skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I think about the ant like paths: Since we're warping the angles lines that turn a little will turn more, and lines that turn almost nothing will continue turning very little. Lines will start to converge against points that turn very little, after which all lines are grouped up and all go through the same points. I.e. turn until the turn-vector is small. That only happens when the smoothing is low, since the difference in noise values will still be high enough to cause this effect.

I don't know it that mess of a paragraph was understandable, but hopefully it answers your question!
I worked at a Wall St. trading firm (albeit not in the trading area), and a lot of the back office/audity type people were required to switch roles every so often, so that any little unforeseen way to steal money somehow wasn't overlooked and "hoarded" by one person. In addition to multiple people having to sign off various things, etc.

IIRC, there were mandatory PTO/vacations required as well, so that everyone's job was done by at least 2 different people during the year.

This was not a legal thing, but required for the firm I worked at. My manager at the time said this was pretty common practice on the street, then. (Early/mid 90's.)
I worked at an investment bank in the New York area. Employees had a two week lockout each year.
I hope the tools and techniques become more widely available, and those which are proprietary are released or reimplemented as open source.
I missed the bit where they timed how long it took for each application to get a reply.
I have not used 'replacement' rhetoric. So stop it.

> that's hardly what I'd call undefended

Sounds undefended to me. At the point where you're saying "You can't do this within America" you've already conceded the point that they've ... entered America, which is the definition of immigration.
Thank you, that was my point but I should have been more precise.

I heard that some boredom may be "good" to "reset" dopamine systems and try to fix procrastination issues (especially since I have diagnosed ADHD.

So I tried to get bored. And I observed that being really bored is incredibly hard when you have a smartphone (or a laptop or …).

The point of my question is that I often physically looks like I’m bored but actually if i have a screen in front of me, I’m never bored. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the people that looks like they prefer boredom are really bored or a just look like they are.
Yes, as I said, the attack chain was unlikely to be used it practice.
Literally every comment in that thread removed as of this post. Guess it's hard to talk about history when religion keeps being "the reason" something happened but modern society is trying to remove all traces of our religious history.
Absolutely this. The shit people will put up with is mind boggling and MS knows this.
Not sure. My teen daughter and all her friends are deep down in Instagram. Their entire social lives are through its messenger (which isn't even a particularly good messaging client.) And plenty of posted content in both shorts and posts.

She has Zero interest in facebook, but Instagram is what they're using constantly.
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38839885
> Democracy means the people have the power.

That is the issue. My country is riddled by old person, who do not give a single fuck about the future beyond their own grave.
Boo hoo. The olds didn’t vote how you wanted them to on your favorite wedge issues and you want to go home with your ball and watch old Mao and Stalin reruns. People like you baffle me man.
Yeah, I confirm parents and friends (all involved in their 60s) are full on Facebook, scrolling all day, and finding it absolutely _awesome_ to hear unnecessary updates from lots of people.

Unfortunately though, it contributed to convert them from being normal people to get them "out of the closet" with radical right-wing crazy ideas.

They don't trust "regular media" because it is best to consume videos from randos recording from their cars, with "the real truth".

I gave up really trying to explain... so mostly talk about mild topics. No politics, no contentious issues or anything.
Shameless plug: https://github.com/codespin-ai/codespin-cli

It's similar to aider (which is a great tool btw) in goals, but with a different recipe.
Members of my family require medication (epipen, some various pills), and I keep that along with a flashlight (in case I need to administer in pitch black) in a small haversack. I would probably try to take that with me, as I would hate to survive the crash but then have a fatal medical event in the aftermath and not have the tools. I do feel conflicted since the no luggage mantra has been drilled in for decades.
I don’t get high, but the stressed out people in my circles do, and it seems to help them. Hence my advice. You know what they say about assumptions.
That's legit. I've managed to dodge it but many jobs have moved overseas. Many of my coworkers the past years have been contractors living in other countries.

This is what happened to America's manufacturing industry. Shouldn't emphasizing with fellow workers mean recognizing the pattern instead of dismissing it as FUD?
US health insurance companies are the biggest parasites on the planet, dwarfing even the military industrial complex, and likely causing at least the same amount of indirect deaths as the actual weapons.

Not any other industry in the history of civilization has been built entirely on a denial of service to the customer.

The issue in the article is just 1 small symptom of this cancerous disease.
>> Your luggage is not worth more than a fellow passengers life.

I was going to say a major narcissist would disagree, but they probably don't have many of those in Japan. And then you followed up:

>> Contrast this with evacuation footage of western passenger planes..

Is that for real? It would not surprise me, but is there documentation of this difference in deplaning? Or other areas?
Memory bugs very often allow exploitation which is not always the case for other types bugs. Although it is of course true that other types of bugs can also be serious, memory safety violations tend to be more serious if security is a requirement. Fuzzing with sanitizers is not currently able to detect all memory bugs.
Hm…“…spy-tech firm…”
I just listened to a Podcast about the book Eve, it sounds very interesting.

One of those guest podcast shows People I Mostly Admire, being played on the Freakonomincs podcast:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-gynecology-the-best-inno...

This is the book by Cat Bohannon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eve-Female-Drove-Million-Evolution-...
As a trained physicist, it's weird to see such "unnatural", ad hoc fields used. I have the feeling that using a fluid dynamics solver might generate more realistic looking fields.
One issue with the smoothing is that it introduces a discontinuous correlation function. When you crank down smoothing, you can see this artifact as horizontal lines that get closer and closer together as smoothing is lowered.
Simulated fluid flow with a few sources, sinks would mean there's no need for ad hoc smoothing.
I work with researchers whose businesses/jobs were lost during the Obama years when China was dumping below-materials-costs panels into the US.

The current situation would be very different if the US had responded sooner to the WTO rules breaking. Oh well.
You could, you know, have a Facebook account and use it only for Marketplace and Messenger. That’s what I do. I don’t post or read the feeds.
For one thing the ChatGPT web interface is useful for much more than just programming. If you're already paying for a sub, it makes sense to cut and paste instead of making additional payments for the API. On top of that people have different thresholds for the efficiency gains that warrant becoming dependent on someone else's project, which is liable to become paid or abandoned.
It's pointless to come up with models like these because none of the top artists are going to keep their music on the platform if their payout is reduced to that degree. For any such unlimited usage model to work the low volume users always have to subsidize the opposite end.
Looking at the theory as a whole it’s a very small minority.

I’m trying to think if it’s 0 percent outside of backprop…

Arguably high school math gets you quite a bit of understanding. After that in descending order I’d guess Linear Algebra, Statistics/Probability, Basic Calculus, Partial Derivatives…

In other words it’s not all or nothing. The easiest stuff gets you a lot of bang for your buck.
I'm not sure Twitter is that relevant anymore, as you can't really browse it without logging in. It's more like an echo chamber for influencers now than a platform interesting people could use to reach their audiences directly.

I used to be active in a corner of the science Twitter, but it started dying long before the takeover. Algorithmic recommendations killed it. When a platform starts prioritizing recommendations over explicit user choices, it also prioritizes influencers over people with something interesting to say.
It should have been 384. If 10,000 people die but 1,000,000 are "saved", do we not mourn the 10,000 people? Have a heart my man. What if you were one of those 10,000?
Exchange rate for PLN (polish złoty) gone crazy due to a bug
Due to an error in data from a third-party data provider (Morningstar), the EUR/PLN exchange rate displayed by Google, Forbes, and other websites was inaccurate.

The error caused the euro to be displayed at 5.4 zlotys, which is a significant increase from the actual exchange rate of 4.2 zlotys. The US dollar was also displayed incorrectly, at 4.8 zlotys instead of the actual exchange rate of 4.0 zlotys.

The National Bank of Poland (NBP) issued a statement emphasizing that the error was caused by a third-party data provider and had no impact on the real situation on the foreign exchange market. The central bank assured that currency exchange rates in Poland are stable and that there is no reason to worry about their further development.
* Trump will pick a woman for VP. But won't be Haley.

* Russia & Ukraine come to the table. Nothing of substance will be decided or agreed upon.

* Election season here will be chaotic as usual. It's a going to be a long year.

* Disinformation campaigns, now with the use of generative AI will be turned up to the max. Mainly targeting users on Tiktok, WhatsApp and Facebook.

* Biden will lose the election simply because of a divided democratic party.
Gen-Z turn out will be lower than expected. Although results of the election
won't be certain until well into late December, 2024 or January 2025.

* Venezuela attempts to grab parts of Guyana. The brits get involved. (They've already sent couple of naval ships into the region).

* Expectations ,excitement and investments around LLMs starts to taper off.

* Musk starts renegotiating financing to keep X going. Possibly due to pressure from investors that initially put up the money to buy twitter.

* Basically it's going to 2023, with more brush fires around the world.

* U.S economy will continue to hum along. But growth will slow a bit, due to cost of borrowing.
looks great!

could this someone be rendered as a component in a react app ?
> The assumption that Common Land was unmanaged and owned by all is false

How? The source wiki now cites for that claim contradicts it. It says lords owned/managed it but not really - they weren't able to control access or put anything on it (manage it), and none of the commoners were able to manage it either because none of them owned it. How do you think "scale of access" was restricted without basics like fences? Cows don't care about laws.

The point of the tragedy of the commons is that without private property rights, resources get wasted and misused. The common land in mediaeval England is described in the book abstract as having that exact problem - it's either overgrazed and destroyed, or abandoned entirely. The solution was Enclosure, i.e. restoring ownership and building fences around the common areas, which is exactly the solution you'd need to utilize land effectively and prevent overgrazing.
Was the cash box here the primary source of income??
Most people have fairly limited musical tastes - definable as "liking the stuff that was popular in high school and maybe a couple new songs a year that reminds them of high school"

Assuming that most people have fairly stable lives they probably bought all their CDs some time in their 20s and maybe have to 1.25 cds a year to make up for wear and tear of their old music and the occasional new album.

For users with that kind of musical taste Streaming services are clearly a big increase in cost, offering no extra value.

For users with a wide ranging musical taste - which might be more applicable to younger generations who have been taught that access to all the world's music is a possibility - obviously the Streaming model is a superior value.
If I was doing it all the time, I might care. As it is I don't really find that workflow painful. It reminds me of the arguments about how much it helps to be able to touch type or type very fast. Actually inputting code is a minor part of development IME.
Well done, Japan! Obviously you have prepared.

Looking at some -preliminary- reports, I'm sure there would be many countries worldwide where a 7.6 magnitude quake would cause more damage. And most importantly: would have caused many more deaths.
100% US view haha! There is no chance that TFL lets people sleep here.
You need to start changing coefficients in your “life physics” and see what happens. Increasing the amount of new social contact is always a good starting point.

Best of luck
There are also people who have drunk alcohol and smoked tobacco their entire lives and are in the same percentaile for health.
It's arguable that it shouldn't make a lot of money, but it should be properly funded.

What funds TfL is basically fares and city and central government taxes. Ideally the taxes fund the improvements and fares fund the operations.

But fares are down since COVID, while the service kept operating.
See also:

Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash (biggieblog.com)

197 points by davidrjones1977 10 days ago | 56 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38734106
Glad to hear you're finding aider useful!

Sure, there's a few things you could keep in mind if you just want to chat about code (not modify it):

1. You can tell GPT that at the start of the chat. "I don't want you to change the code, just answer my questions during this conversation."

2. You can run `aider --dry-run` which will prevent any modification of your files. Even if GPT specifies edits, they will just be displayed in the chat and not applied to your files.

3. It's safe to interrupt GPT with CONTROL-C during the chat in aider. If you see GPT is going down a wrong path, or starting to specify an edit that you don't like... just stop it. The conversation history will reflect that you interrupted GPT with ^C, so it will get the implication that you stopped it.

4. You can use the `/undo` command inside the chat to revert the last changes that GPT made to your files. So if you decide it did something wrong, it's easy to undo.

5. You can work on a new git branch, allow GPT to muck with your files during the conversation and then simply discard the branch afterwards.
>> I would probably try to take that with me, as I would hate to survive the crash but then have a fatal medical event in the aftermath and not have the tools.

But you might just die in the fire yourself, prioritizing a hypothetical emergency over a real one. There would also be plenty of medical personnel present once you get off the plane, they probably won't let you leave the scene without talking to one.
I Live in UE, and democraties here sucks too. This is not an US only issue.
And this is why pretty much none of my apps are allowed to send notifications. At all. Too many poisoned apples in the barrel and I just have lost my trust for the lot of them
For small tasks this is fine, but for larger projects you have to be careful. The key to being productive with an LLM for coding is to be able to understand the code being generated, to avoid rather nasty bugs that may crop up if the model hallucinates. The worst part is that an LLM will create these bugs in very subtle ways, since it excels at writing convincing code (whether or not it actually works).
It lost all the rhetorical force of the argument, got factual things wrong, and failed to point out important misunderstandings on my part.

IMO good books are ones that collide with your priors and compel you to reconfigure your worldview.

I can only describe this GPT exercise as allowing me to mold the book around my priors as opposed to helping (or even allowing) the book to really impact them head-on, how the author knew they ought to be attacked. I think it’s really insidious for someone to do this and come out thinking their prior worldview survived collision with the book.
I am really surprised of the amount of people on hacker news, what I consider to be an increcibly intelligent community, actively defending or advocating what this guy is doing!

If he wasnt selling something, it might be a bit more credible!
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Might be pressure treated timber - looks largely the same as untreated wood from a distance and can last a long time in damp conditions. Many sheds and timber fences are pressure treated and last well - sure they wont last a lifetime or whatever, but will probably not rot "quickly"
Democratization of Artificial Intelligence
Yes! Now, what was asserted without evidence?
WITS = Where Is The Starlet? (wavelet names ending with *let) (2011)
After six hours trying to get the touchpad working you're wishing you'd died in the crash.
I really would like this to be true. It probably is for Facebook, but it seems younger users are all on Instagram, sadly.
obviously, and that was a poor way of wording it. my point was he's not completely retiring, just moving on to other forms of output which fit his preferred workload and schedule

I do think it's weird how much of a "I'm never coming back" vibe it had, though, given that he's still going to be doing podcasts and left the door open to more YouTube videos. I think it would've served him well to just say "hey, I'm cutting back but I'm not gone, just moving to a more healthy balance of how often I do these incredibly complicated videos"

but to your point, he should do him and how he wants to handle it
Admiral Cloudberg has their work cut out for them again... I always love their insights (not sure if it's a man or a woman)

It's not really a miracle though. Just the system working as intended, and the many lessons learned from the lives that were lost in the past paying off.

As an example: due to this accident with many fatalities, the process for fire on the runway has been improved considerably. In that case the wind direction made a big difference in the number of fatalities, because it blew toxic smoke and fire into the fuselage while the evacuation was ongoing. Lessons were learned and procedures fixed. But it's still important to remember that those lessons were paid in blood. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fire-on-the-runway-the-m...
At its heart GPT is the world's best googler. As long as you can find it on Google, an LLM can probably do a better and faster job of finding and curating the information for you.
Super-rich pick flats with private security as sales rise of £15M London homes
Have you considered making video dev logs? That’s very well thought out, and I love the art style!
> almost no one is writing HTML anymore

JSX?
C has a better SIMD story than Rust or Zig currently.
Artists want to be paid per stream rather than get a fixed amount.

Users want to pay a fixed monthly fee and get unlimited access.

Spotify has figured out the best way to combine the two, and this involves pooling all the money paid by all users – regardless of what they listen to – and then allotting it to artists based on the number of streams they served to the platform.

Yes this means that plenty of users are subsidizing artists they don't like, but this is also what works best for everyone in the system. Trying to paint it as "fair" or "unfair" is pointless.
ASML blocked from shipping some of its critical chipmaking tools to China
Man, I hit the same kind of snag twice with my store thing. Got so close to the end, started to plot my path to the finish line and just realized it wasn't going to work.

This thread was very cathartic. It's helpful to see others fighting the same fight. I hope you can take another stab at it in 2024. We can do it.
Music industry revenue hit an all-time high in 2023; it didn't fully recover from what napster/etc did to it in the early 2000s, until this/last year. Interesting that Vinyl makes up like 10% of their revenue. But, streaming is 84%. These stats probably don't include things like show tickets/merch.

Seems to be not close to dying.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/18/23878916/riaa-music-indus...