skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can stop a car when paint chips clog your air intake and clean it out.

A bit more difficult to do if you're at 30.000 feet and 400 knots over the middle of the ocean.

That's one of the reasons we take issues with airplanes much more seriously.
It’s the biggest stretch possible without it being technically dishonest. Everyone knows it: the researchers know it and gag a little as they write it, and the grant reviewers know it but pretty much require it without really ever saying that they require it (competitive landscape and all).
And that problem somehow goes away if you store that same information in a separate system?
Which can be generalized further: Consider the context you are in before acting.
This is also my experience, I don't know why the linked post makes it look like a big problem, I very much disagree with them retiring strict mode.
Or steroids for ants
50% of the country believes tax is theft, and they also imagine if there were no taxes and the IRS abolished we'd somehow still continue to support an army, have a federal court system, a patent office, etc, etc, and that their state will continue to get federal subsidies.

That was the entire point of Obama's speech that republican news sources and libertarians eviscerated him for: "You didn't build that". He wasn't saying that you didn't build your business; he was stating you didn't build all the infrastructure that allowed you to build and run your business, and that is why taxes are not theft.

There is a legitimate argument over how much taxes and what is should be spent on, but those nuanced discussions are entirely replaced by BS.
OT but this book is so incredible. The breadth of information covered is amazing, even for being ~20 years old at this point.

The audiobook at .7 speed is my sleep aid.
I've been interviewing with an Australian company out of Sydney for 2.5 months. 14 interviews. They want to do 2 more and a multiple day in-house.

This is the world we live in now. There just aren't jobs and employers just play with you instead of hiring you.

In the old days I would have gotten an offer 1.5 months ago already instead of keeping me on the back burner.
It's not that they're rare, it's that it legitimately is an easy error to make even if you understand it to be an error. Even people who work with equations every day will occasionally make careless mistakes like this. That's why mathematicians joke about how it's important to make an even number of sign errors.

To not make this mistake, you have to be able to call to mind that the map x -> 1/x reverses the inequality sign. That's a fairly abstract thing to remember especially if you haven't taken math for years. Yes you could draw it or write down the equation, or convert to decimal... But it's enough of a cognitive barrier that it doesn't surprise me that it would impact the behavior even of people who would answer correctly on a test.

Where it does get easy is if you work with the same set of fractions every day. For example, if you work in construction in the US you can probably quickly order the fractions commonly used for measurement, e.g. 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 3/4 etc. But 1/3 isn't one of these. Now that I think about it, they probably should have just chosen a fraction that you can find on a tape measure, like 3/8.
Why not the SSM parameter store?
1. Your original wording, "getting a response _for_ n tokens", does not parse as "getting a response containing n tokens" to me.

2. Clearly, _you_ don't know the API, as you can get output up to the total context length of any of the GPT-4 32k models. I've received output up to 16k tokens from gpt-4-32k-0613.

3. I am currently violating my own principle of avoiding correcting stupid people on the Internet, which is a Sisyphean task. At least make the best of what I am communicating to you here.
Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
My browser just started connecting to Hacker News over IPv6 today:

$ host news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.com has address 209.216.230.207
news.ycombinator.com has IPv6 address 2606:7100:1:67::26

Both IP addresses share the same ASN (M5 Computer Security):
https://bgp.he.net/ip/209.216.230.207
https://bgp.he.net/ip/2606:7100:1:67::26

The raw IP address correctly redirects to HN: http://[2606:7100:1:67::26]

Good job so far! Please don't pull a Reddit and turn it off again.
It’s code for: we are really interested in continuing to research this and we believe it’s important (for reasons that nobody will really understand apart from the other 5-6 world experts), so we are making this statement as much of a marketing stretch as possible without it being technically dishonest.

Getting research funding is just a brutally competitive game.
I’m prepared and happy to accept the $100K offer today as it is … I would be grateful if it could be increased to $120k.

This is absurd. Why would anyone give you $120K if you’re saying right there you’ll be happy to accept $100K?
> You have to be a North Dakota resident, they have one physical office in Bismarck North Dakota

This is utterly reasonable. It's a public service, after all.

> and they do not provide online banking

I see an account login button on the top right. You have to open accounts in person. But again, utterly reasonable as an anti-fraud measure.
This is straight up theft, and it is remarkable that people don’t see it that way.
I got laid off from a gaming company and my severance was pitiful and amounted to 1 month of rent. I think this is a fantastic severance
> it seems reasonable to guess that the smallest possible margin above us is such that even asking that question is like asking the question is akin to asking Chimpanzees to imagine the moon landing, while at worst it's like asking your lawn the same question.

"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger" with regards to the hierarchy of intelligence - the "at worst" is much further away than human-to-lawn. Look at the intellectual power of angels in Catholic theology and consider an intelligence that can reason from universals to all particular instances as its default mode of operation. Then consider that each angelic being is distinct from each other one by nature (since they are immaterial). Which means that there is a species-level difference between each of them and the lowest one is already far above us. Then consider that there are (at least) billions of them, each one order of magnitude more intelligent than the one below it. Then consider the kind of intellect that can create those kinds of intellects.

Fortunately, you can't give what you don't have, so we're quite safe from the basilisk. But the wild imaginings of John C. Wright's Count to the Eschaton Sequence are probably not far off for "hey how weird could it get?"
I recently had to purchase some audio plug-ins for music production.
I was trying to decide between two bundles by two competing companies. They were pretty even, in my mind, in terms of pros and cons.

Then I discovered that one of the two companies had a website that's broken by basic privacy settings, such as preventing autoplay for videos.

I gave my money to the other company.
Yes, but the whole reason that works is because a chain of such devices is still stable. A chain of analog components will just output random noise if it gets long enough. That's the main reason why digital won out over analog: repeatability even with long chains of computation.
> In this article I will demonstrate this capability [lisp code directly embedded], explain how it works and the journey to implementing it. Every script bundling tool I've ever seen unpacks the code to some file system location and then reads it back in. I came up with a different solution.

> The lone-embed tool copies the lisp code into the ELF and then creates a LOAD segment for it. Linux then maps in the embedded code automatically at load time before the interpreter has even started.

And the discussion which follows I found very informative.
No restaurant has ever asked me for an ID when making payment. Also, I think perhaps you misunderstood me: I am talking about forms on the web, as this thread is about Trello’s leak. My ID and all of my payment cards match (as I used the same ID to obtain them).
God I wish canada would do that too. They are insanely high here.
As a UX designer, the second point (Reduce time spent on UI design; focus on technical component design instead) is very, very dependent upon the first point (Replace planning time with talking to customers). Sure, you can put something out the door, but once it's out, how much followup with customers are you doing? There's a lot of places that talk a big game about how much they value UX, and then you get inside the org and that value is simply expecting a UX designer to carry out instructions, making them nothing more than a glorified graphics designer.
Ask HN: Load and Traffic in AWS from Amazonbot
We have our web presence in AWS: at the end of the day we pay every bit, from traffic to CPU...

Bots are a real costs: it is mainly by night where proper traffic is almost zero, and (day and night) mostly on the same (cached) content, while Bots are the real cost!

In the last 24hr load is coming from ... Amazon itself (!) https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot

What the hell
The phys.org article and science paper text are both impenetrable for different reasons (though I don't blame the paper). Can anyone explain this result like I have a college degree but not in physics? I'm especially interested in what the actual difference in "microscopic" process is between heating and cooling.
ATT and Comcast both have had perfectly working ipv6 with prefix delegation for years.
A few categories:

- Many hotels no longer accept cash (this was gradual; it was formerly an increasingly large deposit to stay with cash)

- Many vending machines will not take cash; either by design or due to disrepair on the bill feeder.

- Specific areas where you can find out ahead of time that cash will not be accepted: (music festivals, airplane flights &c.)

I have only seen a few traditional stores with no-cash, but I expect it to accelerate.
Ask HN: What's the best way to make a RC car drive around a permitter?
Assume I wanted to make a RC car drive within a perimeter. Say a table. What would be the best way to achieve this?

I see https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo exists which is an autonomous driving software. But I feel that is over kill.

I was trying to imagine either using a sort of electric fence, like a dog collar, and maybe something more analog to be able to detect the perimeter and just have it know to stop or reverse with a quick servo.
Do you have any evidence that us biologicals are not an outlier other than the anthropic principle? Maybe our solar system is in the machines’ nature preserve sector.
GrapheneOS has a feature called contact scopes[1] that lets you pick which contacts apps have access to. It's great!

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/usage#contact-scopes
I don't know about Brave's implementation, but Firefox is lack luster as you can actually see the letter box 99% of the time. I feel like if real resources were poured into it then you could have sites almost look no different. In Firefox it really looks like the developers just made a smaller view port and called it good enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Allan_Penzias
Not if you’re dosing elephants.
Alternatively, the company should have ensured that wherever (or whoever) they were providing data for were providing accurate information. Apple got that information from somewhere, and wherever they got it from presumably got it from the store in the first place[1]. Apple provides methods in the maps UI to report corrections, and another thread says there's a business connections site that you can use to ensure correct information manually.

This sounds very much like "I want to be automatically included in these map services, but I don't want to do any work to ensure accuracy".

In terms of "company with lots of money should be able to manually verify every entry", I can't find info on Apple Maps, but at a general approximation of scale google talks about 200 million businesses and points of interest[2], yelp alone has 5 million[3] and operates in a relatively small area.

Let's be conservative and say apple is at 50 million. Let's guesstimate 5 minutes per verification and now you have 250 million minutes of work just to validate this information once. Assuming a 40 hours per week, that would require 2000+ people full time employees doing nothing but calling to constantly [re-]verify business information. That would be (according to wikipedia) a 1% increase in the number of employees for the entire company, just for information that could easily be kept more accurate by the business owner. For google's 200 million PoIs you obviously require 8000 full time employees which for them would be a 6% increase in their work force.

It's super easy to say "well these companies have lots of money and so should be able to be 100% accurate", but the scale of these services does not actually make that true, especially when there are systems that allow business owners to just report the correct information directly.

[1] For whatever it's worth wikipedia says it gets information "provided by approximately twenty companies, including Booking.com, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, and Yelp" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps

[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/how-goo...

[3] https://gitnux.org/yelp-statistics/#:~:text=Yelp%20has%20mor....
There is no 1040EZ as I understand it though there is the base-level 1040.
Considering many languages' very own out-of-the-box tooling (e.g. gofmt, syn) often have glaring gaps[1][2] in the understanding/roundtripping of the language's AST constructs, I would never be able to trust something like this to store and restore my code.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20744

[2] https://github.com/dtolnay/syn/issues/782
Remarkable experiment, thanks for sharing.

How did you control it? Bluetooth maybe?
June 6, 2012 is a better date; that was the "World IPv6 Launch Day".

But even that was negligible since nobody actually had IPv6 connectivity. Even now I still don't have a home wifi router that supports it, though at least my ISP does since last year.

The real driver of IPv6 was the rise of smartphones.
... lots of things are impossible?
> Notice that it doesnt add any value to pick three random items and then apply LRU.

It actually does. The more items you pick, the better it works, because at the ultimate stage of k=N you will always be picking the best item. For a lot of real-world distributions, there are rapidly diminishing returns with higher k, but the returns are still there.

[edit]

The same example as above works for k=3, observing that discarding one of the 3 chosen uniformly randomly devolves to the k=2 form.

k=3: MAX(A,B,C)

k=2: MEAN(MAX(A,B),MAX(B,C),MAX(A,C))

k=1:
> does the game even have art directors?

We know it has somebody with a foot fetish. Look at the footwear of all the female characters (at least the ones made before 2016, I haven't played it since then).

I did try to watch some recent games and while it looks like the gameplay itself has improved since then, the effect visuals have somehow managed to get even more blended and difficult to read. How do they manage to fail this badly at it for so long?
1040EZ hasn't been a thing since 2017. But if you have a simple tax situation, the regular 1040 isn't all that hard to fill out.
And heating in that coming only from outside. Hah. I never realized that.
Are the fish always the same color/is their color distinct from the background.

I work at an industrial plant we have been able to measure a lot of things simply by analyzing the pixels in the video. For example one application we have a camera pointed down at a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt is one color and objects on the belt are a distinct different color.

- we just count how many pixels in a given frame are a specific color/brightness. Then you can easily work out how much of the conveyor belt has material on it in any given frame.

So if you are tying to work out what section of a video has fish in it you could count how many pixels are a different color to the normal background color.
Brilliant, well done!
They experimentally demonstrated that it takes significantly more energy to move a microparticle the same distance when cooled than the amount of energy it would take when heated.
I hire my actual plumber/electrician to do appliance installs I won’t do myself. I’ve had nothing but problems with the contractors Home Depot and Best Buy have sent. It costs a bit, but is done right and I get to approve the work, not Best Buy.

For the last 5 years, I buy appliances from a small independent dealer rather than a big box store. I have a guys name, and it’s the same guy year after year. Their prices are as good or slightly better than you’d see at a big box retailer.
There's heat recovery ventilation.
I've needed to transfer files between an iOS device and an Android device pretty regularly lately and it's simply impossible, I've literally been waiting months to transfer a few files because the person who has the files has an iPhone and has difficulty using any method other than Airdrop (e.g. Dropbox.) Which I view to be an intentional design decision by Apple. WiFi direct would be fine, Airdrop is proprietary and useless here.
> the assumption - and are taught rather intentionally so - that history is a linear march toward progress

One meaning of "Modernism" is the belief that there's a general path history does/should take.
Considering Python's library ecosystem and the general expanse of Python code, some might say it is the right tool. It's far from ideal, though. A slew of mediocre decisions just begets more, I suppose.
> the slaves, serfs and servants were the bulk and what is happening now is that we are re-creating the conditions where lots of people will have nothing to offer but their physical labor

This was the exact argument made during the Industrial Revolution. Keep in mind that a minority of workers today are in white-collar jobs. We're over a century out from mechanising physical labor, and it's still strongly present.

> what about the millions of translators, truck drivers, copywriters cab drivers, couriers and so on?

Drafting spreadsheets by hand was a profession up to teh 1980s. Same for reams of printing and document-couriering services. People adapted.

> If you propose they become entrepreneurs in what domain should this happen?

Idk, launch a florist or ski instructing or tour guiding service. Travelling chef. There are so many talented people with zero knack for administration stuck in service jobs.

> this time it may not work and even if it worked for society it most definitely didn't work for all of the individuals in it. And this time around it may not work for the majority of the individuals in it.

Not using precedent as proof. Just saying there is precedence for technological revolutions and this very concern. The fact that it's gone pretty much one way elevates the burden of proof for those preaching doom and gloom.

Another observation: the socieities that best distributed the gains in a way that was win-win were those who approached it with optimism.

> it may not work for the majority of the individuals in it

Sure. I'm not saying the transition won't be hard. But it's not avoidable. And in the long run, precedence shows it should (or at the very least, can) work out. Having excess production and a labour surplus is a champagne problem. That doesn't mean one can't fuck it up.
Why does 'not even make this aircraft' matter even 1%? How is that relevant?

People are ACTIVELY flying these aircrafts by the thousands each day. It's these people, these human beings, that are to be saved from a potential crash. Not Boeing, not the manufacturer.
On an article about a business incorrectly marked as "closed" you're suggesting that expecting some basic confirmation about a change, is unreasonable?
Google does that after you've visited a place. That way they croud-source the corrections on the updates.
The 737 has had an empennage assembly problem since the 737-classics, every few years boeing promises they've tightened QA and it's solved, then it happens again.
And if a company has extended an offer to work with them, the company rescinding that offer over you asking for ~10% more would be honestly doing you a favor by signalling what a bad company they are.
> To not make this mistake, you have to be able to call to mind that the map x -> 1/x reverses the inequality sign. That's a fairly abstract thing to remember especially if you haven't taken math for years. Yes you could draw it or write down the equation, or convert to decimal...

You absolutely don't have to remember that x |-> 1/x is order reversing, and, for most people, shouldn't—you immediately give two or three other methods (I don't understand what "write down the equation" means) that are a much better way for the average person to check this.
> Can you imagine if you had to take every aircraft offline for several days after every flight?

That's exactly what the air force does. Most of their jets require tens of hours of maintenance for every flight hour!
I'm not laughing because it won't end with this lawsuit.
> no doubt a PE-owned airline will propose it to cut employment and outsource remaining piloting to some lower-wage country

Culture and history matter. Aviation in America is as safe as it is because the culture of piloting tends to put safety first. As long as there is general aviation and a forward-leaning FAA, I don't see a problem with automating more of air transport.

> 'it only has to match the injury rate of in-person pilots!'

If it does, it does. I don't see the problem.
>The most frustrating example to me is Maps. It looks to me like the Maps app...

Can I ask sincerely here why this bothers you? To me the dominant use case for Maps is when I'm driving / traveling somewhere - and from what I can tell, I can't practically use this new device while driving or walking. Could there be a cool use case for "virtual travel" experience built on Maps? Sure - but good luck to whomever would spend $4000 on one of these for that entertainment.
Less than a 720 FICO score is “fair” with 720 being “good”. I’m sorry but “fair” doesn’t make you a well-qualified buyer IMO, so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.
Erm so?

No tech would ever be developed or furthered without exploring possibilities. Huge swathes of process and tech is developed purely on just trying things.

HNs recent anti-science propaganda is getting pretty out of hand.
Not an expert... but foreign investments require extra paperwork and tax for you at a minimum.

If it was me, I'd keep everything under the US system until you're profitable enough to hire an expert and not ask on HN.

Also if you're going to raise investment, I would stick to the USA.

You might get into legal or hiring issues if you only get contractors though.
Llama 2 models were trained on slurm
> This story has to be apocryphal, as fractions aren't _that_ rare, especially in the U.S. with its imperial system and third of a cup measurements or quarter inches or half miles and so on.

I literally had an argument with a room full of US university professors about whether or not 30% and 1/3 were the same thing.