skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have the self-driving feature in my Tesla; I have, however, developed a significant respect for the torque it delivers. It is, by a long margin, the quickest accelerating vehicle I have ever owned. The first three weeks I owned it, I think I nearly hit several cars: you press the accelerator and then you're there. I had to completely retrain myself to drive the car & carefully feather in acceleration.
Question for economists: If you give everybody in the US $500 in food credits per month, do food prices go up, or do wages go down?

Edit: Let's say there's an expiry function on the credits. Something like you get to keep 50% of the credits if they rollover.
we need to blame the failing party (Comcast here),
we need to make customer data outrageously radioactive,
so companies like Comcast try hard to avoid storing it...
That spending was self-reported.

Do you think the average American would self-report more?
My bet is on 1. backwards causation. Light takes the shortest path, by (virtually) taking all of them.

Similarly all paths to the future are taken and the present must agree with boundary conditions in the future.
I think the following would be a worthy challenge to an AI: (entire prompt follows)

My NFSv4.2 server occasionally prints this and then some `[nfsd]` processes hang. They cannot be killed and the clients that made a request to them will also hang. Processes that were using that NFS mount will become zombies if we try to SIGKILL them

```
Dec 16 16:16:05 host-00 kernel: receive_cb_reply: Got unrecognized reply: calldir 0x1 xpt_bc_xprt 000000005fcc5d1c xid 8ff70faa
```

Is there a setting I can turn off that will reduce the likelihood of this assuming my mounts are read-only and my network is fast?

(prompt ends there)

The correct answer is that if you have NFS delegations on there is a rare bug in the kernel server and client that will cause it to mismap a callback and you'll get bad behaviour all around. One successful change will be to turn off delegations.

ChatGPT-4 is the one that gets the closest. The rest of the models give very generic bullet-point advice that sounds like it's written by a Microsoft Certified Support Engineer or something. That does tell us something interesting since many of these models have the Linux source code in them, but none of them seem to be able to identify that this bug can occur. When the tool can effectively search its own knowledge intensively, I bet we can get something cool out of it. I don't think we're far, but we're not there yet.
The main problem is just their steady increase in cross-selling, nagware, advertising, and feature bloat. That is what makes me want to be rid of it.

But Windows 11 really achieves greatness in a lot of ways, which offsets it.
Pull up on the drama a bit. It’s not insulting, you’re going very far out of your way to be insulted. And also, I deal with the homeless population every day too and disagree with you. Stop pretending like everyone who disagrees with you doesn’t have experience with the homeless population. If anything, that’s what is insulting.
If you want to stop this just block the user-agent axios/0.19.2 and the ip 3.67.189.0
Citi Suit Raises MeToo Claims at Wall Street's Top Levels
This is confusing: Tesla publishes that Tesla's vehicles, both with and without autopilot, are the subject of substantially fewer accidents per million miles driven than the US average; last quarter, somewhere ~4.8M miles/accident on autopilot, ~1.5M miles/accident Tesla w/o autopilot, and ~0.5M miles/accident US average.

Given I'd like to assume the best and conclude no one is lying here; obviously what they're measuring is slightly different, but it feels like they're similar enough that we shouldn't be getting entirely opposite outcomes. Do Tesla drivers drive substantially more? Are Tesla drivers just more likely to report crashes to their insurance/police (versus, Tesla's data is probably from automated internal observability)? If Tesla's data is based on internal observability, is that observability underreporting incidents to the mothership?

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
It isn't just a skybox?
Cash is sometimes the most efficient way to distribute aid to ill people.

Unless - do you believe we shouldn’t aid ill people at all?
I don’t believe it’s the goal of Enlighten Me to produce actionable takeaways.
did it actually get them back on their feet? i.e. to the point where they no longer needed the free money? or did it improve their lives by being able to purchase/consume $750 more of goods and services?

Almost anyones life would be improved by a free $750/month, wether or not it makes any lasting change versus simply making them dependent on another government program is the real question.
During covid in Australia, we just put the homeless in hotels. It didn't cost much in comparison to the other government spending around that time and homelessness was largely eliminated. Then we got over the pandemic and tossed people out onto the street. Homelessness for some is a choice by society. Especially in the west.
Then you could see this borne out in the data with other EV sthat feature a similar acceleration (and demographic) profile. But I think it’s both, but acceleration is harder to control with legislation.. maybe a limit in urban areas?
> Is there a feature that lets you disable replies to your comment?

No, but Hacker News will not show the reply button to a comment made extremely recently, to discourage quick back-and-forths.

Looking at the timestamps I suspect that's what you're seeing.
Today in the "no shit, sherlock"-department.
Are you proposing that organ transplants be prioritized to the 80 year old chain smoker over the healthy 12 year old?

Are you proposing that old people should be the first off a sinking ship?

Old people have lived life. They should have stayed home and isolated. Kids had practically zero risk. The difference in risk between a healthy 12 year old and the average 80 year old was orders of magnitude different.
KeePass, too.
It depends on what you want to achieve.

If all you want is revenge, then by all means, punish them as hard as you wish. Make them listen to tesla autopilot advertising until their ears bleed. The harm is done by that time.

If you want to avoid harm, then you're well served to take the failure mode into account - it's not a conscious decision to take attention away from the autopilot. It's a fundamental psychological mechanism and we're all prone to fall victim. The only way to avoid the trap is to not use autopilot - or change how it works and adress the need for changes to the party that (mis)designed the feature and has power to change it.
I think its insightful that there are thresholds

if you have $50 and it wont make a difference in getting what you actually need, then fast food and fast thrills are what it will be spent on

if you have $750 or some other threshold, you can try to make a difference to get out of it

its like “give a man a fish” versus “sign up for fishing classes, get books, equipment and train so you’ll never have to be in the situation ever again”
Is this the same UK government that deliberately destroyed landing records as part of their policy of creating a "hostile environment" for dark skinned immigrants from the Empire? The government has form deleting the past. Why make it easier?
Canada turns to a post-war strategy to battle housing crisis
The digitised version isn’t a faithful copy; see the mention of the indent of the pen in the article. Information is destroyed in doing this.
TC39: Add Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy
It very much does apply to the UK.
There’s some examples on the website: https://llmlingua.com/
This is fascinating. Imagine non-rewritable optical storage media… it is like something out of a Foundation novel! Too bad that that concept is so thoroughly untested, we may never know if anything like that could gain wide adoption
They're not homeless because they were mentally ill drug addicts. They're mentally ill drug addicts because they're homeless.

People without a stable living condition experience severe stress and mental illness as a result. People without necessities to live turn to drugs to alleviate the pain and suffering they experience.

This study is one example of how giving money to people to alleviate their conditions can improve their lives and enable them to further engage in self improvement.
"Food credits" are an expensive and paternalistic Big Government approach to the problem. Is the idea that poor people don't know they need to buy food? Or that the government knows what you should be eating better than you do? SNAP spends something like $0.15 of every dollar on administrative and has complicated rules.
I usually start my PLA prints at ~80C for the first layer, dropping to 65C for the rest. I first tried it because I was playing with PEO plates that had an iridescent pattern I wanted to strongly embed in the layer, but it turns out to be a good general pattern overall. Really reduced the amount of support material I need on certain prints, which is a big plus.
> what's the point of having them then?

None for the end user! (Although I assume there must be some corporate career incentives or something for implementing security theater like this, since they keep doing it anyway.)
The people you are interacting with are not typical. The study I’ve seen shows about one third with untreated mental health issues, and one third with drug problems. I would assume a large overlap in those two groups.

The folks without those two problems just aren’t the ones in your face every day.
Even better: get a loan to buy a ship that's collateralized with the ship itself, destruct the ship to sell for parts, and default on the loan!

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-13/yields...
Yes.

Partly because of ephemeral nature of most cloud platforms / services, and also the vagaries of proprietary specific configuration.
Edit: Not working on my M1 MBP :c
Worth noting that "enabled" doesn't mean it's actually activated. The plugin explicitly asks you to activate it if you want to use it. So it's not analyzing your code or sending anything to Jetbrains' service.

This is much ado about nothing.
Google says avg American makes ~$60k/yr and spends ~$600/yr on drinking. 2% of 60k is 1200. So they'd need to be spending as much on weed/cigs/hard drugs as they do on alcohol.

I think it's close, but unlikely?
A large percentage of the homeless population is just living on the margins, waiting and hoping for their prospects to improve. They may be living in a car, on half on the street and half on someone's couch, waiting for job applications that could give them a livable wage to come back, and so on. About half [1] of the homeless adult population of working age is employed for at least part of the year!

Like you, I have lived in areas experiencing a lot of homelessness. I've stepped over sleeping people and drug needles because there was no other way to get to work or where I needed to go. On the other hand, I think that combining this with the statistical facts gives us a picture of the true size of the problem. The mentally ill and addicts are the visible part of an iceberg of Americans slowly being priced out of affordable housing and access to healthcare.

[1] https://news.uchicago.edu/story/employment-alone-isnt-enough...
No. It's a performance optimization when there are more threads than physical cores because it helps hide memory latency behind threading.
In practice these are more of historical than legal interest.
We had this problem too, it wasn't a tongue tie, he just had trouble latching. A doctor looked under his lip and said its "borderline" whatever that means and set us up with a ENT specialist. We missed the appointment and I'm glad we did. Inflicting pain on your infant and modifying their body is not something to be taken lightly. I looked in there, it all looked pretty normal to me.

She pumps and feeds him the milk from a bottle. It was a workable solution. He breastfeeds directly sometimes, he's used to the bottle so it's a little harder for him but it's fine, just a mild inconvenience.

The positive out of this is that he never became a pacifier addict, he couldn't keep it in his mouth without assistance. I think probably it will have no impact on his life as he grows at all.
Like my wife always says (whenever a cyclist is killed or maimed in an entirely preventable traffic "accident"), "if you want to kill someone, do it in a car".
I'm in the same boat. Apple hardware is perhaps the best available. The software that comes with it leaves a lot to be desired. I would rather just run a standard Linux system.
I shouldn't need to disable a plugin like that. In my opinion, it's something that I should need to explicitly enable if I want it. All it takes is one person on a project accepting the prompts to agree to the ToS for everyone. They know it's problem too because commercial accounts can disable the integration for everyone.

And most of what I said was relating to the direction Jetbrains is moving. As soon as they start adding service based integrations, it's a slippery slope and we could end up with IDEs that depend on calling out to Jetbrains' services to function.

That's the exact opposite of what I want from Jetbrains and keeping that kind of stuff out of the IDE is the reason I pay them every year.
Not for the lawyers. I bet they just filled their multi-generational retirement fund.
Heck, the Wii had Fluidity around the same time period (2010), and that's a lot weaker than the PS3. Fluidity was pretty neat—you played as a volume of water, changing states as you moved through a level that looked like a classic science textbook:https://youtu.be/j7IooyXp3Pc?si=E79rCrq2mdyZSKoF&t=120
I wonder - I only get a couple generics that literally cost less than $1 to get from my local pharmacy for some reason, but I wonder how much I'm paying in healthcare premiums (particularly employer premiums) that go towards drugs - it's probably much greater than 2% of my income indeed. Wegovy is like $1500/month and selling like gangbusters as an example.

For the recreational stuff, I'd rather make/grow my own, so in one sense they're free, but in the actual sense, they're probably quite expensive once you factor in the equipment; just like any other hobby I suppose. Hell, keeping hives to get honey to make into mead is quite the long way around.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231219190051/https://www.theat...
The problem is the things people think are important or unimportant is not universal.
> But it has also been met with resistance by Google and Meta - the only two companies big enough to be encompassed by the law.

Surprised to see that Twitter isn't covered by this as well? Surely they meet the requirements of "companies that operate social media platforms or search engine websites in Canada - where news is often shared and disseminated - and that have a total global revenue of more than C$1bn in a calendar year."
Vulkan video extensions for accelerated H.264 and H.265 encode
The reality is that you don't actually KNOW most homeless people or even know they are homeless, because they are living out of their car and still have a job. The majority of homeless people are simply priced out of homes, not having their entire lives fall apart in a crisis. They are people who were barely making ends meet for a decade, but as rent inexorably rises a couple percent every year and their basic job's hourly rate doesn't, they eventually just run out of options.
What factors led to you specifically being homeless?
I think you're doing more to illustrate the degree to which your perspective is more a product of bias and emotion than mine through your focus and prose than I possibly could through argumentation
Saudi Arabia's Plan to Keep Us Hooked on Oil [video]
I spend ~50% of my time outside NYC now as I am remote.
> The "recall" is actually the NHTSA pushing Tesla to change how they monitor drivers.

That's a recall. That's a government body having to "push" (in your own words no less) to improve safety.

Let's be honest, Tesla generally has to be dragged kicking and screaming to anything for safety (from matters as benign as Elon throwing a tantrum about the aesthetics of airbag warning on sunvisors to the fact that when AP was released, it only did steering wheel checks every fifteen minutes, and it's been several iterations of pressure to make them as frequent as they are now).

It's good to have the advancement of mechanisms for OTA updates.

It's still a recall, no matter how much Tesla fans scream "better than the dinosaurs".
Canadian news sites that compete against the CBC, if they advertise on meta, most of the money gets paid to CBC. Thats not capitalism.
Well I’m convinced!
I'm confused. Are you interested in evidence-backed policies that get people off the street? Or not?
Eg force someone to think of a red ball bouncing...

Indeed: put them in a sensory-deprivation tank and show them a video of a (possibly simulated) ball bouncing. Their existing network of neurons will do the rest.
Eliminate arithmetic precision loss in idiomatic Kotlin
Hello! I've just released an open source library in Kotlin that allows safe and developer friendly arithmetic in idiomatic Kotlin, built on top of the Java native BigDecimal class. KonigDecimal most notably prevents accidental precision loss during arithmetic operations by enforcing type safety on limited precision arithmetic.

Let me know what you think!
What kind of reply is this?
Well that's silly. You're not arguing against unit tests, you're arguing against testing in general. But empirically testing does improve the reliability of software. You're tossing the baby out with the bathwater in the interest of an academic ideal of proved correctness.

I will add that if you are verifying the correctness of some code, you have a formal specification of what the code is supposed to do. That is, you have a description of valid inputs, and a formula determining if the output is correct, given those inputs. But if you have those, you can also do property-based testing: generate random inputs that satisfy the input properties, and check that the output satisfies the output condition. This is all easier that proving correctness (it requires little or no manual intervention) and gives much of the same benefit.
that was the only one where the 7b output was included

mixtral 8x7b being better than the 70b on all the other q's was interesting too

and better than me for all of them!
Beautiful piece of math.
Similar work: Traveling Words: A Geometric Interpretation of Transformers https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07315
The mechanism improvements? Great.

The safety oversight/defect in the first place was no less of a problem before it was fixed, just because it could be fixed remotely.
I broadly agree with you, I favor UBI for similar reasons, though I'd maybe frame it less as "very good vs. less good", vs. just acknowledging the enormous overhead costs of means-testing, to say nothing of the consequences when bureaucracy turns corrupt or Kafka-esque.

But devil's advocate: is there any reason the same outcome couldn't be accomplished with a negative income tax instead, leveraging a bureaucratic infrastructure which already exists and isn't going anywhere?
> Amazon rejected my review

Someone should ask Bezos - was that a one or two-way door decision?
The article is not based on a random sample of homeless people. If you read the article, and ideally the article linked within, you'll notice that both the control and treatment groups are from a set of people who have been able to maintain ongoing relationships with 'buddies', in person or on the phone.

The linked study claims to be based on a representative sample of homeless people, but the sampling approaches detailed on page 14 don't give me confidence that this is true. This part is particularly problematic: "This process
continued with participants referring us to members
of their communities who then referred us to others."

The final weighted sample might be representative based on some demographic criteria (e.g. ethnicity, age) but weighting it to achieve that doesn't magically make it representative of the overall homeless population in other respects.
Who keeps _old passports_? Actually, I think at least here you’re supposed to send them back on replacement.
> > But they made an electric car. That did revolutionise the industry.

That is what I meant by re-inventing the wheel for political purposes.

The consumer doesn't care about the type of propellent the car uses, it was an imposition from the above which raised the price of cars and reduced their range and aestetics because of batteries design constraints.

Tesla specifically also have very poor interior design and quality of materials.
I've always thought a Thermal Imaging camera mounted above the bed would be the best sleep tracking system. It could even be hooked up to a feedback loop where if it detects your body temperature rising it can increase your fan speed, things like that. It would be a fun computer vision project.
Yes, but I play with settings when my car is parked. Everything I do while driving is with buttons and wheels.
I'd guess that most of those are owned by older drivers and not driven nearly as much. Most don't rack up tons of miles.

Probably accidents per mile would be high, but I doubt accidents per vehicle would be notable.
> I absolutely do NOT want any kind of cloud integration because that means my workflow becomes dependent on Jetbrains or whatever third party is powering the integration.

Nothing has changed. The plugin is enabled by default but it does nothing unless activated. "Enabled" doesn't mean it's doing anything.

> Again, I'm paying to NOT have that.

So don't.

>So my hunch is that people finding it useful are probably below average developers that don't know what they don't know.

Nope, I'm definitely an excellent developer and I find it useful.
I would think getting them off the street and into shelter is a win either way.
I can see their favorite hangout from my window right now. My girlfriend stands next to them at the bus stop she uses to get to her job working for the state helping homeless people.

How about GTFO of here with your presumptive bullshit.
As a non American, the expectation that your democracy only survives because your elected dictators-in-waiting are too scared to take the mask off is such a weird concept.

There are no (or very few) other democracies with that culture. From the outside, it seems that culture and those attitudes are more likely to erode your democracy than protect it. A tiny minority viewpoint could create that fear, get that protection enabled, and then you've lost that leverage over the politicians you're touting.

As democracies go, US politicians are already the most removed from contact with their citizens - it already seems like you're in a vicious circle here. Politicians fearing their citizens doesn't seem like a good basis to form a healthy democracy on.
In my experience most Python I see is amenable to static analysis and type checking. It’s possible to do the same with some Ruby, but the language is designed to make it very easy to programmatically create new types. Do you not find that this drastically reduces the effectiveness and coverage of Ruby type checkers?
> still being criminally targeted, so I returned the laptop in like new condition to him a week later. (The side reports regarding systemic/criminal abuse against at-risk folks is a separate but related matter.)

Many "progressives" like to claim that punishing criminals is counterproductive, and the real solution to address crime is to fix the poverty, the "root cause". In reality, the opposite is true: crime is one of the major root causes that prevents honest people from improving their financial situation.
So you think that the fragmentation of Web communities is going to lead to people having a LESS blinkered perspective?