use whatever it is), and probably at least some basic SQL of some sort. And as your career advances, it'll only grow from there.
> 5 liters per square meter per hour is trash. An average American uses a bit more than 300 liters of water a day, so you need 60 square meters of this to support one average American.

Unit check. 5 liters per hour is 120 liters per day. So you need 2.5 m^2 per American (ignoring whether the hourly rate is sustainable, just correcting units).

This is about a third of the projected area of a typical car, so in terms of surface-area-per-person we're at about half that of cars (given about 2/3 of a car per American).
Don't RO systems need regular maintenance, and have consumable parts? It sounds like this was designed to work unmaintained for years. That could balance out the efficiency.
The magic solution here isn't to get all your friends to live on the same block (heck housing and schools are hard enough as it is), but rather to connect with your local community wherever you happen to live. That's how people have survived since the dawn of civilization. You were born somewhere, and chances were that that's where you'd be for the rest of your life. You had no choice but to play nice with people around you, because your happiness depended on it. The very idea of having friends in different places across the country and the globe is a fairly modern invention. Regardless of how many people you know everywhere else, if you aren't friends with your neighbors then you will always be lonely.
Go North of the border. People are extremely welcoming up here. (I'm an immigrant)
Neither the words "housing" nor "cost" appear anywhere in this writeup. It reads like "just buy a house and have a community, bro!"

It's like the author never considered that the reason people might be isolated is because any community ties get ripped up and scattered to the winds with every rent hike or eviction or job change. After a few cycles of this, why bother making connections? You'll probably never see your neighbors again 12 months from now.
Just be sure to try running the program with sudo first, before trying shitty solutions like that.
Show HN: Open, uncensored LLMs in a native Mac app
Liability and legally endorsing a complete hands off driving interaction are the big differences. Cars have kind of been able to do this for a while but you're supposed to keep complete control of the vehicle with hands on the wheel (usually actively monitored with nags if it things you've taken your hands off). While your BMW's adaptive cruise control (or whatever BMW named their similar system) plus lane keep could basically do this it's legally just a driver assist where the Drive Pilot is taking the big step of being in legal control of the car.
Yes, Google Judge is getting phased out, but it's being replaced by YouTube Judge, which has 93% of the features. And you don't get ads in your subpoenas.
No it doesn't.

The new contributor didn't have the knowledge and skills to make a patch that followed project standards. They were still able to submit a report and a first attempt at fixing the issue and get people who do know how to do that to craft a fix quickly. This is the system working correctly.

Rather than being thankful that other people contributed their time and effort to help OP solve the issue their company was facing, OP decided to misquote the person who helped them and start drama where none was needed.
I've considered looking into getting like a custom order of 100 (or maybe 1000) units keyboards made similar-ish to the 4000. And trying to sell them.

I think there is enough of us. I just have my fingers crossed that microsoft eventually makes a 'surface' brand version similiar enough to the 4000. or I find a way to properly replicate/replace the 4000s in some custom way.
I want to love workers but I've never had great luck with anymore more than a basic crud app. Even getting an external db to connect proved to be more work than it should have, and their docs are all outdated and all over the place, often contradicting themselves.
I think we're getting into matters of definition. Do I count on HN to stay aware of current events? No; it would be a very incomplete picture. Much of HN has nothing to do with current events.
> Thought Experiment: ...

Those may be too complex to invent from scratch in a few decades.

Long intellectual collaborations are a common good. You don't need to consider them estranged from their users, though. By virtue of emotional audit, knowledge I accept is assimilated by me, becomes mine. It was made by my allies, essentially by past instances of myself - nothing external here. (More like allies if it is precursor that I had to non-trivially modify for my needs, and more like self if it is a product that I accepted verbatim.) This situation doesn't contradict my sense of individualism. (In my view, personal identity is defined by preferences. So if we have same preferences, we are one. And it seems obvious that people with similar preferences will create functionally similar designs.)

So even if a child would in principle want calculus but wouldn't create it in a lifetime, they would take the steps they can in the direction that they're interested in. The distance would be dependent on capability, but more than "just a few ideas", as you say, wouldn't be improbable. Then the child may try and appoint those that the child seems worthy of receiving child's work, or child may publish it for everyone. That someone may deceive the child about self is an unsolvable flaw here. This may change in future when people solve old age mortality.

> Say there are no teachers/industry, except just all the textbooks.

To use books, one needs the ability to read. Without somebody to teach one to read, there is a small chance of success if a book that teaches written language and supposes no knowledge of written language (in usual meaning) is created. It would rely on a way to read the book and learn that would be figured out by the person, and this would work only if the person were very curious. Extent to which written language would be learned would depend on how well the interaction with the book works and how smart the person is; probability of the whole thing working seems very low, but depends on those too. Speechless video game tutorial theory would be mainly applicable here, only the medium here is also much more limited.

When you can read, I believe that text is sufficient to transfer knowledge. Quality subject books together with some books about effective learning may be sufficient, however, even if one finds a big library with all the knowledge early in life, they may simply not know what they want in terms of the index of the library, a guide book in front of everything may solve that. I don't know if a lifetime is enough to actually build a flying machine given only raw materials.
CBMC is subtle and will require some code changes to use effectively.

The real key for using it, in my opinion, is to isolate individual classes and functions. Avoid instrumenting code with recursion and loops, and focus on defining and verifying function contracts, class invariants, and resource / memory lifetimes.

It will require a significant amount of work to mock up standard library and third party library APIs, but the real beauty of CBMC is that once you define the interface contracts for these APIs and libraries, you can verify every use of them.

I used CBMC previously to verify proper usage rules with C / JNI integration. JNI can be one complicated beast, and CBMC handily managed rule checks for its use.

I'm an extremely careful developer who unit tests everything and strives for 99% coverage. CBMC was still able to detect a memory overwrite flaw in a networking library I wrote that was based on undefined behavior due to integer promotion and offset math. This passed the various sanitizers and unit tests I had in place, but CBMC was able to reduce it to an actual crash condition that was potentially exploitable.

I don't think I can over-emphasize the usefulness of this tool.
In the US, it's part of the curse of the suburbs: When there are fewer people living near you, going to see anyone involves far more minutes.

I think of where I grew up: A very dense city, where streets are narrow, easy to cross, and pre-teens can move around with not just lack of fear, but major convenience. My mother had 4 siblings: All with their families, living in their own apartments. But every apartment was within a 5 minute walk: I could see the other buildings from our building's front door! So if someone needed babysitting, or just had to run random errand, children could be dropped off easily: Cousins almost become brothers when you see them every couple of days anyway.

This was also great for organizing activities with classmates. Not only we got to see each other on the street at random, as we did different errands, but organizing to meet in some bench was trivial. RPGs in the weekend? No problem, as a 15 minute walk catches most of the high school's families.

Now, in the US suburbs, socialization is more about online gaming, because the number of classmates a 14 year old can reach conveniently is pretty low: You could fit an apartment building with 16-20 families in the space that my suburb dedicates to 2. Access to 10 times the people sure makes living next to a friend much more likely! And since drivers aren't needed to get anything done, a lot of things that are commitments in the suburbs just disappear or are easy to move, as another neighbor can take Timmy to the soccer game, as they also have another kid going to the game anyway, and Timmy can walk himself to the neighbor's door with no hassle.

Transit time, and the total dependence of children, are a curse that can be avoided, but we have to do a lot of urban rebuilding for that.
This thing is basically a hobby, so I understand if you have no interest with home automation. That being said, I prefer using smart wall switches than smart light bulbs. I think smart light bulbs are wasteful (more expensive than standard light bulbs, and you will be throwing out a perfectly good zigbee unit just because the LED died). The only benefits seems to be dimming and color changing, but I don't have the need for them because I can just use some night lights for that purpose (also with ZigBee switches). With smart wall switches, everything still behave exactly like before (heck, you can even still use your old switches, just wire them into the small ZigBee switch module), but now they're accessible for tinkering via Home Assistant.
> do people who have it even worse than this actually manage to sleep at all?

It's sleep as in their eyes are closed and they are somehow unconscious but they are drifting on and off between falling asleep and being knocked out. There are no recollections of the events so it seems like sleep but very bad sleep (think: more tired when waking up than when going to bed).
Being aware of ADHD is unequivocally a good thing, because it gives you the vocabulary to talk about what you are experiencing. It helps you find workaround & tools for your issues. You might even be able to treat it. (given you work in a functioning society that doesn't randomly restricts manufacturing of the meds you need because other folks like to abuse it and develop addictions)

The idea that awareness of your medical issues is somehow an affliction in itself is an incredibly condescending idea.