skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this is why, but it's not a constructive comment. Just saying something people will agree with shouldn't be a reason to post here. A comment should add something to the discussion. There's no substantial justification in their comment for the their preferences. Just voicing your policy preferences doesn't add anything to the discussion other than flame bait.
There is no incentive for them.

Example: Over here there is a huge problem with rented e-scooters being left wherever.

Every scooter company asks you to take a photo of the parking. NOBODY ever checks those.

I did a quick test with GPT-4 and it could tell me if a scooter was parked in a considerate way about 90% of the time (10 photos, some with multiple scooters).

Could they implement this in an afternoon? Yes. Will they? No. Because it'd be used to penalise their own customers.
You know, I think if there was a little more tendency to explain, and trust in those explanations, people would like airlines, local transportation departments, etc, a whole lot more.

Without information, it is easy to assume incompetence, or worse, just not caring.
>the longer the bus has to spend picking them all up and selling them tickets etc.

In my country, apart from an app/ online, you can buy a ticket pretty much anywhere.
I guess someone worked out that bus drivers with money are a potential theft risk, and also that selling tickets on the bus takes time and makes busses late(r than they would be).
those toasts are bad UX
The most common place is probably image/audio processing. Sample values are usually always quantized, even in intermediate stages. Decoding a JPEG for example is a bunch of fixed point math.
The bigger ones have gained a rough understanding of a few systems [1]. Which is really impressive and gives an answer to the Chinese Room experiment. In my experience they don’t understand a lot of things I ask about very well. But the fact that they understand anything at all is impressive.

1. https://danangell.com/blog/posts/gpt-understands/
There are an awful lot of possible causal relationships that could explain that correlation. On the face of it, relationships like "depressed people can't face going outside" or "people who are too immobile to leave the house get depressed" seem far more plausible and powerful than "UV exposure reduces the risk of depression through some yet-unknown mechanism".
How the tallest bridge changed the map of Europe
I've been using it and I really like it. The cars are always clean and comfortable, you can choose the music, and you don't need to talk to anyone. A couple bucks more than Lyft/Uber though, and there was one time it got stuck negotiating a two way one lane road when another car was coming, but people have trouble with that situation too.

The first time you take a ride in one is really amazing, it really makes you think "I'm living in the future." I recommend anyone visiting SF take one.
This seems to be attacking from a different perspective, though? You are requiring the change from a bus that is not to schedule. This article pointed out that that was not necessary. And, indeed, you can presume perfectly scheduled busses and still see a distribution quirk where the average wait time of the population is at the interval level. Right?
I recently got an Nvidia Orin Nano to play with and found Nvidia’s BSP to be very well documented and easy to use… but I haven’t looked into using Buildroot or Yocto directly. https://docs.nvidia.com/jetson/archives/r36.3/DeveloperGuide...
I never noticed this, is it just when they say "smash this like button" or just the term "like button"?
I am guessing you and the other poster didn't read the full article, because reducing bureaucracy is a part of this proposal:

> Cut Red Tape and Needless Bureaucracy. These plans will build on the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to cut red tape and enable more home building to bring down housing costs-which have advanced record levels of new home construction. Pushing this forward also means streamlining permitting processes and reviews, including for transit-oriented and conversion development, so builders canget homes on the market sooner and bring down costs.
Does Roc have escape hatches for mutability? That's something I value in Rust, good escape hatches from the borrow checker, so if something gets too difficult, you can just `Arc<Mutex<RefCell<T>>>` it.
> But adding a toast isn't free. It's a distraction, and arguably a pretty intense one for ND folks -- especially when it becomes a standardized message center with multiple items queued up.

Diagnosed with ADHD, so I'm guessing an ND folk here: modern applications in general, and webshit in particular, give me huge anxiety because of all the eventual consistency and optimistic actions bullshit[0], coupled with flakiness and bloat of entire modern software stacks[1]. Maybe "toasts" aren't the bee's knees, but they work as lagging indicator that something happened that I otherwise wouldn't notice, and in some apps even lets me undo the unwanted operation. That does a lot to relieve my anxiety and help me use software with less frustration.

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[0] - That itself is a big antipattern. Software lying to user about its state is a form of gaslighting; it makes interaction more error-prone, and prevents users from building correct mental models of the application and its interactions with other systems.

[1] - My Android flagship lags often enough on taps and drags that every other day my input gets misinterpreted and does something unwanted. Similarly, I type faster than most software - webshit in particular - can react, so e.g. a small jitter can turn "ctrl+t n e w s <ret>" into "ctrl" (held, released) and then "n e w s <ret>", which does $deity knows what in the current tab.
If the compiler can prove there isn't action-at-a-distance between those lines (this might be non-trivial), then can't the destructor be called before running bar ? Does the C++ spec necessarily say that destructors are called at the end of the block, compared to, let's say, as soon as the variable is no longer used?
Something I've found rather curious is that my home state of New Mexico has the lowest cancer incidence rate out of any other state US state (Puerto Rico is lower, but technically not a state)
(https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/incidencerates/index....).

Now, granted, your risk of dying from heart disease is actually greater than that of cancer, so it's entirely possible that the low cancer rate is because everyone is dying from heart disease instead. It would make a lot of sense since New Mexico is one of the poorest states in the country.

Thing is though, the heart disease mortality rate is also low.
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/heart_disease_mort...)

So I don't know, I'm kind of inclined to that our low mortality rates might be due to the sun instead. On top of being located further south than most states, we also get more UV exposure due to our higher elevations, and most days are relatively cloud free. Other theory of mine is a more Latin-influenced diet and exercise, but again, we're a poor state, poverty tends to be negatively correlated with exercise and diet.

It's a trend followed by most of the Mountain West, which is roughly as arid and sun-rich as New Mexico. I just find New Mexico so interesting because it definitely dispels any notion that people are healthier because they're richer or have access to better health care.
The NYT is from the US so framing the question this way is not surprising and drawing the comparison of someone who can't afford NYT but knows what docker is, is interesting without your addition.

There are other things we could mention like, maybe there are many people who can afford NYT but still don't want to pay for it, but that's not what we were talking about. That being said, thanks for the reminder about other countries... I'm sure everyone on HN forgot about globes.
Uber spent something like $20B+ before they first made a profit.
Two pills then: Daily 10,000 iu D and daily Cialis. Bonus: Bon-us.
Ok, just add L-Arginine supplementation then...
Given that life quality is quite high in the Nordics and they are happiest countries on earth I'm not so sure it's a bad system.
>In practice, the inflation rate for most sectors is very different to the CPI average, so these “adjusted for inflation” numbers are pretty meaningless.

That's a good point that people often ignore. It's especially relevant when talking about technology, where pricing tends to fall, not rise. Pi feel like they should cost like $20 now considering they make them at way higher numbers than in the past and that the technology isn't anything particularly unique.
I wouldn't bother dealing with it. But you can use something like StyleBot or Tampermonkey to override the css:

Before Animation:
<yt-smartimation class="smartimation smartimation--experiment-enabled smartimation--enable-masking">

While Animation:
<yt-smartimation class="smartimation smartimation--experiment-enabled smartimation--active-border smartimation--active-background smartimation--enable-masking">
I absolutely agree on your premise - that sun, like most things, is about moderation.

I was just pondering on the example you gave: Is there a case where grass will die out from sun when that is the isolated factor? I would assume that there is, but I am not sure it is given.
This doesn't make sense to me. I would assume the engines starting by themselves would introduce enough error to throw the entire system off. Let alone natural seismic events in the ground, plus wind.

I would guess you must solve the 3D problem at least to some degree.
It works phenomenally well. I use it several times a week.
Earworms = innate perfect pitch – note labeling
The Harmless Pi-Hole Bug
It's actually the other way around: mainstream media tries to attack a game that is the #1 most played game on steam and is smashing all records.

Steam is great because the reviews are from REAL people, not journalists so you can immediately see what is real vs what is media lies.
A first time home owner credit helps, but most of the credit will be absorbed by the market in the form of increased home prices. Like every other time the government has tried similar policies for other things, prices of the underlying asset will go up, stimulus checks brought asset inflation, government backing student loans with no questions asked brought expensive higher ed, etc.

P.S. I'm not suggesting stimulus checks weren't necessary, just the effects weren't desirable long term.
What kind of data or data formatting do you need to fine-tune GPT-4o? I'd love to throw a bunch of documentation at it and let it learn, but I don't have the resources to extract knowledge, format it as questions and answers, etc.
Yep, solder iron holds itself. Multi meter (pointing away from the user for some reason) displays fever dream nonsense.

With such tough competition, I guess https://www.hacker-stockphotos.com/ is out of business now?
But some people think that just popping a vitamin D pill gives you all the benefits of sun exposure without the downsides.

Research on all cause mortality disagrees. Some sun exposure reduces all cause mortality even if you already take vitamin D.
Reflecting on transducers in Scheme (2023)
You already have everything you need to do this with just git. Just make a repo (might need to be a bare repo) on whatever machine you want to make the remote and then clone from it using ssh on the other machines. Then you can push and pull just as if the remote was in github or whatever.

If you want more functionality than that, gitlab has a free tier that can be self-hosted. same with gittea.
KittenInABox wrote:
> This is completely wrong. War has fairly strict rules, actually, more strict
> than policemen in the US.

Eh... no. Watch a few clips from Ukraine-Russia war, what those soldiers
are doing. The movies are on Reddit. This has nothing to do with any
rules, Geneva Conventions or whatever. War rules are only there in order
to make people like you happier, but if war happens, they're out of the
window.
Do you really think you're the first person to think of this?

If you actually need a certain medication, and you absolutely must take it by putting it in your lunch, then I suppose you can feel free to explain that in a courtroom, but you should be reminded that perjury is a vey bad legal strategy and judges don't like to play games.
I "retired" when I was 42, with a plan to finally study for a degree (Open University), write some novels, etc. I had saved enough money to get me through 3 years without support. Like many of the people quoted in the article the early deaths of my father and brother, who never made it to their retirements, were also a significant factor.

3 years turned into 7 years when I struggled to land a full-time job. Stacking shelves on a zero-hours contract wasn't part of the dream ... but rent doesn't pay itself. It turns out you have to be hyper-adaptable and resilient when life doesn't go according to the plans you make for it. But I think that's true of everything, yes?
This is a variant of the Monty Hall problem, and the trick that makes it unintuitive is that you’ve snuck in the conditional of assuming you have already won.

If you have a ticket and haven’t checked that it is winning, you should expect two winners, regardless of whether you end up being one of them.

If you play the lottery trillions of times (always with the same odds, for simplicity) and build up a frequentist sample of winning events, you will on average be part of a pool of two winners in those instances where you win.

You snuck in the assumption that the first ticket checked (yours) is a winner, which screws up the statistics.
A few paragraphs in the author seemed very pretentious in their writing style.

> By now, you may well ask why I have paid so much attention to and have spent so much eloquence on such a simple and obvious notion as the radical novelty.

Maybe this is because English isn't my first language, but doesn't this come off as pretty pretentious? Calling your own writing eloquent, in that same writing?

Anyway, then I scrolled down to the bottom to see who the author was. I suppose he has the right to some pretentiousness.
Because you haven’t been convicted? The way it should work is that authorities are only allowed to jail you before conviction under an extremely narrow set of circumstances, such as posing a credible risk to others.
Personally, I think it’s easier to be extreme than balanced. Like a see-saw (or teeter totter depending on where you are) it’s way easier to sit on one end or the other. To try to stand on the middle and balance is hard.

A friend of mine met Patrick Moore, former President of Greenpeace, and asked Moore why he started supporting nuclear power, he told him essentially “It’s easier to be against everything than to be for something.”
It's about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform .

> (subtitle) His digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs and MPEGs possible

Technically, the DCT isn't restricted to only digital compression. The DCT performs a matrix multiplication on a real vector, giving a real vector as output. You can perform a DCT on a finite sequence of analog values if you really wanted to, by performing a specific weighted sum of the values to yield a new sequence of analog values.
All that AI CapEx: for a button to glow! WOW. ROI will be off the charts!
That's the point. The "5 minute" disruption ends up with the team losing half a day of 'real' work.

Tech leads seem to have it worst as they're expected to communicate but also write code. A common pattern is to be available 8 hours/day for disruptions like this, and then work 2-8 hours at night.
> Occasionally the torpedo would get stuck in that turn and run in a circle.

Well that's not a great failure mode, if it can come right back at vessel which launched it ... imagine trying to implement a self-destruct failsafe with that tech back then ...
Seems like their competition (Google, Anthropic) have both shipped prompt caching, which is a lot more developer-friendly and gets a lot of the same benefits as fine-tuning.

You just cache a prompt with a ton of examples that you would have otherwise fine-tuned on. You can trivially update that prompt whenever, no asynchronous fine-tuning job needed.

Wonder if OpenAI will stick with fine-tuning or go towards prompt caching (or both). Fine-tuning has uses, but prompt caching gets you 99% of the benefits for 1% the effort.
I think I got most of this from Willful Ignorance (Weisberg, 2014) but it was a while since I read it (and this was before I made more detailed notes) so I might be misremembering.

There are what looks like fantastic books on the early days of probability and statistics aside from Weisberg (Ian Hacking is an author that comes to mind, and maybe Stephen Stigler?) but I have not yet taken the time to read them – I'll read more and write something up on this some day.

But statistical understanding is such a recent phenomenon that we have been able to document its rise fairly well[1] which is fascinating in and of itself.

[1]: And yet we don't know basic stuff like when the arithmetic mean became an acceptable way to aggregate data. Situations that obviously (to our eyes) call for an arithmetic mean in the 1630s were resolved some other way (often midrange, mode, or just a hand-picked observation that seemed somehow representative) and then suddenly in the 1680s we have this letter to a newspaper which uses the arithmetic mean as if it was the obvious thing to do and then its usage is relatively well documented after that. From what I understand we don't know what happened between 1630 and 1680 to cause this change in acceptance!
Love the gist of this, but just wanted to point out, but there's no need to draw the line between buildings and gardening. Anyone who has built a house or done major remodel knows that it too suffers from fractal complexity. It may not be a nail that becomes a wormhole of complexity (as neither is something simple arithmetic operations in programming), but all kinds of things can crop up. The soil has shifted since last survey, the pipes from city are old, the wiring is out of date, the standards have changed, the weather got in the way, the supplies changed in price / specification, etc. Everything in the world is like that, software isn't special in that regard. In fact, software only has such complexity because its usually trying to model some real-world data or decision. For the totally arbitrary toy examples, the code is usually predictable, simple, and clean ; the mess starts once we try to fit it to real-world usecases (such as building construction).
I am referring specifically to what was claimed in the video I quoted, so, unless you watched the actual video, what you are saying has not much bearing on what I am actually saying. Sorry to say it, and not to be harsh, but I constructed my comment to specifically point to such an instance via bracket quotes, please respond to what was said in said video.
Unsure on the specific phrases, but it has been happening for a while. Subscribe highlights with certain phrases too.
The AI Supply Chain Tug of War
I must be living under a rock, but at least where I come from, it is common sense that some sun exposure is good. I've never heard of anyone saying that the sun should be avoided at all costs, it's weird. but then you find people on the internet who claim that cats (of all animals!) should stay at home at all costs. that's also weird. But these are mostly internet people, I've never found one in real life...

Maybe the general problem is that the internet has very vocal minorities.
> Individual beliefs aside, the Christian Bible makes for a fascinating case study in book translations.

The start of the gospel of John is one that is particularly thought provoking for me because we can more easily grasp the meaning of the original words.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/jhn/1/1/t_conc_998001

Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

en archē ēn ho logos kai ho logos ēn pros theos kai ho logos ēn theos.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And you'll note in that λόγος has been translated to "Word". But logos means such more than just "word" (the word for word is λέξις léxis). Logos, as understood in Greek philosophy was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos

> Ancient Greek philosophers used the term in different ways. The sophists used the term to mean "discourse". Aristotle applied the term to refer to "reasoned discourse" or "the argument" in the field of rhetoric, and considered it one of the three modes of persuasion alongside ethos and pathos. Pyrrhonist philosophers used the term to refer to dogmatic accounts of non-evident matters. The Stoics spoke of the logos spermatikos (the generative principle of the Universe) which foreshadows related concepts in Neoplatonism.

This was relating the philosophy of the Greeks (even then a couple of hundred of years old) to that of the early forms of Christianity.

I would contend that "In the beginning was the [ability to reason, link the rational nature of the universe to rational discourse]" ... but that doesn't fit well in translation or even liner notes. And so, we're left with the word "Word".

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One of the late night Bay Area public TV programs (not sure if it was KQED or KTEH) had a once a week program back in the late 90s / early 00s that was a verse by verse bible study looking at the oldest forms of the text and looking at specific word meanings like rāṣaḥ https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h7523/kjv/wlc/0-1/ and hāraḡ https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h2026/kjv/wlc/0-1/ - where they are used (you'll note the contexts are different while one is killing in general, the other is a specific type of killing).

Anyways... it was an interesting program that had a lot of linguistic study of ancient languages with the Bible as the text being translated.
I think many systems can work with a plateau (but it will be less pleasant than the growth phase). Shrinking populations are much more unpleasant though, at least for the old people getting insufficient care.

Maybe AI caregivers will help at some point.
It's such a shame that multiplication in C (or most other languages, really) doesn't have its natural type (intM, intN) -> int{M+N}. Instead, you have to recover the higher half of the result either by doing additional narrow multiplication yourself, or by using some compiler intrinsic.
Do any vendors allow fine-tuning on images yet?
I mean, I want to agree with you, but it is easy to see that everyone says any tanning of your skin is indication that you have skin damage. Which, frankly, feels extremely stated to me.

Pale skin from living in a cave looks just as unhealthy as leather tan skin from all day sun exposure over years. Moderate tan from being outside, though? I have a hard time thinking it is as dangerous as stated. Feels like saying "soreness is your muscles recovering from damage and you should avoid it."
Probably the Techies +25x damage talent? In 2017 [7.07] it was increased from +250 damage to +251 damage. Then in 2020 [7.28] it was increased again to +252 damage.
That math only works out nearly that cleanly if you avoid pricing out the engineer time for it.

If you’re paying $1M/year in fees, I would be shocked if you don’t have a whole team to support the open source version. Oncall, system upgrades, the usual stream of tickets about things not working right and people wanting to integrate, etc.

I do believe it can be cheaper to self-host, but I really doubt the difference in cost is 2 orders of magnitude. I’d be surprised if it was a single order of magnitude. I would wager it’s less than the sellers profit margins because of economies of scale; I would guess in the range of 10%-20%.