skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> doing it all in about 2 decades is quite impressive for a small country

Not that small. France was about 48M people in 1965, the US 195M; a factor 4. And the US satellite effort was a rushed, uncoordinated affair split between competing projects by Army and Navy, so the effective factor was more like 2.
In the UK the law is sufficiently vague.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2400/part/I/crosshe...

“
Precedence of pedestrians over vehicles at Zebra crossings
25.—(1) Every pedestrian, if he is on the carriageway within the limits of a Zebra crossing, which is not for the time being controlled by a constable in uniform or traffic warden, before any part of a vehicle has entered those limits, shall have precedence within those limits over that vehicle and the driver of the vehicle shall accord such precedence to any such pedestrian.
“

The point is that simply waiting to cross you are not “on the carriageway” and therefore the driver of the vehicle is not required to stop (by some reading of the law).

Common custom is that you do stop for people waiting to cross but sometimes you really do have to stick a foot into the road to make people stop for you and allow you to cross.
No 404 anymore by the way, again, it was an issue with the Github deployment pipeline.
This is gatekeeping nonsense.

I’ve been programming for 23 years professionally and have worked with junior devs that school me. I’m a strong developer too.

If you are good, go for a side hustle. If you are decent, work and go for a side hustle.
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I think you missed the "imprison them for 2 decades" part of euthanizing them in your consideration. It's fun to just make up how you think things should ideally work, but we're bounded by how things actually work.
You give custodianship of your coins to a 3rd party, they now have control over them. That’s not a legitimate criticism of cryptocurrency.
If I was in London or another large city and could see a multi lane road was clear then I wouldn’t think twice about crossing it.

It’s also not illegal to cross a dual carriage way in the UK on foot afaik. Motorways are but not at A road.
Maybe in a big company, but actually I completely disagree with this in the context of a small startup. In that context, having a tight team of people who are highly passionate about the product is _essential_.
No one banned you.
The definition for “AI” is being blurred, it’s a black box buzzword lately. Bros will talk my ear off about AI and none of them know basic graph theory.
Plywood is actually pretty nice. I'm confused. Are people talking about particle board?
Your Uber/AirBnB/Wework all have physical base units with ascending costs due to inflation and theoretical economies of scale.

AI models have some GPU constraints but could easily reach a state where the cost to opperate falls and becomes relatively trivial with almost no lowerbound, for most use cases.

You are correct there is a race for marketshare. The crux in this case will be keeping it. Easy come, easy go. Models often make the worst business model.
Commercial usage og Geogebra needs a license.

https://www.geogebra.org/m/pR5DME5S#material/yumfrbjr

I don't understand how their license and the GPL can co-exist?
This point is discussed in the article. Title is not for Google/Meta, they'll invest all the billions that they have to.

It is for the consumers of these models, is there even a point to train your own or experiment with OSS!
As I mentioned in another comment, they voted down ranked choice voting in Massachusetts where I live, which really made me sad.

In the next election there was an open seat for my Congress person. There were something like 5 progressive candidates, and one more conservative democrat. Of course, the progressive vote split and the conservative candidate won, even though he was probably the last choice among a majority of voters. I found that super ironic.
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
Wrong. If the post is accumulating negative points, author should be able to delete it.
In the event of high foot and road traffic you could have A or B go 3D. The fact it’s pedestrians suggests they have a lower priority.
> enumerated all the criminal and semi-criminal acts of several members of the current EU commission

any chance anyone can link or give some suggestions of search terms to try to find this?
Oh dang I never even thought of that. That seems like a solid use case. Sorry to your friend!
The natural cycle of enshittification of SaaS products continues
Are there not multiple ways to view deleted reddit posts or did they all get killed in the api deprecation?
> Like the fact that he gets to decide whether Ukraine is able to use Starlink or not

That's entirely the result of Ukraine getting the service pro-bono and not signing any kind of contract with SpaceX. The US government has signed contracts with SpaceX and it's perfectly fine like that. All of the hemming and hawing about Starlink's somehow ability to go outside of US law is rather silly and not endorsed by reality.
You can checkpoint the canonical fork on a public PoW chain like Bitcoin every so often.

Banks carry insurance.
Uber, Netflix and the online content streaming services. These are probably the most prominent examples from this recent 2010s era.
Related. Others?

The Invention of ‘Jaywalking’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33825009 - Dec 2022 (4 comments)

California greenlights jaywalking. It’s a step in the right direction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33769009 - Nov 2022 (107 comments)

Jaywalking is decriminalized in California under new law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077573 - Oct 2022 (6 comments)

What does a guy have to do to get a jaywalking ticket in this town? (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29135602 - Nov 2021 (6 comments)

Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25497772 - Dec 2020 (438 comments)

“Jaywalking” Shouldn't Even Be a Thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050973 - Jan 2020 (3 comments)

Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18187751 - Oct 2018 (2 comments)

How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158918 - Jan 2018 (424 comments)

The Invention of Jaywalking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14246003 - May 2017 (1 comment)

California's Broken Jaywalking Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9384972 - April 2015 (65 comments)

How automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893738 - Jan 2015 (189 comments)

The Invention of Jaywalking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888104 - April 2012 (81 comments)
Makes sense! Thank you for the explanation!
You have no such "right."

You can always screenshot it.
This is pointless. The person is beyond help. :)

Strangely the shit he writes is so close to their playbook that my head hurts.
What used to just be called tv is now ‘linear tv’. It is no longer the default.
That depends. What is the price of exceptionality?

In other words, which percentage of your lifetime earnings would you be willing to give up to not add a plywood backboard (or the software equivalent)? 10%? 50%?
You can do the same with Philips Hue.

And just like the Ikea one, it's just a bit better with the hub.
Enjoyed the opening quite a bit. Very funny and relatable.
13 years here, what MVNO did you pick? I'm looking at visible and US cellular.
> It’s funny because incandescent three-way bulbs and switches used to be very common. Now that everything is LED you need a complicated timer system to achieve the same result.

Or just a dimmable LED bulb in an existing 3-way fixture.
Eh, OpenAI is too cheap to beat at their own game.

But there are a ton of use-cases where a 1 to 7B parameter fine-tuned model will be faster, cheaper and easier to deploy than a prompted or fine-tuned GPT-3.5-sized model.

In fact, it might be a strong statement but I'd argue that most current use-cases for (non-fine-tuned) GPT-3.5 fit in that bucket.

(Disclaimer: currently building https://openpipe.ai; making it trivial for product engineers to replace OpenAI prompts with their own fine-tuned models.)
I still have it but plan on going postal if Google removes it. Just turned off Play Protect just in case. Abuse your power, lose your power.
The lectures are good, and I've been told the book can be found online by the intrepid. I guess that Anna's Archive or Library Genesis has it.
Thanks! One of the interesting features are the screws used.

The limiting factor with many fasteners – including those with the classic Phillips drive system – is the amount of torque that can be put through it. A greater torque requirement has traditionally meant either that larger fasteners have had to be used, or more of them. Either way, significant weight is added to a joint. . . . [T]he ACR Torq-Set Drive System . . . is an offset cruciform drive system that allows more torque to be applied.

https://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/content/technology/can-phil...

Torq-set bits are similar to Phillips-head bits, but the four arms of its central cross are offset from each other. This design helps to prevent tampering, and makes the screw ideal for use in aerospace applications.

https://www.grainger.com/category/tools/sockets-bits/screwdr...
Cars are perfectly capable of going slow...

The American mindset is not. I swear that a huge portion of people in the US have been propagandized to believe that the car is king and that any idea to the contrary is heresy punishable by death under the front bumper of a Ford F-250 jacked up 3 feet higher.
> There's a Curry-Howard isomorphism [between] logic [and Bayesian statistical inference].

This is an odd way of putting it. I think it's better to say that, given some mostly uncontroversial assumptions, if one is willing to assign real number degrees of belief to uncertain claims, then Bayesian statistical inference is the only way of reasoning about those claims that's compatible with classical propositional logic.
Especially the people whose history gets wholesale deleted on a regular schedule. I understand privacy but there are so many conversations on reddit that could be useful if not for the giant gaps caused by these kinds of things.
Like I said, there are definitely cases where showing is easier than telling, and bug reports often fall into that category. But as an alternative to more durable documents (design explorations, PRDs, etc), I often find that docs are more thoughtfully organized.
Quick Start Ep 4: The Unholy Saga of Phoenix Hyperspace [video]
A video about a pretty interesting and ingenious piece of forgotten software. The ingenious part starts at about 48:00 if you lack time or patience.
Still fighting science with wood, buddy.
Sounds better than going forward 120 years into the future at the rate we're going.
Slightly OT: Has anybody had any luck with an MVNO, like Visible or Mint Mobile? I want to ditch Verizon because $98/mo for spouse and me to use 2GB between us both is just the height of insanity in 2023.
I kind of have a feeling that if you somehow performed a complete, comprehensive audit of the employees of many billion dollar businesses, tech and traditional, you'd find an enormous variety of stimulants and drugs, some prescribed, many not
[Vic Romano voice] Wrong you are, Ken.
You're being downvoted, but it's well known that brain damage is a common and measurable result of COVID infection.

The lower test scores is doubtlessly multivariate. But one variable is indeed brain damage:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/does-covid-19-d...

(Don't get overly worried. If you're vaccinated, odds are high your brain won't be and hasn't been measurably damaged.)
Lazarus only supports fpc and no other compilers, nor pascal dialects. Sure
I can not understand the connection between the RP1 chip on Raspberry 5 and the Raspberry 1 microcomputer. Are those two are a same one chip which is used as a CPU in Raspberry 1 and as a north bridge in Rasbperry 5?
> we're exchanging where the carbon production happens unless we dramatically reduce our fossil fuel usage for power generation.

The article and the source it's based on are both assuming/advocating a faster move away from fossil fuel electricity generation.

But even if that wasn't true, EVs would still reduce carbon output due to the greater efficiency.
It's been interesting to see who is affected and who isn't and their rationale.
https://youtu.be/VO_1AdYRGW8?si=0q_u8ASJKn3YXGdd
Then again, the only reason that that's particularly dangerous is because of the car. Such behaviour in front of a bike, for example, would ve annoying but not really dangerous.
Not sure why this is downvoted, it’s absolutely correct. I tried this myself; it would have -greatly- simplified scraping Word docs because the custom tags would have been available for XPath querying. Alas, Word strips it all on open.
“You can either die of obesity related complications early or eat healthy”.

Many many many pick obesity.
>Unfortunately, when you post ANYTHING online... one must assume it's like a tattoo... that is to say permanent. Not saying it's right or wrong (because believe me I have my own privacy/trust issues), just saying it is reality.

It isn't reality. Reality is that it's simply data on a server. Data on a server isn't permanent, the web was never designed or intended to provide an immutable record of anything.

Data is only saved when it has value, and only as long as that value exceeds the cost of maintaining continuous copies, and sometimes (as recently nearly happened with Google code) people simply become careless and the one and only copy of something vanishes without a trace. Many, many things have vanished from the internet without a trace.
> T-Mobile forces customers into arbitration unless you've opted out. Probably straightforward to arbitrate based on terms, but I recommend filing an FCC complaint. Regulators light a fire

File an arbitration claim [1]. Complain to the FCC, and copy the FTC [2] as well as your state consumer affairs regulator [3]. (Ideally, send letters via mail.)

[1] https://apps.adr.org/SimpleFile/faces/SimpleFile.jsf

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/media/71268

[3] https://www.usa.gov/state-consumer
> every site suddenly went full dark mode because the iPhone finally got an OLED panel, accessibility be damned.

Offering only one color scheme, light or dark, is not accessible. Light sensitivity is just as real as astigmatism.
> they’ll certainly do it when they change tyre compound

Interesting. I had no idea, I suppose because everything happens so fast during those stops. (the ones that do not involve replacing the wing wholesale, which does take a few seconds.) Of course it makes sense that a different tire compound might benefit from a different amount of downforce.
I just want to chime in on Geogebra. I used it (was more or less forced to) when teaching math in high school for about 12 years. It is great for guided exploration, but it is very buggy. I am confident many students must have lost points in their math exams because of some of those bugs.
What’s your argument for >>centralized<< blockchains here?

Bitcoin and other public PoW blockchains are decentralized.

> Banks carry insurance.

And???
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831605
Is it recycling that needs to be implemented or go ever deeper at the source and crack down on disposable, unfixable, ephemeral gadgets? Seems to be more of a greed rush problem, fix it in the future and make more money type of issue at the root of it. Recycling isn't necessarily not useful but attacking the wrong root cause of e-waste.
Thank god the world of Software and Hardware engineers competing with Apple is quite small.
Good read on the current state of this subject.

It appears that with big AI models, the "stuff AI into everything" trend could be expensive.

Let's hope this gives a competitive edge to those companies & products that don't do so 'because everyone else does'.

No AI included = the new lean & mean.
Linux Introspection – From BPF to Wireshark to Falco
A brief history of evolution of introspection tools.
Karin Silverhand.
Even the memes from then still apply.

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LOL @ priced out renters!

It's a new paradigm, and everybody who doesn't buy, now, will be priced out forever. Anybody who does buy will be rewarded with a lifetime of riches, as their property will continue its 20-30% yearly price appreciation.

Renters, and anybody born in a future generation, will not be able to afford a $10,000,000 starter home in 15 years. They will live in tent cities, and Hondas.

This asset bubble is different than all of the previous and other asset bubbles - it will never slow down, or pop. The gains are permanent.
While modern people make that connection, that is culturally dependent. The color terms available to speakers of a language, and what objects those terms can be associated with, change over time. In the case of the Greek word for "purple", it was connected to a dye and therefore used for clothing, but one shouldn't expect it to be used for wine.
Verizon just did this to us
The thing that differs by OS is the installation of Git.
Plenty of war zones that would welcome you. But instead, join the peace corps, or Americorps, or do something that gives you a sense of pride and utility. Make something, make something that helps people, or in some way makes the world better. Assuming you have tech skills, you'd be amazed how easy almost any other kind of work is that people need doing. More laborious sometimes but technically simple. Find that satisfying.

And disconnect from the internet for a while.
One evil-twin goatee, one villainous laugh.
There are other comments here that suggests a number of books at varying levels. "Introduction to Modern Statistics" is very approachable in its presentation.
The Google Maps API price hike of 2018 [1] is a relevant example.

[1] https://kobedigital.com/google-maps-api-changes
Free Web Book "Practical Common Lisp"
> Yeah, and? I want these people to go mask-off.

Supporting civilians in Gaza is not going “mask off”.

However, the leader of the “only democracy in the Middle East” calling gazans animals is.

Also, this dude is the minister of national security of Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir?wprov=sfti1

This is someone who was so racist, the IDF exempted him from military service.

This person is now leading the national security strategy of Israel.
Uber is probably the biggest pure example. When I was in uni when they first spread, Uber's entire business model was flood the market with hilariously low prices and steep discounts. People overnight started using them like crazy. They were practically giving away their product. Now, they're as expensive, if not sometimes more expensive, than any other taxi or ridesharing service in my area.

One thing I'll add is that it's not always that this ends with higher prices in an absolute sense, but that the tech company is able to essentially cut the knees out of their competitors until they're a shell of their former selves. Then when the prices go "up", they're in a way a return to the "norm", only they have a larger and dominant market share because of their crazy pricing in the early stages.
I think that’s why it’s generally broken down into the “easy” and “hard” problems of consciousness. Easy in the sense that we can use our existing scientific toolset; hard as in we cannot.
9 years (and 2-3 lines) here, moving to Mint. Should have done this a long time ago...
I have a genuine question in that case. I am no longer a customer so will I be able to take them to small claim court and provide a proof of payment and collect my money again?

Or will the mandatory arbitration will still hold?
- Uber/Lyft increased prices significantly (and partially transition it into longer wait times) since they got into profitability mode

- Google is showing more and more ads over time to power high revenue growth YoY

- Unity has just tried to increase its prices
Is it the stress of the class room or the lack of pay? If all the kids behaved and the admins were great bosses would he be thinking about changing careers? I think there is more than money at play with school test scores.
Hehe, when I heard about the attack a couple of days ago I was interested to know if Nginx was affected and did a search on Google for the CVE of that attack followed by the name of Nginx.

I didn’t find anything relevant so I assumed that Nginx was not affected.

Turns out that was not a good assumption :p
https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-share
Sure, open models often require much less hardware than chatGPT3.5 and offer ballpark (and constantly improving) performance and accuracy. ChatGPT3.5 scores 85 in ARC and the huggingface leaderboard is up to 77.

If you need chatGPT4-quality responses they aren't close yet, but it'll happen.
I wonder how it compares to every Canadian's favourite, the Robertson screw[1] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_screw
According to the article, the criminal charges against that specific defendant were dropped
Stimulants at therapeutic (pharmaceutical) doses aren't as terrible on the body as one might expect. Especially when you compare it with something like cocaine (which does funky stuff to the heart/Calcium channels) or recreational doses (several times the avg/median prescribed dose). They can and often do have side effects etc, but Jeff blowing coke at a party is much more likely to have a problem.
Yeah, definitely a sloppy analogy ironically enough. But as a woodworker I’ve realize most people when they hear plywood they’re really thinking OSB or cheap particle board. Quality high-ply with a hardwood outer layer isn’t in their vocabulary. So the analogy sorta works.
If you’ve ever built anything you know that the only way anything gets built is with iteration. There are very few examples in history where something new got built and was a perfect finished product v1. The way we build new things is making something, testing it, measuring the outcome and then using the information to build v2.

Look at literally every product ever built, that’s how it was made. Rockets especially need this treatment, you have to blow up a lot of rockets to refine the process in any reasonable time frame.

It’s not just Elon’s methodology that’s all new things. How many iPhone prototypes do you think they created before they shipped the first one?

Neuralink is doing the same thing with lab animals, which by the way is an established practice used in all of science. The end result will be a cure for people who desperately need it and it will be within our lifetime if they are allowed to continue without regulatory roadblocks.
This is why I say that there will never be a shortage of opportunity for a technical entrepreneur. The need for tech skill is ever growing, and yet, the level of passion to be a true entrepreneur with tech as a utility remains constant. The majority of the work force will just want to clock in clock out, while those truly passionate about tech will always thrive no matter how many people ”default” into tech as a career
It's a bit more convoluted than just installing a browser extension but you could set something up with -for example- Archivebox: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Scheduled-Arch...
Probably why Altman has been talking so much about how dangerous it is and how regulations are needed. No natural moat, so building a regulatory one.
That's all I can give you right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc-elFcs96Y

It's the 1,5min speech where Sonneborn enumerated some cases, unfortunately in German. AFAIR when he held it, I researched a couple of names and issues he mentioned that didn't look too polemic. In general, he (and his team) is doing what I'd call "trustworthy research" packed up into satire.