skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is incredibly heavy-handed with its presentation.

> Taylor said people told themselves it was a victimless crime, that theft was built into the business models of big retailers, that supermarkets were the real criminals for raising prices or that shops were ripping off farmers or their own staff.

> She said this was known as neutralisation, essentially “moral justifications that people conjure up to make themselves feel better when they’re doing something wrong”.

All the writer has done here is to say that crime is definitely always obviously wrong; all while providing a poignant counterexample.

The whole thing reads like they are simply embarrassed to admit the reality in front of them.
I came here to say Death Rally as well. I also still have the CD. I remember there was a bug with the copy on the CD where it wouldn’t run if your machine had more than 8MB of ram (or similar). I think we had 48 or 64MB? Either way, I found out 10+ years later that there was a patch that was released to fix the issue.

Edit - their site is still up with the patch: https://legacy.3drealms.com/rally/
IMO companies should have 5 years to make money off what they produce. That should give them time for a theatrical release and a bulk of the at home sales and early streaming boost. For a TV series, maybe it’s 5 years after the show ends. After that, it enters the public domain to avoid media being lost to time and the mess we currently have.

If a studio hasn’t made enough money to recoup their costs and generate some profit in 5 years, it is unlikely they ever will.

I’m not sure how this would work with something like a soap opera that has been on air for 50+ years with no sign of stopping.
This article doesn't provide any detail about what claims are made, or who makes them. It doesn't even mention who owns copyright on the show. The one quote talks about how Jim Henson was well-liked... there is no mention of copyright in the quote.
That’s right, JSX is also not HTML.
Definitely not.
It's actually great how the frame endured whole thing enough for people to safely evacuate.
Those drugs are still available outside of your luggage. Your need for that stuff is convenience. Everybody else on the flight would prefer to have their luggage too.
I use phind.com, but perplexity.ai also works well
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I don’t think there is any point tackling food inflation without tackling rent inflation (by extension house prices). The rise in rent/mortgage has hit people way harder than any increase in food staples, you could even double the price of eggs, cheese and milk and it will still have less impact on cost of living than a 20% rise in rent/mortgage. A person I know was paying 700/month mortgage in 2020 and is now paying 2400/month, and this isn’t an atypical story in London.
How do you report it? Is there a field "income from illegal activities" in the tax forms? Asking for a friend.
Virginia's Fairfax Schools Urged to Toughen Privacy Safeguards After Data Probe
The average age of general aviation aircraft is well over 30 years old.
There was a butter theft in the news in Canada recently as well. Just anecdata, but nobody had these problems five or ten years ago either. It's the result of policies that import poverty to create demand/interchangable-subjects for the expansion of government. It's hard to care about as everyone was warned, and it's all on purpose to demolish western societies.

In terms of products to develop, the optimistic case is for anything to manage the obesity, waning fertility, narcissistic supply, social isolation, underclass status signalling, and capital flight for the growing pantsuit apparatchik class struggling to manage it.
Lots of confusion here about what such a meter actually looks like. See the start of this [0] document for a photo. It’s an older photo but I remember the same from Edmonton in the 1980s. No digital display, no thermal printer, etc. They were numerous — one meter for each parking spot. Later in the subject’s tenure they were swapped for digital display/timer meters with the same form factor (still no printer).

https://pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?Doc...

Edit: disregard — this doc is for parking meters rather than LRT machines (which the article also calls LTR).
Yeah, I guess it’s probably hard to stand out with flow fields since you have really famous gen artists like Tyler Hobbs using them quite heavily. What have you found to be less limiting or more expressive? Other expressions of noise?
You're implying this is ATC rather than human-error related.
I'm just a hobbyist, but my understanding is that there are supporting systems in-place, such as RIMCAS (Runway Incursion Monitoring and Conflict Alert System)
https://test1.skybrary.aero/articles/runway-incursion-monito...
wonderful for sure, but not a miracle. A miracle would be "all 1,000,000 people survived". Media likes to throw words with weight behind things without. It's not a miracle, it's extremely fortunate. However, any loss of life due to preventable disaster is/should be - unacceptable. The coast guard aircraft crewmen that were struck shouldn't have been near the runway at all. They should have waived off to go-around or been better at ground operations to make sure the runways were clear.
And the artist earns significantly less as a consequence, hence the emphasis placed (from literally every artist I’ve spoken to or heard o speak on it) “you don’t make money from album sales, you hardly break even from touring, you basically need a side-business now”

Or maybe it’s actually a net healthy thing—that is, demanding musical artists be lifelong paupers of the most fundamental degree—because music is an unproductive venture and starving artists make objectively better art.
I recall the original context was that telling a patient to not worry because the chance of success is high isn't actually helpful, because the objective argument doesn't take into account the patient's personal perspective.

I've since extrapolated that to meaning that objective measures cannot always tell or respect the whole story, because personal perspectives can bowdlerize everything down to life or death or a 50% chance.

To put it another way: Telling someone they have a negligible chance of being in an aviation accident is worthless comfort if they end up in one.
Are you talking about Meta, by any chance?
> but to the bank a deposit is a liability not an asset

Deposits are an asset AND a liability

> This means banks in the modern sense can literally create money, so they don’t need your deposits

Not really. Banks still have to spend central banking money when doing interbank settlements, and deposits are an important source of funding to day-to-day operations.

Say you have an account within Chase and want to send money to your friend at JPMorgan, Chase can't simply "create dollars" - they need to have enough reserves in their Central Bank account.
The answer is collective and compulsory licensing programs.
Reasons and Persons is a truly mind-expanding book. It's the opposite of the cliché of analytic philosophy as arid word games.
> Human to human open discussion is superior to computer to computer in the business of flying/navigation.

What makes you think so?
I had a dentist explain to me that my lip could go numb with a 50% chance after my wisdom teeth removal with that exact explanation just two minutes before the surgery. I was infuriated, turns out I was on the lucky side of her coin.
I'm always impressed with how the Unicode Consortium decided to expand Emojis. It's cool to see that "head shaking horizontally" is just the smiling face + the left and right arrow unicodes or the new lime emoji is just the lemon and green square unicodes. Really smart and backwards compatible in a way.
A lot of people had less money, too. Not everyone got to keep their income stream.
You expect the world to bend to your will. You have to be far more careful with where you pick your battles, and decide which hill to die upon.

The professor wanted you to use a set of tools, and you chose to ignore them, of course you're going to get dinged on your grade, you didn't follow instructions.

Take the class over, and do it right this time, and you'll likely get a much better grade. College (Uni?) is all about seeing if you can fit in, and be a useful cog in the system. If you aren't easy to work with, nobody is going to hire you, and your life will suffer as a consequence.

Everybody is just trying to get along, and you don't seem to want to recipricate.
Have you ever tried calling your brokerage firm, if you own any stocks or a 401k, to ask them who owns the actual shares you purchased?

$10 says they won't give a straight answer unless you ask just the right question. Eventually you'll find that there isn't a share you own directly, its effectively an IOU claim to a share. People can technically learn how the system works, but that leaves a lot of gray area there.

We could also technically read medical journals and learn how our medications work, but its unreasonable to expect everyone will and recent history has shown that in a pinch you'll be called out for doing your own research and thinking critically.
I mean, it clearly doesn't work if taken to be literal probabilities. But I think it also doesn't work as a more metaphorical guide to life?
Instacart was abusing push notifications with advertising. I disabled their notifications and forced them to use SMS. They haven't sent me any ads that way, because SMS would cost them a trivial but non-zero amount.
>> But in most major cities, shoplifting incidents have fallen 7 percent since 2019.

How much of that is due to store closings and merchandise being locked up?
[I am not an audio engineer]

Compression was the preferred munition during the loudness wars, not amplification.

Recordings producing more acoustic energy were made by reducing dynamic range.
Grim fantasy retro-RPG Skald: Against the Black Priory has a new demo
I think it helped a lot that the plane was moving and thanks to this left the initial fireball behind it. It was also landing which means it had much less fuel to begin with.
I was required at an American credit union. Having such a policy was a line item in state regulators’ auditing, but not mandated to the extent that the banking charter would have been lost if not fully in place.
VAS Aviation has put the audio up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItu5qM7QfE
Do you have any examples of the public being asked to consent before governments made banks whole after a failure?
Okay yes, the ability to print to stdout, an ultimately unsafe operation, is more important than upholding Rust's ideal of an entirely safe programming language.
I think this boils down to "The United States of America" being the only country with America in the actual country name. Plus the overall influence of the USA, etc.

America, of course, can also refer to two entire continents but I don't know that I've ever met anyone who's primary identity refers to their continent.

It would be very odd to me, at least, for an Argentinian (as one example) to refer to themselves as American. Same for someone from Thailand referring to themselves as Asian or someone from Nigeria saying African unless (of course) they were attempting to communicate with someone with very limited geographic knowledge (mostly Americans).

I have many friends from Central and South America and prior to meeting them I would have dismissed something like the Narcissism of Small Differences[0].

Spend some time hanging out with Colombians, Venezuelans, Argentinians, Chileans, Uruguayans, Nicaraguans, etc in a tapestry like Miami and you learn quickly it is a very real thing - going back and forth about things like how to prepare and cook beans.

At first it's very interesting to experience them (mostly playfully) poking at each other over things that most of the world doesn't notice and can't understand. However, if you know them well and they've been in the US a while when you describe the Narcissism of Small Differences they usually say something like "That's so true! I never knew it had an actual name".

When they visit the small town I'm from in Wisconsin I have to tell them that to most of the locals they're "Mexican" and to try not to get offended even though there actually are significant differences between Mexico and South America countries.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
Yea. TBH the tooling is the bigger issue for me, personally. I come across a ton of times where an LLM might work, or could - potentially. Usually refactors. But it requires access to basically all my files, both for context and to find where references to that class/struct/etc are.

Furthermore, i'd vastly prefer a workflow most of the time where i don't even have to ask. Or so i imagine. Ie i think i'd prefer a Clippy style "Want me to write a test for this? Want me to write some documentation for this?" etc helpers. I don't want to have to ask, i want it to intuit my needs - just like any programmer could if pair programming with you.

And most of all i want it to have access to all files. To know everything about the code possible. Don't just look at the func name in isolation, attempt to understand how it's used in the project.

If i have to baby sit an LLM for a simple function refactor to give it all files where the function is used or w/e, i'd rather do it myself with tools like AST Grep or even my LSP in many cases.

I'm very interested in LLMs for simple tasks today, but the tooling feels like my primary blocker. Also possibly context length, but i think there's lots of ways around that.
Perhaps the most important point in the piece, and one that can't be repeated enough or understood enough as we head into what 2024 has in store:

> And then, do LLMs have some reasoning abilities, or is it all a bluff? Perhaps at times, they seem to reason only because, as semioticians would say, the "signifier" gives the impression of a meaning that actually does not exist. Those who have worked enough with LLMs, while accepting their limits, know for sure that it cannot be so: their ability to blend what they have seen before goes well beyond randomly regurgitating words. As much as their training was mostly carried out during pre-training, in predicting the next token, this goal forces the model to create some form of abstract model. This model is weak, patchy, and imperfect, but it must exist if we observe what we observe. If our mathematical certainties are doubtful and the greatest experts are often on opposing positions, believing what one sees with their own eyes seems a wise approach.
> Instead, many have deeply underestimated LLMs, saying that after all they were nothing more than somewhat advanced Markov chains, capable, at most, of regurgitating extremely limited variations of what they had seen in the training set. Then this notion of the parrot, in the face of evidence, was almost universally retracted.

I'd like to see this evidence, and by that I don't mean someone just writing a blog post or tweeting "hey I asked an LLM to do this, and wow". Is there a numerical measurement, like training loss or perplexity, that quantifies "outside the training set"? Otherwise, I find it difficult to take statements like the above seriously.

LLMs can do some interesting things with text, no doubt. But these models are trained on terabytes of data. Can you really guarantee "there is no part of my query that is in the training set, not even reworded"? Perhaps we can grep through the training set every time one of these claims are made.
The most useful feature of llms is how much output you get from such little signal. Just yesterday I created a fairly advanced script from my phone on the bus ride home with chatgpt which was an absolute pleasure. I think multi-prompt conversations don't get nearly as much attention as they should in llm evaluations.
Show HN: I made a library of free and customizable logos
All the logos are designed in Figma, so you need a free Figma account to open the file and customize the logo yourself. You can customize everything, from font to color, with just 1 click. Then click 'Export', and you'll get the logo in various sizes, from 32px up to 1024px.

I'm planning to add more logos every Monday.
Apple Just Broke a Tradition It Held for 12 Years
The good stuff is like 20 or 30 bucks for a roll. I just pulled off a piece that was stuck to glass for 4 years and it came off residue free.
Waymo is safer than a human driver already.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/googles-waymo-safe...

Of course there will be locations where humans are required, but we can already start using computers in those locations where they perform better.
If the medical condition is so dire that medicine must be kept on hand then it should be in your pockets, not tucked away in luggage.

What is the probability of being stung by a bee or eating a bag of nuts between your seat, the slide, and the ambulances rushing to the scene to rescue people?

Otherwise by this logic, just about everyone has a reason to self-justify needing to get into their luggage in an emergency evacuation event.

Target to evacuate planes in an emergency is 90 seconds. Contrast with regular deplaning with luggage which takes upwards of 15 minutes. So the plane must evacuate at 10x speed in order to save lives.
As much as people in North America (rightly) complain about the cost-of-living crisis in North America, the situation is much more dire in the UK. Over the winter, it was so expensive to heat houses that there needed to be warm hubs [1] where people could get warm. This was in part due to a bad energy policy exacerbated by Ukraine but things weren't great to begin with.

Salaries have been historically low compared to the US and the cost of housing and food is extroardinarily high and has only gotten worse.

Crime is an inevitable consequence of poverty. The Conservative Party however is dedicated to transferring wealth to the already-wealthy at the expense of everyone else. This pattern is being played out to varying degrees in pretty much every Western country. At some point, we as a society need to start asking "how much wealth is enough?"

Brazil eviscerated extreme poverty with the Bolsa Familia [2]. Raising the living standards of the least fortunate in our society is not only a moral imperative, it's good for quite literally everyone.

[1]: https://www.wrccrural.org.uk/services/wrcc-warm-hubs/what-ar...

[2]: https://brazilian.report/society/2023/10/27/impact-bolsa-fam...
They need skilled immigration. By making students be the target of short-sighted fear based policies, they make it clear to those students that Britain is not where they want to end up. They end up losing many of their potential brightest minds.

Keep in mind that due to the demographic crisis, countries are soon to be competing for them.

Also: immigration is good, and the grievance based policies that attacks immigrants while achieving marginal gains is dishonest.

Also: hacker news seems like it has a sea lion problem.
I am still trying to understand the purpose of this? What is the purpose of your personal search engine?
This sounds rather like the junior/bad developer who makes a bug disappear (at least for time being) by changing the order of functions in a source file or some such.

Admittedly a complete rewrite of a piece of code, even without understanding what you are doing (e.g by using an LLM), is unlikely to have the same bugs as the original implementation (but may have different bugs), but hopefully no-one is doing this for code where bugs have any significant consequence (e.g. system downtime, cost to customers).
AF358 was engulfed in flames with-in three minutes (180s):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5jSyaj_JwE

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_358

The FAA mandates that aircraft are able to be evacuated with-in 90s:

* https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...

Even for something as big as an A380 in its 800+ passenger configuration:

* https://www.flightglobal.com/airbus-a380-evacuation-trial-fu...

* https://simpleflying.com/aircraft-90-second-evacuation/

The difference between 180s and 90s is 90s: if (e.g.) ~30 people out of ~350 passengers (<10%) take an extra 3 seconds each because they are not aware of their surroundings, that time is eaten up.

Seconds matter.
At the end of the day, this is the iterative process of science. Something as foundational to the average American's diet as red meat is going to be a difficult variable to isolate and weigh the costs of, and we may not even get an answer one way or another in my lifetime. For my part, I'll probably just keep eating it because red meat tastes good.
How Many Trillion-Dollar Companies Should There Be?
Any opinion on what the best experience is, currently?
What's their alternative? Spotify has a near monopoly on streaming and we're not going back to FM radio. If fragmentation occurs in music streaming apps they'll end up with less overall streamers and revenue anyways.

I suppose a middle of the road solution would be to allocate X% towards the user-centric pot and Y% towards a pool for overall. Maybe that's 50/50 or 80/20, I don't know. But niche artists seem like will continue to have a hard time unless they go viral under the current system.
This is a much more exciting study than it originally seems. They appear to claim that an observed state of sodium at high pressure has bonds between core electrons. If you recall from your chemistry class, bonds were only known to occur between valence electrons.

This is an entirely new regime of chemistry that can best be described as "here there be dragons." Bonds between core electrons are predicted to be thousands of time stronger than bonds between valence bonds.

So while incredibly unlikely, it may be possible for materials orders of magnitude stronger to exist.

Even if such materials can only exist for short periods of time they may be quite disruptive, breaking said bonds releases thousands of times more energy than known chemical reactions. This has been proposed as a means to make thermonuclear bombs without a fissile trigger[0]. Temporarily forming said bonds could be used to shape a long pulse from conventional explosives or an electron beam to a much shorter one allowing fusion to be ignited.

Again, this is still VERY out there, but this is an entirely new form of chemistry we have no idea what to expect.

HERE THERE BE DRAGONS.

[0]https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3408
From what I can remember - these are from the era of classic Mac OS 7, 8, 9:
Typestyler,
Transmit,
Captain FTP,
WebDesign,
Marathon & its sequels,
Escape Velocity & its sequels.
There may be several ways to look at StackOverflow. For example, as someone who answered thousands of questions, I don't care about author's effort--I optimize for future readers from google when considering what question is worth the time to answer it.
The non-desktop Linux has successed, because it is basically a free beer POSIX implementation, back when BSD future was still uncertain.

So it is kind of frozen set of POSIX stuff, good enough to have OS agnostic programming language runtimes on top, and that is it.

It is no accident that the new wave of FOSS IoT OSes aren't based on Linux, rather on MIT/Apache/BSD based kernels.
Because people who you want to come and work in the UK won't bother coming if it's hostile. The quality immigrants will simply not bother turning up. There are not the British bodies to fill these roles.

Instead, you'll be left with the less desirable and desperate.

Do you really want a workforce of those who grudgingly turn up, or would you rather the happier workforce of those who can enjoy family life?
Why is this argument always used against any kind of improvement beneficial for the end user? Let's at least try to improve things before giving up.