skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thank you so much for posting this, it resonates with me a lot.
The right answer is media savvy.

We need to be raising our kids to have an appropriate amount of distrust of all media, to understand where it's coming from, who backs it, and what their motivations are. Then they can consume it responsibly. Hell, we probably all need a refresher course in it.

Trying to regulate single platforms, like TikTok, just drives both the audience and the disinformation elsewhere. A better trained audience will be able to rebuff garbage no matter which app happens to host it.

I'm sort of disappointed this is not common-sense stuff, although I could see the risk that a savvier audience is less susceptible to advertising.

> In order to access the American market, there should be a requirement that firms are not government controlled.

You can uninstall the CBC app from my phone over my cold, dead fingers.
Did you just cite twitter as if it were a reliable source for medical information?

*EDIT* Did you just cite a twitter post that links to some dudes blog as if it were a reliable source of medical information?

* EDIT to the EDIT * Did you notice that this dudes blog is PAID, and requires a subscription to access?
No but I realize it’s in after a few failed attempts and don’t hold it against the website for my error.
“the algorithm” was mentioned as being the real risk here and in several breathless mainstream media reports. The authors may be unaware that tiktok has opened the recommendation engine for inspection and code review by their USDS 3rd party assurance company, Ellison, Inc. Oracle also has deep introspection of the data moving in and out of tiktok in the US, per abundant reporting.

I’m not sure why several really important details of the entire technology parter and oversight program (aka project Texas) keeps being left out of the dialogue. It obfuscates motives.

I agree with Stamos, this is an opportunity to get data security right across all social media and internet services, not just shoot a likely losing shot at a single company with a hope for political points.
So, you think it should be technically impossible to ban child pornography? There should be no consequences for possessing this in a "reasonable world"?
> A lightweight tool I've used toward this end is Storybook.

Storybook is one of the least "lightweight" tools available.
https://archive.is/2024.03.14-000317/https://www.nytimes.com...
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What's more the supposed source has completely different numbers... The most charitable explanation is probably that this was written by an LLM...
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Given the current state of LLMs, I am not even sure this qualify to be called an LLM.
That is what "assistant api" is, you create a thread and add new user message to the thread. The messages are stored on the server.

There is an API to modify messages, though I am not sure of its constraints.
Leprosy cases are rising in the US – why is it spreading now?
As someone from India now in the US, you just can't compare US and Indian infra.

These colonies you refer to are built on literal and figurative sand with shoddy regulations.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/bengaluru...

> Bengaluru water crisis: Plush society asks residents to use disposable cutlery and wet wipes

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/floodwaters-cau...

Traditional Indian houses are SFH like US homes.
I think PCA plus nearest neighbor was one of the earliest effective face recognition algorithms aka the eigenfaces method.
How can you acknowledge that the USG colludes with domestic platforms to censor Americans and not think that it is targeting foreign platforms because they make that censorship more difficult?

You know, the obvious explanation that doesn’t require an unseen CCP bogeyman.
Let's ban advertising and let the market sort out the price of search with that perverse incentive out of the way.
You might be right, but the existence of a problem doesn’t mean that government intervention will make things better.

I don’t want government deciding, on my behalf, what is or is not bullshit — and then taking legislative steps to suppress ideas it doesn’t like.

Is Communism bullshit? Is anti-Anericanism bullshit? How about liberalism? Conservatism? Homosexuality?

Maybe. But those are for me to decide, based on whatever information people want to use to try and convince me. It is not appropriate for government to legislatively suppress ideas or information it thinks is wrong.

If you think otherwise, do you have a problem with the Chinese internet firewall? From their perspective, China is protecting its citizens from harmful, wrong information. You just disagree about their value judgments. (I assume.)
> Unemployment is capped very low compared to tech salaries, involves a bunch of paperwork, and requires you to attest that you're actively pursuing opportunties for work in your field.

This wasn't my experience in my state. While the first point may potentially be true for those making $250k+, getting unemployment took me less than 30 minutes going through an online portal. That's a trivial amount of work to make >$2k a month. The "attesting" was me submitting names of 3 companies I applied to while unemployed, and this was only asked of me 2 months into receiving unemployment benefits.
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A little of column A, a little of column B.

Generally a key generator does not itself watch for mouse-movements, it just gets random noise from the OS. But the OS gets its random noise from a random number generator, and the random number generator needs to be seeded with genuine randomness. Some CPUs provide a hardware RNG, but older CPUs do not, and some OSs do not trust a hardware RNG implemented in opaque, un-auditable microcode, so they get their randomness from things like the difference between the CPU clock and real-time clock[1] or the relative timing of interrupts... such as those caused by mouse-movement or keyboard key presses.

[1]: https://www.finnie.org/software/twuewand/
Do people need privacy (of the sort you mean) and something to work on (meaning a house and not a body, a language, a family, friendships)? Is that why everyone in New York and São Paulo and Tokyo is so sad?
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Pshaw. Glenn Curtis went 136 mph in 1907 on what looks a lot like a big Schwinn bicycle with a V-8 of his own design.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_V-8_motorcycle

Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20100906140855/http://www.nasm.s...
I guess it's time for Claude 3 (I imagine you were using it for the LLMs).
It's definitely written by someone who doesn't understand how mortgages work in the US. That "someone" could certainly be an LLM.

> However looking at the percentage of the total value put down as a down payment in those states (10%) indicates homebuyers there tend to have longer repayment plans.

edit: or being more charitable, I'm completely misinterpreting this passage? Down payments don't change the length of a mortgage.
I hope we reach the vending machine density of Japan.... Was extremely helpful to have a vending machine every 10 m when it was 40C outside with extreme humidity last summer when I was there.
Posted a few times today - some discussions: [0] (177 points, 246 comments) [1] (116 points, 88 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666976 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691921
I mean, you're imagining unfun things, and then declaring them unfun, rather than imagining fun things. Of course unfun implementations would be unfun. But what the gp was clearly intending to suggest was fun implementations of more advanced NPC AI. And your responses are either ignoring that intention, or implying that it's unlikely to occur, both of which seem like being a downer and a skeptic just for the sake of being a skeptic.
Agree. We for example do one branch per bug or new feature. You open a draft PR on GH, review it, then when you think it’s ready open a review and someone else can take a look at the whole branch. The commits serve an auxiliary role in that workflow. I think some people assume everyone uses their exact workflow.
I think it predates HN.

This is “What is the XY problem” on Meta-StackExchange from 2010:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...

The top answer links to this wiki page that goes back to 2006:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem

First revision here:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem?action=diff&rev1=1&rev...
You mean Nico and the Niners?

All jesting aside, I still haven’t put together the reference to Nicolas Bourbaki in twentyone pilots’ “Nico and the Niners”. Just a clever history pun or something?
I mean, the main argument against their thesis is just that most people will pay more for services than they otherwise would have and be poorer, but not collapse. On the other hand, the trouble in the mid-west and rustbelt we are seeing more and more bailouts on infrastructure (the $1B Blatnik bridge fix, for example, will be paid for by the US Gov't), while also seeing more deferred maintenance.

The good news is that, again, this is falsifiable, and I'm an empiricist. If Phoenix doesn't can weather their future lack of growth without adding density, then I'll wave the white flag.
Yes, they link to Bankrate [0] where FL has a median of $66k, HI is at $210k and CA at $141k. And the numbers they present at the lower end seem much too low as well. None of this makes sense.

[0] https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/average-down-payment/#wha...
90% or higher? No way, there’s not a credible large scale survey that makes that claim. Closer to 15-25% suffer from incontinence permanently. And 30-50% will have ED. And 100% of outcomes will loose inches.

50% of RALP patients will have biochemical reoccurrence within 8 years. It takes 15 years of low PSA (<.1ng/ml) to state you are cured.

The goal is to die with PaC, not because of it.

All of these stats are available at PCRI.
I think the big deal here is that it's an end to end system.

It's very easy to forget the single line hallucinations of GPT3 not too long ago.

Look into providers like Groq that are running real-time inference with Transformer models.

It's only a matter of models improving then the hardware coming to market that this will be a major leap in robotic capabilities.
We had our own for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb

That user was extremely prolific and, at that time was believed to be a group of people blessed by pg.
Is there anything useful currently for anyone wanting to mess around with training an AI agent for a game they are developing?

I feel like in terms of game dev nothing supersedes state machines.

I know there's Gymnasium: https://gymnasium.farama.org/ and CleanRL and plan to mess with those but I havent seen much evidence they can be used to make a compelling adversary AI.
That is just completely wrong and displays ignorance of the basics of how capital markets work. Investors want to maximize their risk-adjusted rate of return. Even if a corporation still has some potential growth opportunities, investors may prefer to get their capital back so that they can invest in other more profitable ventures and they will exercise their votes accordingly.

And if you're certain that "management doesn't have it" and can convince enough other investors to provide funding then you can take over the entire company and run it as you see fit. Activist investors like Pershing Square Capital Management do this all the time, and despite some high profile failures on average they are very successful.

And there is fundamentally no major difference between paying dividends versus stock buybacks, just a matter of tax efficiency. It's sad to see people (who likely aren't even shareholders) complaining about buybacks without understanding that.
The idea that if you remove cars from 90% of the population that you won't sometimes need to drive something into these areas is laughable. Even Tokyo has roads.
On the other hand, watching androids compete in physical sports is going to be pretty cool.
I spend a lot of time in São Paulo, and no matter how you slice it, housing is cheaper there. Adjunct professors and freelancers can afford houses there. Maids can afford houses, albeit far from the center.

Everyone complains about the city’s endless verticalização (verticalizication) because they like the idea of old houses, but I say keep it coming.
Complexity bad: An interview with Htmx creator Carson Gross
Rump kernels – a composition of componentized drivers
for a software analogy, a lot of programming languages compile to C; that doesn't make them perl scripts!
Spreadsheets are all you need
Anyone having luck resetting passwords yet?

My Messenger and FB on my phone magically logged back in a day or so ago, but on my PC, no luck - and that PC doesn't seem to recognise the password I thought it was before the outage.
People get so mad but this is the 100% truth.
Newer LLMs can take screenshots of a web page as input and produce navigation scripts
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How is it determined that the optic nerve transmits 20 MB/sec of data?
For an n=1 case, we can control adherence.
Oh, I'm not saying there's no value, just that I don't think the value is nearly the magnitude being hyped, and certainly not for the "speeding up the junior to senior transition" posited by the comment at the top of the thread. And sure, every teacher is wrong at some rate -- but the way we deal with that is by thinking for ourselves, asking lots of teachers, working out the differences, etc. This inherently takes time.

Pick some domain that you know nothing about, and ask a transformer model to solve a known problem in the space. It will give you a reply. Is the reply correct? Assuming that you even know how to ask the right question to get a sensible answer (which itself requires expertise), assessing the quality of the answer certainly requires expertise that you don't have. So either you figure it out for yourself (as slow as learning from any other source), or you take it on blind faith.

If I had to wager on the area where I think these models are going to lead to big changes, it's reading and summarization, not generation. "Describe how node deletion in b-trees works in 500 words" is a heck of a lot more useful than asking a transformer to write code to implement node deletion in a b-tree.
both things spun the world as we knew it as humans into chaos in one way or another, but despite the metaphor floating around this thread the printing press and social media are not equivalents.
This is a pretty heavy handed statement -- there are plenty of "hardware engineers" who know plenty about compiler theory and/or have contributed significantly to it. A similarly flippant comment might be "if software engineers only understood hardware better we might have smartphones that last a month on a charge and never crash".

The challenge with hardware is that unlike "traditional" software which compiles to a fixed instruction set architecture, with hardware you might literally be defining the ISA as part of your design.

In hardware you can go from LEGO style gluing pre-existing building blocks to creating the building blocks and THEN gluing it together, with everything in-between.

The real crux of the problem is likely our modern implementation of economics -- a CS graduate who has base-level experience can bank roll a crazy salary that some guy who might have a BSEE, MSEE and PhD in Electrical Engineering ("hardware") will be lucky to get a job offer that's even enough to cover costs of education.

Until the "industry" values hardware and those who want to improve it, you'll likely see slow progress.

P.S.

VHDL (a commonly-used hardware description language) is more or less ADA. Personally I think the choice of ADA syntax was NOT a positive for hardware design but the type-safety and verbosity being a very apt fit for software.
There was a study investigating people's preferences for living type ... I don't remember whether it was 40/60 or 60/40, but the preference for SFH or for apartments is not universal.

Honestly it's weird that people decide they know how other people want to live, both ways. Obv it stems from folks assuming that their values and wants are universal therefore anything derived from those is obvious, but some folks have some pretty extreme confidence in knowing other people's preferences.
This is a fun and lightweight tool. I could see it replacing hackmd for me just because of how much simpler and more lightweight it is.
Get LSD legalized and form a religion around ritualized use of it.
"likely culprits in contributing to rising case rates"

So what they've said is that dietary changes to diets rich in processed foods are contributors, that doesn't mean it is the only thing and not what you suggest but one contributor.
https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis#federation

> applying all associated edits in order. Instances can synchronize their articles with each other, and follow each other to receive updates about articles. Edits are done with diffs which are generated on the backend, and allow for conflict resolution similar to git.

I somehow got the impression that CRDT was stand of the art in multiple edits to a common document, and sincerely doubt that git's conflict resolution is going to be a good experience

Also, as I understand federated things, the real hazard to usefulness is one of discovery. So how would I, owner of a hypothetical mdaniel.wiki, discover who has the best CRDT documents in their wiki such that I could subscribe to updates on those pages? A wiki of wikis?
I think those are usually an opposite example? There are a lot of unusual solutions in those areas that people ended up doing for absolutely no reason, simply because they didn't know better.
It’s amazing how much the Central Valley and such pull down the median in CA. I’d be interested in seeing some kind of map of downpayment vs population density to see how the down payment sizes in populous cities in otherwise sparsely populated states compare.
Where I live in Australia, small developers would be the biggest opponents of things that limit their opportunities to subdivide and build more densely - parking minimums, setbacks, frontage minimums, shadowing, sight-lines and so on. (I don't know what "offset" is in US real estate lingo.)

The limitations are largely NIMBYism. There's a block of six units in my short one-block street of otherwise detached single-family dwellings, and the elderly neighbours here talk about how they wished they'd objected to its building decades ago because it changed the character of the street.

It's all tension between "what is best for me and the street as it was when I bought into it" and "what is best for us all collectively". Building here is slightly outpacing population, but it is too financially attractive to buy second and third properties as investments, and it is politically risky to tackle that.
I have been investigating nutrition "science" for the past 4 y now, thanks to COVID, and to call it a mess is an understatement. There is still a LOT of unknown, and so many noise in the literature because of bad statistical methodologies, it gets frustrating to form any kind of consensus on big topics. Not to mention how politics have even shaped the modern discourse on everything including diet science (vegan vs vegetarian vs keto vs (un)saturated fat vs lectin vs carbs vs cholesterol). I know these are not necessary directly related, but the amount of conflicting research and the lack of transparency for certain political agendas always make it look shady and hard to trust the literature.
> We are far better off for the combine harvester freeing us from harvesting wheat by hand. We are far better off for the sewing machine.

Who's "we"? It's not like the people who aren't working with a scythe have moved up to be un-employed computer programmers, they're just picking fruit now.

People who were sewing by hand as a professional don't generally get the afternoon off now to chill with their homies, they just use the sewing machine all damn day.

The only "we" who is better off are consumers and business operators, because they pay less or nothing for that labour. Nobody is talking about the comfy lives of fast fashion makers or the people who assemble our $7000 MacBook pros.
For all the brilliance in the AI and infra departments of OpenAI, their official Python library (which is the flagship one as I understand) feels pretty unidiomatic, designed without much thought for common patterns in the language.

2012 JavaScript called, it wants its callbacks wrapped in objects back. Why do we have a context manager named "stream" for which you call `.until_done()`? This could've been an iterator, or better - an asynchronous iterator, since this is streaming over the network. We could be destructing instances of named tuples with pattern matching, or even just doing `"".join(delta.text for delta in prompt (...)`. But no here subclass this instead, tells me the wrapper around a web API.
Another valid response if you think it is an XY problem is to ask for more information. Or even do all three: "Here's how you do X. But if you really need Y, then you should do Z instead. What are you actually trying to do here?"

> Also, if somebody can answer Y, but not X, are they really qualified enough to answer the question?

Maybe. It could be that there just isn't an answer to X. Or the answer is "you can't", so the author tries to give an answer that is more helpful, in case the asker actually wants Y (it would probably be good to explicitly explain that though). Or maybe there are multiple ways of interpreting X, and the answer interpreted it a different way than you expected.
Yes, we could all sleep in tents and live off the land if we truly wanted to. What a great point.

Tell me where I could move where housing hasn't doubled in price in the last 5 years AND has employment for a family.
We eat garbage, carry a phone all day, stare at millions of micro led lights all day
Robust Contract Evolution in a TypeSafe MicroServices Architecture
We should ban it here too but they have too much money for that to happen unfortunately.
Ideas for why someone flagged this submission. We are left to guess.

EFF seems to be invoking "either-or" argument to deflect attention away from their failire to present any facts to support their position that a ban would be unconstitutional. A ban on TikTok and passage of data privacy regulation within the US are not mutually exclusive. It is not an "either-or" proposition.

The bipartisan response to this bill, 352 yea and only 65 nay, seems quite unusual in recent times.
I used to believe this. And I still prefer density and think that urban sprawl is bad for mental health, finances and the environment.

However I no longer believe it's the cause of the housing crisis. Perhaps it contributes in Europe but here in North America there is space to build and building materials only make up a small portion of the cost of housing. So I don't believe we can point to single family homes as a cause for the housing crisis or price inflation.

However that said, although it is not behind housing inflation, it does still have negative impacts on quality of life and the environment and I do hope we move towards samer urban planning models incorporating density, public transportation and walkability.