skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Amazing to be where thousands of tons of oil had been in living memory.

On chemical tankers each cargo compartment is "thoroughly" cleaned before accepting its next parcel, and after cleaning somebody goes down the hatch into the dark hold with their explosion-proof flashlight all the way to the bottom to walk around and check it out.

Living memory in this case can be hours to days. Year 'round, port after port on a 24/7 basis.

And it can be a couple dozen tanks per ship.

When you go all around the inside, plus see the condition of the piping, deck, offices, mess, and things like that it all adds up to a fine line between vessels ready for the scrap heap versus ones you know are going to have many voyages ahead of them.

For these depreciating assets after they are fully depreciated.
How Alone Are We?
When evidence is needed, "often correct enough" is not sufficient. You need reliable and correct for sure.

I assume you understand how LLMs work? Probabilistic word generation? That can't possibly be used as a source. It literally works by making up things that look probable. It can be used to find a source, but you still need a source.

The LLM might be correct often enough, but you'll only know the LLM is correct in the case at hand by checking at a source…

> If ChatGPT behaves like a roulette to you I'll attribute that to operator error.

I never used it. I know LLMs can be impressive and useful, but sourcing is not among the use cases. The operator should be operating the right tool for the job in the first place.

Shit I say is hopefully correct often enough, but I still can't use myself as a source.
I am glad somebody mentioned "The Teaching Company" and their offerings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teaching_Company

I used to checkout their "The Great Courses" dvds from the local library (in the USA) long time ago. They were a set of presentations each a full lecture length and delivered by respected professors in their fields. No flashy animations/music/narrative distractions but sedate multimedia in support of the lecture. I am not sure how it has changed nowadays but people should definitely check it out; there is a lot of good content there.
Not LGR, but The Retro Shack made a pretty great indepth video about it (and Psion in general):

The PSION Series 5 and 5mx - Let's take a look at how PSION arrived at these little marvels!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IAe2hA760
The answer to both questions is yes.

This gem doesn't aim to reimplement a testing framework. It can also be considered just an assertion. You can use this alongside any testing framework like RSpec, minitest, and etc.
> I think the main reason people get nervous about "the public" roaming their land is the liability and the personal injury lawsuit industry in the USA. If I let someone cross my land and he trips on a tree root and breaks his leg, now I'm possibly facing a lawsuit.

I rather got the impression that it was rich people wanting privacy.

As for lawsuits… I'm not sure how effective they are, but here in Berlin half the woods say "Privatgelände / Benutzung auf eigene Gefahr!" which means what you might guess without a translation.
Rhai – An Embedded Scripting Language
It’s fine to take time to crunch output. What needs to be fast is interaction. If it tells you “Hang on I’m working on it” I don’t think anyone minds that as long as you can leave it to cook while doing something else.
I hope you're right but think about it like this: with a high youth unemployment and supposedly more men than women, they can throw away a couple million people.

Also them being a manufacturing powerhouse, I think they may have enough, even if they're at low point in the economic cycle.

It wouldn't be smart and even the invasion were successful, not sure what they'd gain, besides more hate from all of Southeast Asia and maybe Western sanctions.

I have family in Taiwan and I'm told their military isn't very well funded or equipped.
> Yeah, and I actually think that there can be some value in students being challenged to find some misinformation.

The future generations do not have the same background as we do.
For them it is very difficult to teach what is "misinformation", or have a thinking model like that, unless we make them read proper books and compare the content for the output of the AI.

But if the AI is soon correct enough, they don't get it, and they don't feel it important, and they just take the output from AI as fact.
> The fact that even a regime that was willing to starve and enslave its own people could not make a planned economy work, just shows the futility of the approach.

I disagree with this way of thinking. A willingness to apply lots of cruelty to an attempt doesn’t make up for a lack of skill or capabilities. Cruelty is often a failure-mode, not a recipe for success.
Tufte is famous for his opposition to wasteful use of ink, or "chartjunk"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk

which relates to a strong preference to use whitespace as a tool for visual organization. If you could separate two areas of the plot by drawing a line with them, Tufte would have you use whitespace instead.

Tufte certainly loves complex charts based on complex data, drawn as economically as possible. He'd also recognize that there's a time for a simple chart based on simple data and that such a chart should be as simple as possible: if you want to make a bar chart with Excel with the last 12 quarters of revenue for your business for instance he'd accept that, but insist that you turn off as much chartjunk as you can.
I'll add that as premium feature :)
Show HN: How's the Philadelphia power grid doing? This website will tell you
Author here! I built this website because while PECO does have a very nice outage map (https://secure.peco.com/FaceBook/Pages/outagemap.aspx), I found that when I lost power and was sitting in the dark refreshing that status page that I really only cared about two things:

1) How many customers are affected?

2) And is that number going up or down?

That's it. I don't need a map, tons of assets, or tons of Javascript. So I decided to build this little website as a side project. All HTML and CSS is hand-coded. And with the exception of chart.js, all Javascript is hand coded, with the overall goal of trying to make the website drain cellphone batteries as little as possible.

It was all built out on Serverless, and is my first real project with Serverless! Static assets are stored in S3, served up via CloudFront, backend code is in Lambda, and data is stored in DynamoDB. Unless I get crushed with traffic, I expect this site will cost me less than a dollar per month to run. :-)

Source is at https://github.com/dmuth/is-peco-okay if anyone wants to see my code.
Any insight into why the process is so difficult to spin the companies out?
Thank you. I hope the gem will make your testing life happier!
California Pays Meth Users to Get Sober
It has a small example at the begining. Do you have a longer side-by-side example?
If Israeli courts seriously and in good faith reviews the conduct and find it lawful, then it’s simply a disagreement between two courts.

Does the fact that the ICC disagrees with the Israeli courts mean the ICC is correct?
I'm very into the idea of using AI to change the types of games we make, but I think that "prompting the game to do stuff" is barking up the wrong tree. As the top comment says here, you can develop non-intelligent solutions to do what is going on here in probably the same if not less time. This is more like "end of chain" AI work and doesn't center AI as necessary for the game itself. If anything this is using LLMs as a shortcut for keyboard shortcuts or something, which is fine, and likely necessary work to get to something new and interesting, but already makes the category error at the top of constraining what is possible based on the need to fit the LLM into the rules box.
There's some serious cognitive dissonance going on in this section:

As an open-source project, Racket is posi­tioned at a happy medium. The core devel­op­ment team has been working together for years, and the commits remain fast & furious. But they’re friendly scien­tists, not Shire-dwelling egotists, and remain recep­tive to improve­ments across the whole system. If you have a better idea, they’ll listen; if you code it up to their stan­dards and make a pull request, they’ll take it.

[2021 update: I no longer contribute to Racket due to abuse & bullying by the project lead­er­ship. Everyone in the broader Racket commu­nity, however, has always been helpful and kind.]
Who are not the learner which is the context of this particular writeup. Gates is talking about using LLMs to assist students as tutors, and that is not offered for free ($4/month, $44/year).
This is interesting! Sort of a super mixture of experts model. What's the latency penalty paid with your router in the middle?

The pattern I often see is companies prototyping on the most expensive models, then testing smaller/faster/cheaper models to determine what is actually required for production. For which contexts and products do you foresee your approach being superior?

Given you're just passing along inference costs from backend providers and aren't taking margin, what's your long-term plan for profitability?
Can we please not have these trash propaganda stories flooding HN? If I wanted to have propaganda shoved down my throat, I will be browsing reddit.

ChatGpt/OpenAi will not take a conservative slant to an article and certainly not with an egregious prompt like the one provided.
While these are all valid concerns, they also apply to human teachers. Humans spew bullshit all the time.

But that's OK. A teacher's knowledge doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be better than the student's.

If ChatGPT explains Chinese history in a way that is 80% accurate, to a student whose understanding of Chinese history is 10% accurate, the student will walk away with a better understanding of Chinese history.
Are you making a specific distinction between prisons and penitentiaries?
Hey, at least it's not Blockchain!
We have universal (depending on what that means) background checks for everything except private sales currently, you cannot go to a store and buy a gun without submitting one. Private sales are person to person and represent a rounding error in gun sales. Guns are a hot button topic and most people are uninformed so stats like "want universal background checks" doesn't actually amount to anything actionable legislatively because according to most gun owners, we have that, but many that don't own think its the wild west.
I'm not so sure I would bet on it. I think China would rather "reunite" without force, but Xi has put his personal imprimateur on "reunification". Nothing gets people to forget about economic anxiety like a good old-fashioned patriotic war. At this point, I think a lot of it is bluffing- better to have the Americans give up on defending Taiwan without a shot being fired. Better to make the Taiwanese think that "reunification" is inevitable and forget about notions of freedom.
The average person has a higher standard of living and more wealth than ever before. Suicide rates are not at all-time highs, they were much higher during the World Wars and Great Depression. Drug abuse is down too, but newer drugs are more potent. Mental illness is a hard stat to compare over time since it is very sensitive to the collection mechanisms. The growth of carbon-free technologies has been exponential over the last few decades. Open(source?) AI models trail the leading closed models by 6-12 months, it's hard to say they are only in the hands of the most powerful. The world is better than ever before, but it could be even better. The internet is filled with too many doomerist takes.
A community in North Charleston, SC named Horizon Village.

North Charleston (in general) is considered an unsafe area, but this community was built to battle the stigma against Section 8 housing that is very prevalent in the Charleston area. After I moved out they've continued to build out more privately-owned homes in the community. Back in 2018 rents were around $1,200 for a 3bd, but the privately-owned homes are now renting for over $3k for 3bd, and starting around $400k for sale. While the Section 8 housing is still operating as it normally does for the area with reduced costs.

It's helped to revitalize the area (take a look at Park Circle just north of the community), while ensuring that further gentrification and displacement doesn't occur like it did in the downtown Charleston Westside neighborhood.
Not sure how much other languages developed in 22 years since this essay, but PG makes the case for lisp here: https://paulgraham.com/icad.html

Computerphile riffs on the importance of homoiconicity and the ability for a language to programatically alter itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-y3vNDRWk

Uncle bob had tried many languages and settled on lisp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBXXw2JSloo&t=2m40s

> for 30 years I thought I don't want to learn lisp, it's a dumb language, and I read (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) and it changed my mind... I thought I'm going to get (clojure) and dither around with it.. and I just fell in love with the language and I've been using it ever since
> There is no "true first owner".

I did not claim there was a "true first owner".

I said that there was ownership by the common people.
Visualizing the Customer Experience
> will we eventually get into a situation where a swab on the water glass tells potential employer much more than the interview?

So GATTACA (1997), a recommended movie treating the genetic discrimination, genoism, as main plot.

I don't think we will live to see it technologically speaking, but eventually our descendants may live through such hell of statistical speculation.
The grandparent is describing someone with murderous motive. That isn't a cultural difference. There are murderers in Finland, lol.

A bear trap "for hunting" on your property would be a very bad alibi as booby trapping your property is extremely illegal in the US regardless as to intent. If you set something up on your property that harms someone, intentionally or otherwise, whether they are legally allowed to be on your property or not in the US, you are liable for whatever happens to them up to and including homicide (intentional or otherwise) charges.

Bear traps are an archaic hunting tool for bears, also, and their use in actual bear hunting is not common anymore.

So please, keep your condemnations about Americans "actively seeking ways to injure wildlife and people" to yourself when you are responding to a ridiculous, contrived, and uninformed scenario with your own cultural superiority narrative.
Uh, weather is not predictable, which explains SFTW. The article talks about emissions but not about cost savings, which I think bears mention.
I've driven my car like this on occasion, preserving fuel by timing the traffic signals ahead and arriving just in time for the signal to turn green. The problem is, people behind me don't understand and get all pissed off. Most people prefer to arrive at the light when it turns red, to buy high & sell low, etc. We love doing everything in the most inefficient way possible. I imagine sea captains won't like the plan much either, for similar reasons.
Thinking critically about GenAI in gamedev (and what it's good for)
looks like it's a firefox (mac, v127) thing. i just tested in chrome and didn't get any issues.
I agree with all that, and that's why I think we should still keep using traditional books for the foreseeable future. I think that AI can be a terrific supplement, particularly if the students are told to challenge it a bit.

I think that just like human teachers, it'll be impossible to completely solve the misinformation problem, but I do think it'll get asymptotically close to being solved.
I always thought it tough to really learn math without doing exercise to really understand how things work.
They are probably thinking of attractive nuisance lawsuits. For example, if you have a pool without a fence around it and a neighbor's kid trespasses and ends up falling into the pool, you could be found liable to some degree.
We do actually understand generally well enough what is happening. Attention isn’t some mysterious unexplained mechanism. We know how it works and why. When people describe these models as a black box, they typically mean that there are too many layers and weights to explain to you exactly why it chose, for example, a specific sequence of words. But we can certainly explain exactly why it would chose some sequence, and why that sequence would be expected to be relevant.

Simplifying a bit, but attention provides a way for the model to build context on one word based on how often it is seen with others. It doesn’t have a concept of correct or incorrect. It doesn’t have a concept of reasoning.

What is impressive is that even without these concepts of correctness and reasoning, the model can still perform quite well on tasks where correctness and reasoning would be expected. But this is more a statement on the corpus of knowledge and the power of language in general than it is on the models capabilities itself. It’s important not to confuse the ability to seem correct and seem well reasoned with any actual mechanism to do so.
My podcast downloader is always on an IP from another country, I don't mind the ads nearly as much when I can't understand a word they're saying!
> before spending money

The website charges $9.99 and is not clear about the cost until the very last step.
If what you say is true then that increases the chance of war soon, it doesn't decrease it.

AFAICT, the Chinese administration believes it must reunify Taiwan; they've backed themselves into a corner with their rhetoric. They haven't because they believe it's better to wait because the chances of it happening militarily or peacefully are greater in the future than they are now.

But if it's going to be harder in the future, they must invade now.

Luckily I don't believe your argument holds.

Taiwan's birth rate is roughly similar to China's, so it doesn't really affect their relative positions.

China's debt is 85% sovereign so it's not a forcing factor either.
Menial, repetitive tasks and related chores like cleaning become more bearable if you don't smoke yourself stupid.
Do Not Mess with Scarlett Johansson
I've done exactly what you describe (drive in, camp, leave without breaking the law) in the White Mountains in NH[0].

In general, dispersed camping[1] is legal in almost all national forest and BLM land. I think many people don't realize this but you can camp for free almost anywhere in a national forest (keeping certain distances from trails, roads and bodies of water)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Mountains_(New_England)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersed_camping
Just to codify this with some examples: Here’s some recent examples of what I consider “clever” that I’ve had to work with from previous people and that I’ve written myself:

Someone who loved Lisp wrote a bunch of the unit test suites where I work using Python in a very clever metaprogramming way. They would dynamically generate and attach functions to a test object for testing REST requests. This is both

1. Difficult to read and understand

2. Much more difficult to test the behavior of

All to save probably maybe 100 lines of code. This is an example where I feel like code is too clever for its own good without having a good reason to be like that. It also flies in the face of what you would conventionally expect when it comes to Python unit test suites.

One example where sometimes it’s necessary to be clever: I did a db migration in about 100 lines of Python/SQL that worked fine at small scale using Alembic/Python/SQL and was a straightforward update with CTE. When tested on large production grade dataset however it completely fell apart. Some clever hacks with batching and temp table later and I have something runnable, but now it’s all in sql and while well commented is much harder to grok what’s going on at first glance.
As a matter of principle, what gives you the right to own a part of the Earth? Who did you buy it from and who did they buy it from?
I don't buy it. Rust has a really good track record on attracting more people to read and modify the code, which isn't what you want if you're hiding backdoors in the code.

In decades of writing C (sometimes as a hobby, often for a lot of money) I'd guess I thought "These errors when I wrote bugs in my program are crap, somebody should fix it" maybe once per month on average. But a C compiler is very intimidating code, subtle and hard to even build from scratch let alone contribute to, so I never attempted to make such changes.

In only a few years of writing Rust (none of that paid) exactly twice I've thought "Man this compiler error diagnostic isn't very good, somebody should fix it". The first time I asked on Reddit, and I was informed that I wasn't the first to notice, the fixed diagnostic was in nightly Rust already. The second time I found the diagnostic and I just fixed it, compiled first time, wrote a new unit test, checked that passed, wrote a pull request. Landed it. Then I wrote a HN comment, a reader found a bug in my diagnostic, so I fixed the original code, and wrote a new PR which also landed. If Rust has told you that instead of 'X' when you needed a byte, you should write b'X' because just 'X' is a char not a byte - that's me, that's my small fix. [Before the fix 'X' wasn't legal here, of course, but the diagnostic wouldn't suggest what to write instead]
Hunting is highly regulated these days. For one, I'm not aware of anywhere that allows the trapping of bear anymore. If you're trapping, you can't just put out traps and leave them. Most places require you to check them every 24 hours.

EDIT: apparently, Maine is the one state that allows trapping bears
In this situation you're the sea captain, and there's no one behind you getting pissed off. If they're properly incentivised, as the article mentions, I don't see why they couldn't come round to it
Right? Every player comes with those "skip forward 30s" buttons, and surely the creators and advertisers are aware that many folks tap that button anyway.
He comes from a rich caste family, which is on the opposite side in regards to "introspection and external perception".

Indian society is unlike any other and cannot be simplified, even within the individual castes.

Of course I do not know this individual and their mindset concerning "motivations", but I find it very unlikely that these "mistakes" are due to entrenched group morays shared among poor/dalit castes.
Looking at the chart, it appears they’ve narrowed it down to absolutely anything.
But that doesn't answer my question, as it appears there is no metric equivalent. I'm just highlighting how ridiculous the GP comment is, to conclude that using an analogy of a horse and a 25-cent coin has anything to do with metric measurement.
So, to clarify, your answer seems to be "No. I do not have a single real life example of this happening"?
I regret to inform you that you are correct.
Given the obvious cost savings that come with reduced fuel usage, I find it hard to believe there isn't a very good reason the shipping companies don't do this already.
My students LOVED IXL. I couldn't believe when I found out the kids kept using IXL after school and on weekends to compete with each other.
History of Tetris Competitive Scoring
Did a lot of kids die in pools before that law was introduced?

NB I'm in Scotland so outside pools aren't a big risk but I also grew up in a small fishing village on a very wild and rocky coast with high cliffs and the idea of anyone trying to "protect" kids in that kind of environment seems very odd to me.
Show HN: URL shortener that generates live previews for social media
It was a joke. Lighten up.
"Designed to Crash" reminded me of this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...