skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can write dozens of pages of highly analytical and technical text without making mistakes in real time. I can speed read complex texts and memorize them with a high degree of precision. From the “language” perspective I feel highly gifted and unusual. [...] And when people listen to me talk, they get incredibly threatened

If your language skills are as advanced and analytical as you claim, then you should apply that innate skill to the problem of finding ways to communicate without making people feel threatened. For instance, tailor (limit) your vocabulary for your audience and don't correct other people's inconsequential errors. And of course refrain from telling people about how brilliant you are.

If you can't manage the above, then maybe you should recognize that you're not actually as brilliant as you think. This realization could give you a bit more humility and that in turn could help you interact with other people.
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- Kagi Small Web

- ooh.directory

- RSS Club

to name a few.
Same for me just in October for some stretches
Let's do some math, shall we?

> In 2007, the National Transportation Safety Board estimated a total of nearly 24 million flight hours. Of these 24 million hours, 6.84 of every 100,000 flight hours yielded an airplane crash, and 1.19 of every 100,000 yielded a fatal crash. https://www.psbr.law/aviation_accident_statistics.html

So we have 330M people in the US, of which let's say 100M are driving regularly. How regularly? Let's assume 2 hours a day for 52x5 = 260 working days in a year. So given that we have 43K traffic fatalities per year let's compute fatalities per hour of driving. 100M * 2 * 260 / 43K = 1.2M So we have 1 fatality per 1.2M hours of driving. At the same time we have roughly 1 fatality per 100K hours of flying. Oops!

Of course one should consider that:

(a) it's 2007 data, it's probably lower now (10 times lower?),

(b) we definitely cover longer distances per hour of flying (by the way not that much, 60 mph vs 600 mph is within 10x difference),

(c) it's probably all flying, including private, but I'm not considering just public buses either.

Add defensive driving though, and it's not that obvious which is safer.
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Like architects designing absurd but original buildings.
> Most gifted children are, in fact, gifted in only one or two areas, often underperforming in others, though not necessarily because they’re unable.

It’s orthodox in education research, widely accepted, widely observed that kids who are REALLY good at one or two things wind up, when you measure them, good at everything.
Case study of the problem of AI centralization
IIRC, that bot used to be called bugdroid. I forget when it switched over, probably somewhere in 2020.
The whole premise of the Max was that it didn’t need full certification because it wasn’t a new aircraft. The engineers knew this was nonsense, many of them quit the company rather than work on it. The Max will go down as a textbook example of what happens at an engineering company when the engineers are overruled, silenced, ignored, and finally quit.
> Git could just as well store commits as diffs from other commits, and 99% of users would never notice.

Git does delta compression, so in fact it does usually store diffs on disk. That, however, is a technical detail that doesn't actually influence the user and can be 100% ignored as long as you don't mess with its internal files by hand.

What the user actually operates on in the repository are snapshots, with diffs being merely an intermediate representation useful for factoring, reading or distributing stuff. Git is good at confusing the user that it works on diffs, but the sooner you realize that it's not true, the easier it will be for you to work with Git.

And while "git cherry-pick" (and in turn, "git rebase" too) seems like an automated "git format-patch + git am" at first glance, it actually goes further and is using three-way merge for better conflict resolution. It works on snapshots, not diffs.
What?!

I do my taxes myself for my family. I have W2s, K1s, various 1099s for investments, own a home, and deal with carry overs from the previous years.

It takes me about an hour to do it. And then another hour to amend them many months later when I get my actual K1s.

How hard is it to answer 100 questions and copy numbers over from one place to another? W2 box 1 goes to W2 box 1. No I don't own a corn farm. I donated this much to these organizations. I would consider 25% of my rent for my home office.

Both turbo tax and tax hawk will connect to your investment bank and populate all the obscure 1099 stuff there. Dealing with international investment was definitely confusing the first time around, but definitely not 40 hours worth.

40 hours is 8 hours a day for 5 days straight. I don't know what you value yours wife's time at, but if it really takes that long you might be better off paying a CPA a few hundred dollars.
Quick tip: You can grab any image, and use the GPT vision API to convert it into code, it does a pretty decent job.

You can try this at Brewed.dev

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of the tool.
Serving students like Georgios is one of the things the Soviet Union did very well (of course, there was still discrimination against eg Jews).

In the US, it’s not only disrupted by the activists briefly mentioned in the article, but by the mediocre part of the elite that would rather have such a system not exist or be easily gamed/rigged than to have it exist and their child not in it. Given the more classist nature of life in the UK I’m sure this is even moreso a factor there.
> Maybe, though, this is all going to come to an end. Domino’s Pizza has blamed high third-party fees for its declining deliveries, and Uber’s revenue from food deliveries has fallen for three straight quarters. DoorDash has never been profitable. The Danish business that bought Grubhub in a $7.3 billion deal is now worth less than half of that and is trying to dump the company. It turns out that, even after bleeding everyone you can of their money, it’s still incredibly difficult to make a sustainable business out of delivering somebody’s pizza.
Is this a joke? On first glance the project looks like a library for serving and consuming HTTP(s)/Web sockets. Everything else you mention appears to be optional integrations, like SSH, or separate examples provided by the developers in other repos to showcase diverse usecases, like the ESP32 applications.
I’m surprised to see no mention of the attack vectors that – for lack of a better term – I call “drowning in crap”:

- send plausible phishing messages personalized to you (from data leaks, brokers) goes from expensive to cheap and automatable

- evade content based filtering such as spam filters to flood people with more crap

- generate so much plausible but regurgitated crap content for ranking systems (search, product reviews, friend requests)

- etc, etc

These things are already before LLMs one of the biggest problems across the board online. I would expect LLMs in particular to disrupt that power balance significantly in favor of the spammers and scammers. Is the implicit lack of attention to this issue that it’s not that bad? Won’t get worse? Or are we just supposed to learn how to swim in a sea of crap?
Not finding what someone wants doesn't mean they should settle for what they don't.
Yep, then it's on the structural and civil engineers to pare it down until it gets to an actually physically possible state.
They don't need long drive to go store
Hinduism. The core of Hinduism ties to the hard problem of consciousness and it talks about multiple infinite universes and time scales on the billions of years
Or the window falling off.
If I may help - I am not Asperger, but I know several and have worked with them. I am also "on the spectrum", as are a big chunk of my friends and family. Based on these experiences, it is not that others feel threatened. It's just that we don't have very good social graces, and others find that off-putting. But there is some good news, we can get better:

Me: I read "How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie when I was a teen, and it changed my life.

Other: (laughs) It obviously didn't work because you're terrible at social graces!

Me: Yeah, but you didn't know me before I read that book!

So there is hope, but reading a book won't work miracles. It's a lifelong struggle with me to learn social graces.

A nice side effect of being "on the spectrum" myself is I enjoy working with people like that, including Aspergers, because I understand where their lack of social graces comes from and it doesn't bother me in the least.
While this is true, when the shipped standard library by NodeJS lacks so many VERY BASIC features that every other language has, OF COURSE developers choosing/being instructed to use JS so that frontend and backend languages are synced are going to reach for packages to solve whatever functionality should already exist in code like: "Jim".leftPad(4)
TIL!

Every tax form I’ve ever filled out has an instruction like:

> Enter the lesser of lines X and Y

when applying deductions and credits to prevent them from exceeding some value.

I’m surprised to learn that the EIC isn’t clamped like this.
Source code for a 1977 version of Zork
I'm not sure I would wait that long if I wanted to smoke... many smokers live their life expectancy anyways
>What it sounds like your friend did is used a mind trick to create a habit so it was a required part of his routine, which made it easier.

Whats the difference between a mind trick, willpower, decision, and dedication?

Deciding that you will do something and not internally debating it IS willpower.
it's a horrific name but a decent company, it deeply annoys me to have to preface the name of a big player with a disclaimer about how stupid the name it when talking to people
Like many things that are orthodox in education research, this is likely wrong.
if you're funny, it's generally easier to work the wood
Capitalism is simple: The capital rules supreme. As opposed to the previous system of aristocracy, where it was the land owners. Nobody would seriously claim that aristocracy requires any kind of competition between the aristocrats. Even the very first capitalist big enterprises, such as East India Company were created as _monopolies_
He keeps using "widebody" for narrow body planes.
He lies about Boeing having anything to do with Airbus' foundation.

It's like an LLM hallucinating.
The weakness is that state tax will need to be filed separately. Some type of smooth hand off with seamless data transfer is hopefully being planned. I'm in NY and interested, but I don't want to fill in data twice (yeah, i'm lazy sue me).
Yup, C-level execs changing file extensions from .avi to .xls etc. lol.
This was in the 90s before torrenting was widespread. Decentralizing filesharing means criminal groups aren't needed and can't easily make a profit off of it.
British Library to burn through reserves to recover from cyber attack
drug costs will go up for Canadians?
What book of his (or more generally, on Advaita) do you recommend specifically?
I'm assuming it's because RISC-V has really gained traction in academia and industry. It's also well documented, has lots of open source implementations to play with and students will benefit from understanding it.
Seems like the easiest way is to do it the other way around. The robots (walls, whatever) have tiny explosives in them and when the gun reports its orientation and location when the trigger is pulled, it signals some local computer attached to cameras in the room to compute the path of the virtual bullet and then trigger the appropriate “explosion”. Gunshots in films work this way (without the computer, but the explosion is in the target). This can make all shots at real humans into realistic misses as well.
What can be attributed to the carbon fibre?
Your car won't fall out of the sky in the event of a malfunction so I guess cars are safer "when something goes wrong"? Then again cars travel with less margin of error to other cars and objects than airplanes.
> how would i break into the market and find my first customers?

It's the Field of Dreams model. Build it, and they will come. Do some basic marketing. Worst case scenario, you built an uptime monitor for yourself!

I'm not sure diversity has to exist, honestly. If I'll pay one service $10/mo for uptime monitoring, and you have an identical uptime monitoring service for $10/mo, then it's just a flip of a coin which one I'll go with, right? There's no differentiating factor other than randomness. So go for it. Build it. Put it out there. You'll get _someone_. And over time, you can iterate based on the needs of the demographics that have chosen you. Maybe the people gravitating towards your stuff are more interested in cron jobs than websites, or maybe they're monitoring competitors rather than themselves, or maybe they're keeping tabs on government websites. Who knows?

You don't have to have all the answers right now. Build something and see what happens, then iterate from there.
None of those threats have any particular relationship to chatbots or LLMs. If you expose sensitive data on untrusted systems then it will eventually be breached. Ho hum.
> And as productivity increases in an economy, overall wages increase, even for the less productive construction sector, because workers have the choice to work in more productive fields, and must be paid to compensate for the low productivity of working in construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
FibeRobo: Powerful Body-Temperature Morphing Fibers [video]
worth noting for no particular reason China had a baby formula scandal in 2008 that led to the death of four infants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

The Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang sentenced a farmer, Zhang Yujun, and a senior manager, Geng Jinping, to death in 2009. five more people received life sentences and the main company behind it went bankrupt.

this was for four infant deaths.

Boeing killed 189 indonesians in 2021 and executives didnt so much as take a breather at the country club between swings, so good luck.

Capitalism just isnt set up to punish the Bourgeois.
Xi Jinping is 70, and he wants to see this happen while he's still running things. That affects the timing.

It's a failure of dictators. If Hitler had taken a decade to consolidate Europe into Greater Germany, remaining at peace with the UK and the USSR, things might have worked better for the Nazis.
You get the green card *after* a certain amount of time working. The years in the job is the qualification to apply.
Hot updates in PostgreSQL for better performance (2020)
Look at Netty.io, that's the defecto java networking library. They have some optional JNI stuff
I'd recommend read the CRPG addicted blog as well as the CRPG book.
This isn't true, I'm sorry. That may be your experience with it but it's not about the model. Using it is my day job and I've never ever seen that language.

It's frustrating for both of us, I assume.

I'm tired of people fact-free asserting it got worse because don't you know other people saw it got worse? And it did something bad the other day.

You're tired of the thing not doing the thing and you have observed it no longer does the thing. And you certainly shouldn't need to retain past prompts just to prove it.
>> The US military's fundamental approach is to use sensors to see the enemy before they see us,

> That probably works out in the open seas, but once you approach (enemy) land those radars that can detect anything that moves from 300 kms out are of no strategic advantage anymore, cause you do you know that there are enemies there by definition.

But that's in fact the US tactic in all domains, sea, land, air, and even space, and they've invested heavily in it for ~35 years: it first was used in the Gulf War (to great effect) in the early 1990s. Knowing the enemies are there is necessary, of course, but not sufficient. The sensor network's purpose is to pinpoint and track the enemies (who may move) so that they can be struck with precision missiles. (That's the reason the military built GPS, not for second lieutenants who can't manage a compass.)

Also, ships fighting a near-peer adversary (not Houthis with a few missiles, but China or Russia) need to focus on the air - that's where naval battles have been fought since Midway in WWII. The ships won't be near land anyway until the enemy is suppressed; carrier planes have a ~500 mile combat radius, without refueling, and that's not even enough any more due to precision missiles.

> Also, in regards to the general "no-one is thinking about that" sentiment, we've had such moments in the past, when the lack of any real naval combat for decades meant that it was very hard for non-institutional actors (like this guy is) to impose their views against the mainstream consensus.

That is a problem, though less of one in an open society where such things are extensively and publicly debated. But it's not an argument for the OP's point-of-view; they actually need to substantiate it, that would be an argument. As it is, they don't know basic information.

> nothing will stop the same Russians from using cheap drones against a big and expensive US warship approaching Vladivostok, for example.

I'm not sure what I said that disagrees? I wouldn't say 'nothing'; there's a lot of anti-drone technology, and a lot of anti-air technology on ships, but yes that's a real threat. The navy doesn't plan to approach coastlines under fire, as far as I know; the Marines have greatly deemphasized amphibious landings, for example, in part because - for reasons you say, and due to precision munitions more generally - there's no way to station ships offshore and then to move amphibious craft to the beach.
N of 1, etc. etc.

The 152 could have had a 40 year old radio or a crappy antenna. Who knows. As you pointed out - that 152 is subject to a lot less maintenance scrutiny than commercial airliners are.

The other thing that plays in here is that ATC language is very highly standardized. In any specific phase of flight, the pilot will generally know what to expect next from ATC. This allows them to discern instructions (and read them back for verification) even if the signal is weak. In situations like these, ATC may seem completely unintelligible to people not used to ATC language and patterns.
> I discovered Georgios had an IQ of 145, a score in the top 1.33% for the test he took. Put simply, that meant that he was several “mental years” ahead of his peers. If a teacher taught fifty students a year for forty years, they would only meet two or three children with his raw ability.

Unless I'm mistaken, this appears to be off by an order of magnitude.
Reader view seems to work.
I think the last line hits the hardest. So much suffering happened to you and it just happened. I've been through something similar. Took a while for me to realise that people were just doing what they thought was best, but the consequences still remain.
The Modern Miracle of Cheap Aluminum Foil
That's great! But nearly everyone I know not in tech is right at the end of their rope. Like one event will quite literally destroy their precarious lives, and in the US there is basically NO safety net.

So while I'm happy for the numbers, IMO they don't represent the reality people face. Which makes the statistics pretty useless.
> When done properly this is supposed to have a 100% success rate.

Sounds a lot like the No True Scotsman fallacy. I'm sure most smokers trying to quit think about how bad it is every single time, yet they can't.

How would one even know when you've "thought about it hard enough"?
I actually knew they tried to put off that particular test, but I don't think their scheduling debate disproves my point. The Navy did extensive testing, for years on the Ford, and does similar testing (though maybe not quite as long - not every ship is a new model of aircraft carrier) with other ships that are delivered.
What has happened with the BloombergGPT? The paper was published in March and as far as I know, they have not launched anything.
To voice against commercialisation of harmful for-profit medical procedures on children without any gain for most people? You're already sold on unnecessary vaccines, so might as well mutilate them and give them a bunch of prescription drugs to go with it.
By the time of the merger with Time Warner they were a joke among technical people. They were in the same category as Compuserve and Prodigy, but marketed specifically as an "easy" service for less technical users.
In it's origins it was about the capital ruling, as opposed to the aristocracy. So political power would be in the hands of people with capital, not the landed aristocracy. The means of production only entered the equation with the industrial revolution. And capitalism is older than that, albeit not much older
What a beast! I will try to figure why power-profiles are not working.
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Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto
> Capitalism just isnt set up to punish the Bourgeois.

Its not a problem of capitalism its a problem of a judicial system having no balls to put execs in prison.
> Honestly it’s super depressing and makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy (inverted corporate democracy perhaps?)

We're not. There was a coup attempt scant years ago, and there will absolutely be another in November.
Norquist don't want people to be aware of taxes. They want to not pay taxes; and believe that if taxes would be citizen friendly, people would be more welcoming to pay them. By making it as obnoxious as possible, they hope to have a society that provides them services by the magic of fairy dust.
Changes to the compatibility of the browser, like AVX requirements.
Are there any good resources on using mipmapping and swizzling effectively?
When I have a chance, I want to compile this with Cosmopolitan Libc!
Life is hard for everyone. I think it’s dramatically easier in some ways for people with particular talents.

Beautiful people have certain things easier but others harder. Highly intelligent people are the same way. I think it’s like playing the game on easy mode but has some random side quest every so often.

I’d surely not wish the ending of Flowers for Algernon on myself just in order to avoid the quests.
"The easiest way to not desire candy is to stop eating altogether" leaves a few things missing, I assume.

and I really hope it's just not 'magically your body will no longer desire sugar when you stop having sugar' -- sure, if you're not conciously aware of the whole thing I can see that working.
From your writing it is clear that you think very clearly and have good awareness.

I hope you succeed in finding a place where others compliment you, and you them and are in a team with a lead who supports you. I've been in, asked let a few such teams and we did amazing things.
Monthly jobs numbers have been revised downward byt the BLS in every month of 2023.
It's true that sentiment seems low, but are we sure that's an objectively relevant measurement? Sentiment is impacted by many things beyond reality; are we sure there isn't some other underlying problem in society that's causing people to be substantially more pessimistic and negative about their lives?
> Serving students like Georgios is one of the things the Soviet Union did very well

Philosophers? I think not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_in_the_Soviet_Union
Ease of understanding, perhaps. I found musl source code much easier to understand than GNU libc.

Or maybe GNU just rubs people the wrong way?
I assume that would be under "Poisoning"
May I suggest a honeypot?

I'm pretty sure that a robots.txt is only a suggestion, not legally binding in any way.

If enough people put honeypot links in their emails .....