skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really feels like we can't have nice things anymore. Seattle goes way over budget and time on all its transit projects, to the point that it just feels like we can't get anything done anymore. In contrast, China builds subways and rail lines for a reasonable price, even if they aren't always needed.

My wife's hometown (Chenzhou Hunan, 4.5 million, although just 1 million urban) just got an airport, so no more flights to Changsha or Guangzhou and then a 1-2 hour HSR connection into the city. I guess it seems a bit pointless, because HSR made the lack of an airport completely reasonable, but what do I know. But there are definitely enough people to justify an airport, like that airport in Guizhou...it serves 6.6 million people...so in 10 years they might think they didn't build it big enough.
I don't believe Chapter 11 has a very high survival rate, and whatever would emerge would not resemble WeWork except in name. They're essentially out of business in my mind (but have been for some time now).
:O yeah I should fix that. That is going to create 6000 <iframe> elements. I don't think your web browser would be happy.
> BIOT is internationally recognized as a sovereign territory of the UK.

It's internationally recognized as territory unlawfully occupied by the UK.[1]

> I fail to see how this is relevant. It's a thing that has happened a million times in the past and has been rarely rectified. We don't (and never will) live in a perfect world.

I fail to see how this is relevant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory...
no it's not. FB ads are force-fed content that nobody asked for. I'll take a ad-free subscription service over that any day so I can keep my freedom to spend my attention on things I actually want, not someone else's random garbage. Unfortunately, this arm-twisting ad-supported model is the only one available in the US on all socials, so I had to suffer through it because there is no choice, but now I'm pretty much out, I have no patience for this "ads" garbage anymore in my life.
> The problem is that the public education sector has been - for years - continuously squeezed dry of any funding.

Not everyone agrees that is the problem.

Bullying and indoctrination are two examples that many people cite as reasons they choose to homeschool.
More of a Geiss person myself
I think I've read this novel before, except it was rats and monkeys shocking themselves with electrically stimulated orgasms or something till they starved. Perhaps different hormones are involved, or it's remarkable that flies are able to delay gratification, but I'm becoming less surprised by this kind of thing as time goes on. We humans aren't as special as we thought, even when compared to flies.
At this point, a potato would do better than X.
Who are we to judge? Our consciousness exists for a blink of time.
Nebula isn't really a competitor. It's more of a life raft for a select few YouTubers. A competitor would let people outside a group of already successful channels upload stuff.
Surprisingly, a relatively large amount of NASA work is done contractors. Civil servants are often relegated to support and administrative roles.
Suggestion: When your title makes a claim like "Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context", link to a blog entry that explains the claim.
I love this one! The Webb telescope is so impressive.

M51 is interesting because it is interacting/merging with another galaxy. Here is my attempt at capturing M51 this summer from my backyard using my amateur setup:

https://www.astrobin.com/3qbwu2/

And my setup if you are interested:

https://www.astrobin.com/y1x1n2/
It looks like he may have a Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/rossmanngroup
First of all I don't believe "people would be pissed". Unless you guys over there are made of a different kind of human vs. the rest of us. True pacifists who would rather die, or see their family mutilated and tortured, than hurting an ant.

A 17yo Hamas combatant counts as a child btw.

It is terrible that children are dying. Most of that is on the Hamas. Hamas intentionally aimed their attacks at children. Hamas kidnapped babies. Executed children in front of their parents. Israel asked people to evacuate and at least in theory is targeting Hamas in an extremely densely populated area where Hamas is using population as human shields.

I can't deny that seeing images of dead children on the Palestinian side is deeply disturbing. Not getting to those Hamas terrorists is not an option. What is the option? Another by the way there is that this monstrosity of Hamas was created with international help and pressure on Israel and now somehow it's all Israel's fault. There's also a clear propaganda war going on here as well and what I'd call double standards.

If Israel could get at Hamas without hurting a single child that would definitely be preferable. You're asking Israel to sit back and be slaughtered. This isn't only about the Israeli children already murdered and taken hostage, it's also about the safety of the rest of the children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%...

EDIT: just in case you say the option is to "negotiate" this current state is a result of the historical negotiations. How do you negotiate with a brutal enemy that wants you dead? The theory was that they've given up on wanting Jews dead.

EDIT2: Another thought experiment to engage in is if the Hamas was even more successful in their attack, and the other settlements and towns where they were repelled failed, and they killed 10000 Israeli children would there be a different morality? I don't think the ratio of dead people is necessarily a morality factor at war. That does not mean it's good that people (including children) are getting killed.

EDIT3: Interesting the NY Times is also asking similar questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7K327quaEc ... I didn't listen to it yet.
Every time I see these articles I get more and more worried about my employability to be frank... with no backup plan and way too much time poured into learning software engineering. It's not looking good gang.
> Facebook isn't going to people's homes and rifling through drawers

When they start correlating with external payments sources they are
> giant airports with barely any traffic to justify their existence

Like ghost cities reported a decade ago?
Palatial buildings and sports field houses, bloated admin and special education aides.
The sets, models, and wardrobe were originally intended for season 2 of UFO, but not enough US stations wanted to syndicate it. We got Plan B.
To my horror, I recently had to visit the UEFI firmware setup of a Lenovo tablet.... That was touch enabled.
Interesting! Thanks for educating me. I always assumed significantly more of their business was remote folks that didn't want to work from their actual home.
It costs them nothing to directly name the "giant European telescope" and which US telescopes "await rescue".

It costs me time and makes them clickbait monies (the latter is the important part) if the title is non-descript (read: clickbait) and I have to open the damn link to figure out WTF the headline is talking about (read: baiting me and reeling me in).

I should be compelled to click into an article because the headline genuinely interests me, not because it refuses to tell me WTF it's talking about unless I get reeled in.
> If your moral stance has been unwavering

On these topics, yes. I independently worked through the moral questions of capital punishment in middle school, wrote long papers on euthanasia when I was 15. I explored the morality of abortion deeply also in high school, LGBTQ was never a moral question for me at all and I truly don't understand why it is for anyone outside of their religion telling them its bad without any justification.

I think people should be capable of exploring these topics deeply at a young age.
>your tool is sharp that means it can cut you just as easily as it can cut the plastic unless it is especially designed for the job.

I don't want to be snarky but the article says to use scissors and I wouldn't think this was a problem for most people?
Bubbles in the market have been happening for hundreds of years; how would you propose fixing them? Because the only things I can think of tend to erode the whole idea of a market.
The linux port of world of goo supported multiplayer via two mice. It was a bit of an involved setup(special udev rules if I remember correctly) but I thought it neat they took the time to make it happen.

update: I looked it up. you had to change the game config and change permissions on the mouse device. so not that bad considering.
It’s the same reason every institution has corruption: health care, insurance, wall st., etc.
The stars you see clearly are from our galaxy that we are looking through towards M51.

The M51 galaxy has 160B stars in it. It looks like clouds to us but it is just lots and lots of stars.
More recently there was "rm -rf /" wiping efivars and bricking some motherboards with shitty uefi implementations thanks to systemd mounting efivars rw by default (and shitty motherboard firmware). The kernel "fixed" this by mounting unknown efivars as (mostly) immutable.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/UEFI-rm-root-directory

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/efivarfs....
All those industries have been on a debt restructuring cycle. They died a long time ago, this point just waiting for the Zombie to rot to dust
Individually resolved? Not in general, I think at least most would be foreground stars in the Milky Way.

We can resolve stars in other galaxies in some cases, but especially those big bright ones all over are almost certainly from the foreground.
interesting ... and tiring of this site ... this post just lost a point. Why? no response, no reasoning against wanting screws that perform well. Just a loss of points. FU y combinator ... i think ill spend more time posting elsewhere
ChatGPT will read instructions from a PDF and lie to you
3D-GPT: 3D Modeling via LLM
Are they being taken less seriously when they have serious health issues, statistically? I'd like to see some data on outcomes, life expectancy is the best datapoint I've got and men are clearly disadvantaged there. If women are more likely to seek health care early then it makes sense that more of them don't actually need it, i.e. are "not taken seriously". Maybe there's "collateral damage" but I've also not been taken seriously as a male so I certainly can't agree that it's unique to women and I'll need more than anecdotes to believe that there's a gender discrepancy.
I just wonder how much energy would be saved if people simply used less air-conditioning. I think about that every time I go to my office and the A/C is blasting and I have to put on a sweater, even though it's frequently perfectly comfortable outside.
Here's the blog post: https://www.phind.com/blog/phind-model-beats-gpt4-fast
This is true of a straw man religion, yes.
You kind of went on a rant there. You didn't really explain how ads aren't a form of content. You just expressed how you don't like ads.
Didn't buy anything but daily necessities since the economy's in the toilet.
There are many scriptures related to shiva, you are just picking one aspect to suit your agenda.
Pesky land rights owned by individuals can muck things up
> The UN also is not the ultimate authority on international law. The countries subscribing to said international law are.

The countries subscribing to said international law voted 116 to 6.
WeWork doesn’t own any buildings, has the code base website and brand for its booking site, list of members, and some staff. Cheap 11 will likely remove executives, so all that’s left is the leases as far as a ‘business’. Which are worthless because new ones negotiated now would be way more favorable.

So it’s stripped to a brand and website and soled to Regus I bet.
Of course, the average office desk worker carries nuclear codes in their back pocket and communicate with each other using furtive glances and discreet hand signals. It is totally unpardonable that a mass-market hipster coworking space did not consider them when designing their spaces. /s
Since you were in the industry, was RW the first big 3rd party engine?

I know it’s common now, and seems to have really taken off in the Wii/PS3/360 era. My understanding is it wasn’t in the PSX generation (at least early?).
I don't think it's the ads people need to be worried about. It's pages, groups and their "users" posts manipulating people. News flash: a majority aren't even real human users.
>Without immigration from more religious and rigid Latin American countries, LA would be shrinking in half each generation.

i'm sure that religion is the only reason why immigrants into the United States would want to have kids.

/s There's definitely no US-centric financial/legal/immigration-related reasons, right? /s
GCC switched to C++ for the same reason Linux uses C extensions; the base language doesn’t adequately support the target problem domain.
It looks cute and edgy. I thought that’s why people were paying the insane premium at wework?
Dear body, please try to burn my belly before burn my brain.
A competitor has got to be a sustainable business first. Opening the floodgates to host everyone's videos can be a very quick way to burn all your money.
What makes a targeted ad the same as psychological manipulation?
Phind co-founder here! Here's a link to our blog post: https://www.phind.com/blog/phind-model-beats-gpt4-fast
When Schumann Ruined His Fingers – and His Concert Career
> I guess your parent found it down-vote-worthy.

I didn't downvote you. I don't even have the ability to downvote on HN yet. I just interpreted the parent comment differently and thought the different perspective could help provide context. Especially since I was similarly surprised at the idea that someone would prefer mandatory return to office
During the second quarter, WeWork lost $397 million. It said it had $680 million of liquidity, $205 million of which was cash.

The company had net long-term debt of $2.9 billion as of June end and more than $13 billion in long-term leases, at a time when rising borrowing costs are hurting the commercial real estate sector.

I don’t know even if they want to continue operating the math isn’t mathing. And commercial landlords are also hurting badly so not sure they are in a position to make some sweetheart deal with WeWork.
Hmm good idea about the spark integration - integration is possible with basically anything that you’ve got code-level access to. I don’t know about messaging though - runtime data transformations for spark? I guess data folks would have no problem with that hmmm.

And re: emojis - we’ll tone it down - we were all working hard on docs late into the night and may have gotten a little wild with emojis haha :)
I think arguably your story is somewhat exceptional. While there are certainly many households with mixed atheist/theist parents, I don't think that's all that common. Most common would be religious indoctrination from two religious parents.

I don't have a good handle on what's more common on the atheist side: indoctrination into the "be against religion at all costs" camp, or the "we don't believe in that stuff, but we're happy to answer questions and help you find answers and learn about religion if you want to" camp (the latter of which I certainly wouldn't classify as indoctrination).

My hope is that the latter type of atheist family is more common. But that may just be naive wishful thinking.

But I think your situation, with one atheist parent and one theist parent (and same for one set of grandparents), is likely less common than all three categories above. And I would also expect that your mother's situation, where she was introduced to religion during early school years and allowed to make up her own mind, isn't all that common either. But even then, I question how much she really got to make up her own mind. I suspect if she had attended a secular school with no religious role models, she may would have ended up an atheist.

I think the point I'm trying to get across is that I think agnostic atheism is generally born out of a lack of indoctrination. Both theism and strong atheism usually come from being indoctrinated into that sort of thing. The fact that your family is different -- and IMHO fairly rare -- doesn't really invalidate that. It just means there are exceptions, which... well... welcome to our messy universe, where precious little is absolute.
I think the crux of the issue is that for all of human history, being in the same room as the person you're trying to accomplish a difficult endeavor with has always worked. We landed on the moon just fine with people going into an office.

Who knows? We could have landed on the moon even earlier with remote work (assuming the tech was there of course) but the overwhelming evidence is that being in the same room has worked good enough in the past. (replace moon with James Web Telescope for a more time appropriate analogy).

I don't have hard data to support that one is better than the other. I can only draw on my past experiences, history, and first principles.

Of course, remote work can work and has worked. Just look at open source. But if I were to start a company that had to do really difficult hardware engineering, I would probably choose not to be remote. If I were to start a company that had to do really difficult software engineering, I would think about it. Why do I place such a high importance on quick communication for a hardware startup but discount that importance for a software startup?

Anyways, like many things in life there likely is not a true better option. It depends on many things. I will add that one argument I absolutely hate is when people complain about commutes. That is a separate problem that American cities have been reaping and one that we are actively sowing
The far-right-wing cesspool? The top video there on the homepage right now (a massive full width half-height promo) is Laura Loomer waxing poetic about George Soros stealing the 2024 election.
> With the right leadership and investment in human capital, it can pull an SK

or it uses the temporary economic might to coerce other countries to allow them to solidify their current advantage, as the first step in empire building?
hi; great work. so is this more fine-tuning on Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v2?

will there be api access soon?

also: will it be open-source at some point? thanks
I just wanted to share this just incase anyone is in a situation where they don’t trust their partners anymore. There is no harm in wanting to know what your second half is into, it saves you from wasting more years of your life with people who do not deserve you. I will leave the hacker’s contacts below just incase anyone needs his services and assistance.
Just a mail to remotespywise @gmil com.
speaking for myself, the ads i get are clearly very targeted but very rarely relevant, and sometimes distressing

just as an example, two random subjects i recently browsed online are taylor swift and over vs under breast implants

i can't stand taylor swift, i just wanted to see what the fuss about her concert movie was about, kinda hoping it was panned (it's not being panned)

the over vs under breast implants was to settle a bet i had with my gf - she said her friend has under muscle breast implants, i didn't believe her when she said that was a thing so googled and was proven wrong

now i'm being presented news articles and ads about both those topics, despite me having zero interest in either of them (and no, i'm not going to engage in some semantics about akshully i'm implicitly interested in them, otherwise i wouldn't have googled them - i'm not, periodt)
MIT Researchers Discover That Deep Neural Nets Don't See the World the Way We Do
I think leetcode helped me quite a bit as a software developer. I was in a similar boat as you, 12+ years experience doing software. I have an electrical engineering degree (famous for being bad programmers ha!) but no CS background. I could normally hack at problems, figure things out, and get things done in different settings (Linux, embedded, web, etc).

However.. studying leetcode really helped me understand fundamentals much better. I also read some algorithm books. I feel like I have a better understanding of software in general! And it has helped my career tremendously. Just my experience, I totally understand why people don't like the interview but for me I appreciate how coding problems are at least more straightforward than other arbitrary interviews.
Re-reading your comment, I'm actually confused now too. I suppose it's possible I clicked reply on the wrong comment? But I can't find a more appropriate parent comment, given a quick scan. Sorry about that.
While the data-collection issue is much larger, I actually don't want to be shown relevant ads.

Ads, like noise, impose a mental cost on every person who watches them. Besides the benefits to the business, a very small percentage of those people get the benefit because they want to buy the product. We generally tolerate ads in society, despite the blanket costs because some amount of ads are necessary for businesses (and ergo society) to flourish.

The problem with targeted-ads is that they are custom designed to mind fuck me. The concept, every letter, every color, every image chosen by a cadre of professionals, who spend their entire life doing this, and highly sophisticated algorithms, designed fully to get me to want to buy something I don't need. Human brains, evolved on the African savanna are simply not designed to withstand this sort of assault.

I don't want to be exposed to such ads, and society doesn't need them to flourish. Do as much as you can with non-targeted ads, and go home.
Umm his channel is alive and well. He just published a video a few hours ago.

https://m.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup/videos
Thank you. Yes, it is the 7th iteration that started with our open-source models. We do plan to open source this model as well down the road, once we've released a few more generations.

API access is on the roadmap but we have no time estimates for when we will build it. We're trying to not get distracted from our main mission :)
Got it, so why not outlaw that? For all we know, they can continue doing what but not show us relevant ads.

I suppose twitter knows nothing about me and shows me stupid gaming ads all the time. I click on them exactly 0 times. Show me something relevant to what I see on HN and probably will even find it useful.

If I can’t block all ads, at least show me something useful.
Maybe not nuclear codes, but plenty of fairly mundane things like client calls subject to a NDA.
I also found the riddle rather odd. I cannot say that 2 is actually the correct answer.

A problem with riddles is that they often have a hidden or secret context. I think especially in our digital age this one is closer to Frodo's "What have I got in my pocket?" "riddle". Here's some other possible solutions. 11+2 = 1. 1 + 1 + 2 = 4, mod 3 and we get 1, so 9 + 5 = 13, mod 3 and we get 1. We could also replace the addition sign with equality and similarly propose a digit summation so 1+1 == 2? True (1). 9 == 5? False (0). There's a hundred solutions to this riddle when it has no context. In fact, I stumbled into the right answer thinking about mod 12 without ever considering a clock until I saw the answer. Maybe I'm just dumb though, I am known to over think.