skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one, grandkids. If I live as long as my dad, I’ll have 7 fewer years than he did with me and my wife and son.

My family brings me great joy.
The UK's £100 limit only applies for using the actual card, if using a device to pay it's authenticated with your PIN or biometric and you can pay up to £10,000. If you look on the receipt you can see "cardholder device verified"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence
https://www.icij.org/

This concept has been around for decades now. I think you are talking about something different to what I originally suggested.
Some review from 2007: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/nyregion/12traffic.html

> Census data show that more city residents than suburbanites drive to work in Manhattan every day, according to Mr. Schaller. He estimated that 263,000 people in 19 counties in and around New York City drive regularly to jobs in Manhattan below 60th Street. Of those, 53 percent, or 141,000, live in the five boroughs, Mr. Schaller said. The greatest numbers are from Queens, with 51,300, and Brooklyn, with 33,400. About 23,900 auto commuters live in Manhattan, while 17,400 are from the Bronx and 15,200 from Staten Island. The suburban area with the most auto commuters to Manhattan is Nassau County, with 22,091 people driving to work in the borough, followed by Bergen County, with 19,975.

So 53% from NYC, 10% from Manhattan, 47% from outside the city. Only counting commuting as you note.
This is kind of a tangent, but there are two types of programming that seem like fun little games. On the one hand low-level assembly and on the other hand high-level code that uses logic or type system trickery to prove various correctness or at least some nice properties of the program.

I just hope that someone at some point figures out how to combine these two things, so we can pursue the best possible way of writing a program, and then prove it correct too. This would be a sort-of immortal program that would never need updating. Well, until it becomes obsolete because the world has changed around it.
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Not sure what bubble you're describing, but the sense of community anywhere at any time in human history is ultimately an illusion.

I'm not saying the kids should grow up to be selfish, but that the more they can do for themselves the more they can also do for others. That is a leader. We really don't need another generation of guilt ridden cogs.
Or, they intentionally ignored the intelligence hoping for a casus belli and an excuse to wipe their hated enemies off the map.
Emotional maturity is important, but there's also financial readiness.

People don't have extended families and villages to be nannies-on-demand anymore, so older parents have a lot more financial resources to raise kids and more likely to give the kid a comfortable life.

Especially when housing prices have gone up much faster than salaries in the past 30 years, and that is reflected not only in one's own mortgage/rent but also that you have to indirectly pay the rent increases of every Chipotle worker you interact with.
You're clearly not arguing in good faith when you suggest the only reason people buy an SUV is to feel macho. You know women own them too?
Never once had that in my life.
NJ residents who work in NYC do not pay the city income tax.
I host my phone number at twilio and have built an SMS firewall between my public phone number and my actual SIM number.

Flatten texts to ASCII-256, blacklists/whitelists, priority tagging, SMS cc'd to an email box, multi-number simul-receive, and so on.

Well, you asked ...
That's a fact, but I've never had anyone part out my car while it's parked. It's an equally silly scenario as the (I hope obviously tongue-in-cheek) Charlton Heston-esque scenario I attempted to invoke. The fact is the "theft prevention" excuse to prevent end users from being able to maintain their equipment is utter nonsense.
One smugled magazine in the 90' are now replaced with infinite video of increasing hardcore stuff delivered to the phone in the bedroom.
Pentatonic scale :)
Yes, it’s great. Same shitty service, more cash for the TWU.
And it wasn’t even the most expensive. The Norden Bomb Sight cost slightly more than the Manhattan Project. B-29 development and production cost nearly 3x the cost of the fission bomb.
You still can! (even easier now since it will run on CoreCLR instead)

https://www.nuget.org/packages/GtkSharp
same alabanese who said that usa controlled by jewish lobby, called to demolish state of israel, said that israel has no right to self defense and wrote in report "More broadly, they also indicate that Israel’s actions have been driven by a genocidal logic integral to its settler-colonial project in Palestine, signalling a tragedy foretold.".

one hell of an expert
Israel's military reportedly used Google Photos to identify civilians in Gaza
I mean, they took on massive debt, and advertisers have abandoned ship.

People saying it was going to die weren't saying it just because they thought fewer people were using it.
Do you really think the cockroach feels pain to the same degree we do?
This might help for creating an initial analysis: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/founders

Of 11,162 YC founders who haven't opted out of the directory, the top 9 alma maters account for nearly exactly 20% of founders.

540 - Stanford University
388 - University of California, Berkeley
373 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
193 - University of Waterloo
187 - Harvard University
144 - Carnegie Mellon University
143 - Columbia University
143 - University of Pennsylvania
124 - Cornell University

I don't know what you'd compare this to for "society at large" but of the 500 CEO's in the Fortune 500, the top 9 alma maters account for about 16% of those CEO's.

25 - Harvard University
11 - Stanford University
9 - University of Pennsylvania
7 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 - Cornell University
6 - University of Chicago
6 - Northwestern
6 - Columbia University
6 - Yale
I'd venture to guess that more tech workers lack citizenship than lack the ability to pass a drug screen. More importantly, the problem you describe is problems with the opacity and risk of failure for a clearance: not "fuckin' druggies", which is what I responded to.
Finances and investment... not so much that their corporate HQ is legally in the city of london specifically but the people arranging debt/financing to do big costly telecom projects will be adjacent to the NYC and/or London financial markets. Same reason why a lot of submarine telecom projects are closely linked to things in London. If you need to spend a ridiculous amount of money for something that has a 10, 15+ year ROI you need a massive amount of debt and that money can only come from a few sources in the English-speaking world.
If anything, the numbers in the article undersell the scale of waste.

Our Middle East clusterfuck has cost us at least 8 trillion dollars since 2003.

Enough to convert the entire US to clean energy, feed every hungry person on the planet, and house every homeless American. With change.

Instead it was spent on murdering millions, displacing tens of millions, and riddling generations of children with cancer and birth defects (again).

It's so, so far beyond evil and stupid that even Noam Chomsky says there's no word for it.
> In some jurisdictions, women's prisons have been incarcerating males who say they are women. Some of these males have then subsequently raped, sexually assaulted and even impregnated female inmates who have been forced to cohabit with them.

Do you have any citations? I’d be fascinated to read.
For that matter, a small change in number of siblings makes a much larger change in the number of cousins. That is, if every family has N children, you have N-1 siblings and 2N(N-1) cousins. (Corrected thanks to comment)
You’re being way too charitable. Anthropoic and Google are very close almost equivalent? Spacex is 5-10 yrs ahead of its competition
Thus sparking the engineer’s natural distrust of authority figures.
Ray Peat Diet: What Is It, and Does It Work?
In a perfect world, consumers would not tolerate bad support/service now that anyone (literally anyone) can learn to provide good service with an AI. The bad companies would go out of business, and the few struggling with the consequences of incompetent support would learn that courts now define insufficient support as gross negligence.
Similarly a ton of retailers in the US hated what Apple did. They came in right as EMV was starting to be mandated and contactless was being installed everywhere, even if it often wasn’t on or working.

The banks and retailers all try to make their own thing that they work that way. CurrenC was one, it failed horribly and relied on people taking pictures of QR codes to transfer debit payments, thus avoiding card fees.

ApplePay can do debit also. But they didn’t push that. More “we don’t control it so it’s bad” nonsense.
Sam Bankman-Fried is about to learn how much prison time he gets for FTX crimes
I'm getting really tired of writers crapping on 'AI' as if a static self-sufficient offering.

Like no, the AI doesn't know everything other than what the terrorist is thinking. It summarizes what it's being fed.

If a chatbot was being fed reports concerned about border activities then it's going to raise concern about border activities.

This is an unnecessary and misleading angle to the article jumping on a bandwagon.

The failure here is a broader failure of human intelligence across Western intelligence services in favor of contracts with third party defense contractors. There's a story for that.

For "AI not knowing the terrorist mind" not much of a story.
No, there shouldn't be a congestion fee
Nothing will ever top NROL-39 with the octopus

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=841...

There's a lot of in-jokes and humor in the defense contractor community for team morale building and such. Same idea why challenge coins exist within the relationships between big defense contractors and the DoD agencies that buy services and equipment from them.

The "nothing is beyond our reach" and octopus seems like some sinister and scary thing for a military/intelligence agency to be putting out there in public, but it probably has a more specific meaning within the top secret capabilities of that specific program. I have no idea what it is, could be something like listening to all mobile phone traffic in Waziristan, whatever.
Does skyvern work on top of canvas elements in the browser? For example, is it able to read text from a canvas element and/or identify the location of images in the canvas?

I tried to dig through the github repo to better understand the vision side of things (i.e. how does it work when elements like buttons, divs aren't present), but I couldn't find anything. If you point me to the right place in the github repo, happy to dig further myself!
That or earlier Apple OSes that also targeted black and white screens.
The Onions become so lame I’m just gonna start collecting headlines like this
I've seen something similar recently online, someone talking about wanting to visit a certain adjacent middle eastern country for a holiday, one with a fairly notorious public image in other regards. I'm assuming the advertising those countries are pushing play a big part in the mind share of people.
Indeed, with all the taxes it is no longer affordable.
Skype, Booking.com, SoundCloud, SAP, Autodesk, Nokia in the past :)
> How long exactly is uncertain but likely thousands of years to tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.

I don't know where you're getting this from. Everything I've read was that the large dinosaurs were killed off due to the effects of reduced sunlight in a few years. Here is an article that says it took 15 years: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-asteroid-year-winter-dinosaurs...
I consider double-dashes to be a mistake. hell, after a few drinks and quiet thought I consider single dashes to be a mistake. Perhaps the dd arg=val form is actually the ideal argv method after all. What if getopt was all a huge mistake. And then I sober up and realize they are just dashes, useless but harmless, not a thing worth worrying about.

And then you have the absolutely inane doubledash --arg=value format. Way to carry a bad idea to it's logical conclusion guys. somebody drunk their getopt kool-aid that morning. just get rid of the stupid dashes if you are going to do that.
Taxing drivers is not improving public transit.
I thought you'd build a sphere or swarm at a radius from the sun that got enough solar radiation to be at a comfortable temperature. Then you'd live on the inside surface.
Because it is nonsense.

The Reddit post cuts off the next line that says “for purposes of providing the Services to you.”

Basically they can use your data to sell services to you. For example this is what CDNs do, they sell you access to your own data just closer to your users.
Earth's rotation speeding up, possible negative leap second in 2029
Oh, you're right. I was thinking about it from the perspective of a passenger, like if you're just a regular non-crew person who travels, then you're probably on Boeing or Airbus, so I picked a metric that I thought would capture that angle, but it's a weird one to choose.

Like, you take up a seat, so if you were to randomly select a mile that you've traveled in your life, what are the odds that it was on a Boeing / Airbus or a regional jet? But, I think this wasn't really clear from what I wrote
I am going to be blunt. If CISC is so bad, why did almost all of the RISC chips from the 1980s and 1990s fail? Why aren't we using them today? The closest you will get is ARM chips. If you are going to claim RISC is fundamentally better, why aren't the fastest and most power efficient chips RISC chips? Why are Amazon, Google, and Microsoft buying an enormous number of x64 chips? It's not because they love the architecture. It's because x64 chips are the best in terms of cost, power usage, and performance.

My guess is the most important thing for chip performance is the manufacturing process. After that, it's things like pipelining, branch predictors, super-scaler design, etc. (I am not an expert and this is just a guess). I don't think instruction set really matters that much when chips have billions of transistors.

RISC was a great idea in the 1970s because a more complex instruction set meant fewer transistors for performance improvements. The same was also true in the 1980s. By 1995-1996, the Pentium Pro was the fastest 32-bit chip. At this point, RISC's proponents had to start explaining why a better instruction set did not translate into a faster chip. They never did. Instead, they keep on banging on the "RISC is better" drum without supplying better chips.
Complex human flesh is the point of all this stuff we make and do, maybe we shouldn’t put all that meat out of a job for no good economic reason? Busses, trains, ships, etc don’t need to be automated, one or a few professional humans can operate those cheaper and safer than an advanced AI system.
The nyc subways have a spending problem. if they could build and run it at normal world prices things would be much better.
I use Samsung Pay in Spain. I like it because it's better integrated on my phone and more importantly I don't need a Google account for it. I don't even have one set up on my phone.

Of course Samsung does see my data this way but they have less info to correlate with. Also I don't use many of their services.

I do wish there was a truly open payment solution though that doesn't require me to trust a big tech party.
Just take public transportation like everybody else
NJTransit will benefit by increased ridership

I will benefit personally as a NJTransit bus rider by, I hope, having a shorter bus ride (more time to do work and see family) since I sit in 1-2 hours of commuter car induced traffic several days a week

As an NJ resident, I very much look forward to this congestion pricing and wish it were $50 instead of $15...
In Christmas 2021, as COVID was winding down, we rented a house on the Oregon coast to see my wife’s family. My wife’s grandmother surreptitiously messaged me on Facebook to pick her up from her house so she could see our youngest, her newest great grand. Much to the consternation of my COVID-wary father in law. In her view, the point of living the 87 was to count up the great grandchildren (10 total). She died the next year (not of COVID).

If my kids have kids the same time I did, as do those kids, then within the expected Asian male lifespan I should see at least one and hopefully two great grands.
As two times YC founder, you fit 100% in what YC invests.
Of course they don't. Multiple major crossings from Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx have no tolls into our out of Manhattan. Am I misreading you? Are you only talking about commuters from New Jersey?
I thought that Apple actively avoided GPLv3
The commenter doesn’t drive either.
Not sure why everyone is saying no, the answer is obviously yes. Having infinitely patient and accurate brains that can spin up in a dime will be the greatest economic boon we have ever seen.
I don't think you'll get a whole lot more info other than "this is the mission patch, it's named NROL-70, and it was obviously big and heavy enough to launch on a Delta IV heavy". What the payload is will be totally unknown to people who don't have clearance so there isn't anything for tech journalists/websites/bloggers to write about, other than their own speculation.
In Apple Pay they are sort of static. Not per merchant, but they don’t cycle by default for any reason. I believe there is a button you can press to have the number changed. I think I’ve seen it before but I’ve never used it.

And of course you could always just remove your card and then re-add it. That would give you a new DPAN.
A big difference is that many taxes for using roads are paid regardless of road use, whereas a train ticket is obviously priced for the usage. (Yes, gas tax can indirectly be this, but different vehicles have vastly different fuel economies, and people also buy some amount of gas for non-road use; of course toll roads are by-usage, but most roads are not toll roads.)

> we didn’t pay for the track in most cases

Could you elaborate?

> now they want to add another

There are plenty of existing toll roads, bridges, and tunnels. It’s not really a new idea.
>The idea of networked technology & connected computing was & is so cool. I'm not sure what exactly here offers that though?

It was talking about the features of NeXTMail. It might not be obvious if you weren't using computers at the time, but email in the 1980s was just text. NeXTMail allowed fonts, formatting, pictures, and audio. All normal features of email now, but not then.
Yes, for the same reasons – the desire to feel strong and powerful isn’t exclusive to men! That product class has a higher profit margin so car companies have been running a marketing campaign for decades promoting them as powerful, safe, etc. to get buyers to pay extra.
I once had a local credit union teller accidentally place my cash deposit into another person's account. An hour after deposit, I didn't see my checking account reflect the cash addition, so I checked the deposit receipt and the account number wasn't mine.

When I returned, this teller had already corrected her mistake (but I entered fuming/livid). She is now the branch manager and has been extremely helpful/attentive ever since.
Or, if engineers include an escape device such as a fold-out ladder in the mechanical kit that makes the skylights pop-out. Yes, that won't work for many disabilities without assistance, but it could still save many lives, and get them out of the way so those needing walk-off egress can get to the doors.
Australian also. I wish for the opposite, I’d like to be able to reduce the tap-no-pin limit down to $50 or so. I only use the physical card in rare emergencies, and increasing the times I have to enter my PIN by once or twice per year is hardly an inconvenience.
If you stop building anything for long enough you lose the capability to do it. There's reasons why the DoD wants to maintain at least two contractors, so I agree with your point here.

As an example when the UK built the first Astute class submarine about ten years ago they ran into a huge number of delays and technical issues because everyone who had been involved in their previous nuclear submarine construction program in the early to mid 1980s had retired or moved on to new things.
yeah, and he made sure the public thought that the "hacker" that got into his system was a dangerous communist criminal, when it was a fact just a scool kid that even got killed as a result of that whole ordeal.

Mr. Stoll has (or at least had) a weird sense of right and wrong, and if what happened to Karl Koch would happen today, he would surely get canceled into oblivion.

He might have started the actual "cybersecurity" idea, but he did it with methods similar to todays companies that paint security researchers as evil hackers or "the bad guys"

Edit: I just want to add the disclaimer that it's hard to fault him for what he did though, times were different back then, and the cold war was still ongoing... So probably every American would have acted in a similar way
I was told this before the pandemic. The whole pandemic kind of helped me out in that respect (at least so far).

The problem with most office mandates is that they just require a person be in an office, any office. In my experience, this means it is very possible to be in an office with a bunch of people that do completely different jobs, so all day is spent on the phone. If I need to be on the phone all day anyway, I might as well be at home where it’s quiet, so I can hear people, they can hear me, and there aren’t any distractions.

Forcing people to relocate just to sit alone in a cubicle on a phone all day doesn’t improve productivity, it just makes people upset.

I do think meeting people in person has a lot of value, but office mandates aren’t the only way to handle that.
At least a private equity firm keeps to begging and courting HNW folks. The BBC on the other hand sends threatening letters forcing you to cough up for a TV license, even if you don't use your TV for anything except videogames (in spite of what the gummint says in its rulebook).
And it's a Google project, which means as soon as the low-hanging promo fruit is harvested it will immediately go EOL.
I hate Qt, the apps look non-native and don't obey Ubuntu's appearance settings and fonts.
Rails guides facelift, two new official gems and more
It makes a difference for credit card thieves. Not for transaction list privacy.

As long as your bank is involved you’re just going to have to put up with them and trust them.
Really? You did not see that there is a button in the lower right that enables audio? It looks like a loudspeaker, the universal symbol for "audio". Although there's no volume control, so turn down your speakers first (the audio is rather loud)
I think the mission of the BBC is mainly to serve the audience rather than artists. Hence they presumably felt using AI would enable better content, e.g. through cost saving, or faster development cycles.

Artist's rights, livelihoods, and incentives should all be protected. This protection should probably come from good regulation of AI, and not us merely asking or expecting corporations or entities like the BBC to conflict with their primary goals (without government or industry regulation forcing them to comply to a clearly articulated standard).
MMLU is not a good benchmark and needs to stop being used.

I can't find the section, but at the end of one of https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official/videos he runs down a deep dive of the questions and answers in MMLU, and there are so many typos, omissions, and errors in the questions and the answers that it should no longer be used.

This is it, with the corret time offset into the video https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/18i02oe/mmlu_is_not...

The original longer complaint against MMLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVade_8H8mE