skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a long time ago and I have been using linux exclusively for nearly 10 years in a the 3 last companies I have been working for. With nearly everything being web based these days it has become much easier than the decades before.
Apparently so was I. I'm treating is as two free magazines I never knew I had.
Depending on how you define exploration, there's still an enormous amount of things and places left to explore on Earth, and not just inside its absolute most unreachable areas such as the deep ocean.

Even today, humanity, though widely spread around the globe, concretely occupies only a tiny fraction of the plant's surface, leaving enormous hollows with all kinds of curious secrets.

This is the very reason why even now we constantly have news of newly discovered species, newly discovered geographical features and new discoveries of ancient ruins even. Hell there are even major unclimbed mountains left in the world, now, in 2023.

Should even these be too much to ask for, simply finding places to travel to and looking into their more obscure corners, especially if you accompany this with some sort of hobby, like photography, or collecting or cataloging certain things, could leave you busy with adventure for decades.

No, nobody is going to discover any new continents or be the first ever to set foot in some large new region of the world, but reframing your expectations can work wonders for realizing just how much of the world is far from completely categorized, sorted, filmed and fully pigeonholed. It's absurd to think that only the void of space and the worlds within it are what's left for the deeply curious and adventurous.
> The larger web is an ocean of bullshit, and that is where the bullshit within LLMs comes from.

Not only that: there's also the fact that LLMs do not "fact check" their output against any data source. They just generate text based on relative frequencies of different kinds of text in their training data. They don't even have the concept of text being related to other things in the world; in fact they don't even have the concept of "other things in the world".

Any text generator built that way will output bullshit, no matter how accurate its training data is. "Bullshit" does not mean the output is necessarily wrong; it means, just as Frankfurt said, that the thing generating the output doesn't care about whether it's true or not. LLMs meet that criterion: they don't care about anything other than relative frequencies in their training data.
It's as well a case in my region in Central Europe, we colloquially say that "the soil breeds the stones". Corrosion, freezing and thaw cycles, they crumble the geological limestone layer beneath and push the rocks to the surface. More up north it's not the case, the "field stones" are remnants of the last glaciation in northern Europe.
Thanks!

Is there a way to extract the undecorated (?) function name? ("main" in this case, without the return type or args)

Maybe a helper class or formatter?
At no point in the article is that claim made.
Sure: when a new response is produced because some source documents have changed we ask an LLM to compare the responses and tell if they are significantly different. Even a simplistic prompt, like the one used in the example would do:

Are the two following responses deviating?
Answer with Yes or No.

First response: "{old}"

Second response: "{new}"

(used in https://github.com/pathwaycom/llm-app/blob/69709a2cf58cdf6ea...)
Am I missing something? I do not see any results indicated in the statements of that entity.
This is an interesting topic. I don't think many Americans realize that the constitutional basis for the Regular Army (i.e. active duty troops) is pretty weak: Congress is given the power "To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;" From that perspective, it's kind of amazing that we've maintained it for almost 250 years and built it into the world's most capable land warfare service.

With that said, and I say all this as a career US Army officer, I think our advantage in land warfare is much more narrow than our advantages in sea and air power[1]. And the constitution does give Congress the power to simply "provide and maintain a navy;"

[1] For that matter, our Army's greatest advantages probably stem from our sea and air power. We can deploy anywhere in the world and be sustained by sea and air. The Army's own aviation branch is larger and more powerful than the air forces of most other nations, and we are very good at employing air fires.
I think what you and the writer of the article are complaining about is not the LLM but the dataset that the LLM is describing.

My guess is that if you created a GPT of a well-regarded book on WW1, you’d be able to have an enlightening conversation about the topic.
They tend to highlight if there is no chain because that's a selling point. Likewise if you're looking to buy and have no chain (e.g. you're renting) it's worth mentioning it to the agent as that also makes you a 'good' buyer.

Also perhaps if the chain is in place apart from finding a buyer for the advertised property (i.e. seller has already found their next property, etc) because, indeed, that means that the seller wants to get on with it ASAP.
> If one particular demographic groups has lesser access to broadband than another demographic group, under threat of government penalty, investments must be made to equalize the demographic groups.

If only the government had thought of that and created a $42 billion grant allocation to fund deployments to less profitable areas.
Not too hard to live without them.

I am curious at which Linux distributions are showing ads to you? I have yet to see one doing that.
Yes it’s an authoritarian capitalist society.
> - that wind and solar, combined, were only producing 15% of their installed capacity aka 20GW?

This is a misrepresentation.

Solar for example is only ever planned for to achieve about 30% of its "capacity" (due to the whole sun going down at night thing). And even that varies with seasons.

So if you're claiming the German grid planners were expecting the solar to magically 4x overdeliver, and were suddenly let down then that's nonsense.

Onshore wind has a similar number (again, varies by season).
> It was really weird.

Assume that the Xi's briefings about (and impressions of) Munger are heavy on content like this:

- Praised Xi on topic T1 at date D1
- Praised Xi on topic T2 at date D2
- Criticized Xi on topic T3 at date D3
- Praised Xi ...

And Munger wants both (1) to be relatively well thought-of by Xi and (2) to be able to criticize Xi.
What technology/programs did you use?
Well the article did start off talking on a world stage....

Every town and city across the planet is be different, some more amenable, some less so. We have ebikes and it replaces over summer some car trips, it's not a wholesale replacement for cars and (I personally) think they shouldn't be touted as that - that's fighting a loosing battle!

In the town I'm in ~55'000 people, there's a big uptake of ebikes particularly summer it's just mad. E.g. going to the market, or a cafe, or pub... so I would hazard a guess that the replacement journeys in summer time drop traffic 5%, maybe 10%.

I've lived in Toronto which probably fairly similar to a number of US cities and that would have been amazing to get around on ebike (outside of winter time).
I agree with everything you're saying, but I do want to note that you can put just about anything you want on Google's displays by casting.

HomeAssistant has built-in support to cast lovelace dashboards onto them, and it works surprisingly well. Even has touchscreen support, which I didn't know was possible with casting.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/cast/#home-assist...
So you just asked it for current events and it responded by summarizing 4 days old articles.

I don’t see that as success, but I understand why you would argue it was.
> not a specification for implementors of Python

I don't see why not. The "Introduction" section specifically mentions different implementations and distinguishes implementation details, which can vary by implementation, from the language reference itself, which defines what every implementation has to meet to be considered an implementation of the Python language.

> my point in the GP was that something distinct called “the Python Language Specification” doesn't exist

And that's the point I'm disputing; AFAIK the language reference I linked to is that something distinct, even if it isn't called a "Language Specification" but instead a "Language Reference". Either way it defines what the Python language is.
I do believe the stimulus package was rushed. We can see it in the clawing back of fraudulent PPP loans. Proper restrictions to hinder fraud takes time to setup, which the Biden administration and Congress didn't seem to think they would have at the time. And they were probably right, given the massive scale of the issue.

But there should have been strong requirements for the money they received. But the Biden administration was just printing money to keep our society from imploding at the time.
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305097
That's nothing - I've talked to people from the 1910s. Let me know when computers get that flexible!
In general, the goal was to manage as little state as possible, so anything that was a one-off change, such as changing a single field, changing a node parent, etc. resulted in an async server round trip. This was done to reduce JS complexity (no jQuery or equivalent, so we had to maintain separate code for IE and Netscape) and to ensure validation was consistent. For more form-oriented activities, we used a more traditional form post & page refresh.

At the time, XML was the hotness, so all of the server back end APIs accepted and responded with XML, so when we did actually want to manage state, we did it through modification of the XML representation of the data the user was working with.
My internet connection has 15Mb/s down Thank you very much. So while I'm not your parent I can totally see how that 20 is totally fine. So if you are in a corner of the house you can't get Wifi to that's on par why not use that cable if it exists?

Would I want to use it to transfer large files around internally nowadays? No.

Works for everything else assuming you are the only user of that cable in that corner basement room? Absolutely.

Also insert appropriate "kids these days" joke. I guess it's like HD. Once you have it, you are not going back. Do I need a triple A game I just bought and want to play to download in 2 minutes vs 2 hours? No. But kids these days expect it I guess. No patience.
China is already high tech. As best as I can tell this is turning that capacity to develop and produce high tech inward for the benefit of its own economy and independence.
Incredible as it sounds, the end goal is to end all human civilization.

Nuclear deterrence is built on the idea that if I don't get to live, nobody gets to live.

The leaders of the nuclear powers decided it would be better for all humanity to die than for a nuclear power to be striked.
I'm going to comment on the post the doomberg article links to:

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-2-8-we-must-de...

It states:

> Jacobson goes on with endless mumbo jumbo about how his fantasy system can deliver electricity at low cost. Excerpt:

> When combined with electricity storage, heat storage, cold storage and hydrogen storage; techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response); a well-interconnected electrical transmission system; and nifty and efficient electrical appliances, such as heat pumps, induction cooktops, electric vehicles and electric furnaces for industry, WWS can solve the ginormous problems associated with climate change at low cost worldwide.

> Is there any such thing as a demonstration project on any scale — small, medium, or large — to vindicate these claims that such a future system would be “low cost”? Absolutely not.

I can't speak about anything except:

"techniques to encourage people to shift the time of their electricity use (demand response)"

This is happening in the UK and is lowering the cost of EV charging. The following tariff will control when your EV is charged for the price of 7p/kWh (see https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime).

I just got a quote from Octopus energy (UK energy supplier) and the day rate is 35.37p/kWh and night rate is 14.84p /kWh.
Sick reference, bro. Your references are out of control. Everyone knows that.
Understanding political divisiveness using online participation data
Sure, we could.

IIRC they were less "broken" with frames (modulo aesthetic taste) but honestly I don't see the problem with the ring "breaking". Browsers have back buttons; brains do tree search.

If I'm to be an internet reactionary I'd commit to the bit -- underlined blue text to indicate a link, URLs that don't break, active use of the back button and history, etc. =)
> I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?

I think culturally we've done things like this many times in the past. It's why periods are described as neo, as in neoclassical.

Eventually artists pull us in a new direction and we're willing to follow because we too have become tired of the old.
Its cool that they're letting people download PDFs, but I see two problems:

1. People can't download everything.
2. People have to find a new way to read the content.

On #1, its as if I had my personal library stored in my buddy's garage and he said

> "hey, you've got to come take your books out--by the way some of them were damaged but here's the money to buy new ones".

Its a nice gesture but now my library is incomplete an I've got to go replace it if I want to get back to where I was. Still, I should've known better and held onto my library myself.

On #2 I have long since tired of apps always changing the ways I access my content. I self-host where I can to have control over it and its feels like stepping off a busy street into a quiet library--sure less exciting stuff is happening but I feel like I can focus.

I get why there's a stronger pull these days for people to download files. I hope the market sees that and puts the mechanisms in place for people to pay to do it.
2.5Gbps seems to have become the new reasonably-affordable thing.
This is part of it, but people still need to leave their house sometime, and the best solution is one where people can survive without needing to own a car at all, which is nearly impossible in most of the US. We sold our nation's soul to cars, and now we're fighting to get it back.
A fundamental reason behind the new expansion of the nuclear arms race is the spread of anti-ballistic technology (shooting down incoming warheads and missiles). The article doesn't mention it at all oddly enough but I think that's the primary driver behind things like hypersonic missile development, etc.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/13/u.s.-exit-from-anti...

> "Twenty years ago today, then­-president George W. Bush announced that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. This cornerstone of the Cold War arms control regime, signed in 1972, sought to cap the arms race by limiting homeland missile defenses, thus reducing pressures on the superpowers to build more nuclear weapons."
Sounds like a capitalist dictatorship to me…

People need to stop defining stuff by whether or not it works the way you want it to work. We still call a capitalist system “capitalist” if it’s broken for the same reason we still call a box a box if the bottom has given out and it can’t hold anything.
For most short-to-medium-length flights, first class merely upgrades you from a seat that is massively larger than a small child to a seat that is even more massively larger than the child. You’re still stuck on a plane with a fasten seatbelt lights for exactly the same amount of time. (Maybe longer because first class often comes with early boarding.)
As far as I can tell, the problem lies not with the payment processing, but rather with the bureaucracy around receiving money in OP's country of residence.
If that's raw network transfer, it's probably just a difference in headers or MTU size. Larger MTU -> fewer headers required. Maybe a difference in network configuration that requires more or less data in the header.
> Although the efficiency of the device is theoretically 67 per cent, the current design is around 12 per cent efficient. This could be improved if a better conductor of heat than the lead scandium tantalate were found, says Defay.

This looks promising, but may not be practical yet.
It's not really specific to Amazon. Voice assistants are a novelty and mildly useful thing but I mostly use them for a few very specific and non-critical things. In something like my car where they could be very useful, they mostly can't handle the more complicated queries that would actually be valuable to do completely hands-free. If I had to give up voice assistants tomorrow, I'd pretty much shrug and move on.

Honestly, Kindles aren't that different. I like them (and my iPad) for traveling but I'm not sure ebooks have been the revolution that some thought they would be.
And that is a long standing failure in urban planning in the US. Cities that don't support walking/biking/public transit stupid, but just accepted as the norm here.

The whole I-10 thing in LA right now cracks me up. Like they are begging people "please take the bus/train, don't drive", because 1 road closed. Imagine if the bus/train was already preferred because the infrastructure was so much better. Imagine if all the haste/special orders they used to fix the road, they consistently used that to build/expand public transit and walking/biking instead.

The damage is so deep that it feels irreversible at this point, like the US will be doomed to cars and traffic forever. If it took NL like 30-50 years starting in the 70s to reverse course, were looking at a century+ here if we were to start now, which were not.
The GIF on the kickstarter is a nice TLDR: https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/043/049/335/c230c7314b0668e...

Why doesn't it fold in the opposite direction, so that the fold faces out rather than in? Seems to me that orientation would be better for organization and finding what you're looking for at a glance in the closet.

If the hook part could be rotated (as is in common design of other hangers), such orientation could be easily accomplished. As the hook is fixed, it cannot be.
But it also restricts everyone's ability to write and use extensions that give better privacy on the internet.

The existence of malicious extensions is worth having that ability.
Some people may think you’re tossing out a sarcastic joke here… but unambiguously fuck yes … because doing this kind of preemptive typing, the forward thinking to “frame of reference” is basically the next step after overhauling everything to disambiguate between calendrical and chronological timekeeping and units…

Because fundamentally you can’t correct for the reference frame if you can’t work out if your dealing with chronological or calendrical units. Calendrical units are in a weird liminal space outside of the earth reference frame. We measure the history of most deep space missions by earth reference frame mission elapsed time and do so by keeping a clock on earth and silently keeping records of the vehicle clock.. but on Mars we have a per mission Sol count that brings Mars time into the mix, and I know for a fact a lot of people neglect the barycentric gravity gradient difference between Earth and Mars because for literally 99.9% of things it doesn’t matter… but if you measure a transit of an Astronomical body from instruments on Mars and don’t deal with the relative reference frames your fractions of an arc second are basically pointless false precision.
I agree on the notion. I do wonder though if a US Shenzhen needs to be close to SV. It would be ideal, but given how hard it is to build anything in SV, I wonder if a places like Austin would be a solid solution to consolidate hardware manufacturing.
Yea when republicans lose or have an outcome they don’t like they call democracy a sham as well.
"In the United States, a staggering 60% of all car trips cover less than 10km."

Being lucky enough to live in a walkable city (NYC) this is insane to me. The world is so car-brained.
> I'm really surprised at the number of people on the side of the telecoms here.

Yes, I too would have expected a non-zero number of libertarians to be here saying that any amount of regulation is bad. But the closest I see to that is a couple saying that the government forgot to include appropriate strings on previous handouts.
Manufacturing in the US will never be as good as china. Those attempts at moving jobs here are ultimately attempts at failure.

The most likely scenario is that companies are trying to find some other country to exploit.
The simplest answer is probably the right one: Gemini, or at least the Gemini models that Google believes it can serve to customers in a cost effective way, simply isn't up to par. A release where Gemini manages to be at where OpenAI was three months ago would objectively be an achievement, but it'd be a disappointment and disastrous for investor's outlook for Google. So the delay is to kick the can down the road a bit and hope for some miraculous development that substantially improves quality.
Last I looked, the nogil implementation was some 5-10% slower than the current, owing to all of the extra locking.
Capitalism doesn’t exclude the government from owning capital. Communism does exclude the private ownership of capital.
It's closer to 6x.
Would anyone here like to recommend (or disrecommend) any e-bike models?
Is it that bizarre?

It's basically semantic versioning, that is a hierarchical split based on levels of change (major = new release with possibly big breaking changes, minor = some incremental update version within the same release) and so on.

Who ever thought version numbers are decimals and why? The "." appears as a separator on all kinds of strings in software (filenames, domains, and IPs probably the most common ones).
And its not even just subsidies and tax breaks. They also often own the utility poles or conduits and can often restrict/delay attachments preventing any competition from actually rolling out in the area. And that's assuming they don't have a monopoly franchise agreement for the area!

If they don't want to serve everyone in the community, they need to give up rights to have any say over utility corridors and any franchise agreements.
So this is a complaint I do have. But in fairness, I do worry a little that I've used Emacs for so long as my primary text editor that I've lost perspective of what the failure rates are for other text editors. I remember Atom being absolutely terrible about this, and thinking that Emacs was basically as good if not significantly better at not blocking the UI whenever it needed to think.

The problem is I had to use Atom for a while seriously before I understood how often it failed for me. If you're just trying out a text editor to see if it's comfortable, you don't see these failure modes as clearly. So I've tried VSCode before, but I don't know if it's better or worse at avoiding hanging the UI, because I don't use it constantly all day long with a ton of packages installed.

If I had to make a list of all the times I get frustrated at Emacs, a long operation that has nothing to do with the UI blocking everything is pretty high on the list, that is a regular complaint that I have. I feel comfortable saying that I wish Emacs packages would get better at this, and maybe there are ways to improve it within Emacs.

But I guess truthfully for all I know VS Code could have the same problem but even worse.

I agree that making code preemptive is probably not a good idea.