skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya, at least there's enough there there (despite the paucity of canon) to communicate and be creative; eg https://sites.google.com/view/tinglangbelta/xom

— Oh Stewardess, I speak Belter.
He's in great pain and wants to know if you can help.
— Tili natet 'ratna. Im gonya leta-kom *mediting
detim im bek fo du to gut.

I believe Tolkien's languages remain the "gold standard", but I'm not sure if they're as productive for everyday chat and memes.

(I have heard that Eliezer Ben-Yehuda made a big mistake in not creating any swear words for Modern Hebrew, leading to a substantial overlap in comprehensible swearing between jewish and arabic communities in J'lem. That said, I understand "chinga tu madre ... cabrón" perfectly well, so probably any language communities in close contact will swear at each other perfectly comprehensibly whether they share a vocabulary or not)
Could you explain the difference and how you use GPT4? If all you're doing is hitting the GPT4 api, I don't see how it's different.

And, of course, you wouldn't know that your mind is being poisoned with hallucinate half-truths. Maybe you can pick some out because of prior knowledge, but what about the ones you can't? What about the little things you learn that you don't deem important enough to verify, but then remember later without remembering that they snuck in through an untrusted source? That's precisely the danger - you can't accurately tell truth from fiction, and the stuff you already know isn't the stuff you're asking about (otherwise you wouldn't be asking)
Can you think of any situation where subtracting a year from today's date is ambiguous when today isn't, well, today?
That is true, it is not about the quality. But replacement is there. And customer is screwed, but who cares?
Louisiana has a long list of place names like this. New Orleans street names alone have standard pronunciations, many of which are not obvious especially if you've seen the name in other contexts. Then there are the city names like Plaquemines, Natchitoches, and even New Orleans itself (if you say "new or-LEENZ" like Chuck Berry you will be immediately flagged as an outsider).

I reminded my wife of Natchitoches every time she complained about pronouncing Massachusetts place names like Leominster when we lived up north.
Nice. Is there a way to access the roadmap or to be on the loop regarding new features?
Planned App-Solescence
No, but some of our software writes data to rotating directories named after the date, and while doing some manual debugging on a test system, it started failing to create these directories the first time it rotated on Feb 29 UTC. Turns out it just happened to run out of disk space at that time, but I had myself convinced that it was a leap year bug for over an hour. :)
You're right, they didn't.

> “We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.”

> - Wendell Berry
Yup, I bought a dedicated server because I needed a CPU with AVX2 and VT-x, and it went poof some days later.

They didn't even do me the courtesy of emailing me to tell me about it, I had to ask support:

> > When I try to log in to my account it tells me that my credentials are invalid, and when I use forgot password it tells me that my account is disabled?

>We recently did some routine reviews of our customer accounts. We noticed some suspicious information in your account.

>We have some concerns regarding this information and we have decided to close your account.

>We do not share details about why certain accounts appear suspicious. Publishing this information would make it easier for people to create fake accounts and abuse our services.

I even went through their live-video face verification and passport scan and they didn't budge on this.
Sure. But even slightly less decentralization has mostly proven clunky and unattractive when it comes to two-way communication social networking. I mean we all have accounts bluesky/mastodon/whatever the network du jour is, but it's on Twitter the posts are, despite its massive quality nosedive in recent time. The centralization of Twitter has massive benefits has almost zero downsides.
[dupe] please!

discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543281
but the 30% is the tip of the spear of a scam so fuck them because plastic recycling is a joke and they've put the burden and blame on us for failing when they never had the science or the tools to do it at scale and won't any time soon. that you're so easily sucked into their scam with selective statistics is sad but don't spread your imaginary industry to others. got an STD, keep it to yourself. this is no different.
That note in the docs is from a time when Emmy only ran on the JVM. Now Emmy runs in JS in a browser (see my top level comment for demo links) which I would argue is even easier.

Also the MIT scheme install was historically quite hairy and not supported on M1 Macs, for example.

I’ll update the docs here. Thanks!
It's not that python doesn't have a clean way to subtract a year, it's that "subtract a year" is imprecise. There's a clean way to subtract 365 days, and there's a clean way to set the year one year earlier. But if you're doing the second thing, is python supposed to silently change to March 1 when you change the year from a leap day? There's no way around handling edge cases.
EVs are still too compromising or expensive. All I want is an electric no-frills version of my Civic at a comparable price. Honda themselves, or any other manufacturer, have been unable to offer that.

I have no interest in buying another ICE vehicle, so I'll continue to maintain my current car, but I'm ready to buy once they offer something I'm looking for.
Norwegian Consumer Council files complaint against Meta for GDPR violations
Am I factually wrong to say that the thread was silently disappeared from the front page?

The discussion in this thread is about HN error messages and downtime. I theorized that threads that trigger the flame war thing get disappeared and posters get a timeout.

How is this "off-topic meta drama"? It is the very topic of this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527188 (Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff) <- "Yes, you are crazy."

I shouldn't have taken the bait, true. I'd definitely like your guidance about how acceptable you find the post I was replying to that opened with "am I crazy". If I was a mod I'd be critical of it as a very low quality one to say the least specifically with regards to the way it is written and argued, rather than the position taken. Is this not a fair assessment? It passes your threshold for good quality comments?

In that very thread there are countless people who call anybody critical of Google/DEI paranoid and crazy. Why is this acceptable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509831 (Losing Trust in Google) - "In what universe is this a strong point." <- It simply wasn't a strong point, it was another low quality comment written in bad faith. Why is calling it out the only thing deserving of a note, it is worse somehow? Should have I used some other verbiage? Why is the comment I am replying to acceptable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509831 (Losing Trust in Google) - "He is a loser because he doesn't think like you?"
A poster didn't like that thread critical of Google/DEI existing. It garnered plenty of comments and upvotes finding it interesting however.

This person wrote "It's paranoia, but it's also clickbait. We shouldn't give these losers a platform." <- This has no warning and no flag. I'd definitely like your guidance about how acceptable you find that post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509831 - (German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization) "You're about to be downvoted and flagged by people who have never been to Berlin."

Subsequently the user got downvoted and flagged. An unpleasant exchange ensued between him and one of his censors who immediately called him a racist and argued in bad faith. I did not participate in any of that. I don't quite understand how calling people racist like that is not a clear violation of site guidelines.

I think you see the theme here but perhaps not. What am I incorrect about? Am I completely and totally off base in your opinion? I am pointing out absolutely nothing legitimate?
EVs -can- have worse tire pollution in some cases, i.e. low rolling resistance tires and increased weight compared to similar ICE.
Your results caught me off guard. Particularly, the (linux) system allocator is too fast. I think the simplicity of the benchmark (allocating and immediately deallocating) might be causing issues... perhaps unwanted optimizations? I'm not sure.

On my random actions benchmarks (this resembles real allocation patterns somewhat better?):

- 1 thread: Talc is faster than Frusa and System, Frusa is comparable to System

- 4 threads: System is fastest, Frusa does about ~half as well, Talc does ~half as well as Frusa

Our benchmarks agree on the Frusa vs Talc comparison.

Benchmarks aside, Frusa seems neat. In particular, I had some misconceptions about how to tackle concurrency in Talc which Frusa's code demonstrates not to be true. I may give writing a concurrent version of Talc another shot soon.
So in other words it's not accurate?
Isn’t this rate jump partially the result of rulings that made PG&E liable for damages from fires started by overheated transformers?
If you can find a free charger.

Where I live (LA) there’s long queues more often than not.
I think the push to get rid of ICEs is more due to global climate change effects rather than local pollution.
Not MIT scheme, and there are no proper ports of scmutils to other Scheme dialects that I know of.
you got scammed by Big Oil. that's what happened.
How many things do you self host and how do you manage them all?
Opening the bio-assembly for 3J31 ate about 8 GB of my VRAM, and 32 of my system RAM, in ChimeraX. Which is actually less than I remember a few years ago. I wonder if the render pipeline has changed a bit. That said, it's still very significant if you have 10-20 viruses attached to a cell, for instance.

EDIT - that's also for atoms. Going to 3D maps is significantly more computationally intensive. A typical, sub-tomogram average, or annotation will be in MRC file format, which is horrendously slow with a box size > 1024 pixels or so.
> All I want is an electric no-frills version of my Civic at a comparable price.

The US car industry seems really determined not to allow anything affordable on the market. It's not just EVs. They also push overpriced bloated gas guzzlers.

Eventually someone will get a cheap reliable decent-range EV like you want into the market and steamroll the entire industry.
Okay I am having really odd undefined behavior in Python in UART communications that were working just fine yesterday... My boss joked it could be a leap year thing but at this point it wouldn't surprise me. Switch over to using Rust and no issues at all
> ...[eARC is] the only high bitrate digital audio output on most TVs...

Great news! DisplayPort supports:

> 1–8 channels, 16 or 24-bit linear PCM; 32–192 kHz sampling rate; maximum bitrate 36,864 kbit/s (4,608 kB/s)
That's quite a different mechanism.
Python.

cls = <class 'datetime.datetime'>, data_string = 'Feb 29 04:55:03.687' format = '%b %d %H:%M:%S.%f'
E ValueError: day is out of range for month
My Casio F91W I assumed would know that year YYYY is leap, and would show 29th as Date. No, it showed 1 as in March (it doesn't show months). I had to manually set it back to 28th so that tomorrow it shows correct date.

To be fair, it doesn't ask for year anywhere in settings. It simply doesn't know what year it is.
> they should be equivalent between EV's and ICE cars

EVs tend to be heavier, so are harder on tyres.
How does the no tip aspect work? Does it mean no tip is required, but is optional... So you open yourself up to the risk of some angry delivery person complaining or exacting revenge on your items during the next delivery? Ideally I would like it to be "no tip possible" meaning even if I wanted to tip, I can't.
A lot of folks (like me) just use high speed charger infrastructure, which would intermediate you from PG&E

I would note that drilling, refineries, distribution, and point of sale for oil have all been and still are an assortment of disgusting cartels, monopolies, and nefarious governments hell bent on screwing you and the planet. But they’re definitely at more arms reach as a consumer than PG&E.
Isn't that the point though? There is no need to make chat flow builders and pay the "handful of smart people" to figure them out.

If AI costs were reaching very high levels perhaps they would try to make non-AI flows for standard processes. But I think that is unlikely given how cheap AI is vs smart people wages.
City of Ember meets Ascension.
With the socialization of risk there is no good reason to not try to participate in bubbles--as longs you're not the first one rolled.
100%. Software takes time to make it secure, since after all it’s written by us flawed humans. The runtime that consumes the model files might have bugs, but those will be fixed over time.

How people use model outputs (or inputs; I.e prompt injections) is a whole other area ripe for exploits, especially while these technologies are being adopted by people who don’t really understand them. But I view this as fundamentally different than the above. A model format can be secure in that it won’t just randomly delete files on your computer. This is a computer science problem and thus provably securable. I guess that was the point I was trying to make when differentiating why they work vs how they work.
Poor youtubers can support the EFF, they can call/write or even visit the local offices of their congress critters. Most congressional hearings are nothing more than dog and pony shows anyway.
I kind of flipped out, and was motivated to finish this blog piece, when I saw this: “UK government wants to use computers to cut civil service jobs: Yes, you read that right.” The idea — to have citizen data might be put into and processed by a computer — is hideously toxic and broken; and usefully reveals the kind of thinking that makes morally crippled leaders all across our system love this technology.
I would actually really like to learn Ada cause it just sounds interesting. All number types are fully ranged and it would be fun to hand out as a CTF problem.
I would be very cautious when you learn a new skill like talking to random people and building new connections - which can be extremely rewarding - and connecting that in your brain to alcohol.
I like that he's the Padishah, an Iranian word.

Fun fact - a rock band from NZ named themselves "Shihad" after a member had read Dune and got the word jihad wrong. When they tried to break into the US market, they renamed themselves "Pacifier" because, well, you know, Shihad/jihad wasn't a great connotation post 9/11. And the name was appropriate because their music as Pacifier rather sucked.
> ” Did you post something negative about Google/DEI? Or maybe just upvote it? Or skim one of those threads. There you go. Time out for you." <---- this is particularly disturbing IF TRUE”

This is bullshit. I am sorry you decided to edit your comment to include that paranoia. I am seeing these errors a lot and a lot of times it’s when I just get to the site without any interaction.

I usually comment very uncontroversial things and get the error all the same.

Ps: I don’t know what’s “DEI”
Every time I go to timeanddate.com I feel like I see a link to the Leap Day page (https://www.timeanddate.com/date/leap-day.html) that shows the meme-infamous boyfriend-checking-out-another-girl couple, except she's proposing to him! Obviously this happened earlier that day since they're wearing the same outfits, and I can't help but feel bad for her knowing what's coming but unable to warn of the impending train wreck.
Equals and Row Zero are in the same space. They've put more effort into their suite of cloud data connectors, while we've focused on performance and first class Python support. We'll be adding more connectors in the coming months.
I read the rest of the review, it's fine, I'm just questioning writing off a bunch of "future" years of movie releases seems premature. The author makes a point that they're staking that claim.
and when they jack up prices, we use the tax revenue to subsidize the poor so only the well off pay that assholery, we can do this for carbon in all forms.
This isn't even one of the weird years!

Is this why we can't have nice things?
Startup Plans Project to Drill for 'Million-Year' Energy Source
What does tracking incoming nuclear-capable enemy aircraft look like in a world with commercial air transportation?
You'll also need formatting to be the same to get adoption. e.g. I wanted to format numbers as currency, and got USD$x,xxx as a result, and no obvious way to change that to $x,xxx.
This one is rather specific, but a game rhythm based Final Fantasy game called Theatrhythm Final Bar Line is simply not allowing people to play today because it has an internal system that awards prizes for specific days and they didn't handle the case of what to do when it's on a leap day. You can boot it up but can't actually play the game as a result.

Not working on the game or anything but found it moderately amusing as someone who owns the game!
> Maybe when solid state batteries make their way into EVs by the end of this decade, that will change.

That'd be nice. I figure I'll revisit EV tech in ~10 years when I'm ready to start shopping again. Fingers crossed.
There are also some not so friendly entities that play games with the petroleum market.
Bet accepted, term: 1 year.
I mean your analysis isn’t taking into account the high cost of reducing entropy.

Picking damaged fruit from undamaged fruit or mixing a low-entropy fuel with a low-entropy additive to make a high entropy product is cheap.

Sorting through trash is much more expensive because the entropy in a trash stream is massive, and it only gets worse downstream in the chain. You’ve got all sorts of different types of things mixed together, some possibly dangerous.

And we already offload a lot of this sorting to third-world countries and this is not exactly an ethical solution.
The camper could have a battery pack too.

Also its roof area might be significant enough to put on solar panels and charge on the way...
Cat-GPT
But if you take out those connotations, there isn't really much left to Dune. The people who read it as kids and found its word-building novel either never watched Lawrence of Arabia or know nothing about the history of the Middle East.

That's not to say the book isn't enjoyable, or even great. It's just that it mashes together various real people and historical incidents and draws much of its power from them. If you know the real story, it's impossible not to notice the parallels. If you remove the parallels, you lose the story's power.
I very much doubt that if you ask for a 1943 German soldier "most Americans" would agree seeing the examples provided in the article. And it's obvious that this is very different from filtering search results, but still providing correct (albeit incomplete) results if you search for "jew" and Google removed anti-semitic bile. The results are just plain wrong here.
According to my tests, it's billed by the hour with no minimum commitment. It's attractive indeed for transient workloads. €15.99 for one month commitment sounds okay-ish when comparing with competitor's offering at this price (but you don't get RISC-V servers there (yet)).
I'm pretty disappointed in this article. There aren't any interesting insights.
How is this not doxxing? I've gotten chided for much less.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543281
I think `#if` and `#ifdef` are not good ideas because they prevent the compiler from seeing them in the first place. A better solution is just `if (false)` which is nestable, and the code is still checked by the compiler so it won't bit rot.
Edison is famous for his lightbulb, but more significant was his electric power stations and infrastructure (via GE). Similar for Birdseye frozen fish and freezer infrastructure in supermarkets.

Selling some of the cars is one thing; selling fuel to all of the cars is another. Who's richer: car manufacturers or oil companies?
43 here and same thoughts. I _do_ like the reboot, but Lynch's Dune just oozes atmosphere, and its... baroqueness is just insurmountable.
A modest proposal: Prosecutors quiz Gemini about major crimes that Google Executives have secretly been committing. Then lock all of 'em in jail until those crimes have been fully investigated.
I’m not sure the timing actually works out for that. Arab oil production was significantly behind the United States and Russia during the Second World War, but represented a major share of oil production by 1973, as seen in the effects of the embargo imposed in response to the Yom Kippur War.

Dune was written in the 1950’s, but the geopolitical metaphors are a few decades older than that; the character of Paul Atreides is clearly a parallel to T.E. Lawrence, which places the geopolitical context firmly within the First World War. That’s a different part of the Middle East (the Levant as opposed to the Hejaz and Gulf), a different strategic value relating to long distance travel (the Suez Canal as opposed to oil), and a much older world of competing colonizers. And not to put too fine a point on it, the Ottomans also had a padishah emperor!
This is great, I am also running my own AI investment robots and this is the future and I believe you can absolutely beat the market and even thinking to use similar approach to other structured data sets and create a startup around the idea...

“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
― Warren Buffett
And you can go grab a Starbucks without sucking down a bunch of carcinogenic fumes during that time.

I have a home charger but never use it. I have never once wished I could go to a gas station, and whenever I drive a dinosaur fume contraption and end up at a gas station I’m reminded of what a filthy end to end system the age of fire was. I’m glad to see the age of Maxwell begin.
Back in the 90s, the anti-Microsoft movement had a slogan that went something like: "Windows: a 32-bit layer on top of a 16-bit operating system originally for an 8-bit CPU derived from a 4-bit microcontroller, by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
I disagree with most of this article. My own anecdotal experience is that dozens of non-tech friends, coworkers, etc. tell me that they are using ChatGPT every day. These are people who are telling me how they use it to draft emails, create marketing material, create sales support material, create education material, etc.

During every other hype boom I have been through that ultimately failed, those regular Joe types either hadn't even heard of the tech, simply didn't care or were actively hostile to it. Comparatively, with the new generative AI people are talking about how much they love it, how they use it every day, etc.

Even the Internet had a bubble that popped (back in the Pets.com days, circa 2001 [1]) and this short-term AI bubble will pop too. I expect the same pattern as the early Internet: an early pop followed by a recovery that leads to massive growth.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
I really admire those with the ability to conform themselves to a work place to be successful. I've always been candid, and I am occasionally at odds with management when polite lies are expected. Those I've managed appreciate the sincerity, but I would hardly describe my career as successful.