skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One aspect that shocks me is someone complaining about having a 15.3% tax rate at an income of 84k/year. If your state is incompetent, corrupt and whatever else, its your duty as a citizen to do something about. Barring that, I guess paying less tax than the aprox 1.9 million Romanians getting paid minimum wage (aprox tax paid by a minimum wage employee is about 37%) while making about 3 times the average salary is still not good enough.

I appreciate the writeup and the thoughts on time and money, yet the complaints about taxation for someone making this much money in that country, cannot but ruin it a bit for me.
The traffic camera will gladly catch you all and send you fines.
I had no idea "yellow journalism" and the Pulitzer Prize were linked in that way, thanks for that piece of information.
Some results published here https://llm-eval.github.io/pages/leaderboard/advprompt.html

Also, technical report on arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07910

I think that something that would make the results better would be highlighting which models perform best for specific tests (ie color coding) and explaining the tests via some hover info.

Also with some fine tuned models training to get higher scores on specific tests, I don't know how valuable these tests are in comparison to chatbot arena's elo ranking https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Soviet health care is like that. A friend is taking care of an elderly mother and to get anything done you have to network through associates, acquire medicines for medical procedures though 3rd party networks. Assemble your own surgical team etc. It’s a completely tribal and manual process. When done with western money you can get world class care though. I would assume similar things are possible in the USA if you are willing to pay out of pocket and have the right connections and millions of dollars. It’s just not visible to regular folks in the under 1%
> Omniscience and omnipotence cannot co-exist; they are logically incompatible.

Aquinas, in his Summa Contra Gentiles, for one would disagree. See Theorem 11 (and corollaries):

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/11/first-way-part-iv-casca...
Yes, yes it is.

The main problem is that we are okay with shipping unfinished barely-beta software because we can always force the upgrade/update/change. You didn't have that luxury when you were shipping software on a floppy disk/CD-ROM, and that was it: all the bugs and issues were there, forever.
I kinda like the way ansible does it. There is a concept of a vault. You put all the passwords in that file and they are all encrypted. You use one password when running the command or playbook and all of the keys are decrypted as needed.

I don't know if that is efficient for 30K machines though.
> but having all existing programs keep working as they did on the new chip

Surely not relevant to the vast majority of consumers.

Developers and businesses may have old executables they still use. But those users can buy Intel based PCs.
I don't see it on the Play Store, sadly :-)
Interesting. I had a model 3 for a couple of years from new (company car) and nothing went wrong at all. I enjoyed owning it quite a lot. And while I was irritated by the unnecessary UI rethink (maybe 18 months ago?) that worsened usability (I mean, HTF does that even happen?) overall the software was reliable, responsive and usable, and far better than any other car brand I’ve experienced.

I’m vacillating over buying another Tesla in the future. If I could guarantee a similar experience to my last car I definitely would, but I’m also wary of getting stuck when something goes wrong and the only recourse is Tesla’s anecdotally expensive/unreliable/un-customer-friendly “service”.
Fair enough. I'm a bit dubious of the idea of having children as a means of securing your retirement plan on a few grounds. I'll skip any moralizing about it and just say that I've seen people for whom it has failed somewhat spectacularly on a practical level and in a variety of ways.

It would be nice to have that care provided by the community who can hopefully scale it a bit better.
https://notebooklm.google
I can state some of mine:

I don't want loud audio blasting on my headphones before watching a Youtube or news site video. I don't want to watch scam advertisements on Youtube or Instagram. I don't want to be tracked without my consent by third-party ad companies. I don't want to even support companies that track users without consent. I would actually prefer that websites using non-privacy-respecting ad-ware would die. I don't want my computer to be slowed down by random websites. I don't want to be forced to spend hundreds/thousands on computer upgrades. I don't want ad code from ad companies running on my device. I don't want the risk of malware that might come via ads in some websites. I don't want my attention going to jumpy animations on GIF banners (the original reason I started blocking in the early 2000s). And finally: I don't want to spend the bandwidth, regardless of the fact it's gonna cost me money or not.

I am, however:

Happy to watch a Youtube NordVPN or Ridge Wallet sponsorship segment on Youtube that doesn't track me and allow me to skip if I want. Same for TV ads (unless they're obnoxious and loud). Also Happy to unblock websites that don't have obnoxious third-party ads.
ITT: Tails wag dogs.

Ads are, in the vast majority, toxic shit. Endemic income inequality and unicorn worship has produced VC-backed hustle culture where "creators" spew "content" over platforms, and slap ads on top to generate income.

If a business can't generate sufficient income by selling a product, it's not a viable business. It's certainly not one I want to interact with.

Tail wags dog: Without advertising, all this content would be paywalled or simply wouldn't exist.

Dog wags tail: Sell your product, maybe give away samples. Sink or swim.
I'm sorry that your wife, and you, have had this in your lives. I hope that today was good for you both and that the coming year brings better health for her.
hahah wow! cool :-)

PS: OT, I am reading this Bark thing(https://github.com/suno-ai/bark). Can I run it locally on a Macbook 2015 with 8GB RAM?
I'm 61, Hey @Dang -- why do you permit this disgusting ageism to go unchecked on Hacker News?
Something like https://matrixzj.github.io/documentations/idm_decrypt_ssh_pr... (then ssh -i decrypted_key) should work and avoid ssh-agent
Medical professionals in general are stretched thin. They all have too many patients. More doctors each with fewer patients would lead to better quality.
That's odd.

Me smol brain grog. I grunt at my boy once a week. His mother/my wife has given up of having a conversation with me.

My boy's a philosophy major who is constantly on the phone walking someone through some game for the fun of it, or debating philosophy. I do not understand half of what he says.
Previously: "A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving". 2015 July 2. 288 comments. <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/03/upshot/a-quic...>

You'll need to paste this snippet into the JS console in your browser (or make a bookmarklet out of it and click it in order to reveal the article) because something on nytimes.com has caused it to break at some point in the last 8 years:

document.querySelector(".g-result.g-noText").style.display = "block"

HN comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818310>
It is a tremendous amount of work to tread on a new path. Although at times exciting, it's often just scary and you have a huge downside risk and only a minor upside benefit. Breaking with even one widely held assumption creates a huge burden and if you break with more than one, which I think is necessary, is exponentially harder. And there is no single project which benefits from this extra overhead. The impetus has to come from within and it's very personal like an artist feeling a need to express themselves no matter the cost.
I'd love something like this that could be called from sh like dialog can.
> a more scientific term for such practice - "sonification"

Sonification is a very useful concept, e.g. to make the blood flow audible in medical ultrasound. But this is not the same as algorithmic composition, which is the topic here.
would it be possible to cross the plants the other way? Make the European/Asian ones big and tasty like the American ones. I am sure there are people thinking about this full time and would have much better ideas, but just wondering.
You can learn enough HTML to make a website without even properly understanding what files and directories are, let alone how to use a terminal.

And with Neocities, you also don’t need to understand what it means for files to be “local” or “on a server” because you just get a textarea that you can type your HTML into. (until you get to stuff like using your own images that is)

To do “basic git usage” you need to pretty deeply grok all of that before you can even begin to learn git itself. Just to publish a website!
I've installed the app linked in TFA and it immediately asked me to sign in or sign up without any option to configure my own server address. But since it's still a beta version, the custom server/local only options are probably not implemented yet.
I honestly feel like smart homes are getting worse each year for me. Now even Hue is an unreliable and unnecessarily frustrating experience. The only actual improvement in my setup has been that the IKEA Dirigera hub is now a solid improvement but some Hue stuff doesn’t work with it.

On the other hand some manufacturers are now actively fighting home assistant and the matter switch is non existent. A total zero number of devices in my home run over matter, something that I didn’t expect given the huge amount of excitement early on.

It feels like rather than everything slowly converging I now run two hubs still, custom smart home apps, a largely unreliable and useless home assistant next to some things with HomeKit.

I really can’t stand it and I’m incredibly frustrated by it.
> Germany's solution was to reactivate lots of coal

You have seen the statistics? Coal use for electricity is going down?

https://blog.energybrainpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/...

> Storage of nuclear fuel at interim sites is safe and unproblematic. Which is one of the reasons the purely political problem of a permanent site can be kicked down the road by spineless politicians. Technically, safe final storage is completely solved. Finland's Onkalo site just opened, Sweden is also close to completing theirs and Yucca mountain was also ready.

Incorrect. Germany is currently spending billions to clean-up experiments to store nuclear waste (-> Asse II) and the general solution of other nuclear waste in Germany is completely unclear.

> It is being dramatically expanded all over the world

So far without effect: https://world-nuclear.org/getmedia/332179b1-b865-47cc-a239-7...

> We should be recycling this, but alas fresh Uranium fuel is so cheap that recycling is at best marginally economical at this point.

Definitely not, re-processing nuclear fuel is extremely environmentally damaging and technically challenging.

You are bringing up dead horses, which are dead since decades. Nobody will be able to build a re-processing plant in Germany in the next 50 years.

> The Chinese already finished their copy of the EPR

Still, Europe is not in China. If nuclear friendly countries like France and the UK can't build them cost and time effective, it says something for Germany.

Plus: China finished many many more coal power plants.
I have a colleague who comes from a culture with a T-V distinction and lives in France where it also exists. But the line we would draw between "toi" and "vous" in French is quite different from his culture: he apparently has a more formal "framework" for T-V and he uses "vous" much more often than others would, so it often creates some distance.

So, T-V distinction is also very cultural in a sense where the line between the two is.
I gotta get me some of that
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I have none of the above! That's the problem with a simple life.

Without the A/C running, PG&E rates my home better than "energy efficient" homes. I just don't use much electricity except in summer, and the savings from heat pumps, solar cells and batteries would never pay back.

I suppose that I could afford a vacation at the coast if I just took off and didn't cool the home in the heat. I'll run the numbers.
But you factored-out developer productivity. What you gain in reduced server costs is lost many times over in developer productivity. Companies who chose Rails for decades knew it was slower and more memory-hungry than rolling everything yourself in Rust or C++. They did the math and the business case for Rails was more compelling.
Not really pure C, plenty of #include that aren't part of ISO C standard.

Pure UNIX/POSIX C, more likely.
Single payer is actually pretty rare in developed countries. Canada and UK are the main ones. Hybrid public/private models are more common.

Universal healthcare, where everyone has coverage, is what people usually want.
> What justification is there for this, though?

In hindsight I assume that you were thinking of the government taking iMessage from Apple? I didn't see anyone mention that specifically, and I never assumed that would be how the government would approach this.

Everybody knows that social democracies have plenty of legal justification and precedent for doing such things. They impose on industry all the time, in many different sectors. They have done such things as mandate interoperability, and they could do so in order to allow for more capable messaging for everyone, perhaps updates to existing sms/mms like I mentioned, without targeting one company specifically. When enough voters care about an issue our representatives respond within regulatory and constitutional limits. Whether you agree or not, that's how the world we live in works. We don't live in an Ayn Rand novel.

My initial reply spoke to the moral justification underpinning the legal justification for such things, i.e. the public good.

> Intentional or not, you took on the position...

I tried to correct your erroneous assumptions about my position in our thread, and ask questions to learn more about yours. That has not gone well. One might wonder if you are deflecting for some reason.

> I didn't opt to participate in an open-ended discussion that bounces around on the general topic of open sourced messaging platforms, I responded to a specific argument with a specific counterpoint.

Sometimes back and forth is required to avoid misunderstandings, to better explore a nuanced topic, and to narrow things down instead of talking in circles. Fine by me if you'd rather not.
It was at a Toastmasters meeting, someone’s speech had the line:

[Most people spend their life trying not to lose something rather than reaching towards a new goal, so they become stuck.] Are you playing to win, or not to lose?

I keep referring to it with my career choices over the last few months - it’s getting me out of my hole and onto the ladder to find a new job.
The sub-headline says everything you need to know: "Gadget makers, unsurprisingly, are hesitant to compete purely on device quality."
This is really interesting, as it could greatly decrease the human risk of using lighter, cheaper aircraft for cargo. Systems always optimize to their incentives, so we may see a fairly rapid shift to this kind of thing for certain routes.
> but I found it difficult to work with the lack of first-class functions and iterators/generators, as well as the general iteration protocol.

Ruby has iterators/generators. It doesn't have first-class functions because it doesn't have functions at all, but blocks/procs serve the same purposes.
It's a backend use case.
I love this sort of thing I always like to read about people's terminal usage, and the terminal programs.
My favorite:

alias gfp=“git commit --amend --no-edit && git push --force-with-lease”

For those “whoops, for got to add $x file” moments or typos
To be fair, they had plans for some pretty nice models back then. The timing was just terrible.
(and it doesn't seem to be opensource)
Success can’t be observed in the moment. You only can gauge success in retrospect. How do you know his advice is durable and yields a success that’s anything more than a momentary excitement? His “social life advice” can’t be evaluated until his life has been lived. Are his friends transactional? Does his advice only hold if you have something others want from you?

Taking advice on life from a 34 year old is taking advice from someone who hasn’t lived life yet. They might have some hot take tips and they might even have good advice about how to tactically achieve certain goals. But their advice comes with no actual wisdom, no actual analysis of things from a longer perspective of having done things, seen the results, and observed the consequences over time. They can’t, because experience isn’t innate, it isn’t a skill, it is only earned with time and reflection. Perhaps he’s reflecting, and that’s wonderful. And I’ll be happy to read his advice in 30 years and compare it against mine. But the young taking the advice of the young is the blind leading the blind.
> or need

They do need you, but they don't know it, yet.
Eighteen month renovation of an abandoned house in Portugal
Such a good character is Thrawn, love this.
If we're talking about "how do you pay for it," then there are not just two models.

Closed source products can be sold outright, rented, subsidized via ads, some combination of those, and more. They can even be given away as tax write-offs or loss leaders or somesuch.

All of those models also exist for open source products! It turns out that customers aren't paying for source access so much as they're paying for working software.

No one can agree about what "quality" actually is. Mostly, it's a word used as a weapon whenever someone wants to bully change into happening. Or not happening, for that matter. But a weapon either way.
Equating murder, even attempted, with defederation - this is a fallacy.
Display a price-tag on content. You can watch 2 ad breaks, or you can pay $0.05 to watch the video (or whatever it is Google is making off of them). Make it super easy to pay (for example with a prepaid wallet you can refill).
Also: quality for whom? What Eloi consider quality and what Morlocks consider quality are, if not opposed, at least in strong competition due to opportunity cost. (if it's not obvious, I spend my efforts on quality for Morlocks, and am willing to leave the much-more-time-intensive quality for Eloi up to "the market")
Such an editor will be written in HQ9E+, my fork of HQ9+ with the following semantics:

H: prints Hello, World!
Q: prints the program's source text
9: prints the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
E: behaves like a nano-like text editor
+: increments the accumulator

A transparent preprocessor can of course be used to add the necessary "E" to the empty source as part of the build step.
What I mean is I think I the same things that would make it easier to expose would also make it easier to use on the backend unexposed.
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Are you actually going to the DB or is that json synthetically generated? Is it the same json? What exactly are we testing here?
> best car UI I've ever used.

I'll reluctantly agree with this notion, but will say that being the best car UI is hardly difficult to achieve.

> There's zero guessing.

What? Do you use the UI every day? I do, and I'm constantly guessing where the latest UI update moved things to.

I suspect my Model 3 doesn't have "touch zones" on the steering wheel either, since if it I did, I'd certainly be touching them unintentionally. Or maybe my Model 3 does have them, and I just haven't found the UI control/setting to know if I do or not.

The configurable steering wheel button is a huge win in terms of usability, and it's also relatively new to the Model 3.

> you're mostly meant to use voice and put everything in auto.

Some of us don't have voices. Being able to speak out loud should not be a requirement for driving a vehicle.

Regarding everything being in auto: when everything is in auto, sometimes the car wants to automatically slam on the brakes or swerve into oncoming traffic or stopped police cars. You may be comfortable with that risk. I am not.

I have also never stared at my speedometer, but that's usually because on most cars it's easy to just glance down and see a speedometer.

On the Model 3, you have to: remember where the speedometer is now (since UI updates have moved it - it's had 4 different locations since I've owned my Tesla). Once you do find it, you have to ignore all the other UI baubles crowding around it. There are dancing grey 3D models of nearby vehicles, notifications, yellow icons, if your blinker is on, and you found the setting to enable it, sometimes a side camera overlay alternating between something you can see and full yellow/white from brightness of the blinker over exposing the shot, green icons, models of nearby vehicles that are swapping out between a truck shape, a sideways car shape, cones, then back into the sedan model (even though the vehicle it's rendering is actually a tiny old pick up trick).

It UI may be the "best car UI" you've ever used, but that doesn't mean touch-screen-only controls in a vehicle are even remotely a good idea.
Would this have been true in a society without optics and therefore corrective lenses?
Grinch, pls go away. Only thing that's worse than Christmas is people complaining instead of ignoring it and going on with their lives.
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No, i think it's a great feature. Definitely increases security. I don't believe it works on 5GHz networks though.
You can feather the blades or stuff like that, but you can't just ramp them up or down like a natural gas plant and keep them there. It's still weather dependent without some source of fuel.
One good example is bringing up equipment that comes out-the-box with a default password. This is common on BMCs for example, and you have to initially provision things somehow.
> Omniscience is full knowledge of everything, including the future.

Speaking of "the future" with respect to an eternal being† is non-sensical, as it is outside of time.

† Strictly speaking God is not a [bB]eing (not even the Supreme Being), but Being itself: see the term/concept of "ipsum esse subsistens".
> extreme inefficiency and much higher labor costs

Which is mooted with single payer. Roughly 1/3rd of costs eliminated. Last time I checked (mid 2000s). Probably more now.
As soon as I get the feeling that an article was written by a LLM, I stop reading. Usually it's repetitive phrasing, or grade school essay style summaries that turn me off. In short, a poor ratio of text to actual information. Even bad writing can have useful information in it, and I will plow through it. But vapid text that meanders without saying anything isn't worth anyone's time.

On the other hand, if LLM-generated text is actually good, and I can't tell... I guess then I don't care?
That doesn't mean that a device that doesn't offer pub key storage is not accessible over SSH.
Are those Free and Open Source? If there's a security problem can I fix it myself and flash new software?
https://github.com/zotero

It is open source...
I’ve got one of your pre-soldered kits running ESPHome in my office. It’s a great product, thanks for making it!
The choice is not between using or not using priors, but between admitting it or denying it. A calculation that "does not use priors" is usually mathematically equivalent to one that does, for some specific prior.
Yeah there’s the occasional news piece in the uk showing some random person buying “homes” in Romania or Bulgaria for 5k£. People fail to distinguish fact from fantasy, and imagine outliers are the norm. No mentioning of the properties being better of demolished and rebuilt or in the middle of nowhere. There’s a lot of anti east european propaganda in western europe, likely a remnant of the cold war era. Keeps the consumer types happy and grateful for being born in a “rich” country.