skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the fact that ChatGPT at least in its current iteration is more helpful for less knowledgeable users may have something to do with why OpenAI almost didn't release it. The elite engineers didn't get how revolutionary it would appear to the general public.
The part of the prompt that suggests its the 15th of December is a GET param, which just means wherever this link was retrieved from is where that date is coming from.

The PDF could have been authored at any time.

Looks like the created date embedded in the metadata is as follows:

2023-12-18T21:21:19.000Z

Created with MS Word. But even that isn't definitive.
Unlike Detroit, NYC has a very diversified economy. In addition to being the primary finance capital it is a major international player in media, art, fashion, tech, and more. NYC is simply not utterly dependent on finance in the way Detroit was on manufacturing- or SF is on tech, for a modern example.

I think that’s what has made it, and the other global cities like it, so extremely resilient over a long period of time. That and financial services being, thus far, an evergreen industry.
Presumably the board could stop corporate speech the majority does not agree with. It would be interesting to re-litigate this case with a company like Facebook where Zuckerberg has special voting shares. If donating to a PAC is just a group of people exercising their free speech, can you delegate your right to free speech to someone else?
People also adopted email without fail.
This settlement is a joke...
Most people do not understand that nowadays we're ruled by databases.

You may have all the paper documents you want, but if they do not match what's in the government's databases, you're going to have a bad time.
> x.org runs comfortably on very very little hardware, Wayland is an incredible resource hog by comparison.

Citation needed.
Does anyone have any good jailbreaking prompts? I am curious about the retrieval system.
Idk as long as you can develop at speed I don't see why a static analyser that's a few times slower than compiling couldn't run on the latest commit overnight? More as a sonarqube type thing I suppose.
Israel's entire assertion is that their real target is hiding among civilians. In such a war, there is no such thing as "off duty".

To make his case he'd need something like a statistical model that reporters were more likely to be targeted than other civilians. Or be able to demonstrate that Israel did not believe that there were legitimate targets in the area. Or something. Just "I went to a war zone and got killed" isn't even pretending to be evidence.

This war is shitty; everything about it is shitty. It's even shittier than other wars, which is really saying something. But just reiterating your preconceptions about who is worse than whom doesn't take in a direction that's less shitty.
Plant-inspired liquid metal actuators unlock new potential for flexible robotics
I ate at a place the other weekend in Brooklyn for lunch. Some small plates BS, so we had to get a number of items. Without drinks we are talking $50/head for a couple to have lunch, easily hitting $100/head if you drank.

The table they sat my wife & I at was, I swear to you, 2 square feet. It was a protrusion from the shelving in the wall that they had placed 2 backless tools at. It was like taking a 16" MacBook Pro and unfolding it so it was splayed open... I got the keyboard and wife got the screen. We actually begged to be sat at the bar instead but they declined.

At some point it's just not worth it anymore. I'm too old for this.

Maybe zoomers living in small studio who are meeting randos for a date. I had less eating space than when I eat my sad salad lunch at my desk. Who needs that anxiety on a Sunday afternoon. I have dining seating in my apartment for 6-8 people and I'm hunched over a veritable coach flight tray table and paying for the privilege?
I agree. And many of the well off families switched their kids to private schools that were in-person or hired tutors.
I was just commenting a couple of days ago how ridiculous that the British library melts down when their computers fail. Turns out these people don't learn.
> This is about emotions and sentimentality, not fundamental practical
concerns.

This may be about practical concerns taking priority over emotional
ones, but don't mistake what is practical as being more fundamental
than that which is emotional.
Stupid by choice
Upvotes needs to run Jetbrains queries across multiple databases
Jetbrains' database tool is excellent, but is missing the ability to run a query across multiple databases (or shards). Please upvote if this could be useful to you.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/DBE-10653?replyTo=27-86...
My god you can install every app you want on an android phone. It's so absurd to deny this. It's not open because Google doesn't provide a billing service for every would-be app store competitor? Neither does Windows, Mac or Linux.
"Why should ATC at a busy airport be so accommodating? Lufthasa is the one making this hard on everyone."

It is literally ATC's job to facilitate the safe separation of aircraft. Note I said facilitate, not ensure, because ensuring safe separation and operation remains in the cockpit. When a pilot arrives at an airport and requests a specific approach, whether that reason is company policy or the limitations of weather, it is ATC's job to accept that request or deny it, and not to beat around the bush suggesting doing one thing and calling it another. When they give an expected time for something the pilot makes decisions in the cockpit if that new limitation will work with whatever limitations already exist. If ATC is not operating honestly then that should be viewed as what it is - a compromise of safety, and a petty unnecessary one at that. If ATC is unable to accommodate the request then it needs to be stated so explicitly and as soon as possible because lives are literally part of the equation. Air traffic can be lined up from SFO all the way back to London and that still doesn't change ATC's responsibilities one bit. ATC does not "accommodate" because that implies they exercise some arbitrary discretion and not clear binary criteria.
I agree, and for the same reason that people should only use relaxed consistency models for atomics in their code if they really know what they are doing, there really is a need and they have appropriate testing. It's good that the option is available, but the headaches that you can get yourself if you don't know exactly what you are doing are real. Good luck debugging these types of Heisenbugs. You'll need it.
Interesting how author switches to assembly language for more precise reading, but keeps the "read_data" method as a separate non-assembly function. That introduces lots of branching in the code which is busy-loop-based and branch prediction is not what I'd want for consistent timing. It also introduces un-needed dependency: what if the next version of compiler changes the code? All timings (which are based on cycle-counting) will be off.

That said, Teensy 4.0 is 600 MHz ARM cpu, so there are 1000 cycles even between the shortest transitions.. some overhead is fine, the project is not exactly cpu-starved.

I also wonder if author has considered using a peripherals for precise signal capture? Something like timer in capture mode feeding into DMA buffer would allow hardware signal capture with very high precision and without any dependencies on exact instructions emitted.
I can't find a source, but I thought I read somewhere that these policies came following the Asiana Flight 214 crash [1], during which a plane did a visual approach to SFO instead of ILS. My understanding was that there was a rule change requiring ILS approaches at night at SFO, then the airlines implemented policies duplicating the rules in their policies, but then the rules were revoked - still leaving airline policies in place.

Anybody have any sources on this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214
mixtral-8x7b-instruct gets this correct:

According to the order of operations (PEMDAS/BODMAS), you should perform multiplication and division before addition and subtraction. So for the expression 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 * 1, you should do the multiplication first: 2 * 1 = 2 Then, perform the addition: 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10 So, the solution to the expression 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 * 1 is 10.
"adoption of X is a testament that it is fit for purpose" and "adoption of X is a testament of truth" are two incredibly different things.

The equivalent statement would be that "adoption by millions is a testament to the viability of X as a cohesive religion".
Perelandra's devil – the Un-Man – struck me on first reading as an excellent early depiction of a hostile, alien form of intelligence, superior but purely instrumental. Lewis was very early in working out the implications of that – nowadays the Rationalists and a lot of others would agree that there can be entities with superhuman intelligence that don't intrinsically value their intelligence, and that such beings would have almost irresistible persuasive ability if given the opportunity. (Lewis differs in also giving the Un-Man genuinely supernatural abilities with which it attempts to overawe the protagonist.)

"it regarded intelligence simply and solely as a weapon… Thought was for it a device necessary to certain ends, but thought in itself did not interest it. It assumed reason… externally and inorganically…"
> Even if you pay $1k per office per programmer

You mean per year? Private office costs are much higher than that.

If you mean per month, then you are assuming salary to be average of $100k-200k.
How would this effect normal users? For 99.9% of android users I don't think matters.
I can't even open Reddit anymore, it just shows a text blob with something about the user agent (which hasn't changed). I wouldn't even care but much of my first page of search results is full of Reddit links.
Also, that national network for travel needs to include a much higher percentage spent on intercity/regional rail than we currently do.
FBI: Alphv ransomware raked in $300M from over 1k victims
I highly, highly disagree. Getting advice on the spot is often critical. And rarely will you get good practical advice like "always do a dry build locally from the command line" on the forums.

I can't even count how many times I had to tell other engineers, that they have to run a clean build locally...

Not to mention, that mentorship can be useful just for the processes that are present within the company.
Welp. It used to be PhysX math would run on a dedicated gpu of choice. I remember assigning or realising this during the Red Faction game with forever destructing walls.

Almost Minecraft, but with rocket launchers on mars
Yeah, it's convinced that it's Google Lens:

> what's your name?

> My name is Google Lens, and I am an image recognition technology developed by Google [...]
Very true. This website[0] by a library consultant says the library system was “Aleph 500.” The product documentation[1] says it is an Oracle on RHEL. Other components also indicate Unix flavors.

0. https://librarytechnology.org/library/3413

1. https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Aleph/Product_Documentat...
Is there a good method to split out memory and CPU bottlenecks on a CPU? most folks simply optimize until they hit 100% and assume all CPU usage is created equal.

Seems like there needs to be a tool similar to htop with utiization stats for different instructions to indicate how much of the CPU is idle/busy.
The general pattern in a lot of places I've read about is that most people don't move out to the boonies or across the country. They move someplace that's accessible to the city for a weekend or even a day trip.

I haven't moved because I already owned a place in an exurb, but if I had to go into Boston daily as I did for a while, that wouldn't be sustainable but I can go in for a show in the evening (or a customer visit). There are probably a lot of people for whom their housing calculus changes if they don't have to regularly go into a downtown office.
Wow, I hadn't thought about it through that lens exactly, but you are 100% right. Virtually everyone in large organizations (engineers, PMs, designers) are incentivized to launch things that align with their end-of-year performance goals. Those goals are sometimes at odds with the best overall customer outcome.

I hadn't thought about figma specifically as being a symptom. I'm sure some organizations use it effectively, but I can see how it might spiral out of control to result in an "I'm helping too" sort of ethos, with a poor net outcome.
Should get those bytes on a CDN!
mmm wat .-.
People are remarkably more hesitant to destroy physical records than digital ones, in my experience. Also, you have to go to a place and find the thing to destroy it - with digital records, you can press a button from across the world.
Considering a half dozen people in this thread posted this, it’s shocking this was released as a quasi mysterious product with little foresight that people may in fact ask this.
I think in the UK there wasn't too much beating up of Germans. My parents / grandparents were Germans in the UK during that period. We mostly just dropped bombs on the ones of the other side of the channel.
For those that don't know the backstory on this, it was put to a statewide vote as to whether we should introduce wolves back into the environment.

Meanwhile, there were already wolves in Colorado

> Colorado has had confirmed or probable wolf dispersals into the state every year since 2019. In addition to the five wolves released this week, two wild wolves from the North Park pack are known to still live in the state.

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/first-...

So they're not actually reintroducing anything, and they're doing it because a majority of people in the state, that likely live in the cities and won't be impacted by it, decided to force it to happen.

Now the ranchers get to deal with the troubles it creates. A lot of valuable ranch dogs are going to be lost to this.
That's actually not true, perceived pitch can be different from fundamental frequency, because of psychoacoustics.
E. g. you can have "missing fundamental" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental - or other effects like "sum and difference tones", which are quite popular in spectralism / spectral music
Hold on. I would avoid broad claims.
Latest generation of automated phone systems is crap, yes. But we are very slowly starting to see something new here.

I can assure it would take me a week to fix a lot of problems aka memes coming from this. System prompt can be first place to start fixing, second small model or some another background call for just keeping conversation sane and within certain topic / rules (sort of like more independent conversation observer process to offload from original context), third you can finetune the model to have a lot of this baked and so on.

While this example is premature implementation, they are spearheading something and will learn from this experience and perhaps construct a better one.
The article is paywalled and cites a paper published on an Elsevier platform. Is this anything other than wild speculation? Seems like the kind of content that goes viral because it validates our gut instinct.

Not that I disagree with the made up number. I expect most social media to have a very high amount of manipulative content, especially the high-visibility content.
I asked what happened last week in one specific region of Europe, and the answer contained a list of relevant events among which was the one I was looking for.

Then I asked it to tell more about the specific item and it gave me a decent answer (model: pplx-7b-online).

Pretty good experience so far.
I am using custom components for all data fetching which primarily wraps the supabase JS sdk. I have some issues I still need to make a bit more robust around caching and invalidation, but the Supabase JS sdk does help some.

I do think that is another weakness right now is the built in plugins aren't quite sophisticated for a lot of real use cases
> Any armed militia (let alone a single citizen) would have no power to fight anything. A government army would crush them.

If this were true, then America wouldn’t have failed so badly in Afghanistan, guerilla tactics work. The objective isnt to defeat the military in a war, if that were possible it would lead to instability and random groups of americans from taking over the government anytime.
The objective is to give enough capabilities to everyday citizens to atleast be able to setup a resistance severe enough that no government would consider such an action.
For those abilities I think the liberties provided are helpful enough.
But I agree with you, there are far more dangerous instruments being used against common citizens now, that it makes people protecting themselves with guns a bad joke.
That calls for more policies to allow citizens to defend themselves, whether that’s a more robust education system to help citizens catch lying politicians, or a more robust system to bring in control the massive polarization spreading across all democracies, and defences against gutting out of the middle class that’s taking place.
But all of them call for more protections to be added, not existing ones to be removed
That, and one could make the case than countries with strict gub laws, and thus a theoretically less afraid government, actually serve their citizens better than US when it comes to stuff like education, health care, social security, housing and infrastructure. So I am not really sure the theory of an armed citizenry resulting in better government for the people actually holds water.
Water.

It works by having water (or another conductive liquid) provide a path between the contacts.
The nation's capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning
Follow-up to my previous reply: after looking through what's available online about The Rings of Power, I realized that this is the series where (a) Galadriel takes a ship back to Valinor, but then changes her mind and jumps overboard just before it arrives, and swims back towards Middle-Earth; and (b) Galadriel is picked up by Elendil and taken to Numenor, meaning that the whole story of the Rings of Power now happens near the end of the Second Age. (And don't even get me started about a "Stranger" falling to Middle-Earth on a meteor who is obviously intended to be Gandalf.)

I had heard of those things before, and my reaction was "ick", and it still is. (a) is completely inconsistent with everything Tolkien wrote about Galadriel. (b) is a huge change in the timeline of the Second Age, for no good reason that I can see except that TV audiences are not supposed to be able to follow a story that covers such a long expanse of time. Which I think Tolkien would have had the same "ick" reaction to that I have. (I'm not sure what to make of Christopher Tolkien's reaction, but I suspect his reaction was much more nuanced, or else he didn't see enough of the preproduction.)

I get that people like to, so to speak, play around with an imaginary world they like. I have no objection whatever to people watching Jackson's films and liking them, or watching this series and liking it. I just don't think the world they are seeing portrayed in Jackson's films is the same world that Tolkien imagined and wrote about. And based on the above, I suspect I would feel the same about The Rings of Power.

As far as loving Tolkien's writing goes, there are many different ways of doing that. I have no doubt that Jackson sincerely loves Tolkien's work. He just doesn't in the same way I do, since what he did with it is nothing like what I would have done. And again, based on the above, I suspect I would feel the same about the people who made The Rings of Power.
Weird. I only have 16GB but seems to run fine for me?
Imagine you lose access to your account, with what company do you think have better chances recovering it?

Now imagine you get some very bad data loss bug affecting just your company account. What chances are there you will ever have your problem looked at by Google? I totally believe it's 0% unless you get to HN frontpage.

It's not like Dropbox have best support ever, but I totally believe that getting a living human to look at your problem would be so much easier with them. With Google it's just impossible.
Digital technology means that 1) the intern can burn down the entire library of Alexandria with the wrong SQL statement (“what’s ‘where?’”), and 2) we still have no real long-term archival solution for data storage that isn’t prohibitively expensive or subject to non-retrieval due to technology advancement

Consider this: please pull the tape backups? What do you mean we don’t have a tape reader anymore and the tape has all gone bad? What about the archival DVD? They only last 25 years? Surely the Zip drive has it on it? The plastic wore out on the read heads? Is that even a thing? Amazon glacier? No SLA? No, ColeSLA isn’t a funny joke Steve. This is serious. Wait. So, where are the land records from 1870 to establish ownership of the property then?

Digital record preservation is hard and gets a lot harder the longer term you try to do it.

Governments do NOT have the proper time horizons or actual costs of preservation in realistic order or top of mind when they talk about these projects being “cost saving.”
Surprisingly fast generation speed. Maybe it isn't at capacity yet?
> Cities are amazingly resilient...

I concur. Some cities that have outlived their empires -- Rome, Istanbul (Constantinople), London, Baghdad, Alexandria, Cairo, Kabul, Mumbai.

Even NYC, Boston, Philly predate the US constitution.
Did you actually look at that list? Most have under 1,000,000 in population. Many even have less than 100,000. There are only a handful of cities on the list comparable to NYC. It’s also worth noting that Manhattan would be 9 on the list, if listed as an individual city. The current number 9 is Port au Prince. Is that the kind of metropolis you were comparing NYC to?
I just bought a cheap oscilloscope (Hanmatek DOS1102) and it has the opposite oddity. It comes with a standard 5v USB adapter, but the cable going to scope is a USB A on one end and on the other... 2.5mm X 2.1mm barrel! Why they did not use a standard USB Micro or Mini (or C) connector on the scope, I'll never know.
Without paywall:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-nation-s-capital-built...
Exactly true and happens at all levels.

Sure Mr Tribeca might have had an awesome loft in Tribeca, but he also has like a 100 acre estate on the Hudson. And a place in Montauk. And and and..
Project Cemetery
They've just started blocking some VPNs apparently. I'm getting the same.
Meditation is more about learning to focus attention on boring things and discovering that the effort itself is rewarding. It's a lame materialistic description, but it's much closer to the truth. Doing gym stuff is a good analogy: moving weights around and to their original position looks silly to an outsider, but that's because the outsiders try to judge with their minds what can only be understood thru direct experience.
I've been paying $7.99 a month.
> Does this mean screen sharing actually works on Wayland?

It does work well via the browser. Zoom is a lottery of pain.
From a purely economic standpoint, difficult to say. I was able to build skills that are very in demand in certain technical areas, and breaking into these areas is notoriously difficult otherwise. On the other hand, I earned peanuts for many years. It'll probably take some time for it to pay off.

That said, never do a PhD for economic reasons alone. It's a period in your life where you are given an opportunity to build up any idea you would like. I enjoyed that aspect very much and hence do not regret it one bit.

On the other hand, I also found out that academia sucks so I now work in a completely different field. Unfortunately it's very difficult to find out whether you'll like academia short of doing a PhD, so you should always go into it with a plan B in the back of your head.