skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or maybe I already got the intuition they were trying to convey?

If you pull out a calculator to multiply two 3-digit numbers and get back a 4-digit number, are you going to trust the calculator or are you going to go "wait a minute..." and double check you entered it right?

If the latter, you probably already have the intuition it's supposed to teach.

Edit: Or for something a bit more every-day: You're at a store and buy something that costs $6.24, pay with a $20, and get back $6.62. You may not know exactly what you were supposed to get back, but you do immediately know without having to do the math that it was definitely more than that.
I am sure you would find something else intellectual to tinker with.
> There’s a flaw in K-Brooks’ argument: The telephone doesn’t connect children and teens directly to sexual predators with the click of a button. Omegle’s model allowed sexual predators to sign on and click through a roulette of people, continuously jumping from one to another until they were face-to-face with who they were looking for.

I used to answer the phone as a child and talk to complete strangers.
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients
I don't remember; this was over a decade ago. It was whoever the Georgia Department of Labor arbitrates with, since at that point unemployment claims were involved.

The other side had their attorney present, but he was not a participant in the proceedings, if that makes it any clearer. On-record it was just me, my former boss and the arbitrator.
Is there a functional purpose to Krypton? If it just looks cool, that's fine; I just wonder what I don't know about mono fonts.

Edit and OT: Interesting HN algorithm behavior: I just wrote two posts in this thread (on different topics). The first appeared at the top of the page, as usual for new comments. When I clicked "Submit" on the second one, it appeared below the first one. My guess is that it was because it's much shorter. (First comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38213113 )
Apple has also historically been good at this.

68k -> PPC -> Intel -> ARM has been seamless as a user, and the "Carbon" apps that ran on both classic Mac and on X.

It's pretty amazing to know "this app is calling all the wrong APIs, but they've been shimmed to match the right ones, and the device is fast enough that you won't notice the difference."
When were obits ever free? The family typically paid to run an obit in the paper. I can't imagine why it would be any different. After that, people had to pay $0.25 to $2.00 for the paper to see them.
It's GOOG Enough
If I have a green card I can donate to political candidates though. I don't know how many dollars is equivalent to one vote, that probably varies by candidate.

So H1Bs are also competing against green card holders with more political power than them, not just citizens.
Yes, but did they pull their dicks out or ask you to undress?

Telephone just isn’t a valid metaphor here.
The thing is the insurers aren't writing nasty letters to/suing dishonest providers and CCing the patient, they're dumping the problem on the patient.
It's the same problem as ending subsidies for higher education and tax deduction of mortgages. In the long run it might be the right thing to do, but in the short term, without offsetting factors, it would cause measurable harm beyond what we should be comfortable tolerating.
Artemis and Starship.
Rocket Men by Robert Kurson tells the Apollo 8 story in a captivating manner. Some of the passages are quite dramatic but it's justified given the litany of firsts accomplished by the mission.
Valve has done a massive favor to us Linux folks with their work on Proton and other Linux-related development. That’s also worth something.

30% does seem a bit too high, though. I’ll grant you that.
I’m not blaming anything. But it’s my theory that whatever consensus we enjoyed in the past was due to the information landscape of the time - where information was controlled and curated by a dozen or so centralized entities and their affiliates.

The internet though is mostly chaos. There are gatekeepers, e.g. Google, but they don’t curate much - using a blacklist approach rather than whitelist - and instead just organize the information making it findable.

Niche ideas get air time and now compete in the market place of ideas.
It's crazy that Jobs passed over 12 years ago already
I don't remember exactly. I believe they got accelerated vesting with all shares converted to cash at the acquisition price. Maybe other stuff too.
Nah, this is just an apologetic just look at the amount of engineering they put in their Thunderbolt 4 cables:
https://www.lumafield.com/article/usb-c-cable-charger-head-t...

Its crazy stuff. You are telling me they cant think of a secure way to use a mechanical, screwed system that is able to cope with the thermal expansion. I find that hard to believe. I believe it is mostly cost and profit incentive, MAYBE safety, but I also doubt that last one.
Does the same apply for TN1?
I was a teenaged boy when I first started playing Counter Strike. Maybe I’m a Luddite but the game is still fun; I feel like you don’t have to gamble or buy 48 cosmetic collectibles to enjoy it.
http://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/groundw...

"Aquifer depletion" is worth searching if you want to read in detail.
I'm nowhere near the age of an Apollo astronaut, and I hope I'm alive to see the next person on the moon.
Rip Wyoming wildlife, the land will get ravaged and rivers will get contaminated
Rare-earth elements are important to the green energy revolution. China controls a lot of rare-earth elements as well as rare-earth refining. This is worth enough money they are considering building a refining site locally, which would be a good thing.

Wyoming is the least densely populated state in the continental US. The only state more sparsely populated is Alaska. So I'm not surprised there are things we don't know about what is there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
Stupid question: is “bump” the actual name for the bumps you talk about or is there some tricked out fancy name for them? (Curiosity only.)
I got tired of the core gameplay loop by about 85 hours. I had a decent home base (looked janky AF, but what am I, an architect?), one or two secondary bases, and a mid-size freighter.

Once I got at least one of every variety of ship in a B-class or higher, there didn't feel like much else to aim for. I'd send guys off on freighter stuff to do quests, and then just kill time until they got back, sell their loot, do some ship upgrades, rinse, and repeat.

Everything the game does is serviceable, but nothing that really makes me say "I've gotta pick this up again!" The space combat was not up to the level, of, say, Freelancer, nor were the scavenging missions terribly enjoyable. I never really got into the multiplayer/co-op aspect, other than encountering other players running around the hub area.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my time with the game. I just don't feel the need to go back and play it some more, even with all the (admirable) content they keep putting into it.

If I wanna keep sinking dozens of hours into a game that seemingly goes on forever, I'm only 90 hours into Tears of the Kingdom.
This is a deep philosophical question that gets to the heart of what it is to experience - when it comes to the brains perceptions around colour however we can be relatively confident that the wetwear processing results in the same result, assuming the same input capabilities. (Side note - I spent a lot of time arguing this with my medical school ophthalmologists and neurologists, which is why I have confidence in this particular result)

This is because it isn’t a single photoreceptor picking up, say, 320nm light. Instead you have a range of essentially analog responses across the red, green and blue spectrums, that the brain reconstructs into true colour as we perceive it.

Those with different receiving capabilities (on the one extreme: tetrachromia - those with 4 different colour sensors, who are exclusively women, because they’re on the C chromosome - and on the other end, those with cataracts - witness monet’s later life paintings) help to demonstrate the consistency with which the brain is able to achieve a similar qualia from the underlying stochastic impulses
1. I've been doing this a long time and major changes in immigration law are very rare and require some type of consensus among the different parties and branches. So, as much as the system needs to be fixed, I don't think the fixes will be legislative. 2. Of course, there are additional challenges but I know many entrepreneurs who are not in valid status or at one time were not in valid status. But it's tough. 3. I think because the need is so great in the tech industry and it seems that it can be hard to find the right talent.
Yep, but you need to do it on the board of a proprietary doorbell. Many projects take a cheap one and modify it. The unique thing about ratgdo is it reverse engineered the protocol.
I recently emigrated to the USA and I hate the healthcare system here. It feels like the system is we tie everyone down to train tracks, then we hire someone to semaphore to the conductor to pull the brakes just in time. Most of the time, for people who can afford a good signaler, the locomotive stops a few inches before it turns them into strawberry jelly, so no-harm no-foul, the system works?

The signaler, conductor and roper all work for different faceless corporations constantly trying to screw each other and/or you though, the semaphore language is so complicated no human being can speak it, and the message in it can't be known until the locomotive is a few hundred feet away though. You can only choose 1 of 2 options for every role too, so everyone involved is terrible.

Sure we closed some of the loopholes where the locomotive could start again after braking, or the signaler could refuse to do their job because the brakes were offbrand. Really though what I'd like is to just not be in mortal peril at all, which is not the same thing as barely avoiding getting liquified by a steel behemoth by a complex confluence of forces beyond my control.
Its been awhile since I followed this. What was the takeaway? Is this our generations cold fusion?
Steam taking 30% cut is fine. No one is being forced to use Steam (unlike on iOS)

If developers don’t like it, they can chose other options to distribute their game.
I agree. Monopolies are great for the monopoly, but inevitably cause less competition, and thus less innovation.

It's really weird watching hackers defend the idea of monopolies like Google now, at the expense of FOSS. It makes me wonder if Microsoft had been spending more money publicly buying startups back in the 90's if hackers would have defended them then.
An entire generation thinks Santa Claus is real yet we’ve survived.
I had no idea we were able to reconnect nerves. Does the same technique work for spinal nerve damage to recover from paralysis?
A torrent based youtube replacement sounds fun.
That's my sense too. Starfield is clearly the worst of the Bethesda RPGs. But it's the first Bethesda RPG in 8 years, and nothing else scratches that itch. I loved it. Hopefully DLCs clean up the Outpost-building subgame, which is a mess.
The NOA predicts sea level rise of 2 feet by 2100. There might be small chunks of the Everglades on the Southern tip of Florida that are 2 feet or lower, but I believe the vast majority of the Everglades are 10 feet or higher. We probably won't see that in our lifetimes.

This isn't to downplay climate change or the risk of rising sea levels. These are very real, but I think that many people overestimate it. Even for Miami, which is very elevation, I don't think we will see it underwater... but we will see lots of flooding since the sewage systems won't be able to drain when the ocean level gets too close to the land. This already happens, but it will get worse.
Typing fast is about latency, not throughput
I know the difference between a cobot, like what Rethink Robotics made, and an industrial robot. But a pepper and thus a box of peppers is mostly air. It can't weigh anywhere close to an adult man. So the drive needed on the motors to pick up, place, and crush the man would be several times that of the box of peppers. I would think any industrial robot would have limit safety points for excessive drive beyond its intended use. The robots are used to do literally the same task every day, so it's surprising something like that isn't in place.

Additionally, you would think there would be at least some vision system in place for safety purposes.

My point is that there were safety failures at every level here.
Comparing Types of Databases: A Real-World Benchmark Analysis
The important thing is that the source is an existing coal mine, meaning that they don't have to destroy/acquire any new land, so most (all?) environmental objections don't apply.
I suppose I should clarify that I don't think they're likely to fully converge, at least not in the next decade (through the PS6 and whatever nonsense Microsoft calls their next iteration).

But it's increasingly similar hardware inside, consoles are increasingly supporting more general purpose computing (media apps, social networking features, web browsing, game/app stores), the experience is more customizable, patching has made it much less "the game is the game", and the stupid simple reliability has gotten much less stupid simple. I'd say that the distance between PCs and consoles has been gradually shrinking since probably the release of the PS3/360, mostly due to consoles moving closer to PCs, but the Steam Deck is a big jump towards a PC being console-y.
This video of the Apollo 8 launch along with commentary from the astronauts always gives me goosebumps:

https://youtu.be/Syf_uLrBAJU?si=Wx-OF1HgtgM5sKaF
Nah just fed.

It's a local farmer. Only the last two months are grain.

I was getting Grass fed and Finished before I moved.

Grass fed and grain finished meat tastes better though the health benefits may be lesser. IDK
When I first read the headline China immediately came to mind. Just recently the US started investing in ports in other countries, just like China has done. And now the US will probably start competing on another front that China has taken a lead role in.
On the surface it appears great, in detail it’s full of bugs and clunky, overpromised and inflated numbers, ticks all the boxes, yet boring and dull.

Somehow it makes money and is popular. I want to achieve that.
At some point you've got to get from language to action, yes - in my case, I use the LLM as a multi-stage classifier, mapping from a set of high-level areas of capability, to more focused mappings to specific systems and capabilities. So the first layer of classification might say something like "this interaction was about <environmental control>" where <environmental control> is one of a finite set of possible systems. The next layer might say something like "this is about <lighting>", and the next layer may now have enough information to interrogate using a specific enough prompt (which may be generated based on a capability definition, so for example "determine any physical location, an action, and any inputs regarding colour or brightness from the following input" - which can be generated from the possible inputs of the capability you think you're addressing).

Of course this isn't fool proof, and there still needs to be work defining capabilities of systems, etc. (although these are tasks AI can assist with). But it's promising - "teaching" the system how to do new things is relatively simple, and effectively akin to describing capabilities rather than programming directly.
For something like active-shooter training, location specific details could matter. A generic training isn't the same thing.
What about the 5 million people in my state who don’t have health insurance? Should they be worried about their medical needs?
Please punch a hole on your “once again, a lack of parenting being solved by something other than better parenting” card.
I'm wondering how long it's going to be before someone sues a city for public indecency committed at a street intersection. After all, public spaces connect you instantly with strangers who only have to show up.
Note that if the country of birth is not explicity listed, such as Canada, the intending immigrant must use the column "All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed".

For example, a EB2 applicant born in Canada filing today would be backlogged because the date of filing is listed as 01JAN23.
> LTA’s airship uses stable helium rather than flammable hydrogen as a lifting gas

That's a demonstration of the impact one incident can have. Nearing a century later, people still need that concern addressed.
I’m probably missing the obvious, but it seems to just make the “m” wider.
Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides
More or less, like there's stuff you can do to extend the window of an existing model fairly easily, i.e. LoRA type training budget, O($1000).

But in practice, even when context_size max output token count was enabled, it simply couldn't make use of it, no matter how many prompt engineering tricks I threw at it.[1] And I've heard anecdotally that it's true for that LoRA-type technique.

[1] TL;DR, about 1/5th the actual length: write 100 pages, 3 paragraphs each, number the pages as you go and write 1 page at a time until 100. Also write out "I have written page N and need to write 100 pages total" after each page.

Inevitably it would "get tired" and be like "end page 23...now page 100"
A bunch of other commenters are saying these were pulled from legally bought and re-sold phones -- probably trade-ins or damages. I don't know who is right, but given the additional fact that the linked article is only about 38 screens, not hundreds, do you really want to default to the conclusion that the importer is guilty?

Is there evidence other than what intuition says Apple would allow/disallow over the entire market? Keep in mind, this very article is about one method they would use to prevent people importing original parts stripped from broken units.

(To find the 38 number, the article links to https://www.vice.com/en/article/evk4wk/dhs-seizes-iphone-scr... -- see the 4th paragraph.)
All of today's rich countries had massive growth spurts behind them to get them there. Most of that growth isn't that long ago in time.
Agreed and think this definitely applies to software. Most CS students would be better off in an apprenticeship learning under multiple skilled developers rather than 4 years of school.
They are much more expensive than renewables, which is why the corporations don't want to build them.
Yes, the bureau of technology control has debunked it and taken it for internal use. ;-)
I wouldn't be surprised if they skip another shrink entirely before the PS6. Capital costs for the small nodes are said to be increasingly horrific.
They're typically Americans who think all 50+ European countries have very similar legal systems and cultures.
> The man, a worker from the company that manufactured the robotic arm, was running checks on the machine late into the night on Wednesday when it malfunctioned.

I feel like you shouldn't be near it when testing industrial robots / automated machinery, especially when they noted potential sensor issues. Definitely was avoidable and it's very sad for the man's family/friends.
I don't have time to go back now, but the sibling's "polished turd" comment is perfect. Extremely verbose phrasing that says nothing of substance.
All these updates, but the planet I spawn on is an ugly barren wasteland. Where are the lush beautiful worlds from the store page?
Are you planning on using this assistant in a remote location somewhere or create an edge IoT device? I feel like a laptop or cell phone should suffice for most use cases.
I kind of get the argument, even if I'm not fully convinced, that betting is something people are going to do anyway so you might as well codify it and keep it honest, but if nothing else, advertising sports betting should absolutely be illegal, and sports betting should probably still be illegal.
Can confirm, worked at Cash App, they vastly overhired. Teams were tripling in size, trying to keep up with growth, and then managers got used to the idea of "if you have too much work, hire more".

It's funny the article cites:

> Block stock rose by over 2% Wednesday to $52.27 a share. That share price is down around 19% compared with the start of 2023.

When the real story is that Block stock was at ~$250 in summer 2021, before Square became Block and they tried (unsuccessfully) to pivot to crypto. Oops.
Yeah, especially since the vast majority (90%) of sexual abuse is done by people well known to the family of the abused (most likely the family itself). It's really hard to do forced physical sexual abuse over the internet when all that has to happen to end the interaction is a click.
That's fair. And thank you for putting my little mind at ease.
Its a huge pain though. You have to be home all day waiting for a package or the delivery drivers have to work evenings/nights only or you have to go somewhere to pick it up. Drop off is much better if there's no obstacles like access or theft.
I mean if the cost of the game doesn't pay for the download cost that sounds like an arithmetic issue.

Also, what small-time indie game is >100gb?
Therein lies the issue. This type of thing shouldn't be civil in nature. Things that are dangerous to others and have a likelihood of causing significant damage... should be criminal in nature. Someone driving drunk is putting others at risk, but the injury isn't actualized until it is. A company forcing it's drivers to work too many hours, driving while unable to get enough sleep, is putting others at risk; but the injury isn't actualized until it is.

Along the same lines, a company gathering extensive details on the communications of and connections of others (especially without their permission) is putting others at risk. And, much like the previous example, the damage isn't actualized until it is. But it needs to be stopped _before_ the damage happens. Which means it needs to be criminal.
Fast reactors can theoretically reduce the amount of waste that needs to go to long term disposal, but those are even rarer than graphite or heavy water moderated reactors. They're also even more expensive. I believe that there are currently only two fast power reactors in operation, both Russian (BN-600 and BN-800).

I agree with you that it would have been (still would be) better to have emissions taxes penalizing pollution from fossil fuels instead of technology-specific incentives and subsidies for the various kinds of fossil alternatives. I live near a nuclear power plant and I have no problem with its track record of safety or emissions. I do think nuclear power has a major cost and scheduling problem for new projects and I'm not sure how that can be overcome. SMR projects like this one that Utah just canceled were the latest great hope for taming those issues.
Actually a sexual predator did call me when I was primary school. Back then when the phone rang as the principal was also a teacher, a student would run out to answer the phone. One day it was my turn. I answerd and asked politey how I could help. The person on the other end, claimed he was a doctor, and proceeded to ask increasingly personal and sexual questions to 10 year old me, and I didn't know what to do, I wasnt savvy enough to hang up, so went along with it, and eventually said if get the pricipal. So yes the phone can be used to abuse. Sick fucks will find a way.
People can decide that money is more important than the continued survival of the product they are working on.
IIRC, Siri's so far behind the curve that there's almost no possible way for it to catch up to more advanced assistants.

That said, China could theoretically tie Siri into its AI which could help level the playing field for both Apple and China. No idea how Apple could sell that to the American consumer.