skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reposting a comment I made about a month ago about the FT:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39177792

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Late last year, I signed up for a daily delivery of a physical copy of The Financial Times. I rarely read news websites, other than HN and Reddit. Why? Because I wanted to be informed about world events but dislike the always-on nature of online news, and because I have a certain romantic ideal of reading the morning newspaper with a cup of coffee. Unfortunately it doesn't arrive in the morning and usually comes around noon.

How has it been? Both good and bad. I do like having a physical paper put in the mailbox, as it's fun to look forward to a "delivery" every day that is more real than just looking at my phone.

On the other hand, I find the FT to be worth reading only about every other issue, largely because there simply isn't enough news to report in 24 hours. The opinion and editorial sections make up a decent portion of the paper and largely aren't worth reading. But, every other issue or so, there are a few excellent articles absolutely worth the price of admission. And even then, the quality of the "boring" articles is leaps and bounds above what I used to read in the NYT or the Guardian.

I'm not sure if I'll be renewing it later this year, as it does feel like I'm wasting a lot of paper – but only on the days when I don't enjoy the articles. I wish they had a twice weekly edition, which would be the perfect interval IMO.

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Since then, my opinion has only been solidified. I find their opinion takes to be pretty boilerplate predictable and not very thoughtful. I guess I'd only recommend it if you want a robust overview of daily business news. Otherwise, their general news articles are nothing special. But, they are still much less biased than the NYT, which is what I'm most familiar with.
>Wow. We are so simple that even a computer understands.

You are wildly underestimating how truly complex we truly are

We don't understand (computers too, if they "understand") how caenorhabditis elegans work, let alone humans, which are a tad bit bigger than these worms

Knowing what individual parts do does absolutely not mean knowing how all/some/two parts work together

Scale also changes things drastically, if something is bigger than something else by 2 times, it doesn't mean that it's only 2 times more complicated than it. Nonlinearity
That's so hard that not even humans can pass
Unfortunately, shower heads are constructed differently. Removing the flow restrictor depends on the design. Sometimes, it's so easy you can pull them out with a pair of pliers; other times, I've had to drill them out with a drill bit.

They look like little metal or plastic screens, usually. In the US, all shower fixtures must come with them installed by regulation.
Statistics That Tell the Story of Family Estrangement
Glancing at the code, it uses some library called “playdate”, so I presume it’s for this device: https://play.date/
Clean Code: The Art of Clean Naming
No one is going to rearrange their life according to when some burger joint has lower prices. You'll never know when that will be anyway. Many people have zero say over when their employers allow them to eat lunch in the first place. People eat when they have time, or (less often) when they are hungry and none of those things take into account price.

At best this will drive business to restaurants that aren't playing games with their prices.
Is this much different outside of the US, or are there similar levels of red-tape around developing engines/planes for GA there too?
I think they already did in 2021 called "Lords of Scam".
A fun corollary of this issue:

Deleting an S3 bucket is nontrivial!

You can't delete a bucket with objects in it. And you can't just tell S3 to delete all the objects. You need to send individual API requests to S3 to delete each object. Which means sending requests to S3 to list out the objects, 1000 at a time. Which takes time. And those list calls cost money to execute.

This is a good summary of the situation: https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-mo...

The fastest way to quickly dispose of an S3 bucket turns out to be to delete the AWS account it belongs to.
"Checksum-all-the-things is a basic feature of a lot of file systems"

"A lot"? Does anything but ZFS and maybe btrfs do this? Ext4 anf XFS — two very common filesystems — still don't have data checksums.
What's the point? The capabilities of browsers are so vast they'll just find other ways to fingerprint.

Privacy in browsers is a lost cause. It's a 30+ year old technology that has become ridiculously bloated in scope, with privacy and security only considered as an afterthought.
Speaking of sanitising bleach, does it have a best-before date?

I have a bottle of it sitting around, but it’s quite old and I’m not sure if the date on it is when it was made or when it should be discarded.
Because you know it’s Tuesday night and that the price is half off.

This way you won’t know the price until you show up so it’s hard to predict the price until you have some sunk costs.
That sounds interesting. Where?
The sequence prediction arguments are a lot more convincing than they were a few years ago, if you care about realized progress. Sequence prediction is intelligence, the philosophers can deal with the fuzzy edge stuff that's less important.
Here you have some pros and cons about Autodidact and Formal Education:
https://iamautodidact.com/self-education-vs-formal-education...

and

https://iamautodidact.com/is-self-education-good-20-pros-and...
Show HN: Create and share good practices, inspired by nohello
I wanted a way to customize the "no hello" message like the one found at nohello.net. So I made a website that lets you create your own "good practice" to share with others hopefully educating people and saving everyone time.
I'm not saying financial disclosure is more important than safety (and I certainly don't believe that), I'm saying their bailiwick ends and making sure the financials are reported accurately. It's like blaming the referee because a player dropped the ball, they're not responsible for making good decisions based on that information, they're responsible for making sure we have the information we need to make good decisions.

Which is not to say they're even doing a good job at that, just that this particular thing isn't on them. It's not like they're being accused of cooking the books. I didn't see a charge in the article, but I would assume they're being investigated for negligence.
I too like my every action and utterance being recorded by massive corporation with ties to intelligence just in case I have to go back and find my lost keys!
Does anyone else find these sorts of analyses really patronising?

I'll get the shower head that makes showering pleasurable. It's a trivial expense and there's already been a huge saving from shifting from filling a huge bath.
So in reality S3 takes about 2 seconds to retrieve a single file, under ideal conditions. 1 second round trip for the request to DynamoDB to get the object key of the file and 1 second round trip to S3 to get the file contents (assuming no CPU cost on the search because you’re getting the key by ID from the DynamoDB in a flat single table store. And that the file has no network IO because it is a trivial number of bytes, so the HTTP header overwhelmed the content.)

I know what you’re thinking — 2 seconds, that’s faster than I can type the 300 character file key with its pseudo prefixes)!

Ah, but what if you wanted to get 2 files from S3?
What could be "statistics" is our intelligence learning from past events, either by natural selection in the scope of generations or our brains during our lifetime. If certain A outcome has occured enough times for Q input, it has resulted in such a structure that is best given the resources available to reach that.
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It can do it, it just isn't trained for it. This one is actually kind of depressing. It's genuinely that ... as far as I'm able to tell, this sort of reasoning just doesn't appear in the finetuning set that they feed it to make instruct models. The way we train these things is honestly terrible in so many ways. Anyway, that's why I think the current mode of "well, I'll give it one attempt by charging blindly ahead, ignoring any mistakes I made and then blindly claiming success" is purely temporary.

In my experience, if you feed it a metric ton of explicit guidance you can occasionally get it into a mode where it reasons incrementally and actually notices when things are unclear. It is in there, it's just not foregrounded. They're trained not to ask questions, you see.
SVB Failed One Year Ago. Is the Regional Banking Crisis Over?
More concerning than the level of the Columbia River is the lack of snowpack in the West Kootenays and most of BC.

The level of the Columbia River in Castlegar varies so much (due to the Hugh Keenleyside Dam and other upstream dams on the Kootenay and Columbia rivers) that it's not a very good indicator of drought.

A quick look shows that the Arrow Reservoir is at about 426.1m, which historically is not that bad. However, with the lack of snowpack, the absence of snowmelt runoff is going to be a big problem.
The idea that people shouldn't be charged with crimes because that makes them cover up crimes is pretty hard to grok.

We should also be careful of underregulation. Most of all, we should be careful of reflexive, reactionary, and/or partisan reasoning and decision-making. Part of that is this hypersenstive allergy to regulation that has people sneezing and coughing every time the idea is within a mile of them. That's arguably a reason for the Boeing situation.

Business leaders always clamor for less regulation because they have big egos (they cannot be constrained! also they must know more than the regulator), because sometimes there is a negative impact on their quarterly revenue, and because many have embraced an ideology. When things go to heck, then it would have been better to be regulated more - a situation Boeing is in now, and that financial markets seem to find themselves in every decade or so.

(Regulation also helps create a marketplace where you can focus on making better planes, not taking risks with people's lives to keep up with the other crazy competitors.)
Have you tried https://listudy.org ?
At risk of being pedantic, you seem to be using big O to mean “approximately” or “in the order of”, but that’s not what it means at all. Big O is an expression of the growth rate of a function. Any constant value has a growth rate of 0, so O(100k) isn’t meaningful: It’s exactly the same as O(1).
Yes, this is very good advice and will likely solve their problem
Mirrors my experience. You want lower rate for long sessions as it is often enough.

But on other hand if you want effectively wash quickly higher pressure is better.
I suspect a major reason for this is the coming end of life of Windows 10. This older hardware is still perfectly good and usable but often doesn't support Windows 11 because of some weird decision by Microsoft.

Seems like many of these would probably be good devices to run Linux or BSD on.
Can I ask how you’re accomplishing this? What tools and workflows are you using to have LLMs actually do this level of development in the present? Sounds like you are at the cutting edge and I’m very curious since I still hear copilot being touted as “cutting edge”. Thanks!
> It seems like you have me confused with someone else in the thread who used the phrase "wild accusation"

No, I'm not confused. But that comment was the context for my mentioning CVE and 0days, which you decided to discuss yourself.

simondotau: "That's an wild accusation to make without citations."

me: "Shall I cite my list of CVE? Or perhaps it would be more interesting to cite my list of unfixed 0days."

you: "The list of vulnerabilities is not very informative for the same reason a trackers blocked statistic is not."

If you don't want to discuss my previous quoted comment, that's fine, but you have in fact mentioned it and continue to mention it. Thus, the context is very relevant.

> and are responding rudely.

Where exactly was I rude?

> I think your original comment was needlessly exaggerated and inflammatory and defending it, instead of clarifying it, is a bad look.

I would be happy to clarify it, but the first time you asked for clarification was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661492

I'll respond to that comment, though it may take some time.

> Clearly you have an axe to grind with Apple

I've been a Mac user for more than 20 years, a professional Mac developer for more than 15, and I currently sell apps in the Mac App Store and iOS App Store. Do I have critiques of Apple? Yes, of course. However, they are the critiques of an insider who has no intention to leave the ecosystem.
Int->Float->Int: It's a jungle out there
Yeah, not sure why it missed it. But when prompted with the photo and "What's funny about this photo?" GPT-4 replied:

"The humor in this photo stems from the anticipation of an unfortunate event that seems likely to occur. A portable toilet is being transported on the back of a truck that appears to be entering a tunnel with a height limit, and a convertible car with its top down is closely following the truck. The implication is that if the portable toilet were to hit the tunnel entrance due to being too tall, its contents could potentially spill into the open convertible behind it, leading to a very messy and unpleasant situation. The text "WAIT FOR IT" plays on the tension of expecting something bad to happen, adding to the comedic effect."
He should just tag their house and call it even.
> Why would pseudo-programming with no actual payoff or learning along the way be desirable over...just doing what you want, programming?

Because Factorio is all the fun problem solving with none of the baggage of dealing with programming - no git repo to manage, no linter to satisfy, no language quirks to re-learn, no messy APIs to use (and in my experience, almost anything useful and non-trivial will need to use ugly APIs).
A German charity whose operations I know publishes their bank account information pretty much everywhere: on their website, on sides of their car.

It was a bit of a nuisance at times to roll back a few fraudulent transactions but apart from calling up the bank and making it their problem (maybe 1h of life time lost to that, in total), the damage to the charity created by publishing the bank account information has been 0€ in well over 10 years.

Those are regular accounts, neither bank offers some kind of "ingress only" bank account number (that automatically clears to the real account, or something like that), even though that would save _them_ time.
New York Times pushing clickbait nonsense again.
Well look, compared to the electrified bits of sand in my laptop i'd strongly defend pregnancy as something vastly more "magical" if those are the terms we must use.

People who thing organic adaption, sensory-motor adaption, somatosensory representation building... ie.., all those things which ooze-and-grow so that a paino player can play, or we can here type... are these magic?

Well I think it's exactly the opposite. It's a very anti-intellectual nihilism that all that need be known about the world is the electromagnetic properties of silicon-based transitors.

Those who use the word "magic" in this debate are really like atheists about the moon. It all sounds very smart to deny the moon exists, but in the end, it's actually just a lack of knowledge dressed up as enlightened cynicism.

There are more things to discover in a single cell of our body that we have ever known; and may ever know. All the theories of science needed to explain its operation would exhaust every page we have ever printed. We know a fraction of what we need to know.

And each bit of that fraction reveals an entire universe of "magical" processes unreplicated by copper wires or silicon switches.
Assuming some values of "modern device" :)

That readme should include a mention of its intended platform .... "on a playdate"

Luckily you can run it in the simulator without one!
Gymnasium is now maintained by the Farama Fpundation, an open-source consortium, not OpenAI. But most RL environment work for the past 5+ years has been Gym-compliant. The TextWord example in the repo, for example, instantiates a Gym-style environment but it doesn’t import from Gymnasium (uses textworld.gym instead).
Thumbs up and hearts produce no notifications afaik so they could easily be unaware if they weren’t specifically following and checking up on the thread. And a PR being open for a long time could be an indication that it has been forgotten about rather than being purposefully ignored.

You could definitely be right but you are also making some big assumptions imo that may not be true.
> Clearly the fact that people are talking about this in a generally negative way shows that they aren't seeing it as getting a bargain.

That's because the same companies who have been jacking up prices for no reason sure as hell aren't looking to do us any favors now. They'll use this to extract as much money from us as they can think they can get away and if we complain about their prices they will blame us for not rearranging our lives to match their random schedules.
https://archive.ph/2024.03.09-215649/https://www.sacbee.com/...
I like the idea. I'd like to be able to pick the number of USB ports (mouse, headphones, memory stick). Or to check if it has a inbuilt disk.

I'd like to be able to select vendors, for example I would not buy an HP on a dare. (See HP ink license and look at the HP power connector on laptops).
I wonder what your review of the WSJ would be :-)

It's sad to think how many people respect their editorial board articles - so low rent.
> trying to avoid clickbait and thought bubbles

Check out Tangle — it's really good for this purpose.
I don't think you're jaded, i think that's a pretty accurate description of this report. I'd summarize it as "the RCMP thinks the world is terrible, and the only solution is more cops."

It's good to read this report in the context of this HN link from a couple weeks ago: "Institutions tend to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491863
Did Larrabee contain anything that wasn't an x86 core? According to other comments, this seems to consist of massive highly specialized processing units with just a few tiny CPU sprinkled in to keep the former fed. Quite the opposite of how I remember Larabee.
That overblamed decision was (a) specific to Michigan corporate law, and a reason why Ford reincorporated in Delaware shortly afterwards and (b) a finding that Ford had to pay dividends to its shareholders rather than reinvesting profits in expansion, which no modern court would require. Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs both cancelled dividends and nobody objected.

The story behind the lawsuit was that the Dodge brothers had just left Ford (then a private company) and they planned to use their dividends to start a competitor - which Ford suspected and which is the reason why the dividend was canceled.
'Nordic' is one of those words that are meant erase all things Uralic.
You're suggesting we should pay by the minute? I think I'll just keep not going to movie theaters.
Today's AI is pattern matching. It's good at that.

I wonder if that is all that human intelligence is, just pattern matching? With biological quirks and urges thrown into the mix.
You've summarized it nicely :)
It's a very 1950s story. Everything is very organized. Many stories about that period were about organization, good or bad.

This came from WWII, especially the European theater. Heroic mode had failed at Dunkirk and Dieppe. For the next round, D-Day, things were more organized. Way more organized. General Eisenhower came from logistics. He delayed D-Day a year while the Allies got ready. Really ready. Overwhelmingly ready. Huge numbers of special landing ships. Mobile instant ports. Giant spools of pipe to get fuel across the Atlantic. Special tanks that could grind up minefields. Prefabricated Coca-Cola bottling plants. When the invasion came, the backup was there behind it to put a huge army into Europe, fight through an entrenched army, and grind on to Berlin.

That kind of thinking dominated the 1950s and 1960s, with the Apollo program being the last gasp of that approach.
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Editorials on WSJ are just insane. Straight reporting is often good but there definitely isn't a high wall between the two and the reporting gets impacted negatively unfortunately (not always though).
Our government constantly warns us of the dangers of Islamaphobia while Jews are harassed daily going to pray in synagogues.
That's the same RCMP that paid $10mil to suspected terrorist Maher Arar for his unjust detention in Syrian jail and now he goes around calling for the extermination of Jews...
> There is no theoretical or empirical basis for LLMs having any reasoning capability.

Deep learning models are specifically designed for automatic pattern recognition. That includes patterns of reasoning and problem solving.

> The only reason it can solve it is because side the creators of these top models specifically trained the models on problems like this to give the appearance of intelligence.

That's not how deep learning works, and not how machine learning works in general. The models can automatically recognize patterns of reasoning then apply those methods to problems it has never seen before.

> The only way it can do so is not through reasoning, but by having been trained on a structurally similar puzzle.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how it works. The large deep learning models have 100+ layers, modelling extremely abstract features of the data, which include abstract patterns of problem solving and reasoning. They are not simply regurgitating training examples.
100%. That prop is killing the state. There's plenty of land and no will to develop it.

California is dying because businesses can't pay their employees $75k and expect them to be able to afford a place to live.
Uh, I wouldn’t go so far as to call it overrated. While I agree with advice that it’s important to have a good attitude and round your technical skills out with soft skills, if you’re looking for a technical job your technical skills are literally what you’re hired for. The soft skills get you in the door, differentiate you from other less rounded candidates, and make for a more productive and happy team. I’ve made the mistake of giving too much leeway to hires that had a good attitude but just couldn’t swing the fucking bat. And we all know how destructive ingratiating, subservient types can be.
I honestly haven't read much of the WSJ, but from the little I have, it seems less professional and more opinionated than the FT. Both are better than the NYT though IMO.
Bcachefs, and LVM also has a way to do it.

Unfortunately I’m not aware of any filesystem that does it while maintaining the full bandwidth of a modern NVMe. Not even with the extra reads factored in; on ZFS I get 800 MB/s max.
I wonder how common are back or spine problems amongst dedicated high jumpers these days? E.g. chronic issues after the end of the career.

As compared to Fosbury flop, the older "straddle technique" must have been much easier on the body, or not?

Having "high jumper's genes", I nearly crossed 1.90 m in high school by simply mimicking the Fosbury style as seen on TV -- or, rather, simply by using brute force. I do, however, still remember that this jumping session caused serious back pain afterwards. I was also completely exhausted. An interesting experience, turns out you do use a surprising, immense amount of explosive power while jumping. In particular when you don't know how to jump properly. :)