skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really an animal person and I briefly dated a vet once and it always used to crack me up how when she was telling a story she would refer to the animals as patients. Like I get it, animals are sentient, have emotions, are intelligent, have ways of communicating etc. But there is still something inherently funny about this to me, like a sketch show where you're zoomed in on what you assume are two doctors in white coats with scrubs and stethoscopes talking about a problematic patient and then the camera cuts to the wide shot and you realise the doctors are actually vets and the trouble causing patient is actually a mischievous dog.

Anyway, I bring this up, one because it's funny but two because it highlights how emotionally tough the job is for vets - most people can easily empathise with how hard a surgeon or doctors job must be but can struggle more when it comes to vets. But to these guys these animals are their patients and they feel the same level of responsibility to them that doctors do to humans. It's got to be tough when you have to put so many of them down week after week after week.
Isn’t the warning that -O3 might break stuff horribly obsolete? It was an issue in 2.95, but that was many years ago.
Use of weather derivatives surges as extreme climate events rock the globe
The user panel is probably down because it's overloaded as everyone tries to check what's going on with their VPS. Between many 503s it loaded for me a few times. So indeed refreshing https://contabo-status.com/ is what we can do for now.
You might add the following CSS to perhaps improve the presentation of your header logo (which seems a little awkward aligned to the bottom of the navbar as I see it):

```css

.navbar-item > .navbar-item {
padding: 0;
}

```
I live off a street that put up barriers during covid to radically slow down car traffic, and its stayed that way. People still can get cars in and out to park, and delivery vans, contractors and trash pickup all still work fine. But no one uses that street as a throughway because it just takes too long.

Because that street is filled with people jogging, taking sunset walks, and children playing. People sitting on chairs in the shade talking.

We're supposed to reject this because we need to support the freedom for people to barrel down residential roads.
This is precisely what I’m suggesting

That’s a pretty concise description of behavior authoring that functionally work
The copyright infringement happens at the moment of production of the image, unless the use counts as fair use. It doesn't matter whether or not you claim ownership or authorship.

Home copies are protected primarily by the total impracticality of enforcement, and secondarily by claiming you're doing it to practice making art.
Well, all farms in the world used to produce their own fertilizer without using fossil fuels. It's called 'manure'. Just nitpicking
>We don't know what "intelligence" means, but we know it isn't matrix multiplication

I didn't, how do you know? And to be honest many LLM seems to show intelligence to some degree, at least when they solve complex and novel problems I ask them in a random language and using N library, that's feel pretty intelligent to me and if it's not than also humans are not.
pascal was the 2nd language i learned after basic and it was the best time of my learning life. the fact that you could add inline assembler code and the early attempts of object oriented programming were amazing.
it was turbo pascal 6.0 btw.
I’m pretty sure this would match Harry G. Frankfurt’s definition of “bullshit”.
How much agricultural land can 1 ton of ammonia fertilize?
oh wow, that's interesting. I am assuming it was European. Do you think what you learned made it worth the effort?
In K, you can write a lambda with an explicit argument list:

{[a;b]a+b}

But if you leave it off, the names "x", "y", and "z" implicitly refer to the first three arguments, and their presence controls the valence (arity) of the lambda.

{x+y} / a lambda with two arguments
{y} / also a lambda with two arguments, discarding the first

Using the implicit names for short definitions is highly idiomatic. By removing an unnecessary degree of freedom, it increases the likelihood that two K programmers will arrive at identical formulations of a short piece of code.
Thin paper for a thin & capable model, it is great to have it. It made my 2080Ti smarter than ever. But why emulate OpenAI style of white papers?
Sorry, off topic, but recently I tried using ECL as my daily driver after I setup Emacs and Slime to use it. It was fine for dev as well as deployment. I did go back to using SBCL and LispWorks after this experiment was over.

There is a rich ecosystem of CL implementations. I don’t use it much at all, but ABCL is really interesting also if you work on the JVM.
Normally I am on Valve's side, but I agree that them pulling CS:GO was a stupid move. Anyone else would have been torn a new one for doing that.

Even though its not as popular as the others, I just stick to CS:Source and CS:1.6. Can't beat the classics, and they have been around for so long that they aren't going to be taken away at any point.
If your company is experiencing high growth, what you're experiencing might be not only normal but healthy.
> Microsoft can afford an open source testing tool ...

Microsoft can also afford to keep the tool fully free and open source until the VC funded competitor expires, at which point MS can switch things around by introducing paid options. Open Core, paid add-ons/plugins, etc.
Well that's probably because Indian accents are not present as a category and everyone is forced into the US/UK/AU categories?
Instead of hacker banning everything you don't personally like, isn't it better if people do what you did and move to a place where things are as they wish?

Can't you be satisfied that you achieved what works for you and your family and not strive to implement your will onto the entire planet?

I used to live in the outback without electricity or running water, and no cars around. It was lovely and I'll probably do it again in my life. And that is an option each one of us has. If you're sick of the city and traffic, you can go live in the sticks, where you won't have to breathe the exhaust. You can go live in a tropical island where there are no cars and only walking roads. That's not a fantasy, that's an option that exists right now. I used to live on one as well.

But living away from civilization also requires self-sufficiency – something that everybody had before cars.
It's showing me someone else's scores or hallucinating, because I got good scores even before I said anything! I tried multiple times and the numbers varied somewhat.

Also: I wonder what the scoring is based on because not all imperfections are equally important. Further, what's important depends on the context as well.
Just because a children's story, for example, is "simple" doesn't mean it isn't inflected by human complexities.

When you're learning a language, your brain is going through a unique process of both attention to small detail and rote memorization. If you see a pattern often enough at an early stage of language learning, you'll most likely carry that with you at later stages. Even if you don't notice it at first.

Would you trust an AI to present you with accurate language patterns--speech, vernacular, etc?
That custom compiler is *checks notes* clang. Yup. Totally custom. Don't see that compiler anywhere else in the industry.

As far as high level code is concerned Apple's chips are just ARM chips. They've got microarchitectural features that put them ahead of other ARM chips clock for clock. But if you want to call their implementation obscure then by that twisted logic then AMD chips are obscure because they operate differently than Intel chips despite the AMD64 ISA.

It's a stupid distinction to justify an ignorant statement. Between iPhones, iPads, and Macs Apple has shipped a billion of their CPUs. At a billion units it's just dumb to suggest they're obscure. Different from Wintel PCs? Sure. But obscure? That's just asinine.
Bad Speech
On modern hardware, it's also not clear that a special case that makes things faster from a purely CPU-oriented perspective makes things faster overall. Adding additional code to handle special cases makes the code larger, and making the code larger can make it slower because of the memory hierarchy.

There's a CPPCast interview with one of the people who worked on the Intel C Compiler where he talks about the things they do to get it producing such fast binaries. At least from what he said, it sounds like the vast majority of the unique optimizations they put into the compiler were about minimizing cache misses, not CPU cycles.
As I understand the docs...

You can use "DATE" and "DATETIME", and they default to NUMERIC affinity, and therefore a string that can't be parsed as a number will be parsed as TEXT, which defaults to ISO-8601.
Sentence Spacing
Hopefully developments like this will encourage the provision of good public transport.

Ideally they would be built around transport hubs. A lot of the outer London suburbs originated as basically railways stops in fields, where the suburb grew around the station.
Agreed, though I will say on HN there are usually (nearly always) people on that are correcting the misinformation. Sometimes their voices are drowned out by down voters who vote on emotion or a sea of spouters, but at least there is good discussion. Compared to Reddit and other places, it's amazing.
This reminds me of a "preemptive interview thank you email" I saw years ago. It was intended to be sent from the interviewer to the interviewee and was along the lines of:

"Thank you for interviewing with us. We are aware that you feel you are an excellent fit for the position and can see yourself having a long career with BigCo. Further, we understand that you thoroughly enjoyed meeting our team and were very impressed with the hiring manager. Lastly, we would like to acknowledge the time we took from our busy schedules in our management positions, and note that your addition to the team would surely help make us all more productive and ease some of our current demands in our daily roles."
When I read articles like this, I can totally understand China and India's argument as to why they won't or don't prioritize fossil fuel consumption.

The West has spent centuries modernizing itself to the point where there is a vast gap between the West and the rest of the world. Now that the West has a huge advantage, they want to start imposing moral arguments on the 3rd world nations as to why they should abide by the West's new set of moral codes, which handcuff the progress that 3rd world countries can make.

This feels like another example of where I bet it would be cheaper to do it in other ways (besides using Russian ammonia) but they decided to try the "green" way. It also feels a lot like how Monsanto tricked Indian farmers into using their seeds which required Roundup and then became indentured servants for the rest of their lives because of the financial handcuffs put on them.

So I can completely sympathize why many poorer countries can see all these environmental moral edicts as being ways to keep them oppressed and tricked into not making progress independently from the West.
The island does subside in these earthquakes.

Reading up now, it looks like it is 1-2 meters, mostly on the west coast of the island. But my memory of the early research when I still lived there in the early 1990s was that it was about a 3 meter drop. Between how low much of Victoria is, widespread poorly build older houses, and lots of housing built on unstable landfill in places like James Bay, my belief was that it was going to be pretty devastating to a lot of parts that I knew.

However recent articles like https://www.mdpi.com/2624-795X/4/3/13 suggest a much milder risk than I had thought.
Executive Communication
... and we post it to a hacker forum to discuss it.
For its size, yes. In absolute terms it is obviously less capable than llama-2-70B
I don't think any of what you've written is wrong in terms of how to interpret it,

I just think the context has changed enough that it is more reasonable - whether you agree with them or not - for people to care whether computers think or not, whereas not long ago it would take bizarre misconceptions.

I would also agree that it ought to be pointless, incidentally.

I do find it fascinating to poke into the beliefs and assumptions surrounding it, though.
>Sadly this is interviews now. Someone realised that if they just don't give feedback for interviews then they can't say something incriminating that could prove they violated labor laws, then everyone started doing it and now it's just the thing that's done.

Labor laws get violated all the time in interviews because most companies don't provide pre-interview warnings and most interviewers aren't familiar with the law. Outside of a few big companies that actually have been sued over this, I think most companies just don't care.

With feedback, liability just sounds like a WAY more prudent reason than "we're lazy" and "we're actually just afraid of our own employees humiliating us".

Nobody has once ever said to me "we're not hiring you because of [ethnicity]" and I'm certain they never would, but several times I have received feedback which proved incompetence.

In general I think being unwilling to give feedback is a sign that the company is not confident in the abilities of its employees and vice versa.
It's basically an apartment complex, smack-dab in the middle of the city. They just don't have parking (and I am suspicious that this will eventually cause an issue, but we'll see).
Absolutely. Any time we have a routine visit, e.g. shots and a checkup, it costs us about $300. I can't remember a single vet visit we had that was less than $100, and we haven't had an emergency visit in years. I have no idea how most people afford it, I assume they just don't take their pets to the vet.
this is hardly the first.

i know of a cohousing nonprofit that did this in central MA in 2007: big parking lot down at the end of the drive, then it’s about 35 houses with footpaths and green space and common areas and whatnot all built together; motor vehicles are not permitted.

it’s a nice place! the biggest thing i notice is that there are a few packs of kids running around all the time, and nobody has to worry about anyone getting hit by a car.
This will depend entirely on the requirements of the crop. You won't get a generic answer per unit area.
I do! I have been using Common Lisp since 1982, love it. But when I code in Python, Emacs with the old Python support gives you a really nice editing and REPL environment.
Microsoft uses 100s of third party recruiters/agencies.
FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Junk Fees
It must sting to be worse at reasoning than the thing you're claiming isn't capable of reasoning at all. I know it's hard to accept that something as simple as dumping a lot of data into a probabilistic engine will eventually be able to outperform a human at any task, but it is our unfortunate reality and the sooner one faces that the easier it'll be.
It's a delicate balance. I'm very much for freedom of speech. But it's a problem in the modern age. People use it for effectively disabling speech by using a denial of service attack through buckets of misinformation.

E.g. a ridiculously corrupt official just spewing misinformation about his rivals to avoid accountability. In the past the press would have been a barrier. Nixon tried to do that and failed.

Misinformation can drown out legitimate information in this situation. We need safeguards to stop that. It's super easy to see when looking at pre-Musk Twitter and the current state of X. Old twitter had terrible people on it. No doubt. The volume is now unbearable. Those facts are proven statistically and are plain to see...

Free speech is a tool that was invented in the age of the quill. We curtailed it in the past e.g. fire in a crowded theater, copyrights and defamation. It needs additional stopgaps for the modern age.

I understand the distrust in government, mine sucks... So I get that. It's a choice between bad and worse...

(edited to fix a couple of grammar mistakes)
If machine learning were the broadly accepted term to refer to these techniques in society, the people who currently complain that "AI is misleading because they're not intelligent" would instead be complaining that "ML is misleading because they're not learning". I know this because I have already seen people complaining that ML is misleading because "they're not learning".

The reality is that no matter what structure the software takes, or what outputs it achieves, it can't falsify a fundamentally unfalsifiable belief that machines cannot be like people in ways that could imply any sort of social recognition of that status.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/20/spotify-s... mmm and there seem to be a couple (mostly dead) apps that did it, too.

This would be useful though, as I listen to high BPM when running, then run to the beat, but if my heartrate starts approaching some max then it would be nice for it to pick songs that have a progressively lower bpm to get me to adjust my stride while running.
Composting is to atmospheric nitrogen fixing (this type of process) as recycling is to mining.

Before people could pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere, wars were fought over guano deposits, etc.

At this point, the majority of nitrogen in human biomass comes from the Haber-Bosch process.

(I’m not arguing against composting, to be clear!)
That is absolutely great. A third of all short trips in the Netherlands are biked. To this North American, this is mental. What a great stat, that I trust the country to make even more impressive.
Just tried this, 8 seconds with my 2020 MBP (2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, 16 GB 3733 MHz LPDDR4X)
I agree 1000%. The sooner we ditch cars the better. We can do it. Most Americans don't want to do but they don't know what is good for them.
Regenerative braking drastically reduces brake pad wear. At full regenerative braking, some EVs can decelerate at ~0.4G using only the engine.

Another (expensive) solution would be carbon ceramic brakes. These used to be for "race cars" but people found that they are too expensive to replace if you track the car, so people use iron brakes on the track, and carbon ceramics on the street. Carbon ceramics will last 100k+ miles under normal street use and they keep the wheels free of brake dust.
> So, inflation stops, but no one's life is better after UBI than it was before.

This does not follow. Many people may find they have the same quality of life as before. This isn't a failure. The relative significance of $2k is much greater to someone making <$2k (>2x increase) than someone making >$2k (<2x increase). It seems like in terms of influencing behavior, the greater effect would be felt by the poor, and there's more poor.
Maybe I'm weird, but having a ternary that evaluates to ? TRUE : FALSE bugs me.
> I've seen the kind of people who get pets

I'm sorry, what? Isn't pet ownership pretty universally distributed across all classes? We have a dog in the white house.
owning a car is almost always the convenient option, especially if you disregard all the downsides like the (monetary) cost to one personally and to society at large. i agree that living car-free is not practical for many, mostly those living in rural or suburban areas, but even here the car is part of the problem, having made this possible in the first place for people who shouldn't even live there. we've got to break the self-reinforcing loop on car dependency, starting with the cities. we'll lose a lot of convenience and some things will be unreasonably hard compared to before but i think it's the future and it'll pay off in increased quality of life.
Addressing Challenges Involved in Moving Beyond E-Band
The party is hardly "radical" by any standard means of measure, and there is not a single indicator that population growth in Stockholm will come to a halt. You're merely making the mistake of assuming that others are like you.
> GaaS- trademark pending, thank you, I’ll see myself out

That's the best part! We've been needing an acronym for "GPT as a Service"
Yeah, living without a car is definitely a luxury lifestyle. It's funny how the tables have turned and a relying on a car is now a sign of poverty.
Take all these journalists claiming "40 babies were beheaded" for a start. Even the government of israel denied it

It should be fairly easy to "prove" 40 babies have been beheaded

What about he "children in cages" ? Repurposed videos from Syria a few years ago, easily debunked, yet it got hundred thousands of views on twitter
I'd love to hear how it has nothing to do with cars, given the plethora of evidence that car use, the culture around car ownership and the lobbying of car companies created and continue to create a lot of the problems preventing effective public transport development not just in the US but all over the world.
California's Delete Act
For any important position, I wouldn't be surprised at backchannel-ing but with the big caveat that there would need to be a lot of trust with the backchannel.

As a candidate, if low-trust backchannel-ing led to my consideration being more public than intended, I'd be very upset.

As a employer, I'd treat backchannels as "red-flag checks" and weight my own direct observations higher.
As someone with astigmatism, the glow on the text makes it near impossible to read.
The letter is from the EC , not from a regulator . I also don't like that it's attacking the messenger. Fake news have been circulated by large news networks recently (people don't believe what they see on twitter at face value, but they do when it's retweeted by reputable news sources)
The main feature I'm looking for is to train it on my own code also (in the UI it should have a switch).
I would quit if I had to write multi-character index variables.
Second paragraph in the linked Wikipedia article.
Vulkan, D3D12 and Metal all map to similar GPU hardware, so the basic concepts are also similar.

They mostly differ in details like 'programmer ergonomics', design philosophy, and of course platform-availability.

WebGPU is basically the cross section of those three native APIs.
They do something similar for opiate addiction even now. I had a “cousin-in-law” that got off a two year OxyContin habit over the course of a week.
Q: Are the snakes big?

A: We have lots of different snakes. The quality of your work determines which snake you will fight. The better your thesis is, the smaller the snake will be.

So many layers of hilarity. The undertone of academic smugness and superiority. A++++
Are you not aware of taxes on gas? What do you think is the consequence of those taxes?
I would rather the default change to put backup files in XDG_CACHE_DIR then not have them
Fermat's Last Theorem to be proved in Lean (probably eventually)
This seems plausible to me, but the principle holds here that correlation is not causation.

"People are happier and healthier, and even wealthier when they’re living in a walkable neighborhood."

From my experience(so sample size 1), walkable neighborhoods in the US are usually not the affordable ones.

Banning cars seems like a bad design...just design cities where cars are de-incentivized(small lanes, less parking, high fees, special permits, whatever) and provide some infrastructure for those that really need them.
What could possibly be more rational than designing cities for people, rather than cars, and pushing society away from petrol cars?