skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I use https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

If you need a little more control or automation, it can also generate scripts for cURL or PowerShell (and others) directly from the request. Organization is on you, but I prefer that over a heavyweight and opinionated tool like Postman.

The .http files can also be used in Jetbrains Rider (probably their other suites as well)
The big news in credit card rewards (that I was hoping this article would address) is that Robinhood just announced a 3% flat cash back card, highest I've ever seen, where the only catch is that the money is deposited into your Robinhood account.

At 3% they are clearly losing tons of money on every transaction. There is an annual fee but it is only $60. The money can be withdrawn from Robinhood as soon as it is deposited. How can they possibly afford this? What are people doing with their money in Robinhood that they are willing to pay people over 1% (I'm assuming) just to deposit money there in a roundabout way?
The entire project should be outsourced to a Japanese contractor. We're going to end up with a 10year $14bn bridge to nowhere, much like HSR in California.
The risk I took was calculated,

but man, am I bad at math.
There is a reason every concert and sports venue near me has gone cashless. It's not because they enjoy giving away 2-3% of their revenues but rather those places aren't active every evening and tend to turn over employees quickly. Handling cash is expensive and risky in that environment.
Bay Area airports SFO, OAK clash over 'San Francisco' naming rights
US layoffs reach 14-month high amid government, tech cutbacks
I recommended to my friends to buy cheap land in places like Nevada and Arizona, because it will possibly skyrocket in value due to Terraform:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJKh-2Q5DRA
Who said anything about a commercial or paid support plan?

The price the corp doesn't want to pay isn't money.

There are no potential edge cases to worry about if you aren't trying to live on renting copies of the same software to many people in the first place. Then you can live it even greater safety with no need to even audit anything.
When it comes to AI image generators and questionable content, I've wondered if AI companies can address the problem by using a pair of AIs. Use one AI to generate the image, then feed that image to another AI with a list of questions, such as "Does this image show nudity?", and "Does this image depict violence?" Just a list of everything the AI provider wants to omit from its output. If the answer to any is Yes, discard the image and try again (or just refuse to furnish any image).
I’m potentially interested in a cofounder for my DB. Can you ping me on gmail to connect (username in profile)?
Sky diving is dangerous, but not that dangerous. A single jump is less dangerous than bunion removal surgery. (0.004% chance of death for skydiving and 0.01% for bunion removal) This puts the LD50 of parachute jumps around 1,700 jumps. (Not exactly something I would do for a job but would try once without worrying too much.)

However, there is definitely the possibility of death from jumping out of an airplane and I don't think any reasonable person would think there isn't.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859333/#:~:tex....

https://edinburghorthopaedics.org/media/cfikoe2l/bunion-corr...
That still seems high given the industry-wide stats unless they're doing a crazy number of jumps per year

https://www.uspa.org/discover/faqs/safety
Yes. This announcement only applies to four unnamed manufacturers in the US. Here is the original announcement of the phase-out from 2020:

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-anno...
Or that even if it has a charger and it is functional that it won't be already in use or blocked by a regular car. I've had all of those happen before and it really is a crappy idea to rely on chargers in hotels. The only one this has worked at really well was a very posh hotel in Yorkshire that had a valet, I asked if they can charge my car and they did, the car was fully charged the following morning when they brought it out - but that's a place where the entire charging situation is managed by the hotel, so they knew how to do this and I didn't have to worry about it. I guess once you throw enough money at a problem it's "easy".
The arrow of society doesn't just inherently point forwards. The briefest glimpse at history can affirm this clearly enough.

Imagine we all had cameras attached to us streaming every moment of our lives to a server 24/7. You'd have suddenly eliminated nearly all crime outside those of passion, because the chances of being caught would be essentially 100%. Mandate everybody wear full-on biohazard suits outdoors anytime you're in public then you would have effectively eliminated any sort of spread of communicable disease.

These would be amazing achievements, far greater than many of the undesirable solutions might even imagine achieving. Yet paradoxically these actions would also make life far less worth living. Put more succinctly, how do you know we aren't currently going backwards?
All cases might be asking a lot, but more often a good for the public than not is enough. The vast majority of business owners are no worse off for that data being available. It's just another cost of doing business, and a fair one I think.
Megacorps like google shouldn't be able to hide what they do just by creating a LLC under another name.
Have to agree with cess11.

Saying this is is so against guidelines to warrant being flagged is just an ultra pedantic view of the guidelines.

Maybe it is just a problem with different peoples use of language.

"You seem very protective of banks. Have they been particularly nice to you?

"
Cool! If you use and know bash, right now OSH with

shopt -s strict:all

will prevent almost all of the "silent footguns".

On the other hand, YSH has strict:all and then a bunch of NEW features.

There's been good feedback recently, which has led to many concrete changes. So your experience can definitely influence the language! https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Where-To-Send-Feedback
155 mm huh? Did they use NATO standard mortars to make these boreholes :p?
The fastest and safest Database [video]
The World’s Biggest Bounce House to be in Stockton Friday
ML research can be super boring and hard to actually generalize/replicate, but recently became a lucrative field.

All commercial projects eventually become "work" when they are no longer fun, and you wouldn't show up unless paid.

You also can realize your NDA does not expire on some IP you wrote 15 years ago. lol =)
Ahrefs https://ahrefs.com/404

They explain what is a broken link!
In the US the boomers are in for a world of hurt. Senior care is extremely low quality, increasingly scarce, and already unaffordable. The US medical system is completely unprepared for that entire generation to age out. It is already a crisis. At least they can spend down money from their homes to pay for some of it. The subsequent generations probably won't be as lucky.
The difference between this and Hendrix's "kiss this guy" is that you can listen to it and plausibly believe that Hendrix is actually saying "the sky". In the linked track you know the actual words but it still doesn't sound like them.
We'll never know but I guess the friend finds more comfort in blaming the "system" than using it as introspection tool. But maybe they're right, as I said, we'll never know.
"...And then maybe people start working together, and that’s a really nice effect that makes you think 'if we do all work together and all did our share, then it can work, and all it cost is that we grow a little bit slower.'"

Do we have to grow at all? What do other animals do, in the context of a balanced ecosystem? Boom/bust, perhaps- lynx & hare, wolf & moose, hawks & mice, etc; isn't okay that were subject to the same dynamics? I guess we are in an energy boom now.
Huh, the Sisters are into IF and Frotz. I would have expected point & clicks instead, must be hard to type under only UV light.
As an outsider looking in, there is a bizarre combination of advanced safety tech and completely useless standards in motorcycle safety gear. https://m.youtube.com/@FortNine has amazing videos covering all aspects of motorcycles that I have been enjoying as an outsider, including clear information on airbags, helmets, clothing, visibility, and how horrible pickup trucks are. Is it dangerous? More than a car certainly, but with good gear and training, it "appears" you can control for a lot of risks.
Does that still apply in the case of rental car companies that self insure?
You got plenty to learn, but this is a good start. Take it from someone learning.
They should have gone bankrupt 16 years ago ... but they were "too big to fail"
I think this is a surface area/volume problem. A smaller installation is going to have a larger relative surface area given the amount of stored heat, so your losses/insulation requirements are going to be much worse.
It's kind of fascinating to see companies I've interviewed at, where I did well enough in my honest opinion to get something of an offer in yesterday's market where they didn't even went for a better candidate but simply reposted the job the same week.

What is the idea? They just have it up to find that one 0.1% developer that happens to walk through the door?

I can't imagine companies simply want to wait to roll out features they are planning to build in such a dynamic market. Something you think of today is launched by your competitor tomorrow. If you have an unfilled vacancy for two months more stuff will be rolled out two months later.
You might as well post it to the discussion of this article about why you won't find a technical co-founder. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902372>
Deploying software on single machines was too risky, because all of the operations and configurations had to happen in one place, and if that system went down, you'd be offline, so we built specialized hardware and VM platforms to allow each piece of the service to be deployed on a specialized platform that could be run by dedicated experts.

But deploying systems to specialized VMs and load balancers and networking devices had too many disparate pieces and was impossible to unify, and developers didn't want to have to talk to all of those experts to get the configurations they needed, and anyway, resources were wasted on all these specialized pieces of hardware, so the Kubernetes API was created to encapsulate all the pieces into straightforward and consistent APIs any developer could understand that allowed services to be binpacked to achieve maximum efficiency.

But the Kubernetes API was too complicated with so many complicated interrelated concepts in one big monolith of an API, and developers did not want to have to think about how to configure all the individual pieces and dependencies, so people created Helm charts to allow that one dude on the team who understood the infrastructure to hide the complexity.

But Helm charts were too obfuscated, and no one could tell what was going on inside them, and reliability suffered and it became too risky to use black boxes to configure your deployment, so now there's a universal chart that exposes every Kubernetes API option for easy visibility.

But obviously, this new universal chart has far too many options, when all I want to do is deploy my application without having to think about every detail. So I'm looking forward to the upcoming packaging system that wraps this universal chart into something with less visible complexity.
Yep. It was a real slap in the face.
Wow, this is grossss. There's a number of other "omg for real kde?!" moments, but right off the bat:

> A peculiarity of KAuth is that, instead of the native D-Bus data types, only binary blob objects are transferred on D-Bus level, that are based on the QVariantMap data type offered by the Qt framework.

"Peculiarity" is an extremely generous & polite way of putting it. KDE ignores dbus & the actual protocol & uses it/hijacks it as a dumb transport? Anyone getting to talk to kde is going to hate life? I'm shocked kde would do such a dirty thing, would be such a terrible terrible FreeDesktop citizen.

This post is more "kde gore" than galore.
And that is why space exploration is good even at a high price, and space colonization is centuries away, if it is ever realistic.
Maybe it was the one called "The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games". Check timestamp 24:55 (&t=1495s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE
Discord has a hidden snake game if you enter the Konami code: https://discord.com/404
We came a long way from the first synthetic singing voices.

https://simulationcorner.net/SAM/sing.wav

Edit:

https://youtu.be/Rm4ZCGgzeeU?si=upK-qCMev8ZaibIa&t=222
Now you have.

And I don't just mean the one-word example in the sibling comment: I think a complete sentence first, and then generate the words. The part of my mind I could describe as an "inner voice" does not need to turn this thought into words… but (if you will excuse me giving you an anthropomorphic personification of a homunculus) that inner voice gets annoyed if I don't let it "read out" the words of that sentence.
Yeah the way I frame it is that Lisp is about "interior" composition (functions and data), not "exterior" (processes andf iles)

Narrow Waists Can Be Interior or Exterior: PyObject vs. Unix Files

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/narrow-waist.html

However the "exterior" extension seems obvious to me -- why hasn't anyone produced a distributed Lisp?

Well I guess Clojure/EDN is that, but nobody has produced a POLYGLOT system involving distributed Lisp. Common Lisp users probably don't use EDN very much, I gather.

---

I found this POSE exterior s-expression format, but it seems to have little interest from the Lisp community:

https://lobste.rs/s/lwf4jv/pose_portable_s_expressions_pose_...

It seems like JSON will have an "impedance mismatch" with Lisp data structures, but yeah that's the cost of interoperability
Not necessarily, what about hourly workers or those that have to use PTO/sick day? I would consider burning a PTO day to be losing money.
In other words, it's not just as simple as "figure out how to compile things on this system, once, and then reuse that information in the future". Different projects can be compiled with different options, cross-compilation is a thing, etc. As soon as you try to solve this with a simple global `site_config.h` you discover that that doesn't quite work.
https://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html (written by Andrew Eldritch himself, like the whole site!)

Also:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pron surfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious site of 'hot xxx galore',
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
"’Tis not possible!", I muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"

Quoth the server, 404
I'm a Millenial; my partner is on the cusp of Gen X. In terms of fucked generations, I'd argue those born in the early 80s are our currently most fucked (followed shortly by Gen Z). This is the generation that had perfectly-spaced financial crises in the dot-com and then financial crisis that wiped out two decades of aborted starts towards wealth. (In contrast, younger Millenals got the ZIRP era to build wealth and buy assets.)

Gen Z just missed that run-up. (Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of my peers discovered their inner NIMBY the moment they signed their first mortgage cheque.) Alpha will be fine--they'll benefit from boomers unwinding their real estate to pay for senior care. Unfortunately, that's likely to financially impact us Millenial homeowners.
What would be the appeal of this to the customer? It is basically a prisoners dilemma. It is globally optimal to stop rewarding people for using credit cards but for each individual they lose if they don't do it. This is why in the EU regulation was passed to stop this nonsense.
The FIS and many other ski organizations are moving away from flouro wax: https://www.fis-ski.com/cross-country/news/2022-23/fis-to-fu...
Probably not a sympathetic audience here, but if you look back more than the relatively short timeframe of 20 years things are far more cyclical. I grew up with double-digit interest rates, so while everything was cheaper, financing was far more costly. The generation that's now looking to buy a house grew up with a financed lifestyle (via their parents) that was essentially interest free and not sustainable in the long term. I see a lot of people who believe their first home should look a lot like their family home: new, desirable location and affordable. This has never been realistic.
> In most of these computers, BASIC found its way into ROM. Whoever thought of putting BASIC on ROM chips, was a genius

Woz. It was Woz. Pretty much any question of the form "whoever thought of" from this era points through Wozniak's lab.
Where I live, many of the houses were built by the same builder or at least using the same basic plan (I've even seen houses built 20 years later than mine with the same basic layout).

My wife and I purchased in 2015. A short bit after, there was some regret as prices were still falling.

I recently went to pick up my child at a classmate's house. They just purchased last year. I walked in and, sure enough, roughly the same house with minor differences in the layout...except it cost $300,000+ more.

Not sure how my kids are ever going to own a house in the US and I feel like I am locked into this house and mortgage forever.

In retrospect, we purchased near the bottom. Truly some generational "luck".
And it would be best to tell boomers that it's mystical forgotten knowledge from 1912, or earlier
Same. I'm a millennial and 30 years ago I was in elementary school; not exactly looking for a job.

I think this is the first time I get to be like, "kids today don't know how hard we had it", so that's a neat experience I suppose. What I won't say is that I think they've got it any easier; indeed it seems like every generation since X has gotten a worse deal.
I wrote a whole piece on this topic:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/how-about-not-overcoming...

Basically, getting all macho about "overcoming your fear" is BS. If you want to risk your life for the adrenaline high of surviving, go ahead. But don't try to shame anyone for not wanting to.
Ask HN: Alternative to U.S. DHS Daily Digest Bulletin?
I really enjoyed reading the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Daily Digest Bulletin when they were still being written. Has anybody found an alternative resource for this information?
Certainly some of these work fine to run as on-demand programs instead of services for many use cases (e.g. jekyll, rclone). I would say there are a wide variety of use cases that could have some of these running as a service on a laptop or workstation when it happens to be up, but doesn't need to be particularly high availability, too.
That makes sense. What about things like DNS - do you want that bundled with your registrar, or do you want to manage that elsewhere?
Customers are not in a position to judge how much of a threat this might pose to their actual safety.
We rented from a place called SAD CARS in Iceland. The car... worked for our entire trip.
Great response!

I wonder if part of my disagreement is in thinking of GPT4 as a System rather than just as an LLM. If the system has the ability to solve problems in code it feels like intentionally handicapping it by forcing it to solve problems in natural language. So it's not super interesting for me if you say that GPT4 the llm can solve only O(n) problems when GPT4 the system can solve more complex ones. Though I do admit theres an issue where the prompter needs to preemptively identify problems that should be solved in code and that's a significant shortfall.

> the promise of scaling is that eventually big data pays off and the LLM gains some sort of generalizable understanding of the problem. But if the performance varies smoothly and predictably, then that's probably not happening - LLMs never "grok" subjects

Is this any different from humans? Even a Nobel Prize winning Physicist will make some mistakes, does this indicate they don't grok Physics?

>if GPT-3 got a 50% on 3-digit arithmetic because its training data include 30% of all 3-digit arithmetic problems, and GPT-4 got an 80% because its training data includes 50% of all such problems, then that's a vacuous and uninteresting form of scaling

Genuinely curious, is there any indication this is actually what's happening? It seems pretty trivial to generate novel questions in other domains for example and GPT4's performance seems to generalize to those questions. I.e. GPT4 can do well on unreleased GRE problems for example. Or do you think GPT4 is actually just memorizing everything and has 0 ability to generalize?
I'm not convinced. I've seen these ads work on myself- I see an Oreo ad and think, oh an Oreo does sound nice now actually. Or that something is popular and the best: why go to Bush Gardens when we all know that Disney is the Premiere theme park.
I think that's the real loss here. Rental vehicles are a big source of cheap used cars. Having a steady flow of EVs from there would have brought down used prices and made them more financially accessible. Shame we won't see that now, at least in the near future.
> Anno Domini 2024 March 5th

Gregorian Anno Domini 2024 March 5th. :)
I'll be honest: all of this seems just a rationalization to avoid the initiative and to give power needlessly to corporations.

Multiple European Governments have set up Mastodon instances, none of them have required millions of dollars or hundreds of people on payroll. None of social media services are essential to official, institutional communications.

It does not need to be that complicated.
The complex polyploid genome architecture of sugarcane
Ahead of its time. Not a bad call.

In a quasicapitalist utopia, crypto would be a very convenient way to enable the government to set a stock value for a universal cryptocredit and make that credit its default method of value transfer.

They could do something like pin the value to 1 credit = 1 hour of unskilled menial labor, and strictly control the supply.

With appropriate software monitoring and a lack of other methods of direct wealth transfer, it would make it impossible to not properly pay your taxes and vastly more difficult to exchange wealth without government oversight, and make money crimes vastly more difficult, from hiring criminals to do crimes to purchasing drugs and weapons for illicit purposes.

It's the perfect system for a dictatorship as well.
Calling it luck makes it sound like there are uncontrollable forces at work. However, these consequences are entirely downstream of artificial, man-made policies.
That pales in comparison to the charges for lost income they claim they would have received from the car while it was out of service.

90% of their fleet at that location might sit unused for a week or more, and most of their rentals are steeply discounted from the standard rate - but that car you backed into a pole? Why, that one would have been earning them the standard rate, every day.
Privacy policy and terms-of-service links go to not-found. If somebody signs a contract with you (pays you money) who is the other party?
You mean only when employed.
Time is money. Wasting a vacation day hurts too.
Number of job interviews to get into any company (or almost) as an external person... 1.

Sorry something is really fucked up in HR.
Absolutely. If you use points for something you'd pay cash for otherwise, they're typically worth something like 1 to 2 cents per point. But a lot of people (and I've done this myself with upgrades now and then) treat them as more of less "free" money. Presumably the upgrade or whatever has some incremental value but we wouldn't have paid for it out of pocket.
Using the OEIS, you can usually find a reason why every single answer to those IQ questions about what number comes next in the series is correct.