skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business Insider is a US publication so they are using a unit that makes sense to their readership. Everyone in the US has a sense for the size of a football field. In this case it seems like an appropriate comparison. I immediately realize this is a significant change that would impact things like docks and boat ramps.

This intuition works for any reasonable interpretation of "football field".

If we are talking about how far Voyager has traveled then you may have an interesting critique.
How do you imagine they could do that? SAT are multiple choices tests, with answers are objectively wright or wrong. The scores are simply summed up. Where is the place to put in adversity score or any “adjustment” scores?
I'm stoked to be learning about the real Eliza, after being surreptitiously exposed via the Zachtronics game [0]. The game has a fascinating dystopian/scifi take where a company provides AI therapy through human "proxies" that simply vocalize the AI response.

[0] https://www.zachtronics.com/eliza/
Flowering plants survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs
I really wish there was a certificate authority run by the government. In the past we didn't have the capacity to do a lot of these things but now we can make many improvements, even if incomplete.

Can we not have something like a CA but for, at minimum, officials? Or something like keybase for identity proofs? This seems quite invaluable. Couldn't this even be done within the phone, mail, and email systems? I don't think this should be for everyone, because we should have some anonymity existing, but at least for government officials? What's preventing us from having public/private keys that are verifiable by general citizens? Even if it was as bad as PGP used to be (before tools to make it easier developed) there would be at least some form of verification. But right now it's far too easy to spoof and honestly I don't even know how one would perform verification other than hanging up and calling back. But that doesn't solve your example.

Note: I am not a security expert.
over a billion years

The crazy thing is... it was maybe half that maybe even less. The earth is ~4.5 billion years old. There is perhaps-evidence of microbial life could be ~4.1 billion years old. More certainly, at ~3.7 billion.

The earth is life and life is earth.
Exactly this: my 96-year-old grandma still uses Wordpad to write letters that she then prints out and mails to the family -- just like she has been doing for almost 25 years. There's definitely a niche for Wordpad.
Almost all LLM inference these days includes a repetition penalty, to help prevent models from falling into this pattern, the so-called "boredom trap" [1]. Once the model repeats itself once, that greatly increases the chances that the next best token is another repetition (for a raw model like this, at least, that hasn't been chat/instruct/RLHF fine-tuned).

I ran the same prompt with a repetition penalty of 1.1 and got this:

The mountain in front of me was a little higher than the other two, and I could see the top of the mountain.

I'm going to climb it," I said. "It's a good place for a picnic."

You're not going to climb it?"

No!" I said. "But I'll climb it if you want! I can climb it with you—if we can get out there together—"

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14966
The key part is that it's a private company offering something that is opt-in. If the federal government mandated it, it's almost certainly a 10th Amendment violation (via commandeering). It would also effectively make the currently de facto second class citizenship of those who entered without inspection including DACA recipients into de jure second class citizens and under current law, for life. It would fall squarely into the small part of the opinion landscape in the US where both the right and the left would have reasons to hate it.
>internals are basically the same as the iPhone 13

But who cares about the internals if the display, the thing via which users operates and consume content on their phones, is absolute garbage on the SE3 for 2024 standards?

"The display might look like shit, but at least I have a top of the line processor." Said no smartphone customer ever.

Guess what, I have an Android with a chip weaker than on my work provided SE3 but it feels much faster and nicer to use because of the brighter 1080p OLED display operating at 90Hz.

Going back to the SE3 60Hz display feels like going back in time over 10 years. Everything motion like scrolling feels slow and janky
on it despite the fancy processor.

Top tip: faster refreshing displays make a theoretically slower phone feel faster than a fast phone with a slow display.
The 1978 paper proposes a reasonable set of primitives and then walks through prose examples with them. The book proposes roughly the same primitives (channels are the big change, but stop is barely in the paper) and describes them in a formal notation for state machines. It's the difference between a sketch of a plausible idea and writing down the mathematics.

Related though much later, ocaml https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/reagents observed that the send/recv primitives make less sense than a swap primitive. Between occam and the current ocaml effort, concurrent ML is the same sort of model with the details really well thought through (e.g. a thread executing stop gets garbage collected).
Fair. I was not aware of all those other things.

I guess he gets to keep the celebrity because he was the most successful American cyclist. America number one and all that :)

(I’m not a american so I find that attitude silly but very noticeable)
53.3 yards wide. Or 160 feet.
Children don’t vote. If they would only get up off their butts and vote, they’d get some representation. Imagine what they could do if they pooled all their lunch money and started a SuperPAC! Then Congress would take notice.

Their parents sure as hell aren’t going to do the voting for them. They just want lower taxes.
The optimal amount of airline catastrophes is non-zero.

The optimal amount of pollution is non-zero.

The optimal amount of [insert almost anything bad] is non-zero.
In actuality, it primarily tests the knowledge of the user, not their intelligence. I'm sure that GPT-written paragraphs seemed really impressive when you first encountered them, but nowadays half the Internet has seen enough of them to recognise the default ChatGPT style in less than the space of a Tweet. People aren't significantly smarter than they were a few years ago, but I bet GPT-3.0 will perform significantly worse on a Turing test now than it did the day it was released.

Similarly, I believe a lot of early Turing Test successes kind-of cheated and had their bots pretend to be ESL, on the grounds that the interrogators would interpret their unnatural responses not as a robot but as a second-language speaker's human mistakes. But people who teach English as a second language, or interact with language-learners a lot will learn the types of mistakes each group of learners make, and will spot unnatural mistakes a lot faster.

Now that I think about it, that a major factor in determining Turing test performance isn't the intelligence of the testers but their knowledge does highlight why it's not a great measure of intelligence in the first place.
Tether is the most profitable business per employee in the world making $4 Billion a year with just 50 employees.

Many Ethereum Layer2's are profitable.
Yes. I speak as a layperson who wants to. The landmine of UEFI/BIOS, TPM, partitions, etc, and knowing I absolutely cannot fuck anything up. Those are huge hurdles for someone whose job is outside of computing and just needs a few things to just work.
I had a similar reaction to your first half. As another concrete example, do we no longer avoid contaminating extraterrestrial objects with microbes as we did during the Apollo era?
It's crazy, in another terminal I have an SSH session open to an RK3588 ARM SoC SBC sitting on the desk behind me. On it I am running benchmarks of my application -- which contains a custom virtual machine for a language interpreter and a custom database engine.

On throughput -- compared to my Ryzen 7 Thinkpad, it's getting 1/2 the performance on the DB engine side of things and 1/3rd for the VM. (This is on a single core, I don't have a good bench for multicore performance yet.)

The thing is... the laptop cost ~$3000, and is clocked way higher. The SBC cost ~$200. It's warm to the touch, but not hot. The little DC powerbrick it came with is totally fine, and there's no fan, just a heat sync.

I could stick a dozen of these in a 19" enclosure, and with the right programming have an absolutely awesome amount of computer for the price and power use.

I just wish I could get an ARM workstation-class machine that wasn't a Mac.
To be honest, I would love to forget some books I read and re-live the thrill of being startled by the plot again.

To be perfectly honest, I'd love to be startled by the plot the first time round
A fair comment, unreasonably deaded. I was mean, and I did apologise for it, and I meant it - but I still did it, and that reflects poorly on me.

But: if you're going to make the case for the internet making us worse off, "people used to communicate with one another... LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE LOST" is the worst angle possible. Good lord. I just can't even comprehend it.
The cheapest panel option is absolutely horrible, but the others are pretty decent. Might be that.
The problem is that then the distance is also encrypted, which doesn't work here.
It is unintuitive. It hits some primal part our brain, the same as is isolated in that capuchin monkey experiment where two monkeys get varying levels of grapes. People get either really excited or really pissed off when they see people getting away with something; at the same time, when we read stories about bureaucracy --- a perennial bête noire on HN --- we rarely think in terms of the fraud we should be accepting. We just think fraud is bad, and anti-fraud is bad.
Well, it's about life.
Note to German readers: not Igels as your German NFL rtl nitro staff calls them.
Noto has been the main new piece for good reasons, but other areas are suffering too. Niigata has undergone severe liquification.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240102_27/
That's a fair surface-level view, but worth thinking through a bit.

Palantir is multiple main things, and a whole ton of custom software projects on top, and a good chunk of them rely on the quality of their NLP & vision systems for being competitive with others. My question relates to the notion that they are inherently the best when, by all public AI benchmarks, they don't make the best components and, in the context of air-gapped / self-hosted government work, don't even have access to them. Separately, I'm curious how they relate to their COTS competitors (vs gov inhouse) given the claims here. For example, their ability to essentially privatize and resell the government's data to itself and make that into a network effects near-monopoly is incredible, but doesn't mean the technology is the best.

I've seen cool things with them, and on the flip side, highly frustrated users who have thrown them out (or are being forbidden to.) It's been a fascinating company to track over the years. I'm asking for any concrete details or comparisons as, so far, there is zero in the claims above, which is more consistent with their successful gov marketing & lobbying efforts than technical competitiveness.
Home Alone: The Anime (2021) [video]
I had subscribed on my podcast app, but never listened to an episode (previous to this one). North of 1 hr is usually tough for me to do, but this episode was entertaining and well worth my time. Highly recommend.
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The X1 is basically a sports car at this point.
Obviously not OP and not in this position, but I have worked with people who left surgical training positions and their reasons were health and a realisation that they would miss every family milestone, never get a real break and have every part of their life revolve around their job with the money and god-like power not compensating for that.

Obviously that’s one side of the equation, I don’t have any surgeon friends I know well enough to give the opposing view.
Single biggest technical thing, anyway. IMO, the single biggest thing is focus and clarity in their communication. If people without a working mental model of software development can’t instantly understand the tangible problem it solves in their existing business process, they won’t even scroll past the break, let alone pay for it. Consolidation and modularity are solutions, but people don’t go shopping for solutions without a problem. Have you ever gone out looking for a better commercial version of work-related software you didn’t have any problem with? “App chaos” is way too abstract of a problem for most people to grasp. Do people have trouble sharing google docs over slack? Do companies have trouble with sharepoint and teams not being integrated enough? Does your tool do it better? Does your tool do it approximately as well, but cheaper? More reliably? If so, do people find the existing solutions too pricy or unreliable, or does that not impact them enough to care?

Unless they define, upfront, specific problems people really have, that their unified solution solves, then nobody is going to pay attention.

The second biggest problem is having an interface design team that makes all of those disparate apps consistent enough to be more usable than individual solutions. The fact that nearly no popular user-facing applications are developer-managed FOSS (as opposed to Firefox/blender/signal/et al which are managed by a company that hires professional designers) despite being free, tells you everything you need to know about dev-driven UI/UX. This is coming from someone that worked as a full time developer for years and contributed many thousands of hours of coding to FOSS projects before switching to design.
Well, avoiding a specific airplane model, especially one with a notorious history like the 737MAX, isn't about 'marginally improving safety'; it's about making an informed choice based on known risks.
No, I would not.

Revanced already does this for the android app, various browser extensions do it for web.
The WiFi RF is FAR more important than the network config.
ElectricSignal - MetaRL as a Service
Misleading hedline.

Buffet bet $1M that S&P 500 ETF (VOO) index fund would beat hedge fund portfolio selected by Ted Seides. Low cost index funds performing generally better is well documented. Buffet's bet is common sense.

Reasons why:

- lower cost is important over longer term.

- Well diversified index fund picks every success, unlike actively managed portfolio.
A truly terrible completion but I appreciate it as a poem
Yeah, but that's not unique to communism. You can't really opt out of current capitalistic economic system either
> if you send 50,000 emails per month, you would pay $5 to AWS (as AWS charges $1 for every 10,000 emails) and $12 to Mail Layer. Therefore, to send 50,000 emails, your total cost would be $17.

the web site makes you get down the page, then open up FAQs to really understand how the pricing works.
Yeah, that's what I gathered too. But if you can't find the output, output that is implicitly associated with a process tree as in this example, it is effectively lost. And even if you could find it, that it's disassociated from the origin reduces the utility of having captured the output at all.

SO_PEERCRED is on a per-socket basis, not per-write basis. From unix(7):

This read-only socket option returns the credentials of
the peer process connected to this socket. The returned
credentials are those that were in effect at the time of
the call to connect(2) or socketpair(2).

Child processes that inherit the file descriptor like in the example would not influence the SO_PEERCRED result. So it must be something else. For vague reasons.
> Seek success because you deserve it and learn to love yourself, rather than punishing yourself for not being good enough.

The idea that I "deserve" success, and to be happy, is something I've heard repeated many times but have always struggled comprehending. I think to myself, well, why do I deserve it? Just for being alive?

I feel like there's a better way to think about this, but it eludes me. Does anyone have any advice?
Oh my god, thank you! This has been a constant minor annoyance to me since switching to a Mac. I always use Notepad as a kind of extended clipboard on Windows.
What are the best digital interfaces for playing card games in-person? They have to be good enough to convert people who love faffing about with physical cards (not me).
We don’t have to imagine. We saw it in action in the Soviet Union with Stalin.
Yes, 1999 Turkey eartquake. And 2023 Turkey eartquake.
It's actually based on several different sources, though I know you're not interested in the constructive conversation or else you would have provided some type of support for the article, instead just merely deflecting the standards the article SHOULD have used towards my own personal comment. Which I'm sure you thought was clever, but it's not.

Good luck.
>By your logic death per miles travelled by different mode of transport statistics would be useless, too, precisely for the same reasons you are stating, that is needing to know how many miles you actually travelled using each mode of transport

Yes, if you want to calculate a lifetime risk, you must know (or estimate) a lifetime usage.

>So deaths per hours travelled is actually better.

It really isn't. Does the average person spend as many times more time in cars as planes are faster than cars? If so, per mile risks would be comparable to lifetime risks. The average person probably spends more time in cars than that, though that still leaves per mile risk as closer to accurate (for the average person. Are you the average person?). But neither per mile nor per hour risk should be conflated with lifetime risk, and if you're not going to use personalized assumptions about usage, it's much better to just look at actual mortality data to avoid the issue entirely. For most comparisons though, risk/cost/pollution/whatever per passenger (or for goods, ton) mile is probably by far the more useful measure. If something needs to get from A to B and you need to know what that entails or what the best option is, those are the more directly relevant figures.
The optimal amount of X under the assumption that it costs more and more resources to reduce X is non-zero. It's this middle part that you omitted that turns an unintuitive statement into an obvious one.
Yes, it's counterintuitive to many people that "the optimal amount of $BAD_THING is non-zero" for a rather large set of possible values for BAD_THING.

"You can't put a price on human life" is one common occurrence of this. I thought it was just a throwaway phrase, or a wish of how things could be, but I've regularly run into people who don't understand why we would ever fail to spend absurdly large amounts of money to save a single life.

I have had people say "Is the only reason we aren't doing something about X money" for various forms of X. I personally spent over an hour walking one such person through the concept of opportunity costs, the fact that money is representative of value, &c. with the conversation ending with them still certain that the US Government could just print a trillion dollars and solve the problem.

I have talked to people who honestly think that every person with depression should be forcibly committed to prevent them from committing suicide and respond to the "but only a fraction of those people have suicidal ideation, and only a fraction of those commit suicide" with a "if it saves just one life, it's worth it!" So forcibly committing 8% of the adult population is not too high a cost in their minds.
It's been a while since I battled this but IIRC, you can set unconcalized headers on requests you serialize yourself (for egress) with a simple workaround (directly add the header to the request's header map rather than the setter function) but if you use Go's default http handler libraries, it "helpfully" canonicalizes headers for you when it deserializes incoming requests and then invokes your http handler. So you are unable to access to the original casing that way, unless you instead use a TCP server.
Yeah, the difference between willpower while shopping and willpower all the time is huge. No one would try to quit smoking with cigarettes around the house. I was almost a year off sugar when I went to work at one of those shops with the pastry chefs and piles of snacks... It wasn't long before the stress and easy availability knocked me off the wagon.
250 meters is 273 yards. An American football field is generally understood to be 100 yards in this context but the article claims a distance of 2.2 football fields. 273/100 is 2.7 fields. 273/2.2 is 124 yards per field. Are they using the total length with endzones? That's a confusing definition. They could have just said "roughly two football fields" and been fine. But then they did the math and made it more confusing.
Their stock is up almost 40 percent over the last year, they've got a 2.8 trillion dollar market cap, 380 billion in revenue. They're doing fine and overreacting to wall street analysts is more likely to cause issues than continuing to make premium phones
> First, the yearly OS release schedule, which began in 2012 on the Mac, didn't leave enough time to write documentation.

I'd think this problem could be partly solved with money, i.e. hiring more writers.

Even if the docs had to lag the OS release by a few months, I still suspect the fundamental reason is:

> Third, Tim Cook and Craig Federighi just don't give a crap about quality.
Ah, I see - my apologies, I think there's an unfortunate misalignment over the word "backend."

When Pocketbase is talking about a backend, they're talking about something like Firebase, which is a complete backend-as-a-service that implements everything you need for a service where the majority of the logic is in the frontend; it's meant to involve as little backend engineering as possible.

You're referring to the more general, standard sense of the word "backend". I agree with the sibling comment that you're not necessarily wrong in offering Redbean as a point of comparison, but the target user of Pocketbase has limited overlap with the targeted user of Redbean; the people looking for a Firebase-like solution would not be served by Redbean, and your initial post could be read as suggesting that they could be.

I do think the use of the word "backend" here is unfortunate, because it's really referring to something much more specific than the conventional use of the term.
Do we have other examples of this?

There is a second kidney, lung, eye etc, but a hot spare isn’t quite the same as a completely different structure.
This is such an annoying change. I work in a production facility and I don't get to choose what is installed on the computers. It's either WordPad, notepad, or open a browser for Word. WordPad is obviously a step up over notepad if you need any sort of formatting.

Now imagine a machine is malfunctioning and you need to look up the last known "good" settings to see if anything changed. First open a browser, then go to the office site, then fish out your cell phone because you're going to need the authentication code to log in, then dance around for a bit because you're in a warehouse and the reception is terrible, then open the Word app, then wait ages for it to "work on it".

All I'm trying to do is quickly read some text. I don't see how this is better than clicking a text file icon on the desktop.