skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain companies dumping massive amounts of certain chemicals into water supply for many years are not even found guilty.

5mph over in a city or intentional plane crash in the wilderness and misleading investigators are small enough to be bad things, but do bad things at sufficient scale and those things are no longer bad.
Denmark's biggest union joins strike against Tesla
Norway, the mitochondria of European Literature.
When I was a young hacker, around 2002, I went for a couple weeks hike in the Greek mountains north of Delphi with little more than a map and a backpack. I wandered through a lot of tiny villages, slowly disappearing as the youth all moved to the cities. Each place o would show up and get led to The One Who Speaks English, and then have a truly unique conversation.

In one village the English speaker was an American oil drilling engineer who changed course to become a philosophy professor, and then changed course again to live out his retirement in this tiny Greek mountain town. I really regret not staying longer there.

In the next town, the English speaker was a guy who had left 30 years ago to work in the Canadian fishing industry, and only returned a week previously. He translated for a lot of the family elders, who were reaaally old and remembered doing the yearly pilgrimage on foot through the mountain passes.

(Then I came to a town and chatted with a random person... When I described where I had been and where I was going, she crossed herself and begged me to turn back! Felt like a scene from a Dracula knock off...)

And finally, I came to a very remote village, where I was housed by an Canadian woman who had lived in the village for like sixty years and forgotten all of her English! (Which was communicated through a combination of artifacts, drawing, and pantomime.)

Which is to say, you've gotta get real far off the beaten path to find places where no one speaks English. And even then, people are helpful and fascinating.
> Sadly disabling "recommended content" on the Google TV launcher also disabled voice search from the remote

WTF.
I think companies are worried about how unpredictable and abusable this currently is. Imagine how parents feel when their 12 year old jailbreaks an npc and starts having explicit conversations with it.
If you run home servers and like having complete control, I recommend staying away from AT&T Fiber. They play lots of network games (port remapping/takeover, routing issues, no limits but limits!).

Google Fiber, on the other hand, has been clean and clear.
So I tried this after I installed julia on my system (Fedora) and installed the Plots package. It took about a second or so, not too bad, slower than ROOT or matplotlib but not too different from octave... but the default backend is not interactively zoomable at all as far as I can tell? Ok, I can do Pkg.add("PyPlot") to use matplotlib, but now this takes an extra ~10 seconds? It would probably have been faster to mmap a shared file, dump the data there, then, fork a new python process and plot it... maybe I try the plotly backend (which doesn't need any new packages, that's nice), but now it opens in my browser? By now my .julia directory has balloned to 2.8 GB (!!!) and I'm bored of this test and go back to making my quick plots in ROOT :).

edit: oops, maybe PythonPlot is what i should use, not PyPlot. But when I try that I see:
┌ Warning: `PythonPlot` 1.0.3 is not compatible with this version of `Plots`. The declared compatibility is 1 - 1.0.2.[
and doesn't seem to be any faster
I suppose because Jepsen is written in Clojure. And that is probably because the author was versed in Clojure and that is the language he picked.
Check out SmoothVideoProject, it does the interpolation in real-time. I also use Topaz sometimes but it's too slow for most use cases unless you have the time to wait.
Because in russia one bad word in good environment with some kgb buddy might get you a trip to gulag. So everybody was very careful choosing conversation partners and topics. That’s not the way to build strong social cooperation.
You don't actually need oil, you can invest into your people regardless. That the oil is somehow a prereq is just an excuse for not doing it.
Yeah it was very strange. Like, you don't get that effect from 60fps TV or video shot on your smartphone, so I wonder what went wrong to cause it.
"FaCT: A DSL for Timing-Sensitive Computation" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3314221.3314605 citations in gscholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1570199926308101856...
Have been a big Django user over the past 10 years at my startups, but we decided to do all new projects in Litestar going forwards - typing, async, and a better REST API story made it the preferred choice for us.
Even with all the hype around deep learning and GPUs, the weather services are building a lot of new, CPU-only supercomputers [1]. There are plans to use more GPUs and ML in the coming years, but the weather models are real, tangible, economically impactful and strategically essential products. It's pretty inspiring to see governments dumping a huge amount of computing power into the working models, and also funding research ideas.

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/11/7/114
>Whenever folks ask me this, I want to turn it around: are there studies on the effectiveness of working solo vs pair programming?

Pair programming inherently halves your potential productivity, as you have 2 people doing 1 work.
Additionally, you introduce additional friction because of communication between the two programmers, and finally, you still (usually) need a review of the final code, even if we assume it's better then in 'solo' scenario.
So for the pair programming to be objectively effective, it would need to provide over 100% of productivity boost minimum, because thats how much it takes away.
That's a huge ask, and it's on advocates of it to prove that.
Normal process in comparison, because of having inherently twice the working power, can waste up to 50% of person's productivity and still be ahead of pair programming starting position.
The 'math' is simplified ofcourse, but the burden of proof is on pro-pair people by default, not the other way around.
Sounds like survivorship bias.

All those events had an impact on someone. They destroyed many lives and set back countless others.

It can happen to you, unless you continue your lucky streak or your continued survival was/is due to wealth.
That is likely what I am thinking of, it's been a long time and I was not super interested in it at the time. I got mine free from Radio Shack with that year's catalog (which was filled with CueCat barcodes).
> enables them to have the government programs and society they currently enjoy, rather than mistakenly thinking those programs are the source of their wealth.

The person you replied to didn't seem to imply they were, but conversely asked why the US is performing as it is given its wealth compared to Norway.

Average salaries in the US are far higher than in Norway, and GDP per capita, so you would think the US could afford to do better on more metrics

I'll also note that many of the largest welfare reforms in Norway predate the oil wealth, with the largest chunk of the reforms towards the current welfare model being passed in 1966, a year before the first successful oil well in Norwegian sector.

Yet while some things are probably better in the US (average house sizes are larger, I think), as someone who grew up in Norway and has visited the US many times and enjoys being in the US as a visitor, and currently lives in the UK, the UK is as far towards "American conditions" I can stomach. Dysfunctional but at least still has somewhat functioning public services. Why can't the US even match UK public services? The US is certainly significantly richer than the UK.

"Amerikanske tilstander" - "American conditions" - is a term with decades of use in Norwegian politics to scare voters.

Even a lot of conservative voters have historically been worried about "American conditions" because it has a history of being seen as lacking - ironically given far higher levels of faith in the US - in Christian compassion, which has made it unpopular even far into the Norwegian right-wing (e.g. quite a few Norwegian welfare reforms were passed in the 1960s under a center-right government that included the four center-right and right-wing parties of the time)
Usually TVs have bad motion interpolation which ruins the concept for many people. I use SmoothVideoProject on my computer which uses your GPU to analyze the motion vectors between frames via deep learning (Nvidia optical flow analysis) so it's much better.
If it were simply a matter of losing particles, I'd expect that one of the many very capable metrology labs around the world would've devised an appropriate experiment, e.g. storing two exact same masses at slightly different temperatures near absolute zero and characterizing the difference in mass (since presumably the higher temperature sample would lose slightly more mass if it were down to high energy particles).

A test for this theory would have to involve a means of accounting for these kinds of fluctuations.
Side-channel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-channel_attack

Time complexity > Constant time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Constant_time

"Masking against side-channel attacks: A formal security proof" (2013) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38348-9_...
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1479355492097437276...

"Leakage-Resilient Cryptography" (2008)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4690963 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5581902451405085906...
> Because of this the kernel name cache may not necessarily know the current name of an open file. If it started out having multiple hardlinks, was opened through one hardlink, and then that hardlink was removed, the name cache may not know the name of the other remaining hardlink(s).

I found this the hard way when implementing a FUSE file system for macOS that required knowing the “real path” of a file and that faked “hard links” for performance reasons. It was super hard to diagnose and I’m still not sure if there is a solution to the problem I faced. If you are curious, the details of the story are here: https://jmmv.dev/2020/01/osxfuse-hardlinks-dladdr.html
Indeed, the "story of the object from its perspective" would be interesting to know for many of the items in The British Museum.
My first real foray into Linux was inspecting network traffic with a program called ShowEQ for EverQuest. At the time, the traffic was unencrypted and had lots of juicy info in it. I used a hub to replicate traffic to my Linux box, and it would draw a live map of the zone and showed where the mobs, NPCS, and users were. It even showed what loot the mobs had on them so you could cherry pick certain ones. The beauty of this was that it was passive and impossible to detect. Eventually SOE wised up and started to encrypt the traffic.
What is a static chain pointer in the context of calling convention ABI?
Usually TVs have bad implementations while on the PC, using something like SmoothVideoProject which uses your GPU for motion vector analysis via optical flow makes it much more high quality.

Also, you get used to it after a while. At first I was similarly jarred by the smoothness, as if it were fast forwarded, but after a few hours of getting used to it, when I saw 24 FPS content, it was literally unwatchable as it looked like a slideshow to me.
This is what I love about Rust, and other languages with these kinds of constructs. You have to acknowledge that something might e.g. fail. You can choose to do "nothing" (e.g. unwrap), but it must be done explicitly, which makes the ignored cases simple to identify later
Not just forecasts.

Accounting should do it too in their reporting.

I would love to see a balance sheet with a proper 'certainty range' around the values in there.
> because they dont get to define the scenario in the most favorable conditions if they are claiming violence is never appropriate.

The earlier poster was arguing that corporal punishment is never appropriate. When they said "better alternatives than violence", they were speaking in the context of punishment.

A scenario about an urgent intervention can't prove them wrong, because it's not related to what they were saying.

> Doubly so when they include a bunch of condescension about how anyone who thinks violence has a place should seek therapy.

Are you actually reading their comments, or are you too busy being righteously mad at them?

They didn't ask if you think violence "has a place". They asked if it's what normally happens for your interpersonal conflicts.

Those two ideas are not at all close.
How hard would it be to write a server emulator that facilitates LAN matches with all cards unlocked?

I have no interest in interacting with a glorified skinnerbox.
My LG OLED had intermittent contrast issues that persisted after toggling every permutation of picture bell and whistle. After finally stumbling across the correct search term, it turned out the offending feature was hidden in a maintenance menu that requires a button that only exists on service remotes… The same issue was fixed in an update for newer models. Tons of forum posts on the subject resulted in RMAs and refunds. How did we get like this?
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Thanks for pointing this out, we do discuss it briefly in section 4.2, but I like your analysis in the blog!

Since the models are not passing, we didn't think it was a huge issue. If models are consistently passing the 2-person version, I think the motivation for running a (more cumbersome) 3-person version would be a lot stronger.
the state of Tennessee effectively has banned [still cat-and-mouse] other cities from implementing Chattanooga's beloved solution

It's bleakly hilarious that politicians of a certain stripe fall over themselves to pass laws against policies that deliver value to the public.
Right, Finnish.

Thank you for taking the time to explain International Relations to an elderly Australian that's been reading daily and weekly newsfeeds on the subject for decades.

I enjoyed visiting your country prior to 2000 and was delighted to be gifted a SAKO rifle and scope set for some work I did at the time mapping radiation from the air .. if only I had grasped the concept of "international relations" then I would have appreciated the experience all the more.
quality is not a process problem, process is generally put into place to protect against bad decisions which often also constrains good decisions (because it typically does so by constraining decisions).

avoidance of negative quality is not quality.
every human activity is in relation to possible violence. It holds relevance to basically every aspect of human life. It enables the status quo, and has the potential to disrupt it.

You couldnt make a post on HN if it werent for violence, or the threat of it. you have a computer to type on because if someone were to take it, they would risk beating or death. someone built the computer because threat of violence makes them work for a living instead of taking what they want. sometimes you can be minding your own business at a desert rave and violence comes for you anyways.

im saying all order, justice, and authority is based on violence. the only difference between an extrajudicial vigilante and a sanctioned enforcer, is that the enforcer is on the side generally considered more threating.

If you are sufficiently transgressive, violence is always a possible consequence, for children and adults. it is a simple fact of life.
OnLive cloud streaming could threaten Xbox, PS3, and Wii (2009)
My apologies, I misspoke: I wanted the image tag not to be $CI_COMMIT_SHA but to be a hash dynamically generated from certain files in the repo. The issue is that IMAGE won't accept a dynamically generated environment variable (passed from job to job via a dotenv artifact).
I mean I just gave one example of how it might lose mass. There are other obvious ways (like when they're picked up etc.). My point wasn't to present a hypothesis for people like myself here to rebut. I can do that just fine myself. I was trying to understand what about this has been confusing for scientists.
Reports of an Electric Vehicle Slowdown Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
I know, the quotes must be there and will ignore anything inside, but with SQL misuse, you never know! Someone is probably using it in a worse way than any sane person would think possible.
This is a good point. We didn't have any cases of GPT-4 failing to try to pretend to be a human, although GPT-3.5 did this quite frequently.

I think RLHF causes other issues though (especially with the tone), and we're interested to try some non-RLHF'd open source models.
It fails basic civil engineering on so many levels. Imagine doing that in a city with an active frost line well below 2". How many pothole-related outages would you expect to obviously experience if you were to try such an experiment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_line
(Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527692 for a correction of my original comment.)

The issue is that the IMAGE field in YAML doesn't pick up environment variables that are being passed on from a previous job via a dotenv artifact.

As for downstream pipelines, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38525954
> Even so, the phenomenon of audiences and even news sources mistaking news satire for reality is well-documented. What is more, a study from the Ohio State University suggested that conservatives are more likely to believe Babylon Bee stories are real than liberals are to believe stories from the Onion, when the indicators of satire are removed in both cases.

The Bee's writers would likely argue that this is because the political left, and the world in general, are getting more ridiculous each day. This is the premise behind their "Book of Prophecy" [0] and their "Not the Bee" sister site [1].

[0]: https://babylonbee.com/book-of-prophecy

[1]: https://notthebee.com
Here it is: https://www.amazon.pl/dp/B0CNNLCPZ4

My guess is that probably the search bar isn't indexing all locations properly as I've checked all the checkbox I needed... This might be a problem for discoverability, I'll need to investigate
I didn't like it either. I think it looks too real and takes you out of the fantasy. Something about the way 24fps looks is different from reality and lets your imagination take you away a bit easier. I can't really explain it.

Like I can watch an animated show, and I have no expectations of it looking real. I can still get lost in the story and enjoy it. I don't need it to look like I'm actually there.
> I'd love to go to Japan, for example, but it's a long damned way, you can't even read a lot of the signs, and Japanese addresses are... uniquely formed.

Japan caters very well to American tourists. Plenty of menus are in English, signs to anyplace you need to go will have romanized letters, and on top of that your phone will happily translate a decent % of written text.

Heck lots of countries have English signs all over the place. Since a large % of people with money know English, it has become tourist language of sorts.

> She has a terrible sense of direction and has needed me to walk her three or four blocks pointing out landmarks along the way just to make sure she could get to the nearest pharmacy.

Yeah my wife is the same way, we did just fine in Japan. We stuck together, and as a reminder, phones have maps on them, maps that let you live stream your location to other people. Maps that give turn by turn directions so you can find someone if you get separated.

> So now I need to find a guide or guides that I can hire for a week or two, pay for all their expenses as well as their salary, and at least occasionally navigate a sensible but immense transit system with all sorts of unusual quirks.

No, you just go to Japan and eat really damn good food. This is particularly easy in Japan since restaurants there have 3d sculpted models of the dishes they serve out front. Plenty of restaurants have digital ordering kiosks (and they've had them long before the US did), and you just tap on the picture of the dish that looks yummy. It is pretty damn easy. For the ones that don't have kiosks, you can just point at the miniature of whatever dish you want.

Japan gets over a million and a half visitors from the US every year. Capitalism being what it is, plenty of services have sprung up to ensure tourists who can afford a $2k flight have ways to spend the rest of their disposable income.
this is slicing and dicing of words to try and weave a narrative.

The poster reacted to an opinion negatively and pointed out that people need to stop that behavior.

Can you imagine if someone said "raping children should be ok" and someone else tried to argue that saying people should stop raping children means they attacked the person and not the opinion?

right, they challenged the opinion, stop with the wordplay.
But then you have to wear a VR headset.
It's good that it's testable. This is one of those ideas which either wins a Nobel Prize or is totally bogus. So what does it take to test it?
that feels painfully uncanny valley.
Untestable theories are not theories - I mean, for what purpose and why care?
Thank you!!! I hope he will like it! A review could also help with increasing discoverability maybe
Addendum: To see why it doesn't work, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527692 (which includes a slight correction of my original comment).
I think the key thing to remember with the human benchmark is that it will change depending on interrogators' assumptions about human abilities.

When models are bad, humans are easy to spot. But if the model's pretty good, it's harder to be sure you're talking to a human.

On top of that, I think a lot of human users didn't want to get got by the model, so they had an a priori bias toward saying AI.
I find that it saves time to just start by assuming the experts haven't thought of X because of how many times I've seen assuming that they _have_ thought of X turn out to be a poor assumption, across many domains.
Technology Trees: Freedom and Determinism in Historical Strategy Games
While this might not be such a bad idea if it would not decrease privacy, this is actually a horrible idea since it wil only be enforceable on the big players and make minors go to the sites that are illegal and more disturbing anyway. Unless of course they manage to completely control the internet from provider level. Which would end an area.
> They really do think they need to hire a tour guide for a week to get around in a foreign country.

TBF I've done single day small tour groups with local guides, and when the guide is good, the experience has been amazing.

Doing it first day in Mexico City was actually super useful to get myself orientated and to get a good overview of the mass transit system there, and also to get a list of other things I should do.

Plenty of people from all around the world go on "tour bus" types of tours though, I'd say that before Google Maps and online resources, such tours were likely more popular. You still see huge tour groups at any popular destination, oftentimes grouped together by nationality.