skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first read that post several years ago and re-read it now, and I found that what bothered me back then is still bothering me today:

The article goes to great lengths, with amazing visual presentation, to demonstrate how a diverse society can be achieved.

It doesn't say a single word about why society should strive to be diverse.

Instead, the article (ironically) appears to be written from the biased standpoint that it "ought to be" so. We hear claims like "harmful world", "shapist" (as a derogatory term for the natural human desire to be surrounded by like-minded individuals), "society cracks and splits", and a rather distasteful analogy between supposed biases and dirt. None of these assertions are ever justified by the authors. They are simply assumed to be correct, and presented to the reader as moral axioms.

But of course, such claims are amenable to empirical analysis. One obvious approach is to compare rural and urban environments. Rural, isolated societies tend to be much less diverse than those found in modern "world cities". If the moral valuation implied by this article is correct, it should be possible to demonstrate that the society in a typical metropolis is, in some obvious way, "better" than that in a typical village.

It certainly isn't obvious to me that this is indeed the case. I've lived in places where a dozen languages could be heard spoken on the street, and I've lived in villages that looked like they were frozen in time. I've been part of the majority, and I've been a one-in-a-thousand outsider, catching stares from random people who passed me by. I can't say I ever felt that diversity itself was the problem, or the solution for anything.
That was a good example of how one should NOT openly respond in public and air dirty laundry.

Should have left to “it has come to my attention that X has happened. It was a one time incident and we did Y to rectify it. I am sorry this happened and we are doing Z so it doesn’t happen again. We deeply value our customers privacy and trust. Our mission is X and I will ensure we will do right by our customers.

- Yours truly, CEO
“
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Gotta Be Aretha (1996)
Semantic search as described in the article is very dissimilar to querying ChatGPT.
> She said traditionally Commerce drew a "cutline" and companies like Nvidia would create a new chip "just below" that line ... "That's not productive," Raimondo said

That seems ridiculous at first glance? I'm assuming a "cutline" here is what the maximum performance is allowed to be, and asking companies to add in a fuzzy "extra" bit there, instead of building right to the line is bizarre?
Why is it about to fail?
They love only money
If I lived in China I wouldn’t give a shit about range. I would have access to the world’s premier high speed rail network.
The source is a paper from the Australian National University who identified 616,818 suitable locations for 23.1 million GWh of pumped-hydro storage capacity. Link added above.

I've seen quite a lot of contradictory messaging about the availability of locations but it never seems to come linked to any evidence I've seen. It wouldn't be the first time the carbon/nuclear industry successfully spread FUD about science that threatened their bottom line.

For a long time the carbon industry's position was that the only thing capable of accommodating renewable intermittency was ~3 weeks' worth of lithium ion batteries. This is obviously nonsense, but I still see it repeated a lot.

Clean hydrogen / methane would suffice as storage if the goal was to supply green electricity cheaper than nuclear power (not because it's cheap, but because nuclear power is that expensive), but we should be able do better than that - they're both quite inefficient.
if android, blockada has host block feature (similar to editing/blocking via host file on PC)
Yes, I am annoying and that’s why they hate me. :) You are correct.

And also my output is 20x higher than theirs.
So ... design a licensing scheme, and approach the copyright holders. It will likely be difficult, but being educational material, they're likely more open to and used to licensing than general market suppliers.

Ideally, you'd have done this up front, but better late than never.
Properly fitting shoes and ski boots. Why can’t I get my foot scanned and then figure out if it will properly fit into the shoe volume before I buy it based on existing scans of current market products
It's a tough one because a PhD dissertation can be seen as a book.
Show HN: Load env var at runtime, support JSON validation and HTML interpolation
woah woah now, someone has to put those young ladies through college and the manufacturing budget has to be spent.
Ubuntu live update probably works with your own kernel too as long you compile the live patching module within.

Your probably needing less of the kernel patches anyway because your not using the affected drivers.

What do you do when there's no outside internet access for "live patches" or where such services are restricted?

Say, banking?

Either way now we are getting in to pedantic territory. I marked my reasons, you do you.
could hoover like a monorail?
My Model Y LR is roughly the same age (24K miles) and I lost about 8.5% capacity.

Pretty sure this is the nature of current lithium battery tech, according to many Tesla owner reports. From what I have gathered, the loss rate will slow and gradually level out above 70% for much of the ten year battery warranty, as long as you follow Tesla’s guidance on battery health.
I have been told that Vonnegut wrote "Harrison Bergeron" as a kind of parody of right-wing thought about left-winger ideas of equality, but it's definitely entered into the realm of "1984 was a warning, not a manual, people."
The second amendment is quite clear, and it's a restriction on the government's ability to regulate, not the people's ability to innovate.
This is just the endemic result of C++ lacking a package manager.

Every library starts out small, adds its own vendored utilities, adds its own dependencies, and eventually becomes boost.

To be fair to this project, theyve worked quite hard to make the library consumable by others… but yes, its hard to look at the code like https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/blob/50ba61082dc40b...

…and not go… really? As part of the core of libwebsocket?

When you read the justification it’s mostly “well we have a good framework now, so why not use it for other things too?”

C++ life.

/shrug
I’ve been seeing a lot of ads for those Gabb phones for kids, and while I don’t know if they are any good, they do look more like the right concept. They are very smartphone-like.

Still, I’d say just use screen time, MDM, parental controls. Have someone else you know set the pin. Lacking access to an Android or iOS device basically excludes you from modern life.
You’re talking about metaphysics. Epistemology will be one of the most important issues with AI. And let’s not ignore ethics. You seem to speak as someone who hasn’t read any philosophy. Einstein, Bohr, Oppenheimer, and plenty of other physicists would disagree with your sentiment.
Commercial aviation is ridiculously safe and well-regulated. Worry about the ride to the airport instead.

You're far more likely to die in a private plane or in an executive jet. GA aircraft crash constantly.
But why would you need a separate number and test for that? It’s guaranteed to be more than the highway range and for the small percentage of the time that range matters at all 99% of the time that will be on a highway. Do people seriously consider driving >200 miles inside of a city in a single day?
Thank you.

I am extremely empathetic and honest. Most middle management at most companies optimizes for non-creative yet industrious which turns highly competitive over pettiness.

I just can’t see myself doing it anymore. Especially after what happened to me at my last role.

I had my naïveté taken advantage of.
Down to 3 Natural Pros :(
Genuine question. With Rust and C++, even for embedded systems, what is the use case for starting a new project that does binary encoding and network with such an unsafe language like C?

I find it almost inexcusable at this point.
Right now I am starting my own.

I generally gravitate towards the most autistic market niches imaginable. Usually areas which combine multiple autistic topics together that attract the weirdest people imaginable.
The problem with this is it tremendously simplifies the issues of with(), and this simplification makes the semantic and performance impacts of with() seem much less bad that they actually are.

For semantic impact: it's not just walking the prototype chain, it's that the look up is 100% dynamic which means the lookups can change midway through execution, e.g.

let thing = ....;
let count = ....;
with (o) {
for (let j = 0; j < count; j++) {
thing();
}
}

Now lets imagine `thing()` adds a property named `thing` or `count` to anything in `o` or its prototype chain then the lookup of count or thing changes. It is _not_ a bunch of additions to the scope chain at the entry to the `with` block, it makes every identifier lookup that isn't lexically scoped inside the `with` (e.g. only `let` lookups inside their defining local scope). Will repeatedly attempt o.<identifier> every single time, and adding or removing those properties to `o` directly or indirectly during execution will change how even local variables are shadowed while inside the `with`, even in "static" loops.

This brings about the performance overhead: without a with block looking up a local variable (var, let, arguments) is generic a single load, even looking up a global variable is generally just a single additional indirect load. Once a single `with` is involved the best case is that every local variable access requires multiple indirect loads and a comparison to validate that the normal load path is involved. That's the ideal case where the property cache hits 100% of the time.

The semantic issues make with() a foot gun, essentially it means that adding new APIs that touch the standard Object prototype chain become even harder, it makes code more fragile in the face of other code changes, and the fragility is subtle and can't be statically detected and isn't a 100% failure case. That's why it was deprecated from JS. Other languages that support with() or equivalent (e.g. pascal family) have static typing so the identifier resolution is (1) static so doesn't impact performance and (2) can warn about shadowing.

From an engine point of view there's an immense amount of complexity of trying to get remotely decent performance of code inside `with` blocks (and it would still be an order of magnitude slower than non-with code), that would be to support a feature that wasn't heavily used even before the modern era of JS, and has negligible use now.
This is great. The comments totally match the language of the NPCs in the GTA game, like as if they're coding their own game.
If you find that part disconcerting, you may find the 2nd amendment terrifying. These laws are clearly violating it.
> The last time a structural failure of an aircraft resulted in a crash was in 2000 and it was a design that entered service in 1959.

While I agree with your point, if the scope is scheduled airline flights in the USA, AA flight 587 crashed on 2001-11-12; globally, Egypt Air 804 on 2016-05-19. There have also been a few close calls, such as Qantas 32 on 2010-11-04, and collisions can also occur, such as that between BAL flight 2937 and DHL slight 611 on 2002-07-01, and Gol Transportes Aéreos flight 1907 with a business jet on 2006-09-29. And, given the topic is things going catastrophically wrong at altitude, there is AF447 on 2009-06-01.
The dirt is toxic. There’s no magnetic field so there’s lots of solar and cosmic radiation. There’s no water to speak of. Certainly none liquid. There’s no air to breathe. There’s no food to eat. It’s cold. There’s not enough atmosphere so meteors are actually a problem. Good luck keeping that dome intact.

Perhaps humans could live in lava tubes. If we wanted to do that we could live in caves on earth. Nobody does that because it would be unpleasant and difficult. But less than a thousandth as difficult as living on mars. To say nothing of getting there. A mars colony would be entirely dependent on earth for the next several hundred years and would probably be a hellishly unpleasant place to live.

Also the primary person pushing for colonization is a narcissistic man-child who can’t tolerate even the slightest suggestion that he may have made a mistake even when the mistake is blatant, obvious and egregious. Not the kind of person you want to depend on for your air water food and heat. If you think he’s bad now just wait till he’s largely beyond the reach of the law and holds the power of life and death in his hands. Quick name a hundred people he has lashed out against for disagreeing with him in even the mildest of ways. You can actually do that and it should be terrifying to consider.
I read a paper recently that proposed that procrastination involves a slow increase in anxiety as a deadline approaches and a stimulus that is conditioned by the removal of that anxiety. That is, chronic procrastinators receive a greater reward when they wait until the deadline. This is supported by animal studies.

It is possible that there is a similar mechanism here. The choice to delay gratification is akin to procrastination; the urge itself becomes a conditioned stimulus reinforced by the strong reward of delaying gratification until the scheduled time.
These are smaller scale model that you can export and run anywhere.

Even the smallest multimodal LLM would be wayyyyyyy bigger than an exported model from this
If you read the article you'd see that the law was passed in 2021 but only took effect in 2024 (5 days ago).
Set your alarm for February 22nd so, 47 days to go.
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”
I read this whole article and I think it’s missing the point.

I had a sky-high asvab score and was planning on using the GI Bill for my education. Then I received a scholarship and weighed the time commitment against what they were offering and my sense of morality. It wasn’t worth it. The loans I got (which were ultimately a lot) were far cheaper than the years I would have spent in uniform.

For me, I decided on following my conscience. I ultimately chose not to go to the military because I wasn’t sure we were the good guys after the invasion of Iraq and by the time I was graduating high school in 2006 we’d been at war nearly 5 years already. “Is it moral for me to participate in violence in exchange for money or an education? Even if I’m not directly carrying it out?” No. And looking back I feel this was a good decision.

I wasn’t (and still am not) a pacifist, but I did not want to subject myself to a machine that didn’t care about me and would force me to commit violence against people I didn’t think necessarily deserve it. Especially not for nearly a decade.

I imagine there are lots of people like me out there. People who could have but chose not to for one reason or another. I would like to think that in a world where people are better educated, that number is higher every year.
> It’s not that much worse than airbus was at after their A320 flew into a forest and they hid the flight data recorders,...

This one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296Q

Doesn't read like "they" = Airbus hid the recorders.
Oh, nice, this is a fun idea. If submitting taxes were essentially an open API endpoint and the front end was an open source government-sponsored UX. Love that.

The US Digital Corps has the technical chops to do that well if the politics could work out.

To the Intuit folks reading this because your boss told you to keep an eye on the sentiment on Hacker News…don’t worry you can _totally_ have your own fork and since you’re the best you would have nothing to worry about. Since you care so much about the American tax payer, I look forward to your enthusiastic support of more transparent tax filing.
I agree that in many cases there isn't any substance behind the talk. Yet the single largest state-to-state flow of people is from California to Texas, not the other way around; surely there's something objective that is driving that. And, given the time and effort required for such a move, it's not something most people would do on a whim without doing at least some research.
We all only have a coinflip chance of inferring tone online so I wouldn't feel bad. It's also possible I misinterpreted both your comment and the OP to a degree.

There's a lot of politically driven economic boosterism in the air right now (more than usual even) and I may have lazily assigned you to that camp with scant basis.

It's natural for politicians and their adherents to cherry-pick the data and intentionally withhold context on it to make themselves look as good as possible, while their opponents do the reverse. Then everyone accuses the other side of ignoring their numbers which they say are the true reflection of "reality."

Ever was it thus, but it's more exaggerated in these conditions where both the "good numbers" and the "bad numbers" break records and can zig-zag suddenly.
I have a read-it-later tool (https://hamsterbase.com/) that I've been maintaining as a hobby for 2 years, supporting Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, and self-hosted Docker.

All these versions share the same codebase.

VSCF: I extracted part of the source code from VS Code and developed a framework called VSCF. It includes commands, themes, dependency injection, key bindings, IPC.

https://github.com/hamsterbase/vscf

Local server: On top of VSCF, I developed the underlying business logic, and file IO, SQLite, and the logic related to synchronization will be placed here.

Frontend: On top of VSCF, I used TypeScript and React for front-end development.

nodejs-mobile: This is an open-source project that allows me to use Node.js on mobile devices.

https://github.com/nodejs-mobile

Self-hosted version = local server + frontend, using WebSocket for communication.

Desktop version = Electron + local server + frontend, using Electron's IPC for communication.

Mobile version = nodejs-mobile + self-hosted version. Users use webview to access the UI. It looks just like a native application. They can even use their phones as servers to access data on their phones from a computer.
Likely a bug from them updating the text at one point from 90 days to 30 days. But Ooph at such a mistake made. We’ve all been there so cut some slack.
I think this is more like fine tuning an existing model to recognize features you specifically intend it to, and be light enough to run locally in a browser.
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I remember specifically having my first meeting with a Director of a large account at my last job.

I was really excited by it and was rattling off a list of ideas and tactics and strategies for how we could open the account.

His face turned bright red and he started SCREAMING at me.

At that point I was like “oooohk I did the thing again.” And backed off and didn’t interact with him.

After that he was a total asshole to me and started spreading rumors about me.

He felt extremely threatened I gather that he had been running this account for years and I could walk in and imagine a number of new approaches.

If I did it now I wouldn’t be so direct.

I have ideas all the time and most like do not want to have discussions like this because … they don’t have ideas themselves.

Corporate middle management are generally non creative and “brainstorming” just pisses them off.
They want them to self-enforce the administrations decision to not enable Chinese AI work. I don’t think they want them to be taking the Chinese professional market into account at all, thus the snarky statement.
whats beautiful about it? the case that hides everything?
The half that wants it smaller, when it succeeds, guts the government, with the result being that whatever remains is incapable of properly carrying out the duties it is still assigned.
Nice, I didn’t realize that.

I just checked and it looks like a good start, even though I’d like it to be fully granular.
I dunno if you rent, but the state of rental markets because of people like this is the definition of parasitic behavior.
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I just cancelled my Wall Street Journal subscription over this article. There’s so much going on in the world right but in the front page of WSJ.com are two hit pieces about Elon. First, this article where “board members are worried”, Second, “Mr. Beast rebuffs Elon” even though Mr. Beast would use X for videos if it was financially feasible.

I’ve never been a hater of “mainstream media”, but they are turning out to be ridiculous right now.

Just compare WSJ tabloid to FT.com now and the difference is huge.
Well that's because those companies didn't apologize with enough :folded-hands-emoji:
Yes, and if that works, it would be great if jart could roll this into redbean.
SMS is insecure so it’s smart to not use it. The dumbphone OSs aren’t as open as I would like to see otherwise an XMPP and/or Matrix client should have anyone covered while giving them a secure & federated/self-hostable communication option without the corporate lock-in/spying/giving data to the feds.
No, they logged it. Logging is not nothing.

Planes are incredibly complex and have little problems like that all the time. It's not a safety issue.

This was a brand new aircraft, this is almost certainly a manufacturing defect of some kind.
yeah, it cannot be emphasized enough the hazards of with() like constructs in languages with dynamic types and dynamic variable lookup are drastically different. That's why it was a mistake for it to be in JS, and why it was deprecated and blocked in strict mode.
Creating an equivalence between “moral values” and racism is the goal of “culture war” framing. Interesting to see it working, I suppose
Money is a tool that lets us track the goods and services we are throwing on the communal pile. You can trade money you've been given to take things from the pile as needed. The problem is some people get so much money through unintended glitches in the system that they can take so much of the pile that significant portions of the population are left without.

This man, and people like him are tape worms and I want nothing to do with it. I don't want to live a life of struggle or suffering, but I don't want my life of ease to be at someone else's expense.
For the forseeable future, it seems it's best imagine LLM's almost like client-side programs, at least in terms of security.

I mean, nothing going into them is reliably secret, and the whatever user is crafting input can eventually trigger almost any output.
While I’ve never actually used `with()` that much, I do feel that it’s a lost opportunity b.c. `with()` was basically the only way to get dynamically scoped variables (instead of lexically scoped ones) in JS (and tbh, in other ALGOL-derived languages as well).

Dynamically scoped variables are a much better solution to global variables… so for example, in Common Lisp you can have a STANDARD-OUTPUT variable that you can use to log things in your code, and then if you want to temporarily redirect your logs to a file, you can just do:

(let ((*STANDARD-OUTPUT* file))
(your-code-runs-here))

And the code in the block will automatically redirect your output to the file.
A Better New Year's Resolution: Make Your Passwords Secure
An alternative on Android is to hide the app from the drawer. If you have to dig thru Settings > Apps > ProprietaryTimeWaster, you will find you only use it when you really need to. That’s how I basically stopped using Facebook a few years back.
So what you're saying is that I'm right, it in fact had 2 AoA sensors from day one.