skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hallucinations are rare for me, even at graduate-level material.

How do you know? If you're using it as a tutor you're using it to get knowledge that you don't know. Sure, it doesn't get things that are obviously (to you) wrong, but what about subtle things? At the graduate level subtly dominates and many concepts are counter intuitive or non-obvious in the first place (otherwise they wouldn't be expert knowledge).
This doesn't seem right to me, in my experience a 3 - 4 ton sailboat is around 9m long, which has a sail in the 20 - 40 m^2 range.

A 5 - 8 square meter sail is really teenie tiny.
Safetyism will be the death of civilization.
torrents are viable with a few dozen seeders. you can't build a business on a few dozen 1$ donations
Details: https://thekitepower.com/the-hawk/#space_requirements
I imagine if one staircase doesn't do the trick, it's unlikely that the second on the other side of the building helps very much.
Agreed, I definitely write shorter questions on my Kindle than in ChatGPT on my laptop
Slightly but the seller was a vintage book specialist with a physical shop and a good reputation so I was less worried.
generating semi-convincing crap to game pay-for-click economics at incredible scale was always the usecase
It really does, I find it close to imposible to concentrate in an office, having to blast music through the earphones so I stop hearing everyone and every movement they do.

It mostly has to do with ADHD (without the H really), but it's a valid effect.
Additionally, most users actually are happy with "slow me down if I'm making too many requests". This is much simpler than recovering from errors correctly.
As I say, copying and pasting has been made easy.
A few cities (with wood framed construction) in NA have allowed this for decades with no apparent issues
profits and tax revenue? how about more housing for those who need it? or should we prevent housing for the 500,000 americans who don't have it because of tornadoes?
That's what I figured as well but the "first mention" link is comments about people using it as learning material!
> We also have to remember that a lot of the historical figures we glorify through their great achievements were terrible people in many respects. And that often goes undiscussed.

...or we focus on how terrible a person was, and insist on completely disregarding their great achievements.
Of a civilization.
Reading this I think it is interesting to compare and contrast this write up with the evangelism of Richard Hipp and his success with SQLite.

It seems to me that Hans Reiser's write up still has a lot of leaps and lurches, both emotionally and in terms of reasoning. I felt there was a lot of instances where he expresses remorse for key hiring decisions or meetings between stakeholders in the open source world, but with tinges of belief that had he done things differently then that would've made the difference in a successful outcome.

In a lot of ways it seems like Hans Reiser had a pretty grandiose vision to rearchitect filesystems to become more like databases- which then demanded huge changes both in terms of the physical layout of data stored on disk as well as the implications around how operating systems would leverage and use such a technology capability. He sees himself in a lineage with the plan9 folks... and also sort of implies that this was an idea ahead of its time and somewhat downplaying what a large amount of change would be required (sort of reminiscent to me of the criticisms ppl wage against systemd).

He's now in jail for murdering his wife.

Richard Hipp, on the other hand, literally has a values page on his website. His software is in the public domain. He and his team have been steadily and methodically building what is now the most widely deployed database of all time and it powers a wide range of critical applications and has been approved for FAA use cases, used in missile targeting and powers literally all of the apps on our phones.

He's a deeply Christian human (and I say this as a lifelong atheist who wasn't raised on these values) and has approached evangalism of his technology with heaping amounts of humility and hardcore praxis (SQLite is arguably one of the more comprehensively tested libraries out there). Hipp also is rather opinionated as a technologist- he wrote his own SCM on top of SQLite! But he doesn't come across as a zealot whatsoever but rather a seasoned and mature technologist who is methodically executing on a radical vision to the benefit of all.

In the process I feel that in a lot of ways his accomplishments have achieved the vision that Hans Reiser wanted around advancing new ideas in databases and filesystems. However, instead of doing it at the filesystem layer Hipp instead achieved this vision in process with a library that is extremely easy to include in a huge variety of projects within userspace. In the process the revolution that Reiser wanted was achieved in many ways and with a lot less churn and violence in the process (figuratively and sadly literally).

I could not think of a more opposite and extreme contrasting examples of technologists and approaches, and for me it teaches a lot about how to approach socio-technological endeavors successfully as well as providing a good illustration of the way in which ethics and morals play into said endeavors.
Many of the new town houses in Orange County/Irvine area are following this plan.

They do not appeal to me, as I’m not fond of having to scale several flights of stairs, and the individual floors seem quite small, smaller than my first studio apartment.

My first town house was essentially three stories. The garage level, main living level, and a loft. But the main living space was the majority of the square footage so there was little routine need to scale the stairs.

Also the main living/dining/kitchen area shared with the loft offering a nice, high ceiling, and a roomy experience.

While I can certainly appreciate the benefits of the density these provide, the idea of living in several 400-500 sq ft boxes, especially connected with stairs, just doesn’t appeal to me, particularly as I age.
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Overload is only an issue because availability is critical. When it isn't critical, then avoiding overload is obvious and practically trivial.
Yes, I see I had completely misread and misunderstood the original law.

But ethernetworks aren't fully connected (they tend to have lots of local connections that then are connected to each other through routing).
The solution in the article is self-hosting as a service. You rent a VM in a data center, where servers belong, to host your stuff.

Backups also seem like a mostly solved problem; there's plenty of software that can back up a server to your own cloud storage account.
I have more confidence in a teacher, especially in niche subjects. One of the big reasons why is that I can ask a teacher a question, they will infer what I am trying to ask, and not easily flip flop. Because a teacher has confidence and GPT doesn't. A teacher will even find their own mistakes without prompting (though of course, everyone needs it sometimes. Just a teacher won't say that a kilogram of feathers and a pound of bricks weigh the same and then explain how 1 kg is 2.54 lbs).

Sure, no system is perfect, but not all imperfections are equal, and I'm tired of pretending like they are.
All of those points are unknown unknowns or minor inconveniences to all of my non technical friends except these two:

> - Would you like files on your computer's personal hard drive copied in to a commercial cloud service and deleted locally because you accidentally mis-read or mis-read on a single pop-up message?

A friend of mine was bitten by this and One Drive (is that the subject, right?) is really difficult to understand and get right. I had to configure it on a server of a customer. We needed a remote share and it does not behaves like that. Nobody expects it to work in the way it works. There is something wrong in all of its design and UX.

> Would you like your favorite app to no longer be usable or downloadable because development ceased?

Another friend of mine is keeping her very old phone alive because it's the only way to operate I don't remember what (heating?) The app does not work with both new Android and new iOS (she has both) so she has that old phone at home in a drawer. I just refuse to buy anything that requires an app to work. I want physical switches, knobs and displays built into the device.
This crosses into personal attack. That's not allowed here.

I'm sure what you wrote here is coming from your own learning and experience, and those are good things. If you want to talk about your own experience with difficult things, that's welcome.

However, when someone else does do, please don't reply with judgmental abstractions and supercilious advice—it's definitely not in the intended spirit of this site (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). No doubt you didn't intend to come across that way, but effects matter more than intent.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037689.
you don't learn about this character normally in China. So I would say it is impossible this is the explanation.
> Reeling it in takes a fraction of the energy it generates when it pulls the line out. But that's nonsense on the face of it.

Why is this nonsense on the face of it? This is just how kites work. Do you imagine that kite surfers just overpower the kite with their might and pull it back to the ground when they've had enough?
All of these -- barring illegal discrimination -- are actual problems that will come to light when it turns out the information is incorrect.

> If you're a 40 year old man, but your browser add-on convinces a data broker that you're a 34 year old woman seeking an abortion, that data can still cause you end up the target of a lawsuit in Texas and it will take a non-zero amount of time and money to clear that up.

It will make the data broker look bad when the prosecutor finds out that they fabricated my abortion. It might be annoying and stressful for me but I'm sure I'll get through it. It seems like I would have the same response to everything except the illegal discrimination as mentioned. If this is the result of me running the extension, I only see upsides.
How many gauntlets were not preserved? You are comparing a failure of NASA to the what you are calling the pinnacle of human achievement of the 14th century. Would it then not be fair to compare it to the pinnacle of human achieve of this century, rather than its failures? Also, what have we lost by not being able to recreate multi-century lasting gauntlets? Why is something lasting hundreds of years longer than necessary a quality worth preserving, rather than, something fit for purpose?
It is some of both. Hans murdered his wife, tried to cover it up, and lied about it. His actions make him a danger to society, part of his incarceration relates to the danger he poses to society. While he is removed from society he should also be rehabilitated.
I strongly disagree with you on that one. I can totally see myself volunteering to come to the defense of a country against invaders, I can absolutely not see myself volunteering (or even being conscripted) into helping some country to invade another (or to enlarge their territory).

I'm a conscientious objector against military service which at the time that I did so still carried a prison sentence and even if I ended up not going to prison (through some luck and a sympathetic police officer) I was more than willing to do so rather than to be used as a tool. So that takes care of the second part of that statement, the first has so far not been put to the test (and let's hope it stays that way).
I wonder if building second stairwells in multifamily buildings is really a cost effective way of mitigating stalking.
A billion dollars is cheap considering it saves Google from having to pay Apple or Mozilla more money to stay the default search engine. Google gives Apple 10 billion a year just in traffic acquisition payments.
It's fucked up that you have problem with society and you think the way to solve it is building code.
Nowhere anywhere ever has perfectly and strictly enforced all its laws, or even come particularly close. Prosecutorial discretion isn't something the US invented.
which also includes a small amount of solar apparently
What a gifted writer.

A very close friend of mine's brother was bicyling back home after his first year of college and was struck by a drunk driver, he was left in a vegetative state for about 8 years before finally passing from urinary complications. The father, also a creative person, wrote "In the Line of Fire", if you ever saw that film with Clint Eastwood. They said it was the worst and best thing to ever happen to them; I still don't understand what it means.
It'd be neat if this sort of cross-organization capability granting worked more like e.g. Android permissions. Prompt at the time of the need, not at account creation, and allow the answer to be "Only once".

"App X wants to delete calendar named Y, owned by ACME Corp. [Allow once] [Allow always] [Deny]"
The article is not very clear what the 6.67 multiplier is used for. It gives more weight to electric vehicles, when calculating the overall average efficiency of all vehicles produced by a manufacturer.

As a result, a manufacturer can produce less electric vehicles, and more traditional vehicles, and still meet the required "average efficiency".

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/cafe-co...

I am not sure the author of the WSJ opinion piece understands this. They make it sound like the multiplier was an unfair advantage for EVs. It is the opposite.
100% agree! Most analytics are done in excel, most analytics should be done in a SQLite or DuckDB database!
Curious about your use case; using their online service [1] is up-to-date and reveals almost no information.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044339
You'll find lots of variations of the following:

The Purposes of Punishment:[^1]

- Incapacitation: prevents crime by removing a defendant from society.

- Rehabilitation: prevents crime by altering a defendant’s behavior.

- Retribution: prevents crime by giving victims or society a feeling of avengement.

- Restitution: prevents crime by punishing the defendant financially.

- Deterrence: Specific deterrence prevents crime by frightening an individual defendant with punishment. General deterrence prevents crime by frightening the public with the punishment of an individual defendant.

[^1]: https://open.lib.umn.edu/criminallaw/chapter/1-5-the-purpose...
here is a discussion related to this question that may provide some insights:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38454735
Data brokers do not care about how accurate their data is. At all. Not even a little. It's highly valuable to them no matter how inaccurate it is, and that data will be used against you even if it's entirely inaccurate.
"The law is supposed to be about reasonable doubt."

That's what you'll be evaluated in court with (or should be).

To arrest or get a warrant, it's only that the law has been broken by a preponderance of the evidence to meet probable cause. Although it seems that the courts aren't even holding it up to this standard very often.

"It might seem weird to carry a bag of creatine, but it much weirder to be carrying 20"

Very true, and it's absolutely a spectrum. One thing to point out is that most departments require police to make a "thorough investigation". If there's a valid reason then they should be able to confirm it. If stuff sounds fishy, they can investigate further. A lot of the failures talked about in the article are not strictly test failures - they're failures of judgement or knowledge by not relying on other facts or by relying too heavily on the tests.
Ok. Doing nothing would have been worse. And the can build it, they peaked at 150 a year. Having some delay and some production issues isnt that suprising for project of that scale.

Putting my own devils advoacte "Should you never design something new because you cant prove production is gone be easy"
We'll never be post-scarcity because humans can never reach a state of sustained satisfaction.
One of many possible values to society is that punishment reduces the motivation of vigilantes. For example if person A killed person B’s child, then person B (or a mob encourage by B) might be less motivated to seek vigilante punishment if there is some chance that a legal system could punish person A instead.
He hid the body for 2 years.
Coverage is necessary but not sufficient, your tests also need to be good and test the right things. What's your proposed alternative - that we don't even try because our tests aren't guaranteed to be perfect?
Very interesting observations, thank you.
Lol yeah, capitalism == air. Odd how people lived for thousands of years without air...
No one lives 12 minutes away from this place. They picked the 'Ohio' of our state to build their HQ. Cheap land.
The US has some very interesting requirements when building. In some cities, regardless of destiny, new buildings are required to have 1.x parking spots per unit or something of the sort as well. Which basically assures all buildings have to be designed for car centric life.
I fail to believe that these judges did not know this.

Just remember that judges where the ones that allowed the Nazis to rise to power, and rubber stamped everything.
And then were also some of the people that they later hanged for their crimes against humanity.
Judges are not people to be trusted with justice. Very often they're the worst of people, totally deferential to authority. They have proven to be easily corrupted and tools of a totalitarian state many times over and over. Currently sending grandma's to long prison sentences for protesting somewhere. Even the Bible warned us ....when Pontius just caved to the mob and Romans.

Who judges the judges in our system...doesn't seem like they have faced scrutiny for a long time.
I haven't met a single one of my coworkers. About 4 of them are scattered around the US, the rest are in Europe, India and Southeast Asia.
How do you keep the pool costs manageable?

I see a lot of companies that get sold on Databricks and then are surprised by the cost.
Very sad day for Western classical music community. Peter Schickele is one of the bigs of the late 20th century WCM and demonstrated that sarcasm and parody can create profound statements in art music. He will be dearly missed by people who listened to his works, and laughed to his performances.
Or, you know, it's 15min exercise which you need just the same :)
Why not get rid of all fire safety protections? We can really get moving then. The ADA is pretty onerous, if we just ignore that we can have it up in half the time! I don't REALLY need all that electrical grounding in my house, all that extra copper adds up you know, think of how many more houses we could build without it?
>The headline is frustrating because neither it or thearticle discuss the difference between dissipation and power draw, or performance per watt on either measure.

You're editorializing. Is it faster than the M2, or not?
$2B woman: how Sheryl Sandberg became one of tech's most successful bosses
It’s supposed to be both. There’s three components actually: punitive, deterrence and rehabilitation
The human brain is incredible at rationalization.
With the oncoming tsunami of AI we may be in the twilight of human software engineering.
It still does look like a better C++, but I think it's being extended way too fast and might suffer the same shitificantion if they don't stop it.
...there's an Abraham Lincoln quote somewhere about that.
I think we've hit peak density already and the rest of the 21st century will be defined by people moving into former farmlands
How do you think we feel about cookie notices?
Itek made semiconductor lithography stuff way back when right? I did a stint at one of its competitors. I didn't know about the spy satellite stuff. Neat!
Neither had slept properly for a 12h? flight:

1.5.5.1 Captain’s statement
The captain indicated that it was a flight with difficult hours. He explained that six hours before the flight, he had had a nap of an hour and a half, and that with the co-pilot, they alternated controlled rest periods during the cruise flight.

1.5.5.2 Co-pilot’s statement
The co-pilot said it was a tiring flight. He added that they had taken controlled rest during the flight to deal with this specificity. He explained that four hours before leaving the hotel, he had had a nap of an hour and a half to two hours.

--

More from the captain statement:

The captain noticed that at 400 ft9, the aeroplane had clearly veered to the left. He was surprised. He saw the wheel move 45°10 to the left and did not see the co-pilot correct this. The co-pilot then called out “go around”. According to the captain, this was a critical situation: aborting the approach in a turn with the wheel turned in the same direction. The captain saw the co -pilot make a nose-up input on the control column, press the TO/GA switches and push the throttle levers forward. The power increased but the captain did not see the LNAV TO/GA display appear. The co-pilot then held the wheel with both hands and the pitch attitude became positive. But the wheel was still turned to the left
Which is why killing someone while driving drunk is treated more harshly than killing someone because you got distracted by something on the side of the road. Another example of mens rea.
Let's spell it out, then: Cash only is about tax, not card fees.
Although a lot of houses outside of cities require you to go up a flight of stairs. I own a house with a single staircase and the only bathroom is on the second floor. Was on crutches for 6+ months once.
> It's for him to know, but I don't think it's ridiculous for me to question.

My reference to ridiculous was to the ridiculousness of my thinking that I have any insight into Reiser's character—a disclaimer at the beginning that I was not presuming to offer any. I was in no way meaning to call you or your statement ridiculous.

> I consider it a Bayesian approach to understanding potential internal drivers. Someone who is not cold and calculating likely has less capacity to completely present the appearance of redemption whereas someone who is calculating has that capacity.

Yes, that was exactly what I was meaning to say. Someone being known to be calculating should create a higher evidentiary bar—they need to do more to convince me that they have changed. But I don't think that it offers any evidence against their having changed. And maybe this is what you were saying:

> I want to believe redemption is possible, especially given how eloquent he is, but his demonstration of calculation over emotion in her murder makes me strongly question his change.

I read this as "the fact that he is calculating makes it less likely that he has changed." But maybe you just meant "the fact that he is calculating means that I require stronger evidence that he has changed"?
That tradeoff is worth it to me because driving on the freeway every day is nerve wracking and soul destroying.
As the article argues, at length, the "most of the USA" with this requirement does worse than NYC which does not have it, and significantly worse than Europe which does not have it but even more.
I think the difference between logical and physical connections is what drives the confusion here. If two nodes can reach each other somehow then for Metcalfe's law they are connected, even if there is no direct connection between them.
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It’s also how turbines work. The fluid pushing on one side isn’t cancelled out by the drag created on the other.