skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A car is definitely not easier than a search engine. Also they canceled the car.
>Now explain to me why my german salary paying a german rent benefits private shareholders in NYC ? Rent doubled in ten years...

It's simple supply and demand. Your city doesn't allow building many more units even though demand is high and growing; this greatly increases property values, and creates a potential for big profits for investors. A company of private shareholders in NYC sees this investment opportunity and buys properties up so they can reap the profits. You probably also have some relatively weak tenant legal protections, making it easy to raise rents.

If you don't like it, your city should allow more construction. But western cities don't want to do that, because of NIMBYs, "neighborhood character", shitty zoning laws, etc., so we get what we're seeing here.
Everybody gets a star: Yelp's effect on restaurants and reviews
Thanks for that, that's very interesting. And indeed, has had no reporting whatsoever as far as I can tell.

Do you know if Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ecosia also pay for placement? Since those are the other options Safari provides?

You're right, I shouldn't have said it was false -- I thought I'd followed this subject very closely, and this is definitely not common knowledge at all. I stand corrected, thanks.
Why do introverts think that they should be protected, at all times, from doing something that makes them uncomfortable?
I sure hope you're not going to argue that it has the same artistic merit as literally any song of the same duration with at least one note.
>Krokodile (russian battery-acid-heroin)

I had to look up how it's made after you said that. What I found:

The simple and cheap domestic production process involves boiling 80-400mg of codeine with a diluting agent (mostly paint thinner that may contain lead, zinc or ferrous agents), gasoline, hydrochloric acid, iodine, and red phosphorous (which is scraped from the striking surfaces on matchboxes). In this process, desomorphine is generated from codeine (3-methylmorphine) via two intermediate steps (alpha-chlorocodide and desocodeine). The process takes 10-45 minutes. The final product is a suspension that contains desomorphine as the psychoactive core, along with all other agents involved in the production process.
Codeshares would solve those problems just as well without a separate flight identifier for every airline.

Honestly codeshares suck regardless. If I chose an airline it’s because I did not want to deal with their annoying competitors.
Great stuff, lovely this is open now.
Is that on Linux or windows?
>What line are you drawing between the interest of the lobbyist and that of the corporation? They are one and the same.

Financial incentive, basically. It's a blurry line but there's definitely a difference between a collective group of citizens demanding X law, and a person who's full time job is to coax a politican to make such a decision. Especially with today's workforce, most of us literally don't have time to do that.

It's human nature to bond with someone you spend a lot of time talking to, so it's hard to define that line. But I don't think these "gift" policies are doing much to deter such attempts at neutrality.

>who is at risk of perversions? surely not the lobbyist?

The spirit of the law. The pitch for democracy is 'vote for what matters', but the grease of a few people with enough time on their hands can overwrite that. That should be corrected somehow. I'm not confident it will, but there should be more checks and balances against such workarounds.

>Im also not sure what you mean by forums. The place where the information is collected and sorter is the office and mind of the representative.

You said above earlier that they lack the time and expertise to be that office and mind, right? I'm just proposing a way to be informed without it mostly being influenced by corporations who can afford the time to

The forum is merely an ideal. Something that still happens with town halls, but nowhere near as often as before (at least, not in my region). The rep themself may not have time to do this regularly, but an envoy can help collect such information.

>Are you thinking that representative should all have to go through a 3rd party expert placed between them and their constituents

If they can't physically do it themselves, there should be some alternatives. Not everything needs to be thoroughly fact checked (another ideal but overkill), and some is just opinion. But I'd hope there'd be some experts for stuff like tax reform (things people are biased against) or environment (things people simply may lack technical details for).

And hopefully that economist isn't also biased for corporate tax cuts, nor environmentalist biased to keep petroleum flowing. That's part of why things slowed down.

>Who would pay this expert?

We already do? I'm sure the government has both available, entire administrations dedicated to some (hopefully they aren't shut down).

If they aren't there, it'd be far from the worst use of a contractor/consultant I've seen.

>Is the idea that the expert (who has their own biases) would be be better suited to balance opinions?

Ideally, yes. You can't stop all biases, incompetencies, and corruption. But we can take baby steps.
FDA is regulating patients to death
It is fascinating seeing in the retro games space just how quickly some are dying. The Gamecube/Ps2/Xbox era is starting to fall to it and I have even seen a handful of Xbox 360/Ps3 games with this issue. Many collectors now request photo's of the discs being back lit to check the integrity before purchasing.

And yet there are also a lot of audio CD's from the 80's that are holding on. A big part of it would be the manufacturing quality and how in the name of efficiency and lower prices, some corner may have been cut.
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announces he is joining Anthropic
Yes. You are correct. Patent is providing bad advice about PSA

https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3519

Colo , when appropriate , is good but not as a general interest test:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2529486
i strongly disagree: https://imgur.com/a/oi5Rxz1
Your point stands but there's an argument to be made they paid Mozilla so that they don't collapse and then have to defend a monopoly lawsuit on Chrome.
I dunno. The specific mechanism of a reporter uncovering some bad actions and spreading the word on TV, may not hold up so well.

Corporation creates advertisements with, uh, bad side effects, and their own employee calls them out on it. That seems, pretty modern.

A good chunk of it is horribly dated. but some parts seemed really fresh. I think I rewatched ~ 4 years ago.
Generalny shitty and depends on the line. Their newest Zenbook line had multple non-working components (sound amongst them) for years. And they came with partially broken BIOSes which aren't going to be ever fixed.
Also my OLED screen unglued itself 2 weeks after the warranty ended.
Jake, you don't know me but I want to thank you and Bess for sharing what you've been going through with us on here. It would have been easier not to fight this hard, and not to write all of this, and I appreciate that you did. If you can, and I know maybe you can't, you should write a personal letter to your daughter, to read when she is old enough to understand how much you love her, even though you never met her. Your story makes me want to do the same for my son, even though I am not dying as far as I know. Bess's article "Forever is such a short, long time" deeply affected me, and I will be quoting it directly when I say my wedding vows in a few weeks. Her vision of what love and good relationship means is deeply wise, and you are both lucky to have each other.
I feel like it’s completely understandable. There’s a certain kind of person that thoughtlessly makes comments like this, and it extends beyond just ID’s. You do not want them on your team.

In some instances it’s simply because they are extremely junior and they can be taught, but most instances it’s because they have a habit of shortcuts.

Now that I think of it, this would make a great interview question.
Although C64 and Amiga are not rare by any means (although the Amiga, if you're in the US, wasn't that much of a success in the US compared to the UK/EU), they're highly thought after items. There's no reason to throw them away: just message a forum/board and say "free Commodore in XXX, must come pick them" and some shall gladly give them a second life.
I'd expect Chebyshev polynomials to be much faster and easier to work with than splines, certainly, and probably Fourier series as well. (Especially if there aren't trig instructions in hardware, because then each sine or cosine is itself a chebyshev polynomial to evaluate).
> This reminds me of programming languages designed with an English-like syntax in the hope that people would be able to develop software without learning to code... Neither approach has remained popular into the modern era.

Au Contraire!

MS Office macros continues to use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) which traces its roots to BASIC - one of those "English like syntax" languages. MS Office macros remains one of the most popular languages in the world.
One of the biggest contributors to pollinator decline is loss of habitat for native bees. Most bees are actually solitary (don’t live in hives) and live in little crannies or holes in the ground.

One of the coolest things I’ve come across recently is the idea of “bee homes” that you can put in your garden to provide habitat for bees. I’ve bought a couple beautiful wooden units from Scopa and we just got our first bee resident this week!

https://scopabio.com/
IMHO they should just call it what it is, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galinstan instead of the vague "liquid metal" term, which probably evokes mercury and its negative connotations for a lot of people.

Also, it's slightly odd to see the prominent country of origin markings on the CPU --- I've not seen recent Intels marked in the same way.
Additionally don't plant butterfly bush, it's considered an invasive noxious weed and illegal in a few US states (at least Washington and Oregon, possibly New York). https://invasivespecies.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Bu...
I know I'm just some dude and people on the ground likely have tried all of these ideas, but I guess then I would take the approach that you can use that sort of expensive sensor array on autonomous forward observer drones, which detect and map out jammer locations which can then be targeted with basic artillery. Basic terrain avoidance and autonomous (non-RF dependent) flight algorithms can be implemented on simple $500 drones with IP cameras and rpi onboard computers (I've built some of my own). I would imagine that within an order of magnitude of $500, you could get an autonomous drone with enough payload for any type of sensor array you could want for detecting jammers. The big problem that Ukraine has faced has been jammers operating within FPV ranges, which are typically about half the range of a 155mm artillery shell, so leave the targeting to them.
So if you make your anticompetitive business a tangled hairball then you're immune from being broken up because it would be "too hard"? Genius strategy.
You can argue for its convenience/speed/fun, but fuel efficiency does not look good for GA aircraft. Even for your modern GA aircraft example, it literally comes to 16 mpg. This is as bad as worst of the trucks out there. While it's great if existing use cases of GA aircrafts would become more efficient, adding demand in this area (more hobbyists, more rich people shuttling use, encouraging people to live in very remote areas, etc.) and using it as transportation-mode will unlikely ever become environmentally reasonable.
The eBPF termination checker is buggy anyway; you cannot rely on it.
Lucky you: as I posted a few hours ago... Only about 2/3rd of mine still worked but then they've been stored, for some, in bad conditions. For example some were in an underground garage with lots of cars passage and, after decades, gunk builds up everywhere in the garage.
Amazing read! This article beautifully guides you through each step and make sure you did get enough context for the next step. Bookmarking this!
It was actually my coworker Joshua who first noticed that, and then that dredged up a long-forgotten memory in me of having seen stacker on crates.io. Many eyes make bugs shallow!

Agree about the power of brute force solutions! When you're struggling to get a foothold, those kinds of approaches are extremely helpful. For the cwd thing specifically, it was clear in hindsight, and I should have known about it (having written nextest which has to handle crate cwds carefully). But I don't beat myself up too much over it, and now I know where to look next time this happens.
The thing that got me into CS was building a CPU in Minecraft redstone, which is surprisingly good at being a logic simulator.

You only got (back in my day) NOT (the torch) and OR gates (wiring next to each other), and everything was built out of them. Signal repeaters had delay, the gates had delay, so you naturally had to build a clock to synchronise it all.

The main benefit that I enjoyed was that you could see the signals physically propagating from one end of your cpu to the other in real time (clock cycles were in the range of 1-4 seconds), flowing from the instructing fetching, decoding, dispatch, logic, writing to back memory, etc. Seeing signals slowly crawl from one end to the other naturally introduced you to pipelining (it even happens naturally if you increase the clock without thinking about what will actually happen: the next instruction starts decoding before the previous one is done, more parts of your cpu start lighting up at once, and oops now you have a pipelined cpu).

Even the scales match; many learners are surprised that the actual ALU is the tiny thing in the corner that you can barely see, and all the giant stacks of rows you actually saw is memory and cache. Even in minecraft, most of your CPU is not logic :)

Also really taught me how asics are much faster: you could build a tiny compact multiplier that multiplied hundreds of times faster than your giant cpu running a multiplication algorithm.

Looks like they community I learnt from is still around actually https://openredstone.org/, even if all the old forum posts seems to be gone now. There were some geniuses on that place building computers with multi-tier caches, full pipelining, out-of-order (albeit primitive) execution, SIMD-capable CPUs, all in redstone.
RealNetworks Unveils Its Next Generation (1998)
"With Airhart Assist (that’s what we call our system), you just push a control stick to the right and the flight computers do all those steps to put you into a coordinated level turn."

Somehow I'm reminded of the staggering amount of continuous calculations the onboard computers had to do to keep the F-117 (the aerodynamic equivalent of trying to fly an Egyptian pyramid) from augering in.
The happy side is that the "pollinator garden" is actively encouraged by their city government.
Related

Opening ceremony photo: https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/noartistknown/ceo-rob-...

Conference talks (sadly all dead links): https://web.archive.org/web/19980704234736/http://www11.real...

RNC98 Developer CDs for the older RealSystem 5.0 and the “G2” RealSystem 6.0:

https://archive.org/details/realnetworks-conference-98-reals...

https://archive.org/details/realnetworks-conference-98-devel...

Production Guide: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~dcab/TPG/G2/prodguideg2b1.pdf

Public marketing site: https://web.archive.org/web/19980704230505/http://www4.real....

Installing my own irl boxed copy of RPPlus G2 (6.0) on HITACHI FLORA 270HX NW5: https://i.imgur.com/DdxWKKY.png

RP6 serials are also valid for RP7 and RP8 (didn't try / care about any later version bc I want to keep RealJukebox as a separate application) which is good because the box is just labeled “RealPlayer Plus” with “G2” on a circular sticker and doesn't mention the version number at all lol https://i.imgur.com/uS1v0ao.png

Engage nostalgia mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpEBOun3Ac
Does it have to be fiber optic? Surely the same principle would work with copper wire
> To be clear, I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research at OpenAI. On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area. My decision is a personal one, based on how I want to focus my efforts in the next phase of my career.

...so then why couldn't he do that at OpenAI?

EDIT: The Information reporting that 3 leaders are leaving including Schulman, which raises further questions.
If a program’s behavior is undefined in one specification and defined in a second, then insofar as both specifications apply to it, that is defined behavior, not undefined behavior. That’s not an obscure property of terms of art and specific formal definitions about which I need to be educated, it’s just basic logic about which we obviously agree. The conclusion would be the same if one specification explicitly said “this may return an empty allocation or NULL or format your hard drive” and a second specification said “this will return an empty allocation or NULL”; the conjunction of those two specifications entails that it will not format your hard drive.

There’s nothing wrong or misleading in what I wrote. If, hypothetically, there were a second specification that constrained the Rust compiler’s translation of programs that over-read memory, then it would have been wrong to write that over-reading memory in Rust is undefined behavior, and misleading to suggest that a statement about “any undefined behavior” is applicable to it. But there is no such second specification (as confirmed by comments on the issue I linked from RalfJung, whose formal specification hat is much pointier than either of ours), and you aren’t even disputing that. Instead, you have deliberately misapplied a statement about “any undefined behavior” to other unrelated behavior that is in fact defined, in order to construct a pretense for calling someone else dishonest. Find better hobbies.
Show HN: I made a fun ideas generator to play with my cat
My cat, FatBoy, easily gets bored with a toy or play idea, so I made a generator that randomly shows a fun idea from ~100 ideas.

Remember to play with your cat (if you have one) more often.

First-time poster here. Thanks for reading!
I’m not sure it’s a great idea to name your product/company, who’s goal is to make it easier to fly, an homage to one of the most famous disasters and mysteries in the history of flight.
How many stories have you seen with "I search for X, and all the top results are advertisements"? The latest that I recall that I saw on HN was "Now all results above the fold are ads".

Its not uncommon to search for product X, only to find product Z being ranked above the official store of X. Google search is advertisement first, quality second.

Bing may be equally crappy too. Microsoft "welcome to edge" page is a bunch of advertisement for Microsoft products and then in the corner there is a search window. I have not tested bing itself to see if their flood of advertisements are as bad as google, but I sure do not trust Microsoft. Windows start menu being overloaded with advertisements are a cautionary tale of what happen when Microsoft is copying google.

Normies do not like having advertisement being thrown in their face, but they will tolerate it if they have no choice or if the advertisement is hidden enough that they do not know that what they see is a bought listing.
If you mow your grass and spray herbicides and pesticides and buy non organic food you contribute to their decline.
A road is usable if you build it piecemeal, that's not true of a railway.
These remind me of interaction combinators [1], which are being used in the Bend programming language [1]. I think it'd be good for the standard to also be a valid interaction net.

[1]: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81113716.pdf

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390287
They become legal issues when those cases go to court (which is what frequently occurs)
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
> I'm going to be calling my local government representatives to raise it back up by two with taxes and fees.

Sometimes I think this sort of approach is why so many people on the right are sick of global warming. Sure, global warming is a serious problem, but that doesn't mean that taxing things you don't like is wise, fair, effective, or in any other respect a good idea. If you have a problem with emission of gasses with global warming potential, do that, but please do it across the board.

Let's not specifically tax GA planes, ban gas water heaters, and do a bunch of other random minor-ish things that annoy people and don't actually target the problem.
I work directly with two introverts and I've worked with many over the years. More so than not, what comes along with introversion is passive aggressive behavior (mostly because introverts don't like confrontation).

This makes working on a team extremely frustrating. Coupled with the desire to WFH makes this a non-starter.
Yeah.. why not make him a “Research Fellow” and give him a GPU cluster to play with and attract like minded researchers rather than become another departing key member of core team?
This is silly. People are forced to do all kinds of things. They are forced at gunpoint, they are forced via laws, they are forced via incentives that are so strong they may as well be a gun. As are companies. So, in theory, you are wrong.

In practice, even more wrong. If management decided to not pay this money, and gave up that positioning to a competitor, they would be fired. If the board allowed it to continue, they could be sued. They are forced.

No one at google sits around thinking "i want to preserve our monopoly status". They are thinking "I don't want to be crushed by someone". Google can be crushed just like any other company. Their panic around AI is due to the fact they think it could crush their search business, and they are correct to think so.
I’m surprised that it’s just Google getting hit with this enforcement and not Apple too.
It's hard to track a sliver of transparent 0.125mm optic fiber back to the operator, unless you're doing it Ariadne's-thread-style - but you'd have to find it first (post explosion).
Part of what marks it as a code share is those marketing carrier/flight and operating carrier/flight fields that get propagated out lots of places internally and externally. If you just up and change those, then your flight listings would look wonky on, say Expedia. Or your reconciliation process to get the revenue in the right place might break, etc. Two examples of which there are many more.

So the ego thing is somewhat true, but that decision happened long ago, and already created tendrils that are hard to unwind.
”think they know our issue”

I saw this once and loved it:

”I used to think I was introverted because I really liked being alone but it turns out I just like being at peace & I am very extroverted when I’m around people who bring me peace.”

So, I’m breaking up with you. It’s not me, it’s you.
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Its not your fault it happened, but it is your responibility to deal with it.

edit: delta should have had better system outage processes
I have a Pixel with Graphene on it. It's not de-Googled though, because Google successfully entrenched their services as a dependency of the majority of apps on the platform. Graphene makes yet another compromise by installing Play Services in a sandbox, which still lets it spy on you (but less) in exchange for enabling most (not all) Android apps to run. You can't really escape the compromises if you want a capable pocket computer. Compromises borne not of technical requirements or limitations, but of decisions that some of the largest companies in human history have made to fuck you.