skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to have a moral compass that dislikes the concept of war. But we shouldn't confuse that for an effective strategy to deter violence.

In a complex world that continues to have ideological challenges, economic constraints and susceptibility to coercion by violent thugs (Putin), forgiving weapons supremacy is betrayal of our peaceful ideals, families, neighbours.

Anti-weapons as a policy to achieve peace is quite an incomplete train of thought.
Nothing against the overall sentiment, and even considering the audience here, but surely the quote below isn’t serious:

MIT is one the the preeminent universities in the world, perhaps the preeminent one.
> If customers need additional human support for SSO then that can be charged separately.

Aren't the majority of enterprise contracts negotiated with support included? I thought that that was one of the main value adds for medium-to-larged sized companies.
Short version: good refactoring = improve maintainability, brevity and usability without compromising functionality.

Basically, make it simpler without breaking it or actually making it not simpler.
In android toasts are awful and pop over what I'm looking at. messages used to star wars ticker on the status bar which was out of the way and better

In windows balloon notifications have been replaced by toast notifications that block ux you're working on as well.

there is also a toast notifications panel but it's frankly ugly and awful compared to iOS and androids notifications visually.

I don't have a ton of experience with Linux or MacOS
The absolute worst implementations of toasts are ones that actually block user interface elements which become invisible and un-clickable until the toast goes away.
> But that's the price you pay for reaping the benefits of living in CA.

What benefits? They said they are moving to Fresno, so not even decent weather.
Oh, that's back? I thought that died with the "V2V" scheme, which was used as a justification for 5G cellular. The document [1] comes across as a solution looking for a problem. Like much of IoT.

Waymo cars do not have, or need, a vehicle to vehicle communication system. They talk to their HQ, but that's not part of the main control loops. Most of the problems Waymos have to avoid don't communicate much, if at all. Traffic cones, pedestrians, bicyclists, and people in wheelchairs have to be sensed directly. Once you have the sensing to do that, large vehicles should not be a problem. (Yes, Tesla has had trouble sensing fire trucks, semis, etc., but that's a Tesla problem)

It doesn't seem to be necessary that traffic lights and signs broadcast their status to vehicles. It's not something Waymo has asked for.

So what is this "V2X" thing supposed to be for? Surveillance, probably.

[1] https://www.its.dot.gov/research_areas/emerging_tech/pdf/Acc...
I was just looking at Caltrain routes yesterday wondering how there’s a route from Sunnyvale to SF that takes over 2 hours. Driving (at times) should be about 45 minutes.

Didn’t make sense to me.
On the other hand, in a time of war, it's likely the exact same conditions of sleep depravation and poor training could exist. UX is the element that could be fixed permanently. The Navy absolutely should fix all of the issues in the NTSB report, and all the UX issues discussed in this blog post.
To be clear, The Strip is nothing like living in Las Vegas. Nothing. Las Vegas, outside The Strip, is basically Phoenix, except there's video poker machines in the grocery stores.
They only compared to Firefox-based browsers which does make sense. Most people are already firmly on one side of the Chromium vs FF engine debate.

Compared to Brave in what terms? Speed, not sure, but Chromium is known to be better. As far as I know, Brave doesn't allow split tabs or workspaces though.
Does "commerce" include employment? Of course, with our current jurisprudence (someone else downthread mentioned Wickard v. Filburn), the Commerce Clause has been expanded out of all recognition. But I'm not sure the Founders would have included employment in "commerce".

Also, even if we assume employment is commerce, is it commerce "with foreign nations, or among the several States"?
Can't this line of reasoning be applied to any transport infrastructure?
Awesome comment. I've written a piece here about the relationship between AI and human consciousness. Would love some feedback if you're able. Thanks!
https://peterholmes.medium.com/the-conscious-computer-af5037...

PS. I'm buying your book right now.
SIMD Matters
What does SpaceX do differently than Boeing to be so reliable?
Chat GPT seems really good at frequently asked questions.

Like simple python scripts for Home Assistant it just nails first go.
Thanks for the info.

Many schools are set back a ways from other buildings.

I would just set up a jammer, and adjust its power so the nearest buildings could still use their phones, while the school phones would have problems connecting.
the entire amendment process? How do you think federal minimum wage was implemented?

The supreme court can strike it down, but congress very much can introduce federal bills pertaining to labor.
Well I can confirm it’s the same as of 2019. I stopped frequenting that part of town since.
Yes, there was copy-editing. After peer-review and acceptance of the paper, the journal would send me marked up versions of the paper ("proofs") that made the paper conform to the journal's style, fixed typos, etc. There were often a couple of iterations concerning these changes. Finally a set of proofs would be accepted, and the paper would be published. Somebody was doing the work of making those proofs, and it wasn't the peer-reviewers. I'm pretty sure that the journals paid people to do that work, and since I was being charged hefty page fees (about $200/page) I suspect some of that money, and perhaps some subscription money, was paying for that work.
for me cracking the coding interview is stressful

i prefer the bug squash question. i have 20 years of experience. i will probably do well.

a fresh grad might fail. do i care? no. leetcode has benefited fresh grads and is being used to discriminate against those with anxiety and other disorders and those who are older.

i think it is refreshing to try a different interview method, one that benefits those with experience.
I canned my Copilot sub.

Even where microsoft includes it for free, like their automation tools, its always been jank. I found myself going to GPT4 for better answers which is bad when you spend any time thinking about it.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (a.k.a. LLM-as-Judge)
I'm concerned about the "turning the brain off" effect too. When we put backup cameras on cars it means that everyone can parallel park perfectly. Now take away the backup cameras and see what happens to our parallel parking.
> The idea is that the law would be more responsive to changing times, and that it could be simpler, since it wouldn't need to encode obscure technical standards.

No, the idea was to supply more power to unelected officials who are not under the scrutiny of the people. Said unelected officials being bought for by various private interests and ruling in their favor whenever and however possible, regardless of the constitution.

> However, the Supreme Court decided… transfer that authority to unelected judges.

No they didn’t. The authority went back to where it belonged, the legislative branch. The legislative branch has no power to defer legislation to anyone but themselves.

> [The FTC] doesn't have the authority to regulate non-compete clauses

They do; in regards to the federal law as it is written, of which there are no laws currently. If they wish to see non-competes die (and I would like for them die) then they have to do it properly: by getting a law made. Not by making a “ruling” which has no legal standing in a post-Chevron world.
From what I've read there's still significant hardware support missing - numerous usb ports not working all the time, no video support on thunderbolt ports (which means no DisplayPort).
> Heavy vehicles such as pickup trucks should require a CDL

Pickup trucks don't need to be heavy. Japan has kei pickups, in the US, we had small pickups in the 80s and 90s. And then they disappeared throughout the early 00s.

A small truck with a small engine does small truck things, and has decent fuel economy and tremendous visibility.

But we can't buy those new anymore because you can't get a small truck to hit cafe standards, so large trucks it is.
I also find AI coding assistants useful, particularly when working on a framework heavy codebase (Django, Spring etc.). While I don’t use it to generate massive blocks of code from descriptions just the mostly accurate tab completion of boilerplate code probably saves me 10-20% of my coding time. It’s not a groundbreaking advancement but certainly a decent optimisation.
Already seeing the crappy effects of Chevron's revokation, I see. Row v Wade was awful but I wouldn't be surprised if we're talking even more about Chevron for decades to come if congress doesn't do anything.
Maybe you're using a strawman.
Candidates walking away pissed is itself also a problem. A significant percentage of candidates avoid buying from companies they're rejected from [1]. They also love sharing their poor interview experience with future potential applicants.

[1] https://www.wayup.com/employers/blog/how-a-positive-candidat...
Founder Ethics
What you want is to prevent floundering death spirals. They need to understand the criteria, but if you need to hint and nudge them, they need to not feel like that means they’re bombing. Of course, you can absolutely do that in a bug squash interview, but my point is that it defeats this claimed advantage.
It is a tough discussion as with anything nuanced online.

The negative consequences of UV exposure are compelling and very visible both with aging and skin cancer.

It would be irresponsible to promote uv exposure but also factually it is an effective treatment for some conditions in some people and possibly has less obvious benefit to others. UV exposure does things to our immune system that can't be replicated by vitamin D supplements. As crazy as it may seem, occasionally "basking in the sun" might be reasonably cheap, accessible and effective disease management for some very specific cases even if it doesn't seem very wise to say so and risk the accusatory finger pointing.
Now the problem is that the Boeing space suits aren't compatible with the Space-X seats.[1]

[1] https://futurism.com/stranded-astronauts-spacex-boeing-space...
Great work to the team! You're doing vital work.

Hopefully you won't let the anti-defence industry voices get you down

An efficient and effective defence industry is vital to protect democracy.
Truck nuts? https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/driving/wp-content/...
Rulings, and the agencies that make them, have very little legislative authority after Chevron’s collapse.
Honestly. I am enjoying it. From Dave will replace you, to this is not working well in 6 months. A new record.
Logically, everyone around me forgot that I patiently explained the limits of stochastic parrots and the false hope on synthetic data.
If we lived in the remotely responsible place, some people would have their heads rolling down the stairs.
The psychological damage over workforce from AI hype is comparable only with the negative effect of social networks on the society. :)
Congress already gave the FTC the power to ban things that are unfair methods of competition and to ban acts that are unfair that affect commerce.
I don't completely disagree with you, but the main factor is really speed. Golf carts top out at 15mph and at that speed pedestrians don't die when they are hit by trucks either.

https://mobikefed.org/2020/10/research-risk-death-pedestrian...
Pedantically, yes, but it doesn't really matter to OP's real message: The problematic effect would be global in scope, as people everywhere would do stupid things to an arbitrary number of discrete grids or generation systems.
Not specifically aimed at MIT, but wouldn’t such a large unspent endowment not (at least casually) suggest a failure to invest in research / students / etc.
Competitive pressure on SaaS companies and startups is much higher now and while there are tons of people are building client wrappers and other much more exciting stuff in Ruby none of its getting extracted, polished and open-sourced because everyone is entirely justifiably freaking out about profitability.
On the one hand, yeah of course guaranteeing coverage for children and preexisting conditions is an obvious win. And removing coverage caps.

But beyond that... has average life expectancy measurably increased because of this "extra" insurance coverage?

Has the number of medical-related bankruptcies measurably decreased as a result of the expanded coverage?

I can't find solid data but everything I've seen suggests that those haven't really changed at all.

Given that, in the grand scheme of things, has anything actually improved for us, collectively? Healthcare is much more expensive now, but maybe that would have happened regardless.
To me even RAPM while fairer seems to make an assumption that you can isolate a person's performance in a team. You probably can to some extent, maybe a large one, but team chemistry is probably going to play a part too.
For readers' edification, would you mind making a strong hypothetical argument for why this time it actually is different, from an expert's perspective?
>Whether or not it's useful has nothing to do with whether or not it's spam.

I think it has a lot to do with it. I can't see how generating educational content for the purpose of enhancing student outcomes with content reviewed by expert teachers can fall under the category of spam.

>As for your hypothesis, I've had interactions where it did a good job of generating alternative activities/exercises, and interactions where it strenuously and lengthily kept suggesting absolute garbage.

I like to present concrete examples of what I would consider to be useful content for a k-12 teacher.

Here's a very quick example that I whipped up

https://chatgpt.com/share/ec0927bc-0407-478b-b8e5-47aabb52d2...

This would align with Year 9 Maths for the Australian Curriculum.

This is an extremely valuable tool for

- A graduate teacher struggling to keep up with creating resources for new classes

- An experienced teacher moving to a new subject area or year level

Bear in mind that the GPT output is not necessarily intended to be used verbatim. A qualified specialist teacher with often times 6 years of study (4 year undergrad + 2 yr Masters) is the expert in the room who presumably will review the output, adjust, elaborate etc.

As a launching pad for tailored content for a gifted student, or lower level, differentiated content for a struggling student the GPT response is absolutely phenomenal. Unbelievably good.

I've used Maths as an example, however it's also very good at giving topic overviews across the Australian Curriculum.

Here's one for: elements of poetry:structure and forms

https://chatgpt.com/share/979a33e5-0d2d-4213-af14-408385ed39...

Again, an amazing introduction to the topic (I can't remember the exact curriculum outcome it's aligned to) which gives the teacher a structured intro which can then be spun off into exercises, activities or deep dives into the sub topics.

> I've had situations where I got a good suggestion or two or three, in a list of ten or twenty

This is a result of poor prompting. I'm working with very structured, detailed curriculum documents and the output across subject areas is just unbelievably good.

This is all for a K-12 context.
> I have an agent setup to focus on principles of Stoicism and its amazing how quickly I can get back on track just by having a short chat with it about how I'm feeling.

This sounds super useful. Can you please elaborate on the setup?
In a vacuum, maybe.
Could you refrain from making low-value posts like this? This is not any better than pointing out a grammar/spelling mistake, and just degrades the quality of the conversation. Yes, you are technically correct, but teh original meaning was clear. Your original comment isn't any more contributive to the discussion than pointing out the typo in my previous sentence. I'm not trying to start an argument, but asking you to re-consider this type of posting in the future since it is both off topic and a mild form of trolling (grammar-nazi adjacent).
This is conflating different things. Most people want the US to be able to defend itself and potentially others. But almost all of the military conflicts the US has been involved in lately have had dubious value to that end.

Once you build a better weapon, you can’t control how it will be used anymore.
does it? it has the right to regulate interstate commerce and to tax exports, but there is a suspicious silence on the concept of employment.
I think so. Even more reason to not need SSO tax ;-)
The potential rewards are so great that you might be overestimating the odds this will come about. Even lottery skeptics might buy a lottery ticket if the prize is a billion dollars.
Insurance is going up across the board, it’s not a healthcare thing. Obamacare can be successful while premiums go up as well, it is not mutually exclusive.
Google also censors all swear words in the auto transcriptions so is it content agnostic anymore?
The premiums are going up because someone has to pay for the profits of the for profit insurance companies, of the for profit hospitals etc

They all have to report yoy increase of earnings right?

So there enjoy your capitalistic health insurance. Which by the way dumps you once you are old, then I have to pay for you too despite the fact it is you who wanted a completely deregulated health insurance market.
Is this the same company or related to Ares inc, the company that made the 75mm autocannon for the HSTV-L? An insane amount of engineering went into that cannon.
... Or they just honestly have a different experience than you
Great stream-of-consciousness style article, I relate and appreciated the practical advice!

This isn't enough on its own obviously, but just in case anyone's been noticing something of a trend: inability to finish projects is verbatim one of the DSM-V entries for Inattentive-presenting ADHD: https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/diagnosis/index.html
IANAL, but the catch all that is usually used is the Commerce clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause
If you have an issue with which wars get fought and why, that’s an issue for the voting box.

If you oppose a potent military you’re either an irrelevant minority or soon to be a victim of those who endorse one.
That acts as a deterrent to big actions, nuclear nation Vs nuclear nation in direct conflict World War scale confrontations.

As the entire post WWII Cold War era and recent post 9/11 decades have shown, however, is that big expensive weapons that destroy entire cities in a single package have done little to stop endless low level warring. Small conflicts continue none the less, the US invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, the Russian actions in Syria, the Crimean and Ukraine invasions, etc. (many many other "et cetera's").

A Chinese expansion to take Tawain would be of a similar "small" scale from the PoV of "does this warrent a nuclear response".

It would be a naval battle in many ways and the best deterrance, perhaps, is an over supply of "cheap" semi autonomous self guiding over the horizon evasive ship killer missiles.

The knowledge that any ships that engage could be rapidly removed from the board is the very thing that might see such usage not come to pass.
SQL separates query definition from implementation because there is a planning phase between them that can be sometimes quite complex.

To choose the best path to retrieve data, you have to know what are the possible paths (using the underlying data structures, indexes but also different algorithms to filter, join…), but you should also know some data metrics to evaluate if some shortcuts are worth it (a seq scan can be the best choice with a small table..).

And the thing that will trip most humans, is that you need to reevaluate the plan if the underlying assumptions change (data distribution has become something that you never expected).

Note that the planner is also NOT always right, it heavily relies on heuristics and data metrics that can be skewed or not up to date.
Some databases allow the use of hints to choose an index or a specific path.
I struggle also. I love that PA comic! I often tell my wife when we get someone who starts throwing in Rocket League, "you wouldn't do this if you walked down to the park for a pickup game of basketball - nobody would ever play with you again. you would look like a moron." and maybe that's it. there's no meaningful consequence? It's sad though to think so many people are only being compelled to do the decent thing to avoid consequences and eschew decent behavior as soon as they enter a consequence free zone? Just breaks my heart really, because I thought we did these things for fun lol
It look like a decline but these are relative numbers right? The whole industry exploded in size over this time period.
There isn’t a specific line in the Constitution that gives Congress the right to regulate employment. This power of Congress is implied by the powers that are explicitly written in the Constution.

There are 5 axioms of Euclidean Geometry. Those 5 simple axioms have a vast number of implications as evidenced by all the theorems in Euclidean Geometry. In the same way there are logical conclusions to the statements in the Constitution. It is settled law that Congress can regulate employment.
I'd imagine that a fake police uniform is a bit harder to explain than an encrypted laptop and a SDR dongle?
This really hurts to think - that so many people are only doing the decent thing because of consequence :(
Chat gpt has helped me with some complex sql queries. I had to correct it a couple of times but in the end it worked.
I've been playing with it this morning, and fuck me this is awesome. I finally feel that an LLM is being actually useful for coding. I still have to check everything, but it's like having a talented junior helping me.
> complete worldwide peace

Aside from the fact that complete worldwide peace has yet to happen, it is also worth mentioning that this period also coincided with nuclear proliferation. If Iraq had nuclear ICBMs they would not have been invaded.
How much do you end up paying for Claude + Cursor? I’m assuming cursor uses Claude api
In that case, why would you sign it in the first place? Maybe you're too careless to read the contract? Or too desperate to plan for your future working life? But how did you become such a specialist with those behaviors?

I once has an employer try to get me to agree to a broad noncompete clause for an unskilled laboring job. When I questioned it, he just deleted it. If he hadn't, I'd have turned down the job because it sounded terrible.
PG retweeted it: https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1826069657339703346

In a democratic multiethnic society you shouldn't question the allegiances of people -- see the history of McCarthyism in the 1950s, or before that Japanese internment, and before that the anti-German sentiment.

And not that it matters, but the name Tseng uses Wade-Giles romanization which is not used in China anymore. This indicates the founder may be of Taiwanese heritage. The Pinyin romanization of that name is "Zeng".
> The Acolyte series introduced some very compelling new characters and lore to the Star Wars canon

That’s debatable if the “compelling” characters couldn’t even last more than a single season.
> massive gas stations

I presume you are referring to [Buccee’s](https://buc-ees.com/about/world-record-holder/)
> These missiles won't be used against rogue states, they'll be used to kill innocent people and children in the poorer countries that aren't behaving like the empire wants.

They’re antiship missiles. Are there innocent children on missile cruisers somewhere I am unaware of?