skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much! It's always rewarding to hear people sharing our excitement!
There's lots I find objectionable about our built environment, but at least it has a purpose. Between butchering an animal for food, vs doing it for fun, this artwork is the latter.
> thought should feel empowered?

This is a strange question since augmentation can be objectively measured even as its utility is contextual. With MidJourney I do not feel augmented because while it makes pretty images, it does not make precisely the pretty images I want. I find this useless, but for the odd person who is satisfied only with looking at pretty pictures, it might be enough. Their ability to produce pretty pictures to satisfaction is thus augmented.

With GPT4 and Copilot, I am augmented in a speed instead of capabilities sense. The set of problems I can solve is not meaningfully enhanced, but my ability to close knowledge gaps is. While LLMs are limited in their global ability to help design, architect or structure the approach to a novel problem or its breakdown, they can tell local tricks and implementation approaches I do not know but can verify as correct. And even when wrong, I can often work out how to fix their approach (this is still a speed up since I likely would not have arrived at this solution concept on my own). This is a significant augmentation even if not to the level I'd like.

The reason capabilities are not much enhanced is to get the most out of LLMs, you need to be able to verify solutions due to their unreliability. If a solution contains concepts you do not know, the effort to gain the knowledge required to verify the approach (which the LLM itself can help with) needs to be manageable in reasonable time.
Have two. One on each side. Doesn't matter if one ends up in the regolith.
Agreed. I’m fine if you want to extract sub-parts of the function “generateId”, “hashX”, “lookupY” and have 2 functions that call 2 out of 3 (different 2) of the shared helpers/functions, just don’t create a single function that if/else’s the 2 paths.

Better put, if you have logic A, B, C, D and 2 code paths:

Code path 1: ABD

Code path 2: ACD

Then you should have:

Function 1: ABD

Function 2: ACD

Not

MegaFunction: A (if X then B) (if !X then C) D

Too many people see a common “A” and “D” and rush to have a common function that if/else’s the B/C.
Experiment: Figma to Replit Plugin
There are some benefits:

'[O]ver half a million accidents per year are caused by snow, sleet, icy pavement or slushy pavement. Another sobering statistic is that on average, 1,705 Americans die each year due to crashes that happen in wintry weather.'
https://www.marketwatch.com/guides/insurance-services/winter...
How to Speedrun a New Drug Application
If everybody did that, we'd wouldn't have Zoozve...
https://youtube.com/shorts/5QUqxmqBOQI?si=Fep5LxAr6Boe6pBn

https://youtube.com/shorts/RxZ77kjmnU8?si=uCNLl3nZCIbLHjk6

https://youtube.com/shorts/0ja1E-OwrVI?si=WNsEVV_yyS-F3khY

https://youtube.com/shorts/FAZpx1EucQw?si=FKQiESLTuhfANGL1

https://youtube.com/shorts/3iotlZfJjH0?si=x3ND5rVR54LbieN9

Those where in the first 10 shorts I got

This is pretty far shy but it’s just fun

https://youtube.com/shorts/j7SByXWWVzU?si=7Et5jRKpEbV93Sia

Had a couple of clips from start trek which came up too.
If it was just leetcode I think they would have gotten someone who was politically incorrect enough to point it out.
It's a filter they apply after generation.
What sort of abstract reports?

I think GA just doesn't have enough features for fine-grained tracking - still useful if you're participating in their ad ecosystem.
Thank you! This video was GREAT. I was having trouble putting it all together from the wikipedia page alone.
Michael Lewis.
It kind of has? People believe written words when they come from a source that they consider, erroneously or not, to be trustworthy (newspaper, printed book, Wikipedia, etc.). They trust the source, not the words themselves just due to being written somewhere.

This has so far not been true of videos (e.g. a video of a celebrity from a random source has typically been trusted by laypeople) and should change.
Note: I can't find the article on this, so no data unfortunately.

The reason for this (at least from what I've heard) is that when you've got the credentials to get into an Ivy, the limiting factor for your success is "being able to complete your degree."

If you choose an "easier" school, your odds of completing a degree go up by a lot. You also stand a chance of being one of the best students there, further bolstering your transcript and opportunities for doing research while at the university.
Many of California's original cities grew up around Missions, which were constructed to be roughly a day's journey on horseback apart.

https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/california-missio...
I always wanted to write an app that will find flights for every solar eclipse (and suggest the seat, of course), but it never got enough priority in my backlog. Glad to see airlines already implementing this idea to some extent!
Latrunculi (2001) [pdf]
California Tried to Ban Plastic Grocery Bags. It Didn't Work
> "I think most people agree that this isn't the optimal outcome"

Nobody gives a damn.

If you wanted a picture of a {person doing job} and you want that person to be of {random gender}, {random race}, and have {random bodily characteristics} - you should specify that in the prompt. If you don't specify anything, you likely resort to whatever's most prominent within the training datasets.

It's like complaining you don't get photos of overly obese people when the prompt is "marathon runner". I'm sure they're out there, but there's much less of them in the training data. Pun not intended, by the way.
genetics? like cloning people and stuff.
I listed TSMC's biggest customers - and really AMD using Intel foundries? You cannot be serious.

The assumption is that there is going to be a lot more demand. Even after cutting China out which is like 1/3 of global demand. The assumption is that will be driven by AI, mostly in data centers.

Could be. Otherwise Intel foundry services will face an uphill battle vs. TSMC.
> Basically you can figure out the hash using the aforementioned timing attack.

All popular hashing procedures (sha, argon, etc) to my knowledge produce high difference output for small difference inputs. This means that even with one round of sha128[0] your comparison timings turn very erratic. I won't go as far as saying that they turn random, because somebody will jump on it, but what they do achieve is render timing attacks at least impractical for the next few decades.

At least to my own knowledge.

[0] please don't use sha128!!!
Well, you're wrong.
Banking the plane for people to see is a safety thing.

If people think they won't get a chance to see, they might all crowd to one side of the plane, causing enough weight imbalance so as to cause a crash.

It's a big problem on boats, and there are countless stories of someone on a crowded boat seeing a dolphin, shouting about it, everyone crowds to one side to get closer, and the whole boat capsizes.

Regulations now require that boats stay afloat if everyone stands on one side, but the regulations aren't perfectly adhered to and that still doesn't prevent people crowding to one side enough to push/knock others overboard.
> If most nurses are women, I have no objection to a prompt for “nurse” showing a woman.

But if you're generating 4 images it would be good to have 3 women instead of four, just for the sake of variety. More varied results can be better, as long as they're not incorrect and as long as you don't get lectured if you ask for something specific.

From what I understand, if you train a model with 90% female nurses or white software engineers, it's likely that it will spit out 99% or more female nurses or white software engineers. So there is an actual need for an unbiasing process, it's just that it was doing a really bad job in terms of accuracy and obedience to the requests.
You are taking a huge leap from an inconsistently lobotimized LLM to system designers/implementors hate white people.

It's probably worth turning down the temperature on the logical leaps.

AI alignment is hard.
probably unrelated but a nurse friend mentioned that a healthcare system got hacked last night (didn't have further details)
I don't generally see widespread support for federal rights as an ideal in the same way. I rarely see the argument "the federal government should be able to do whatever it wants within it's domain" which is the analog to states rights. Typically people just want individual legislative efforts and for the federal government to accomplish it. The result may be similar in terms of focusing power but it's not really coming from the same place. The extremes of state's rights folks would happily tell you the federal government should be abolished outside of a standing military. There really isn't an opposing side that believes state governments have no place at all. Diminished power sure, but it's not quite the same.

Apart from gun legislation and social programs to some extent, most people on the left don't seem to be pushing for illiberal policies from the government that would amount to forcing their views on others if they succeed. Many leftists support a federal government simply because it's the only reasonable method to do such things as protect the environment at scale, and provide social programs like medicare for all and UBI.

And it's all tyranny of the majority at any level. How else would you describe this ruling and the legislation that allowed it? That's how democracy functions. Even at states rights it's the elites in the big cities deciding how the people in the rural counties live. The only other options are tyranny of the minority (read: bad) or a lack of any governance at all. And it's fine if you believe in the sole dominion of the individual, but lets not pretend that states rights is some sort of ideal rather than a step on the spectrum towards the desired state of the dissolution of any effective government.
Could you elaborate more? I'm having trouble visualizing what you mean.
yea, this is pretty extreme, but 8-10 hours a day is a lot. I did a version of this with facebook and reddit for a while, I noticed I was wasting a lot of time on them so I uninstalled the apps off my phone and blocked the websites with the 1blocker, for facebook it was easy bec they made the desktop site so unusable I tried to use a few times and now basically never go there. reddit was harder but once the api thing happened, that gave me the motivation to just stop scrolling endlessly, I still have it accessible on my pc bec it'll sometimes pop up in search results, but I no longer spend hours scrolling, reading comments and getting in stupid slap fights with strangers.
FAA says SpaceX asked to launch Starship at least nine times. This year
That's because of different frequencies and power caps that are enforced by the FCC. If your WiFi broadcast with the same power, the frequency space would be unusable by your neighbors for their WiFi. The range of WiFi is very purposefully sabotaged to make it useful for more than just you.
> if boeing ever makes a cheap plane, i would definitely avoid it

You wouldn’t even know that airline is putting you on such a plane
Currently there is a banner on the AT&T outage page with this message:

>Service Alert: Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning. We are working urgently to restore service to them. We will provide updates as they are available.

https://www.att.com/outages/
It does. I was the on call support technician for a public safety answering point (PSAP-- aka a 911 center) this morning. At 04:14 Eastern today I received a call that the law enforcement and fire mobile units on FirstNet all disconnected from the VPN.

The AT&T land lines (CAMA trunks provided by the ILEC Frontier) that handle the 911 service did not fail. Only mobile service failed.
> The San Diego M-F 9-5 lifestyle always was more important than taking over the world.

Sounds positive to me. Fuck your “world changing” startup idea. That’s just religion. You want me to work hard, treat me with respect and pay me (in that order).

edit: mark my words, there will come a time when you lose a highly valuable employee because you thought it was easier to treat people like a kubernetes configuration.
Not to downplay the levels of addiction and how challenging it can really be for many. But one thing I've done recently is use `AdGuard` on my iPhone to begin blocking specific domains that distract me too much, and it was amazing how in a few of those cases, the problem just went away immediately.

I was expecting it to be a fools' errand to be my own gatekeeper. But just getting a "page won't load" error a few times, and suddenly I'm not scrolling Reddit etc. for an hour at bedtime. I also find myself gravitating towards more productive things to do. I'm equally as bored, but the quick jolt of brain drugs I get from Reddit now has to come from working on my purely-in-software microwave or whatnot.
> (mostly correctly)

You mean mostly as a politically-motivated anti-tech propaganda?

Tech is probably the most diverse high-earning industry. Definitely more diverse than NYTimes or most other media that promote such propaganda.

Which is also explicitly racist (much like Harvard) because the only way to deem tech industry “non-diverse” is to disregard Asians/Indians.
Gotta admit, it's a funny coincidence. Stupendous timing, AT&T.
hey hn, I'm the lead engineer on this project. This was a super fun feature to build, and was incredibly challenging at a technical level.

Lots of fun stuff to figure out, from wrangling structured data, working around limited context sizes, and figuring out how to even write down sensible metrics to determine how well the models are doing.

AMA!
It's naive to think you can compare vectors without any sort of prior on what this relationship might look like. Hoeffding's D cannot effectively capture relationships between time-shifted series that the (generalised) cross correlation can. Nor can it identify patterns in conditional heteroskedasticity. You will always need to impose some sort of prior when comparing vectors, and Hoeffding's D is rarely the best choice.
sounds too close to "nice guy", that is why "spicy".
Nice guys finish last... Yea, people broke "nice" word in general.
Phishing emails mostly work because they apparently come from a trusted source, though. The key is that they fake the source, not that people will just trust random written words just because they are written, as they do with videos.

A better analogy would be Nigerian prince emails, but only a tiny minority of people believe those... or at least that's what I want to think!
YouTube, like the entire Internet, is such a mixed bag. There is some really first rate content but most of it is total junk. Like Little Richard says "It ain't what you do, it's the way how you do it."
Shame you'd have to live in Auckland.
> The Airbus A220-300 windows are a little bigger than 737s

Not always…
Commingled inventory; maybe.
You're living in a national park, but also 15 minutes walking from civilization.
Seasons: Signal and Energy Aware Sensing on iNtermittent Systems
even assuming it's a bona fide attempt to reach an ideal state, trying doesn't insulate from criticism.

that said, I struggle to see how the targeted cancellation of one specific culture would reconcile as a bona fide attempt at multiculturalism
> Ansible clearly had to take a lot of liberties with the yaml format to make it work in practice

and yet, completely facepalmed by invoking Jinja2 with its default begin and end characters that are meaningful to yaml, thus ensuring billions of person-years of SO questions due to having to quote, sometimes multiple ways, every jinja2 invocation

Contrast that to GitHub Actions which uses ${{ }} for its parameterization and thus no quoting required, in contrast to

- debug:
msg: '{{ "what kind of lack of forethought was this nonsense" }}'
I added a link to a picture at least! I was going to put more images in there initially, but decided that I didn't want to risk disrupting the flow of the writing, especially for things that I could explain reasonably well using only words. The best images for understanding are sometimes the ones that you form in your own mind as you read!
Counter example: Cuba, during the sanctions.
I used to watch between 45 minutes and two hours a day of YouTube when bored at work. At my last place of employment, this skyrocketed though; I was very bored that that job.

In January of 2022 I decided to take a YouTube "fast", kicking YouTube for a while. I couldn't bring myself to commit to more.

It was waaaaaay hard to stop. I got on Nebula as a sort of Nicorette for a while, a month or two. I can recommend Nebula as a sort of sieve for really high quality content btw. I stopped my subscription, but it was great to only be able to watch videos that didn't feel like they were trying to hook me, all while getting some really good stuff out of it. I particularly liked Half as Interesting, RealLifeLore, and Johnny Harris, all of which were on Nebula. These videos didn't contribute to the "hooked" feeling, giving me something to use to wean myself off YouTube.

After my fast was over, it was so hard to stop that I didn't start again.

I will still watch the occasional YouTube, but it's usually either shared by friends or specifically searched for by me.

I have gotten looser in the last few days, but I have regretted it. I started swearing in my head less when I stopped watching YouTube. I had fewer intrusive thoughts. I had a clearer head, and I want to keep that.

My Psychiatrist has told me no screens two hours before bed. I started living by that too, and have found much more rest when I do. I discovered by doing this that I have a screen "budget", that I can't go over that without restless leg, twitching, and pain at the end of the day. Now that I know this, I am less inclined to use that budget on YouTube.

I miss a lot of creators on there, but I went back to watch some of them recently and was disappointed. Other mediums simply provide better content. Blog posts seem to be the best for this.

There are still some creators that are amazing, and I am truly missing out! I miss watching Primitive Technology videos for example. I still allow myself to specifically search for these, by I try to limit myself to one or two videos a day or less. I find that to be the sweet spot for keeping off of being hooked.
> They eventually settled on the “garden city,” a design popularized in the 1960s by English urban planner Ebenezer Howard.

That's your problem right there! The 'garden city' concept had already failed by the 1960s (both of the true garden cities were built by Howard in 1903 (Letchworth) and 1920 (Welwyn GC) - he died in 1928, so he wasn't popular in the 1960s).

What they were probably getting confused over, was the new town concept of the post-WW2 era, when towns such as Slough and Milton Keynes, which, as brutalist horrors, were already roundly panned by everyone except fashionista architects at the time they were built, and predictably sank into deprivation and decay by the 1980s.

Neither Garden Cities nor New Towns took into account any of the organic usage patterns that developed in organic towns, and thus ended up producing cultural wastelands for different reasons - Garden Cities because howard was a Quaker and had unpopular religious motivations resulting in stepford style living. And new towns because brutalism is depressing as fuck unless you're a fashionista, and encourages antisocial behaviour in normal people.
> Having an avenue where nations can be shamed for their crimes against humanity

Many nations have continued to commit crimes against humanity since the UN was founded, without any shaming at all. Some of them have had their leaders praised and given awards and invited to be keynote speakers at conferences at the same time that their crimes against humanity were in full swing (for example, Robert Mugabe). And two of the most egregious such nations, Russia and China, have permanent seats on the UN Security Council.

It is true that the UN has shamed some nations for crimes against humanity (the Milosevic regime in Serbia, for example). But that just makes the lack of shaming in so many other cases worse, especially when the cases that are ignored are at least as egregious as the cases that are shamed.
Not necessarily, but it can. Black squares can come from a variety of problems.
I've used it on Mac on my work machine for a year-plus now. Now the wait is finally over for personal. Thanks for all your hard work on this!
> throwing it out in search of restorative justice is extremely unwise.

I see this claim a lot, but it seems partially true at best. As per the article and conversations with friends in admissions departments, the testing requirement at many elite schools was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.

However, the debate over how tests impact disadvantaged students may be why "many schools continued their test-optional policies even as the public health crisis eased" as per the article, so you're partially right that it probably played a role in why some schools have dragged their feet. (Contrast to schools like MIT which also dropped their testing requirement during the pandemic but reinstated it more quickly afterwards.)
don't forget about TSVs
Did fermented foods fuel brain growth?
A large part of west Nebraska is known as the “sand hills” it’s not very fertile mainly cattle ranchers are out there. It is interesting that 30 miles or so east of where sand hills start is some very good farm land, but go west into the sand hills you risk blow out if you try to do anything with the soil (basically if you uproot some grass it will create a patch of sand, over time the wind will make the patch of sand bigger and bigger). In fact sometimes people put stuff like used tires in the spots to help prevent blowouts from getting bigger. Another fun fact about sand hills is that when it rains it replenishes the underground Ogallala Aquifer which is a pretty amazing source of water, one of biggest in the world, and very important for irrigation ect. Anyways, I think that geography has a lot to do with eastern side being more populated.

[1] Sandhills: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhills_(Nebraska)

[2] Ogallala Aquifer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
> You seem to be very confused about civil versus criminal penalties....

Nah, I think it's a disagreement over whether a tool's maker gets blamed for evil use or the tool's user.

It's a similar argument over whether or not gun manufacturers should have any liability for their products being used for murder.
In Nebraska, the towns aren't following the interstate. That's the Oregon Trail. Why does the Oregon Trail follow that path? It's the Platte River which provides convenient access to water while traveling.

So the river was there first, then the trail, then the railroads, then national highways, and then finally the interstates. The towns were mostly established at the same time as the railroad.