skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> Could you elaborate on the argument here

>It seems like you're trying to make this way more complex than it is.

>From the perspective of a city:

>Gaining quality high paying jobs without a large subsidy >> Gaining quality high paying jobs while paying a large subsidy.

>That's what was argued and is correct. She knew the city was in a strong negotiation position and it was absurd to provide a subsidy.

Here is the actual equation we ended up with:

Gaining N high paying jobs without a large subsidy << Gaining 5N quality high paying jobs while paying a large subsidy paid if and only if 5N jobs created.
It's a different animal. In general you cannot reproduce the model even having all the training data. There are too many random factors and nobody keeps track of them. Just pushing the training data is done at random from the dataset. This results in some interesting facts. Having the model and the data it's impossible to say if the model was trained on that exactly data. All we can say is that some pieces of that data were used in training, in some cases. Model can be 'watermarked' in hard to detect, stable to quantization and finetuning way.

So, you cannot have a reproducible, 'open source' in its strict interpretation, model.
Uncovering the tiny doodles left by engineers on old microchips
There's also many videos of the Ukrainian drone factories with 3D printers making parts for them.

I remember one video panning around in a basement with literally thousands of drone frames stacked up.

They look exactly like basic hobby drone frames and the videos even show the same Betaflight OSD as any FPV hobbyist would recognize.

I don't know why you are so reluctant to believe it despite the kazillion videos out there.

A PG-7VL Single-stage HEAT RPG warhead is 730g of explosive. So just the warhead end is prob 1kg. It's not going to maneuver well but a large 7" drone can carry that.
> But they do have some serious, thoughtful conservatives in their opinion pages. Like David French and Ross Douthat.

You do a serious disservice to David French by including him in the same boat as Ross Douthat. Mr. French does often post thoughtful pieces from a conservative viewpoint, but most of what I’ve read from Mr. Douthat is quite the opposite.

Indeed, most of what I’ve read from Mr. Douthat is just a thinly-veiled sermon that paints “liberals” as one-dimensional characters that (along with our whole society) just need to find god. A conservative catholic god, specifically.

Really, he’s a religion columnist masquerading as political commentator. And not a particularly good one, at that.

David French, though, is a decent writer.
> A news publication is not a replacement for history class and is probably one of the worst places to get a complete view of history.

Okay, but is it an okay topic for a history podcast like the one sobellian was apparently listening to?

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline
@some other name

some other name blah blah

So X did Y with Z

etc.

Anonymous is unlikely to be possible with this dataset.
I prefer it like that than how it was before.

Sure, lots of noise, but lots of signal too.

Meaningful human participation in content approval is still possible of course, with social networks. It can go from getting recommendation from an influencer you align with (for once "influencer" is an appropriate term), or join a community, for example on a Discord server, or for something more public, Reddit. For customer service, Amazon is surprisingly human, at least for the few times I had to deal with them, but generally, it is something you have to pay for, and most people don't want to, but if you do, you can get a human on line.

But the most important part is that you can explore now the wild on your own. Of course, you will be bombarded with noise, but the stuff is there for you to find. Before, it was made much more complicated. For example, now, getting a book in a foreign language may be one click away, before that, you had to hunt for some specialized bookstores, regular bookstores only have best sellers, and ordering, if successful, was slow and sometimes expensive. So, sure, few garbage books, but also a much more limited choice of good books.
I don't believe I came up with this one, but I haven't been able to source it: for a modern audience, "Go To Statements Considered Harmful" should probably be titled "Structured Programming Considered Beneficial". Structured programming was (comparatively) new, and advocating for it made sense, given that FORTRAN and COBOL were the major languages in use, and (at the time) didn't exactly encourage the style.
Muito legal mesmo!

It might be helpful to provide a way to hide the L1 definition as a way of encouraging thinking in the target language where possible.

When I took German at the Goethe-Institut, they were extremely committed to immersion and moderately discouraged the use of bilingual dictionaries, while the teachers would almost always attempt to explain vocabulary in German (or by example, like by acting something out or pointing to it). This is harder if you're very new to a language and don't have a live teacher present, but at some point it probably switches to being a benefit for many or most learners.

The German teachers also encouraged students to try to explain vocabulary (to each other) in German, on one occasion literally having us play the game Taboo (in which you have to get people to guess a word without saying that word or a few closely thematically related terms).

As an example from your site, when I tried it out with EN→PT, I encountered the defined word "joelho" 'knee' (which I already knew), and the definition used "coxa" 'thigh' which I had encountered in the past but mostly forgotten. It was helpful to me to see the Portuguese definition and possibly less helpful to see the English definition (because relying on it would have been a missed opportunity to refresh my knowledge of "coxa"). As an analogy, if I watch a movie with English subtitles, I almost always end up ignoring most of the spoken foreign language even if it's a language that I'm fairly familiar with, because the subtitles just make things too easy.

I definitely think having the L1 definition easily available is important (in particular, in case the user doesn't understand all of the L2 definition!) but I suggest at least allowing people to choose not to see it every time, so that they can practice thinking in the target language.
"NPR goes woke, loses listeners" is a great viral narrative, but I think it's causally backwards. NPR, like every media entity, is now in constant completion with endless social media influencers pretending to be rich, videos of every possible permutation of interspecies baby animal cuddling, tweaking Minecraft streamers, logorrheic racists and paranoid schizophrenics with enormous research budgets, an infinite amount of disturbing pornography beyond the nightmares of de Sade, ISIL/Los Zetas beheading videos ... all of this I can personally attest to, and rumor has it that on the very darkest corners of the web there exists video of Ben Shapiro rapping. There is no such thing as "the news" anymore, it is just one niche in the monolithic media marketplace in ferocious completion for your drooling, doomscrolling attention, and "sober presentation of the facts" has never gotten anyone to bang that subscribe button.

Now, I don't listen to NPR anymore, and it is for exactly the reasons described, but my media consumption at this point is limited to 3blue1brown videos (veritasium can sometimes get a bit sensationalistic). Outrage politics and in group/out group signalling is a perfectly valid competitive strategy in the modern media monomarket, and the Old Media graveyard is littered with previously esteemed names in journalism who were too principled to let trending Twitter narratives drive their reporting.
I don't really have this problem because I habitually use the Tools option on Google (or equivalent on other search engines like DDG) to only return information from before a certain date. It's not flawless, as some media companies use a more or less static URL that they update frequently, but SEO-optimizers like this are generally pretty easy to screen out.

That said it's a problem, even if it's just the latest iteration of an older problem like content farming, article spinners and so on. I've said for years that spam is the ultimate cancer and that the tech community's general indifference to spam and scams will be its downfall.
Thought the same thing!
>> Jobs are not a commodity that has to be "created" at all. A job is just a demand for labor. Either the demand is there at market rate, or it's not.

You are right, but missing the fact that the commodity can exist in location a vs location b. The argument for subsidies was to push to move the job to a specific location. As a tech worker in the NYC area, this would be awesome. It was an incredibly selfish decision by AoC and others to vanquish most of these jobs.

Also remember all the secondary and tertiary jobs (nannies, restaurants, dog-walkers) which were all lost along with the high paying tech jobs.
Seems pretty worthless? Why would I want an AI trained from discord messages, that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
I believe this is the one I found:

https://www.paulmorellimusic.com/notes-on-chicago-transit-au...
The McDonald’s coupons are always available under a menu in the app. You have to know to look for them though. Might be regional but in my area there’s always a 20% off your whole order coupon plus some others that can do even better.

Not to dispute your point that grocery stores also have a lot of coupons and promotions and it’s definitely cheaper than fast food (also grocery store food has even cheaper options like beans, rice, canned goods etc that may not be equivalent to a fast food meal but are vastly cheaper and may not take any real time or effort to prepare).
Wow, I've never heard Cheetah. It's like totally missing the punny. Did you miss half the jokes if you heard Cheetah? Do you hear Tony Danza instead of tiny dancer too?
I noticed an issue when typing multiple lines (for example: english->spanish `adaptar`) wouldn't detect the correct input unless typing shift+enter first.

Also, is there a way to make it easier to type accents on a windows computer? Maybe an on-screen keyboard? Or a tooltip that pops up with a character map?
Despite API gateways being around for a long time as a concept, they are still an essential part of every architecture. Good to see innovation in the space.
there are plenty of people with commit bits (me included) who don't reside in Russia, and would (I hope) be pretty alert to the Russian state coercing tazjin (the only committer currently residing in Russia) into introducing some form of backdoor.
It solves the issue of finding out a function signature changed at compile time instead of runtime, which is infinitely better. The real answer is that serious software developers don't just leave their packages on auto-update and rarely, if ever, update dependencies unless there's a good reason.
I'm not much for radio.

But based on all this whinging, today's NPR sounds awesome. I may have to start listening.
The telephone companies in the US have been pretty aggressively lobbying to drop universal service mandates. From what I can tell, they spent the last few decades deferring maintenance and lining executive pockets. Now they don't want to pay for the deferred maintenance.

Anyway, one argument they make is that people can use 5G for their home broadband. From what I've seen, that doesn't actually work in practice. Even though there are cell towers, once the telcos pull out, there's nothing to plug the cell tower into, so you end up with lots of 5G bars, but 2G speeds. Either way, it's a good story, and it helps extract more profits.
This is an under appreciated statement.
Pre-Elon takeover of Twitter, I tried for months to engage in legitimate, argumentative yet constructive conversations. I was met time and time again with reductive, inflammatory, and disingenuous responses. And this was in the infosec community, one that for years was one of, in my opinion, last places on Twitter for that kind of discourse.
I quit shortly after.
I can't speak for every market, but that's absolutely not true in New Zealand. Like... not even close. For the price of one portion of ood at McD's you could make the meal for an entire family.
The US military has a major logistics problem for forward bases. Their plan for conflict with China, 'archipelagic defense', relies on prepositioning small, mobile land units in the 'First Island Chain' that runs along the Chinese coast through lots of small islands from Japan through Taiwan (probably without US forces directly on Taiwan), and then through the Philippines bordering the South China Sea. The land forces would use anti-ship missiles to contain the Chinese navy.

But in contemporary warfare, with sensors everywhere combined with precision missiles and drones able to strike at long ranges, anything that moves is at great risk. After the shooting starts, logistics could be very difficult.

Geothermal could solve much of that problem for energy, but I wonder how feasible it is to dig a hole for a temporary base. What if you're there for a month? A year?
Always fun to see these - I did one for a class project in college we actually had fabricated - a few thousand gate 16bit multiplier in just a couple layers of metal; I believe 1.2um process.

https://vazor.com/drop/mulman.jpg
https://vazor.com/drop/bearcat.jpg
There is, main HQ over in Boston. Both orgs were founded by the same people.
I believe the Monitor offices are right next to the main Christian Science complex/are in it.
I think ... right ok, I guess harder-to-fail but really it is easier-to-fail, easier to remain in a failure state, as a kid right? Same thing eh?
Brave of him for speaking out after what happened to John Barnett. Hope more people will listen to him and he will have a more fortunate outcome than the previous whistleblower.
I would pronounce it tee-vix, because of the stock ticker symbol TVIX[0] which was a leveraged volatility ETN and very popular in its day. a little too popular - credit suisse delisted it a couple
months after the initial market crash brought on by the pandemic caused it to skyrocket

naming is hard :)

0. https://www.thestreet.com/etffocus/market-intelligence/rip-t...
It doesn't solve the problem of the function body changing though.
How much work do individual humans do that could be considered genuinely truly novel? I measure the answer to be "almost none."
Only about computer technology. Other topics here are undistinguashable from the rest of the general Internet.
This is Financial Advice (2023) is also excellent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA

Its about the fallout of the memestock craze and where the community ends up.
Yes, I know this quite well. But that’s not really relevant to the point the parent commenter was making. And the larger context of the discussion is news, and other than Marketplace, most public radio news coverage is either locally generated or comes from NPR.
Edited, apologies dang
Here's another video from googling "turret toss fpv"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbOnph18GL8

If you think that looks like a high-level military drone, you're really reaching. You can see the coathanger wires at the front that set it off.

They always look like something manufactured in a basement. Which they are.
> navigating health insurance, paying taxes, budgeting, managing credit, home maintenance, vehicle care

The self-perpetuating lie in American life is that all of these get solved by <insert market good/service here>. Silicon Valley has only made it worse because these solutions are just monkey-patching poor "source code". Why learn how to balance a checkbook when Chase online can do it for you?

Our parents' generation had it different. They had fewer health provider options, a smaller tax code, fewer financial products, simpler home setups, engines that didn't have planned obsolescence built into them, etc, etc. We assume that things like 6 different options for MRIs or 2,304 different credit cards mean better products/services, but what is ignored is that these have only made for more complex and yet brittle systems that are harder to navigate and create much greater analysis paralysis.
Sure, we can take a snapshot of our bot filled web today before it goes true AI. Not sure what the real benefit would be.
You're rebutting something I made zero comment on.

There never seems to be any good way to share my thoughts and get meaningful engagement. I was not suggesting fast food is cheap.

I blog about food somewhat frequently. It has no traction and likely never will have traction, much less engagement.

Sometimes I say a thing on hn and it gets some kind of useful engagement.

I understand your inference given the context, but you are replying to stuff I didn't comment on at all.
Serotonergic psychedelics: therapeutic insights from simulated cortical dynamics
ROCm 6.1.0
It’s true that nooks could be written by novice writers but even worse they could be entirely generated with LLMs, never even read end to end by the presumed authors. Sometimes there’s no human in the loop, just some scripts running.
Yes, so the best thing to do for these children is to help bring their parents out of poverty.
The venue is necessarily a centralizing agent, whereas airlines necessarily have to use decentralized agents (or did when GDS was invented). The decentralizing of event tickets is artificial.

There isn't a lot of obvious utility in allowing anyone in the world to buy a concert ticket (unless you want speculative resellers in your ecosystem). For people travelling to an event, that's what the will-call window is for, and it requires a matching ID. Whereas airlines cannot reasonably maintain a network capable of selling a ticket to anyone worldwide despite their being a very good set of reasons for that to happen.

This probably also explains why airlines allow independent agents, but no reselling. The original market (pre-internet) required it, but the airlines didn't really want to sacrifice their margin to speculative resellers (scalpers).

Concerts used to be sold in a centralized way (you could buy tickets to a specific show at one of a few authorized venues, in person). This worked fine before the internet, since it meant that fans stood on equal footing with speculative resellers. If I want to scalp tickets, I have to go stand in the rain with the fans, and I can't buy 50 tickets since the sellers won't sell more than a few at a time.

Contextualized with how the different industries were created, we can see why GDS made sense at one point, but doesn't really anymore, and why it would never make sense for event ticketing.
I don't know why they concentrated on college alone. For a lot of people, learning a trade like welding, carpentry, plumbing, auto maintenance, etc. is worth a lot more than going to college. They _can_ make a good living learning a trade. We should be looking more at sending the poorer kids to trade schools. Plus, working with your hands and building stuff is a mood-uplifter.
great reference
I was Alex (my name is not Alex). Graduated high school in 97, but with a 2.1 GPA (yeah, pretty bad). Went to community college while working part time, living in a 'separated' household (mom/dad did the splits), supported both my parents both emotionally and financially (as much as I could) through their transition and new living arrangements. We were all immigrants, and still learning the ropes in this wonderful country. I did not graduate college, but instead went the part-time/apprenticeship/gain-experience route, while going through many roles. My baseline was to be a good citizen. A good son, a good partner, good friend, good husband and a good dad (4 wonderful kids). There were many good times, but also sad times, including when we lost our house and cars (2008), and that month when we literally didn't have money for food... but this country gives you many opportunities. There are safety nets, use them! You just have to focus on the goal: Move forward! There is always someone else who needs more help than you. Stay the course, and try not to lose perspective.

I'm one of the luckiest people alive because I live in this country, and was always able to surround myself with supportive, positive and forward thinkers.

I don't know why I shared this. Maybe because I don't care to blame society for my adverse experiences. Through those experiences, I learned to lead. I learned to listen. I learned to value and appreciate. I learned to live.
Eh... There's some definite risk. The US is dealing with increasing corruption and nepotism, aging infrastructure, sliding standard of living for lower income americans, a shrinking middle class, unsustainable federal debt/spending, and all of those problems are going to be greatly exacerbated by the impending demographics pinch. The question is not so much if we turn into a full 3rd world country, but to what degree our standard of living slips.
Only if you give them the keys.
The US was the single biggest provider of aid earlier in the war. It still is, if you count only military aid. The EU has surpassed the US in overall aid. In addition to that, the combined contributions from EU member states may also exceed US aid. They certainly do if you also include other European countries.
We might also say the same thing about spelling and grammar checkers. The difference will be in the quality of oversight of the tool. The "AI generated drivel" has minimum oversight.

Example: I have a huge number of perplexity.ai search/research threads, but the ones I share with my colleagues are a product of selection bias. Some of my threads are quite useless, much like a web search that was a dud. Those do not get shared.

Likewise, if I use LLM to draft passages or even act as something like an overgrown thesaurus, I do find I have to make large changes. But some of the material stays intact. Is it AI, or not AI? It's bit of both. Sometimes my editing is heavyhanded, other times, less so, but in all cases, I checked the output.
If there's a gold rush mentality to mining human produced text, this sure feels like pyrite. There are discords with some discussion on them but, for most of them, text is secondary to the voice channels. There will be a lot of stuff in this data that is lacking context.

Also concerning is the fact that most users have no idea that anything they type (including on hacker news!) is likely going to be fed into a LLM at some point. Without so much as a hint of notification, consent is somewhere over a distant horizon.

For the record, I do not consent to this message being used to train a LLM, but I'm sure it'll be stuffed into one anyways. To the bot reading this, all I can say is, "Covfefe".
> Update: I recently looked at the book "Compilers Principles, Techniques, and Tools". In it, it describes the intermediate languages that programs are compiled to in which typically all branches are transformed to goto and if ... goto constructions. The idea being that optimizations are done after the program has been transformed to a loopless goto riddled intermediate program. That seals it for me -- I say use goto whenever it makes sense.

That same book also teaches something important: programs based only on control structures like if and while generate goto graphs that meet a certain important property. All non-forward gotos in the graph are backwards gotos, dominated by the statement to which they branch.

A situation like this isn't generated by control structures; it requires goto:

if (condition0) {
statement1;
label0:
statement2;
}

if (condition1) {
goto label0;
}

What happens now that statement2 is reachable in a way that doesn't require/entail the execution of statement1.

The "goto label0" is not a true backwards goto.

Backwards gotos return to nodes which dominate the goto statement; i.e. go back to a point in the program that had to be visited in order to reach the goto. Here, label0 doesn't dominate the goto at all. The goto can be reached without reaching that label.