skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, not too worried. AI might kill the "self-published Amazon eBook market of garbage genre novels", but honestly there's very little value there.

I'm not convinced. Speaking as someone who's ended up selecting for a bunch of the good (i.e. picked up by publishers) authors for self-published genre novels,
I definitely feel less likely to actually put in the effort after a bunch of bad experiences, and certainly if it's LLM generated.

I'm pretty sure I'd nope out, but because there's so much crap it's hard to pay enough attention to find the gems.

At this point, I'm selecting based on prior knowledge and the Hugo longlists, which is depressing as it selects against the interesting new stuff that I'd like to find.

> This is a thing people do? Like... before AI? Not even reading extract or anything? You just see a cover and a title and go like "sure, I'll spend my hard-earned cash to make a 30 hour investment in this thing I know nothing about"?

Yes, many many times. Mind you, I tend to exclusively focus on books for entertainment, and most books aren't that expensive (especially after spending a few years buying academic published statistical books) but I agree with the OP in that I'm becoming less likely to do this (but to be fair, this was happening before LLMs became super convenient and popular).

Actually, thinking about it, I find it pretty unlikely that any current LLM could actually write a coherent novel, given the context window. You'd probably need to do some kind of chain to make it work, i.e. generate synopsis, then recursively generate more text. It would also likely be super inconsistent unless you kept feeding the previous parts in.

Hmmmmm....in a world where I have more free time, I might take a stab at getting LLaMa to do this.
> I really love software engineering. I'm the kind of person who spent hours in their free time coding up their pet projects.

What you described at your job _is_ software engineering. Software engineering might have a large programming component in it, or it might not.
Excel? How does that work - first time I'm hearing of it being used in that way
I concur completely with all lazide has written, and they'd get two upvotes if I had them.

Abuse and neglect in the home is often the genesis of childhood "mental illness" but the industry can do jack-all about the home life of children.

ADHD, bipolar, and PTSD are clusters of disparate symptoms, different with every child. They are chiefly the symptoms which annoy and inconvenience parents, caregivers, school teachers and administrators. Therefore, the drugging of children is oriented toward suppressing and/or eliminating these annoyances so that the people in authority can go about their business without having said authority challenged by uppity children who act out.

My niece was not yet in 8th grade before the Catholic school proposed to drug her as well, and I know full well what sorts of domestic troubles she had undergone throughout her short life. I pity the children who endure such things but can't escape them. What are we going to do, break up 60% of families because their parents suck and they are permanently damaging all their offspring?

It's tragic, and it's left me with the prospect of lifelong therapy to become normal, but there is healing and hope, and people do get better, despite the setbacks and damage caused by drugs, clinics, and hospitalization.
Figuratively, how all my physicist and computer science friends rolled their eyes when I took degrees in the humanities. Literally, how true the joke is about the difference between an English major and a large pepperoni pizza is that the pizza can feed a family of three. On the other hand, the humanities did plenty to devalue itself, by adopting the view that 'value' itself is likely a social construct.
I’m fairly sure of it based on the reports but of course we need to wait for the actual investigation.

I think it is indeed new for these Max planes and the airline purchased this one in this configuration that would not require it (fewer seats), and adding a functioning exit in (including life rafts and slides) would simply cost a lot more (and weigh more) than just blanking it out with a piece of metal. Not to mention extra maintenance and testing of said exit.

The airline may have the desire to buy a model with fewer seats because it’s cheaper and weighs less, but might also have a requirement for fewer cabin crew members too.
Someone help me out, whats the difference between this and the way FS are usually mounted?
I love how you pointed out this one conservative involvement and leave out the thousands of leftist involvements.

Also just quoting from the wikipedia article:

"Dies sind z. B. Gewerkschaften, Frauenverbände, Kirchen und Fraktionen."

"Vertreter von LGBT-Verbänden sind im Fernsehrat des..."

It might not fit into your left agenda but this is so far from reality.

Quoting the Wikipedia article you linked:

"Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass weder die Räte ihrem Anspruch, die Vielfalt der Gesellschaft zu repräsentieren, gerecht werden noch dass benachteiligte Gruppen ausreichend anzutreffen sind."
not only is she hot, she'll get you a great deal on AI consulting and some cheap offshore webdev work too
You’re right, the story is more than a sentence. You should remember though that Jasmine walked into the slums, met a poor thief and fell in love with him. He had to jump through some hoops and had a crisis of confidence before the end of the story though.
In this particular case, this funding does change that priority. Janet Yellen has instructed that "any additional resources—including any new personnel or auditors that are hired—shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold that are audited relative to historical levels" [1]. Unfortunately, auditing extremely wealthy individuals is complicated and expensive because you're pitting underpaid and overworked IRS employees against a wildly complicated tax system that is exploited to the max by the super-rich and their well-remunerated tax lawyers.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0918
the "assum[ption] that everyone suddenly dislikes higher education due to the same reason" is not a premise of this article. It has a thesis--that people with a range of political beliefs distrust academia more than they have in the past because academia has become more dishonest--and then gives a bunch of examples of the dishonesty. Surely it goes without saying that people may have other reasons to distrust academia! Maybe you distrust academia now because you were promised a lavish sinecure in exchange for how diverse you will look on a glossy brochure but you lost it because racists found duplicative language in your otherwise stellar academic work.
> but they're not systemic design flaws.

Hum, yes, instead Boeing seems to have systemic manufacturing flaws. Do we have a reason to believe those are contained into the Max line?
That's perfectly fine.

One of my biggest pet peeves with the LLM Benchmark culture is that in practice, marginal increases don't matter and are overall subjective. But using a strong model (like ChatGPT is still) is a good starting point.
Thanks for featuring, author here. This is the first version of the #swisstrains webmap which I've made 17yrs ago, it still runs for historical reasons, it used to fetch also live delays but the position of the trains were still interpolated, using the average speed between the two timetable stops.

The other clones are more or less using same technique, swiss transport agencies are not (yet) offering live position of the trains / vehicles, only the actual delays measured at stations.
Question is, why were these things manufactured wrong. It's well possible that Boeing's engineering documents are poor or misleading, triggering human error during manufacturing.

This is of course pure speculation and it might equally well be some single manufacturer pressuring ("optimizing") their employees (or even machines) past the point of reliability.

Either way I'm not gonna fault anyone for refusing to fly on a 737 MAX. At some point you gotta make a call and shift your assumption from "isolated engineering/manufacturing mishap" to "corporate screwed the entire product top to bottom".
What are your reasons for preferring clang over gcc?
That is just a lie their marketing department tells to make themselves look better thinking people will not look further.

Their actual pledge: https://www.tesla.com/legal/additional-resources#patent-pled...

States you can use Tesla patents if you agree to let Tesla use your patents, rip-off your products, make counterfeits, and steal your trade secrets.

That is worse than standard patent reciprocity agreements and I think most companies would prefer paying for regular patent licensing over such ludicrous IP overreach. Tesla and Elon Musk somehow proposed something even less open than regular patents and had the gall to lie about being openness advocates.
And floating-point addition is not associative in any language:
Caltrans publishes a guide detailing how and when public input is consulted.

https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/transportation...

I encourage using the information within to contribute to local and regional planning processes. Note, however, that this does not address the environmental impact lawsuits often used by California drivers to obstruct bicycle infrastructure.
Depends. You can’t do e.g. crystallographical analysis of metals inside an engine if the engine is already put together. You have to trust your vendor that they built the engine correctly and checked the materials themselves. Or at most send auditors to the vendor.
Why don’t they give the irs 100 trillion? America will be rich I say, rich!
Emacs is the only viable free and open source IDE for Common Lisp. For other languages I use other IDEs.
Whether it’s true or not, I feel like I control my fate when driving a lot more than when flying. I can take precautions (defensive driving, avoiding bad conditions, etc.) but have little to no control once I board a plane.
after the crashes a few years ago Southwest allowed passengers to switch to other planes at no charge: https://www.newsweek.com/southwest-waiving-fare-differences-...

Wonder if that will happen again.
I imagine best part about working in Antarctica is having to watch "The Thing" after the last flight before the Winter darkness leaves:

https://gizmodo.com/these-south-pole-scientists-who-watch-th...
I would not trust any sales numbers from the Chinese internal market as they have a long history of faking them for various reasons. This includes doing things like registering the car (counting as sale) and then just parking them on a lot.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevetengler/2023/07/19/the-thr...
I’ve heard it argued that the US government coerced that merger.
> Thinking about it, both groups don't talk a lot about the risk from AI being used for censorship...

This is a pretty common topic in the academic community I follow, along with related things like how it’ll impact relationships with employers, governments, etc. I see that most as a counterpoint to the more sci-fi ideas as in “don’t worry about AIs annihilating humanity, worry about your boss saying an AI graded your work and said you are overpaid”.
Yesterday, someone sent over $1M in Bitcoin to Satoshi Nakamoto
I think this is a beautifully written article. There might be a lot of gems to learn from here. One thing makes me a bit sceptic though:

"Clear your schedule, and read this book"

I haven't been around many years in the private sector, and haven't sold much. But I sometimes have a feeling, many project-strategies are kind of over-engineered and so meticulously thought through, that no actual work happens. This seems like an anti-pattern for achieving things to me.

"Third, talk to a lot of people" however really resonates with me, because if there is one thing I see all the time with successful new products in my field, is that they have built very strong communication channels with users and people interested in the product.
I wonder, is Daggerfall still their biggest game (assume that's measured by playable area)? The planets in Starfield seem pretty big, and there's a lot of them
Thank you, so much. Maybe you give me too much credit in that I do it for a form of moral self hygiene, too. I'm German, and trying to grapple with the Nazis and the Holocaust is something I'll do as long as I live. So this strikes home on several levels, the trauma that the Nazis seeded into Israel, the way the Holocaust is now used to dehumanize Palestinians or to smear critical people as anti-semites, and the all too familiar (having read dozens of books on the subject) tropes and fallacies used to defend these crimes, the dehumanizing language, the thinking of people in blobs. All of it.

Hannah Arendt is my favorite person in the world, period, so if I don't say anything about this, I cannot use the site for other discussions with remotely a good conscience. So it's selfish, that way. But I also hope and wish it helps a little, somehow.
Notoriously there is also a large contingent of anti-tax politicians and citizens that oppose making paying taxes easier. Their reasoning being the more friction there is the more likely that you will pay attention to how much you are being taxed and support their policies that cut taxes.
It's not that easy. The efficiency is actually a benefit for many private companies and it's lobbied very hard. Just look at a comparison with other countries that are also restricted by law and have much nicer systems.
They were a successful online service before the internet. Yes. They were just as cool as Compuserve and Prodigy.
I don't think there is much variance in quality of software among (radically different) fields of science.

One of the most poorly engineered products I work with was created by a few academic CS guys. The core algorithms are sophisticated and ostensibly implemented well, but the overall product is a horrible mess.

The incentives of academia make this obvious. You need to write some code that plausibly works just enough to get a manuscript out of it, but not much else. Reproducibility is not taken that seriously, and "productization"/portability/hardening is out of the question.
It would definitely be a useful feature for sure, however, the way I plan to use it (or hopefully it will work with broadcast box) is to install it on the SBC nvidia and use it to send the low latency stream to the p2p webUI client, instead of how I did it last time where gstreamer on the SBC sent the stream to OBS (note that OBS had the gstreamer plugin). In that test, I got the best results for latency. Any other protocol resulted in ~2sec, which was bad for the application I needed. I did try webrtc back then, but it was not as efficient as using gstreamer directly as sink/source pipelines, so if I can have in my tests: Broadcast box (on SBC) -> webUI that would a big step forward as I need to get rid off OBS, if I tried that soon will definitely update you!
> humanities got taken over in some sense and filled with mumbo jumbo

This is exactly the kind of opinion that results from improper familiarization with the various sub-fields of the humanities. Is there bullshit? Yes. Is it typical? Absolutely not.
The guys making this kit are working to launch a full diesel/electric hybrid transport truck for heavy haul applications. They plan to use cells from the same supplier as they are going to use for the heavy trucks, and hope to increase volume on their purchases.
The Xorg fbdev driver is deprecated. If you're not Xorg but you want to easily put some pixels on the screen, fbdev is still for you.

The Linux fbdev subsystem is deprecated, but the fb devices will be emulated with DRM because they are useful.
> Weird how you can be a "key manufacturer" yet "go bankrupt."

We massively drew down defence spending at the end of the Cold War.
How was MDD going bankrupt Boeings problem?

If it’s a national security issue, that’s the governments problem to fix, surely?
NPM still hasn't fixed the "*" package version bug on their end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzqtWTMFv9Y&t=465
Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Lottery Winners and Their Children [pdf]
Stonecipher was the "leadership" that came in from McD when they effectively took over Boeing, replacing their traditional care with literally anything for a buck.
Looks like I have to stop making jokes about Scarebus. Boeing quality has been in a steady decline since the McDonnell-Douglas merger.
https://notebooklm.google/
How about nationalizing it?
“Outline of benefits of Thorium over vanilla Chromium.” https://alex313031.blogspot.com/2022/01/outline-of-benefits-... (2022)
Wow. That's quite the agenda.
That's more than two decades ago. People involved must have long left the company. They might even be working for other airlines.
Very deaf on one side but I prefer not to wear a hearing aid. Could say that I'm a little relieved.
That's one of the reasons I think FL is a great DAW, because there's no session mode, only an arrangement mode. You're forced to compose rather than loop endlessly or muck about tweaking parameters.

I think Live is geared to "do whatever you want, quickly" as opposed to Bitwig being "make any sort of noise you can imagine" or FL "write whatever you want, quickly".

All great tools, just depends on what you'd like to do, honestly. Nothing is inherently bad.
In the last 20 years nearly every industry has seen major consolidation between just a few large companies.

Is any part of the capitalist system "well functioning" anymore?
We loved ultima 3 growing up. A bunch of us were playing it in middle school and we'd occasionally swap hints about how to advance. Before the internet thats all we had.
Out of our group, at least one of us had a real copy of each game, making the spell books and instructions available... The cloth maps were fun, but I don't think we used them during game play.
The games were a bit of grind, but we didn't care.

I do like the Ars Video on how they spent all this time on the "ultima online ecosystem" only to have it not work out..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNxJVTJleE
Putting some effort into (3) can increase your citations (h-index). If people can’t use your software then they will just find some other method to benchmark against or build on.

Here you are not improving your time to get out an article, but reducing it for others - which will make your work more influential.
I support a person or organization’s right to invest in whatever they want. I also think that maybe people are being deluded or misguided by some media outlets so they think that Tesla is in a worse position than it is, or maybe they just didn’t time the market correctly. I do think it’s un-American to short sell a great American company like Tesla though. Many people work for the company and they make great products. I’m reminded of the fact that Bill Gates was shorting Tesla while asking Elon for philanthropic donations.
Check with your doctor with regards to consuming Metformin if you’re attempting to conceive or are going to cryopreserve semen. Also consider a semen analysis to get diagnostic confirmation of sperm quality if on the drug.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/03/birth-defects...

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4389
Has NDT been saying that? I wouldn't know, since I mostly consume him as small segments of larger appearances, but it seems half the time he's conversing with someone he's spouting philosophy as he sees it, so it would be surprising to me that he denigrates it.
The social status of officers has fallen, causing the competition for those jobs to decrease, resulting in selection from a smaller, less capable pool of candidates. And incrementally reverting to the population intelligence norm.
When someone runs a red light at speed and t-bones you on your left you're dead no matter how defensively you drive.

The illusion of control doesn't change your odds much.
That's when the government goes, "buys" the design for some price it decides, and distributes for other companies to manufacture.
For a substantial part, Tesla stock is not valued based on its underlying fundamentals, but on its polularity as a David vs Goliath story, and on Elons charisma/character. The latter two won't likely yield actual value, so financially speaking ste stock is highly overvalued. That said, I'd never bet against it, because those two factors are entirely dominant in TSLA valuation.
If the broken-up bits are uncompetitive with a monolith, that’s an argument against pursuing a break-up.
stereo graphic vinyl can be more colorful[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=S2X5JSlet2M
Biggest Takeaways from Netflix's "You Are What You Eat" Food Doc
Middle housing is illegal? Where is that or rather what is that then?

Middle housing is a type of housing density that sits somewhere between high rises and single family housing. Vox media has a good article on it.[1]

but you might find that some of your ideas about the status quo turn out to be wrong or at least that the status quo has few thousand years in it you need to overcome.

Modern status quo is vastly different to how urban planning was done in the past. Maybe they have a good reason, or maybe not, or maybe they were a good idea for a time but became obsolete.

1. https://www.vox.com/videos/2021/8/17/22628750/how-the-us-mad...
Their practices spread everywhere, most corporations behave following Jack Welch's MBA teachings: cut costs (massive layoffs are Welch's bread and butter), return as much as possible to shareholders because they are the only important players in the corporate game (fuck society, fuck the workers).

I hate Welch and all of his acolytes with a passion.
It's a deep cultural rot that has apparently taken over in the 2010s, not a physical rot with older variants. There is no more of the classic Boeing engineering culture.

Read these emails and chats from Boeing employees in charge of safety and compliance, who brag to each other about pulling a "Jedi mind trick" on the regulators and how they deserve to get paid more for all the money they're saving the company.

https://fortune.com/2020/01/10/designed-clowns-supervised-mo...

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4316117-are-disturbing-inte...
^^^ mate I can tell you a million facts about a million things as I've probably hyperfixated on something related to whatever your interested in at some point over the last 20 years.

But I still can't remember where I put my wallet, phone and keys.
Who cares what gamblers lost? "Betting on/against" whatever company isn't trading. It's not arbitrage, it doesn't have an edge, it's just fingers crossed hope for the best gambling.

And of all gambles, shorting is the worst. By all I mean "long or short", so I guess there isn't much variation left when you leave shorting out. But with going long on a company at least you can buy and forget. Maybe it bounces back up. Not today or this year but eventually.

With shorting though, it's pure loss. On top of the interest the lender is charging you for the stock that they loaned to you (some 2% last time I checked, when reference rate was pretty much zero). Unlike long where you earn interest (dividends).

So unless you got a really really good reason to short (insider knowledge, some solid stat arb reasoning)... don't do it. Or if you do it, I won't weep for you when you lose.
These same guys are building a commercial heavy-haul, vocational targeted diesel-electric hybrid truck. Their plan is to run a diesel at about half the normal displacement, and have batteries for a few hundred km of range. The axles are e-axles with no mechanical connection from engine to axles. The guys that started the company are heavy-haul truckers, and they think they've found some niches were the diesel-electric would shine.
> FAA will never ban it because politically its untenable in the US

What are you basing this on?
In my past times off-roading, trails and dirt roads have usually been very generous with places to turn. Not so much when you are off a trail or a road.