skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"noncitizen nonimmigrant air passengers"
Is the S&P 500 Broken?
I don't believe we should shut down any of these places. In moderation they are all fine. Advocating for abstinence is a proven failed strategy and requires fairly authoritarian methods to make work.

Educating people is the only moral approach, but these days anyones opinion is as valid as expert knowledge so that is out the window.
I often see this thrown around, that the youth today are being peddled some nature-worshipping fantasy, when the "hard truth is that nature is a cruel entity, tamed forcefully by the work of our forefathers".

It kind of ignores the fact that young people just want clean water. Clean air. I don't want long-lived hormone-like pollutants in my mattress. I don't want the river that supplies most of the clean water to my city to become polluted, and I also do not want it to dry out due to over-diversion to industry (okay, sue me, I want a good view). I do not want to take massive risks with how I affect the environment, before I have a chance to fully understand future repercussions.

Last, but not least: I do not want to lose knowledge. Currently, a lot of nanotechnology and pharmaceutical technology is being driven not by de-novo design of proteins, but by trawling through information about existing ensembles (which mostly come from come from organisms we had ready access to). Destroying previously inaccessible/invisible (e.g. 99% of the ocean) ecosystems just because "woops, we didn't bother thinking that we live in a chaotic dynamical system" is akin to purposefully deleting hard-drives with millenia's worth of hard-won data.

Climate is an issue too, sure. But its mostly overblown as the reason why people care about environmental issues (especially given how much we do not know about climate, period), rather than: as the scapegoat that the media finds most convenient to trumpet (because it is the easiest for governments and businesses to try and quantify). Most real people (i.e. not the strawmen) aren't nearly so simplistic.

On the other hand, the rather simple concerns along the lines of: "hey, can we just be a bit more careful about just pumping this random shit into the air, until we understand better?", "hey, can you not put selinium rich mining byproducts in my local river?", or "can you not use low-grade silicone with questionable health consequences for my cat's grooming brush" don't get much attention.

I'm all for believing in the future. It becomes harder to do so when one realizes that a) they are disposable, and b) people in power do not care abou the messes they create, because they will never have to personally deal with cleaning up those messes.

Which makes me think: aw shit, I don't want to have clean up those messes either! Why can't they move a little slower, and a lot more thoughtfully?

So...uh, nothing to do with "oh no, death cult!".
Being able to use a tool akin to Google translate is a fantastic boon to language learning though.
I played this game many hours as a 6 year old kid on my dads philips 8088 pc. It even had multiplayer, but never managed to get that working.
I did manage making a giant hole with bombs in the void below.
It doesn't matter if you can't use them for a year. Which is the possible duration of these events, in addition to being several orders of magnitude stronger than the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
- Whatsapp mobile native app warns the user (and the other party of the call) when your battery level gets very low, to expect the end of the call. One could image similar webapps could do the same.

- Warn the user to save their data when the battery level is too low (or automatically save) etc.

(Of course, there's is 0.1% of webapps/websites who'd need this).
Yes, There Is a Science to Shopping
Complexity hidden from a user is there for someone to manage.

This reads like empty circumlocution in defense of programmer jobs.

My boring EE and math degrees are from another era, before all this cool software jargon captivated the world. I am not really sure what all the verbosity of the DSLs, config formats, and many programming languages really solves from an engineering perspective. Much of it feels like baggage from the era before graphical computing first; iPhones don’t boot to a CLI, right?

Humanity burns a lot of real resources preserving computing history when the first computers were human mathematicians. What does a Commodore and Borland have to do with mathematics? Feels like nostalgia more than engineering.

I will keep iterating on personal computing experiments. Ye olde cranks of software lore and genius CEOs are just normal people hallucinating about their essentialness to society. Yawn. (I’m doing it too!)

The real energy vampires are not the sarcastic, but the toxic positivity crowd peddling Ponzi schemes passed on from dad and his 80s bitching Camaro crowd. Yes, yes, you did something within the constraints of physical reality. Ooh wow an expensive agency manipulating boondoggle; can I subscribe to your newsletter?

The next generation grew up on the internet. They’re aware of the hustle, whereas the aging out elders were maybe a bit less discerning given lack of education and experience; how were they know it’s just arithmetic and Boolean of memory addresses and semantic babble? Their special boys seemed convinced and the elders might have been a bit more accepting of hallucinations given their religious upbringing.

I ended up in software expecting to have a career in industrial controls, but entered that field at the tail end of offshoring, never got my foot in the door as networking became harder, internet was not so socially organized back then. Couldn’t figure out where to be at the right time.

I’m fucking sick of “software” as we know it. It’s elementary DSL parsers and git pull github.com/everything.git which given how things work with software is great but that that’s how things work in software is ridiculous.
Good question, the paper says:

> The benign uses of the API
were primarily from two third parties: YouTube, where the API was used in performance metrics for embedded videos, and Boomerang, a performance measurement library
You Can Have Too Much Transcendence
People still would have to agree to the price. If it is too high they will not accept. By having more information Uber would be able to make better offers. Hiding information for financial gain, getting a better deal, is fraud.
Good point, that's worth emphasizing in the post – I added a section about it with reference to the paper (& to your comment).
Really great. The web is really going forward
There aren’t many (any?) cruises that offer the price that this specific venture was aiming for. That’s without considering that very few cruises go for more than a week or two before you have to get off and back on.
I haven't tried GPT for this purpose but I don't think we need to assume that everyone tinkering with it are blindly copy pasting potentially destructive commands.

Anyone who does that now would already have done it from random Google results anyway.
Determining whether it is reasonable to ask a device to perform a battery intensive operation such as this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07649
> LLM drawing inspiration

What does this even mean ?

Aren’t LLM’s just predicting the next token with zero contextual knowledge of the world they inhabit

As much as I get excited for generative AI I can’t shake the feeling that it is empty regurgitation of the human experience
That's what happens when you give into the pedantry gremlin. He comes for you too.
Reusable rockets. Tesla popularized EVs
I did not ask the learned resilience claimant for evidence, because I take resilience training to be orthodox for the psychological community, and I believe the person I responded to does as well. Information is surprise, and the surprise factor is presumably in the requested evidence supporting the unorthodox position.

I give my own reference below and a quotation from it.

“A meta-analysis found a moderate positive effect of resilience interventions (0.44 (95% CI 0.23 to 0.64) with subgroup analysis suggesting CBT-based, mindfulness and mixed interventions were effective.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6009510/
According to wiki, the only light rail running on rubber is the airport’s AirTrain. No mention of BART running on rubber at all, nor on its own wiki page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro#List_of_s...
Well, emotional resilience is mental health. I think the problem with mental health framing is label obsession, rather than thinking of mental health like physical health: something to be maintained through healthy habits.

If you want to be physically healthy, you eat nutritious, balanced foods and get regular exercise and sufficient sleep.

If you want to be mentally healthy, you practice healthy ways to experience and work through your negative feelings rather than trying to avoid or control them. Etc.
I like how the e-golf is just an electric golf and nothing crazy.
Making New Digital Data Pack Cassettes for Coleco Adam
I recently published a paper detailing the process of creating brand new digital data packs for the Coleco Adam computer, without the need for a donor cassette.
Does it understand dates?
The API is only supported in Chromium browsers [0]. It was removed from Firefox and Safari.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...
Maybe a better way of phrasing what I'm trying to say is it sounds like you're relying too much on metadata search for what you're trying to accomplish. I agree that the search is bad for the way you're using it.
Should just give the board of directors 100 lashes. Except of course if it turns out they didn't know about it, then they should get 200 lashes, have their genitals chopped off, and their immediate family be given 10 lashes. Just like the good old days.
Yeah there are plenty of third spaces. I go and play board games at my local cafe and library. Go on walks. Play sports (tennis, cycling). Have a book club. Drink way too much coffee.
But the comparison was made to Shannon's wife predicting the next letter. The process is linear but the selection function in her mind is something else.
Super cool! How does this differ from OpenAI's GPT Store?
Uno reverse card right there.
> most browsers

Not chrome...

Also, links are a thing in chat, etc
> If you have tried listening to audiobooks before but find it’s hard to pay attention, I recommend you start only with re-reading. It is hard to convince people of this but I am sure it’s true: Re-reading is often much more rewarding than reading for the first time.

I do this with long series, like Master & Commander or A Song of Ice and Fire, but for the opposite reason: so that I don't have to listen closely. I listen while I'm doing other things that take a variable amount of concentration. I know those books so well that there is little lost when I miss a random passage. But it's still comforting background noise.

The re-listening is often more rewarding, I agree. I look forward to the especially good bits and learn more and more of their foreshadowing.
I think as long as they also learn to stay somewhat skeptical and question things, this is great! Even for adult learning, this is a great approach.
Is this the opposite of imposter syndrome?
Was it the other way around that you read “free market fundamentalism” or something similar and co-opted it into your daily usage, and now you’re seeing it everywhere?

There’s even a name for this bias - Baader Meinhoff effect
> Consistency is a synonym for statistical significance.

So basically you're telling me that if I can visually see a consistency that does not show up in their statistical test, then they aren't running an appropriate statistical test on what I'm seeing.

> But if it's actually swamped, then it might not be real, so go get more data.

Even better to design other experiments.
No, squids are predictable, you can't use them to hide information.

They call it out on their front page.
Why would you expect its output to vary when it does the same thing every weekend? Why would they pre-program an answer that it should have no difficulty with out of the box and word it just like it's normally inclined to do?
AFAIK all the "massive polluters" claims I've seen involve their atmospheric pollution (eg. PM2.5, NOx, SOx) levels, not co2 levels. Compared to an apartment and a car with emissions controls, a cruise ship is obviously going to generate much more of those type of pollution. However, if you're out at sea with little people around to breathe in the pollution it's not that big of a deal.
Pretty sure the OP is referring to the more relevant fact that in the last decade they've built over 100 new stations and continue to do so at a rate of about 12 new stations every year, no slave labor involved.
They added 120 miles of track and 68 stations in seven years. New York City couldn’t update a turnstile in seven years.
the numeric experiment does not produce a line identical to what DK report. if DK's line where horizontal at 50%, it would indeed be nothing but autocorrelation.
> ex. Time zone is more specific and stable

Time zone is also much less useful for fingerprinting because it's tightly correlated with other signals like IP location and language preference. If you already know that a user's IP is somewhere in California, the additional information that they're using the Pacific time zone adds little value.

(If a user's time zone doesn't agree with their geolocation, that's certainly a signal -- but it's going to be an uncommon one.)
You run out of things to do fast if you dont.
They’re for cookies that are set in the first party context i.e. a third-party script sets a cookie on the first part origin

Safari stopped supporting third-party origins setting cookies on themselves many years ago
Yes words can be used for harm too, and there's very strict rules for how the government can regulate and investigate speech. I'm saying the same should be true for money.
Git does not need git to be installed on the remote system to push or pull over ssh.
If there are more people, there are more person-hours in the world that can be used to produce things.
> "People still would have to agree to the price. If it is too high they will not accept"

Such bullshit. If I have to go somewhere and my battery is about to die, I don't really have much of a choice.

> "Hiding information for financial gain, getting a better deal, is fraud."

Doesn't this goes both ways? "Hiding information" is precisely what Uber is doing, when they don't transparently disclose 100% of the information used to determine price with a customer.

And no, not disclosing whether I have good battery percentage or not is not "hiding information", except in the most uncharitable interpretation possible. Uber doesn't have the right to know everything about me just because they're potentially providing a service.
A practical introduction to kill-safe, concurrent programming in Racket
Yes, you need to be aware of the possibility of confabulation by the AI. But you can minimize that problem by:

- Using an LLM that hallucinates less. GPT-4 is more reliable than GPT-3.5, and the just-released Claude 2.1 is reportedly better than its predecessor. In my experience, Bard confabulates too much to be useful for many purposes.

- Using the AI to explore relatively general topics. In my tests, GPT-4 is excellent for getting an overview of, say, linguistic theories, the history of ethics, or the differences between quantum and classical physics. The more focused the topic is--how a particular verb conjugates in Romanian, what David Hume said about the death penalty, how gravity affects neutrinos--the more you need to double-check with other sources.

- Focusing not on learning facts but on the interactive exploration. One interesting exercise is to discuss counterfactuals: How might human civilization have developed if electricity had not been harnessed? What would have happened if a fifty-meter-diameter asteroid had struck the Rhine Valley in May 1944? There are no right or wrong answers to such questions, but exploring them with the AI can be very rewarding.

I agree with the OP: Interaction with LLMs can be a great way to learn, and it will get only better as their reliability improves further and they become more customizable for the individual learner. What I want most now is for them to have a persistent memory of our past conversations. Better multimodal capabilities would also be nice.
It's so solved that every time my Starlink-using colleague tries to meet with anyone, nobody can hear what he's saying, and he doesn't get half of his alerts from pagerduty.
It's wasn't that. If it had been that I wouldn't be suggesting that I came up with it.
Thanks for the interesting references. I think I have a better data model than those had, but it's cool that people have recognized before that there's a need for something like this.
The corpus of text used to train the AI is the contextual knowledge about the world. When you give it a word like "phasor" it's going to associate that word with the Star Trek universe (and probably angular representations of complex numbers from EE textbooks too). When you give it words like "Godswood" or "Andals" it's going to make associations with those words.

Regardless of whether we think generative AI is empty regurgitation, the copyright claims are going to have difficulty sticking unless models are regularly reproducing copyright texts. Even when they are it's usually in short snippets, e.g. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." not regurgitating a whole Dickens novel.
You can't draw blood from a stone. What are you going to do with a judgement against a company that has no assets aside from whatever money it raised from customers?
Postgres: Extensions Shape the Future [pdf]
Makes me miss the Living Computer History Museum
A tiny fraction of the world’s total population use or benefit from cryptocurrencies, but it consumes “just” 0.5% of world energy consumption.

This is self-evidently insane.
A lot of the intended passengers were retirees, not remote workers.
> Hiding information for financial gain, getting a better deal, is fraud.

In what world? While your take is wrong, I just wonder where could you get this idea from?
If hiding your battery level from Uber is fraud, then 100% of all transactions involve fraud.
I'd imagine Starlink on a private yacht would work "brilliantly," but on a large ship with thousands of passengers, you're more likely to suffer from problems. In my experience, I've tried Starlink on a RCL ship equipped with it and I couldn't even go on Google on their "Stream" internet package. I assume this is not the fault of the underlying technology though, just a large company oversubscribing the capabilities of the uplink.
And I'm not going to support the inevitable law that has a LLM scan all of my digital communication either. no matter how they wrap it up in a bow of public safety. The world is safer every year, yet somehow there's more and more scary reasons why the state should have its boot on my face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8
Exactly. All of the battles / wars during the early Napoleon reign were defensive. Out of the 7 coalition wars he only started two.
I had a real hard time parsing this when I thought it was about the company Cruise.

On topic edit:

"Life at Sea Cruises had been planning to buy the AIDAaura, a ship retired this summer by AIDA Cruises, a German subsidiary of Carnival Corp. It was due to be rechristened as the MV Lara. The company had originally slated the sale to go through by the end of September, before working on the ship in dry dock in Germany, then renovating it before sailing to Istanbul to start the cruise." They thought they could remodel a ship in 2 months?? These people must be former software engineers.
In 2050 current Teslas would be 30+ years old. What world is 30 years the standard for a car lifespan? Most cars would have 250k miles by the time they’re 20, which is nearly the end of life of most vehicles. Sure you can find examples of 500k++ mile cars, but that is not the norm.
I actually feel quite sad about this. Us Brits are increasingly turning more inward and pubs have been the heart of many communities. People focus on the health benefits of not drinking, but people also forget the impacts of loneliness. Pubs are a very easy way to meet people across social classes, interests, religions etc.
Think in scale. If you don't breed your cows, the neighbor's bull will come over the fence and do it for you, so you're incentivized to keep your cows bred. One bull will handle a large number of cows, so picking desirable bulls and a variety of interesting cows gives (roughly) $nCows potential picks for the next generation per herd (and Bakewell had many). Cows gestate for 8 months and results are frequently apparent in very young calves. Sexual maturity hits at 12-15 months (though, traditionally, first calf heifers were bred closer to 2 years), so 4 generations per decade in direct lineage isn't impossible.

It's not particularly difficult to select for specific traits when you consider inbreeding (which Bakewell did) and linebreeding (same idea, but avoiding excessive coefficient of inbreeding). Arguably, changing the muscle distribution on a domestic cow given a plethora of similar domestic breeds with different muscle distribution is easier than shrinking the adrenal gland in a wild fox given only wild stock.

Not to diminish in any way Bakewell's accomplishments. He revolutionized the field of animal husbandry.

Late edit to add an example: our (big, light brown, horned) Jersey milk cow came into heat and the (smaller, oreo-colored: almost black, white band around the belly, almost black; no horns) Belted Galloway bull jumped the fence, siring a heifer with small horns, a redder black, a splotchy band, and significantly greater size. Her offspring (against a bull from the same herd, possibly her sire) are medium-dark brown with a red tinge and a splotch of white, have no horns, and are still larger. Their offspring are very dark, solid brown with obvious red in sunlight, are still larger than the non-Jersey lines, and have, in every example, excellent conformation. All this in the last 7 years. The most recent generation will calf next year. Imagine what we could do with a targeted selection program!
They have it working, you can get coverage from anywhere on the sea, including Antarctica.

It's not cheap, at least compared to how much people think internet provision costs in a typical western suburb
Needs retitling to “Chrome and derivative browsers know your battery charging level”
Stalin labor is able to travel in time?
I guess you've not experienced the Metro (and Vykhino effect) around 2003 if you think it is over capacity now. It is a cakewalk now.

I, too, dislike the new connections, and the lack thereof, but the speed with which the new lines sprung up is a marvel.
Funny because I'm using Spotify paid and I'm getting closer and closer to cancelling that with all the bugs and advertising. Using a web player the music just mites itself for 10 seconds at a time, skips tracks on its own. Pauses. The mobile app hits you with full screen ads and big banner ads at the top that you can't disable. It's the most annoying service I use for streaming.
The Clarendon's gone – I regret her –

The George is closed and forgot;

Some changes are all for the better,

But Woolworth's is probably not.
Memorizing a sizable fraction of Windows source code so you can take it to Apple sounds like the most pointless and difficult heist imaginable!
Yes, is there something in particular you want to track? Text tracking would probably be best suited for this.