skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and it feels more like theft than a "trade for civilization" as some like to put it, because I know that it doesn't cost that much.

And ironically enough, it costs money to figure out how to optimize budgets and labor. So your tax minimization is just ensuring that the government always performs the greedy algorithm instead of focusing on a proper traversal of the problem. It's a death spiral.

Also, we can never really say how much something costs. Most funds for taxes go to welfare. Guess what the classic conservative economic administration always targets...
So it's entertainment? Alright.
Generally speaking. It doesn't work.
Split-brain aside, there are other studies suggesting a huge amount of post-hoc rationalization for human choices and decision making.

Like it seems obvious and intuitive that preferences form choices but it turns out that choices shape preferences just as easily.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679762095449...

At this point, I think there is little doubt humans regularly fabricate explanations of their behaviour unknowingly. It's just a question of how much and to what degrees.
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My "favorite" macOS mousing sin is that the reverse scrolling options for touchpads and mice are linked, despite there being two distinct checkboxes.

Meaning you cannot have reversed (aka natural) scrolling on a touchpad, and standard scrolling on a mouse at the same time without 3rd-party software.
This is the concept behind combined-cycle generation, where an initial stage (direct natural gas combustion) runs a turbine whose cooling (water) drives a second-stage steam turbine. These can push total efficiency to ~60+%, with an ultimate efficiency of ~90+% possible where a tertiary thermal application which uses low-grade heat (anywhere from ~100--180°C / 212--356°F) can be used for some industrial, food-process, or space-heating applications, called cogeneration.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration>

Seimans has a good video 'splainer: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eeiu-wcyEbs>

GE also has numerous offerings in this space, and I've seen trade articles describing this in the past, though I'm not finding any presently.

There isn't some majyckal process by which all thermal energy can be converted to motion (or by extension, electrical generation), but it is possible, with additional complexity and capital equipment, to extract much of it.
Ahhh, I see where you're confused. You don't know how it works in the third world.

No, in the third world, inspections aren't even done. Laws are created that aren't enforced, inspection teams aren't funded, and inspectors are bribed.

None of that is happening in the US.

And no, constant inspections is not how it's done. Even in Europe, it's random inspections and mostly self-regulation.
Here's a startup SaaS idea. Take that knowledge and SaaSify it so my broke-a$$ can also use these loopholes.
It's unfortunate that during "professional development" we collectively appear to unlearn saying "no".
Or, more widely, learn to avoid using simple direct language.
It's not limited to scientists :-(
>In France specifically, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (which is an integral part of the Constitution), defines freedom as doing anything which does not harm others, and that the Law determines the limits of a freedom.

But the whole point of freedom of speech is for situations where it does "harm others". If nobody has a problem with your speech, then you don't need laws to protect it. The protection is only useful if speech comes into conflict with someone.

Freedom of speech doesn't stop where somebody else's rights begin, it starts there. There is no need for freedom of speech before that.
But that's what all lightning cables are. Low power limit, low speed data only.
The awkward part is realizing Django has been this good for well over a decade. The core design hasn't (ever?) changed.

I started using Django on I think version 1.2 or 1.3 in 2011, back when it didn't have database migrations and you had to use a library like South for it. Even then, as an ORM/query language it was apparently better than what other languages have now.
Yeah I guess it is. I’m good at doing tenths. Fifths are weird and scary to me :)

So the km:mi ratio is somewhere between 60:100 and 66:100. I choose whichever one makes sense depending on the number in front of me.
Can’t I just buy a car that lets me drive it but also can drive itself?

I can already today add functionality to cars with after-market hardware: https://comma.ai/?
I agree with you that Google is effectively dead in the water, unless they successfully do something drastic. But they’ll be in the water for a long time yet. Yahoo is still the world’s ~5th biggest website and it has been dead in the water for 20-25 years.
Hah,

macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 on M1 = 0

iOS 17.6.1 = -0

WTF.
Aren't Django models close enough to types?
I mean, some people do in fact do that.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/houses-are-getting-...

>If you think about it for more than two seconds you will understand we already have a word that describes someone with a lot of assets, "wealthy" or "rich".

Semantics? I think your first metaphor for productivity was better. Are you simply buying a yatch you use twice in your life ever, or are you living your dreams of sailing the deep blue in a flashy way? Or in the gray area; do you turn it into a business to have other rich people pay to ride?

How you use your assets or liquidity matters a lot more than what medium you store it as. =
Nah, the original inspiration wasn't about family homes. It was introduced in 1921, 5 years after income taxes became a thing, and was an attempt by Congress to remove a kind of double taxation that could (at that time) happen with estate taxes.

You would pay an estate tax (on the total value of something, regardless of its cost). And then you'd still (when you eventually sold it) owe capital gains tax.

Regardless of whether you think that particular reasoning makes sense, it definitely doesn't make sense if there's no estate tax (which there effectively isn't for most due to the multi-million dollar exclusion) since there's no risk of double taxation.

Step up basis was actually repealed in 1976. But there was immense pushback at the time around record keeping and Congress eventually agreed and retroactively cancelled the new law.

Whether the answer would be different today in this age of computerised record keeping .... ?
There are restaurants that do this. I don't patron them.

I eat alone when I'm traveling and want to catch up on HN after a hard day at a customer site or if I had a hard day in general and want some me time (as cited by the article).

Last thing I want to do is have the usual conversation with a stranger that I will never see again.

Not every restaurant experience needs to be a social one.
Technically they are pictograms, as ideograms refer to more abstract concepts (with some exceptions e.g. the representation of an ass by a peach..)
whether you intentionally or accidentally put a kink in my garden hose the end result is I can't water my lawn until the kink's out.
Don't get so excited over one guy.

Also the wording isn't clear, they might have meant the problem was how long they kept making lightning.
Ko Wen-je arrested in corruption case
https://astrobites.org/
The x1 carbons running Linux are better than the Mac in every aspect except performance for the battery life, but personally I don't want to use my laptop for that long at once anyway, so w/e.
Thanks! That was the idea of the book - no philosophy, just practical stuff
Here's a related data point - something i like to refer to:

Plastic bags vs reusable bags.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...
Such a human move. Learn something remarkable about nature, next step then is thinking about how to use it for warfare.
Proxy censors for the gov't? The US president represents the government, yet the company banned him.

Their shareholders don't want controversies screwing up their investment, so the management acted accordingly in the company's best interest.
That likely means something like "This is using a rare value for the key 'parking'. It might be incorrect, check that it's not supposed to be a more common value".

In other words, it's trying to catch things like typos.
> typical deployment

Ah yes, HN. You know there are billions of sites(wp mostly), LoB apps etc that run on 1 mysql/pg/etc instance right? Replicas are not typical and a tiny minority.
I've used Icecast before. It worked great. Is Fcast better somehow?
Dogs are wolves. All of them.
It is not a regression. It is a way of encoding the incredibly nuanced human communication into dry text.

We communicate with much more than language (autistic persons excluded, as they can be blind to social cues) and many messages are open to multiple interpretations. Emojis help frame the context, which would otherwise be framed by inflexion, tone, subtle movements of tens facial muscles.

It is adaptation instead of regression really.
Freedom of speech is a general conception of human rights, not any one particular law. Governments can choose to respect (or not!) those rights, but the idea applies to everyone.
Among the intended audience, it likely is. I think this article is here to equally amuse and traumatize folks familiar with the system.

The Emotion Engine (CPU) to GS (GPU) link was what made the PS2 so impressive for the time, but it also made it somewhat hard to code for and immensely hard to emulate. If I recall correctly, the N64 has something like 4x the memory bandwidth (shared) of the PS1, and the PS2 had roughly 6x (3GB/s) the system bandwidth of the N64. However, the PS2's GS RAM clocked in at 48GB/s, more than the external memory bandwidth of the Cell (~25GB/s), which meant that PS3 emulation of PS2 games was actually done with embedded PS2 hardware.

It was a bonkers machine. I don't think workstation GPU bandwidth created 50GB/s for another 5-6 years. That said, it was an ultra simple pipeline with 4MB of RAM and insane DMA requirements, which actually got crazier with the Cell in the PS3. I was at Sony (in another division) in that era. It was a wild time for hardware tinkering and low level software.
I'm picturing in my head a freight train car parked at a small desolate compound, standardized iron reactant cartridges dripping tar-like preservation liquid robotically unloaded, and local FCEVs and BEVs gathering to charge there. That might make an interesting Sci-Fi cutscene.
>Generally, in exchange for such favorable terms (i.e., interest-only, matures on death), the bank will ask for a share of the collateral’s appreciation (essentially, "stock appreciation rights"), and this obligation will be settled upon the borrower’s death along with the loan.

It sounds like someone is just trading taxation for paying the lender some portion of their stock appreciation.

Presumably that's lower than what they would pay in taxes, but I wonder if that's always the case. The investment bank has a unambiguous motivation to maximize the amount of money they can make.

It seems like the most frugal approach is to minimize costs and periodically sell small amounts of your asset to cover your costs.
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Telegram group chats and calls, mostly. I don't use any other social media app, except WhatsApp when they don't have Telegram.
No, that's Nassau County, New York. Not the entirety of New York. Says it right there in the article you linked. There's also a lawsuit challenging it, also linked at the end of the article.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-lawsuit-challen...
When it does not work on Windows 11 -- what about trying it out on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux ) ?
> in Texas—they set up their laws so that abortion enforcement was performed by civilians

A law [0] which, IMO, is a flat-out travesty of justice, kind of like if Texas Republicans had passed a law saying: "No private citizen shall be guilty of assault or liable in a civil trial for striking someone who spoke on the Ministry of Truth's totally voluntary prohibited ideas list."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Heartbeat_Act
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The issue is that a lot of apps are starting to require Play Integrity (used to be SafetyNet). Thankfully my banks haven't made the move, and I happily use grapheneos with a secondary profile that has Google play services installed.
> Imagine that you take steel bars and forge a ...

Like the pie these are consumable and have value unlike another to do app which can be trivially copied like all software. That and learned a much more rare skill is much cooler.

> If you make a todo app and share it with me i will ask you what made you intereste...

And we are back to discussing skills. If someone makes a thing to learn a skill discussing that skill is lot more fun and useful than the app itself.

I am not just blindly dumping on people's accomplishments, but I also think that people who show me stuff don't want to be patronized, most people I associate with find that insulting.
Harming others does not justify censorship. Brazilians get to answer and to be made whole via legal means. Article 5, term V. They don't get to preempt or prevent the speech.

You cited term X which says people's intimacy, private life, honor and image are inviolable. Looks like you didn't finish reading it though. Right after those words is written the following:

> the right to be indemnified for the material or moral damage secondary to their violation is guaranteed

It basically says you're entitled to a payday if someone damages your privacy or reputation.

Nowhere does it say that censorship is warranted. The constitution goes out of its way to explicitly mention that censorship is prohibited multiple times and in multiple places.

> The expression of intellectual, artistic, scientific and communication activity is free, independently of censorship or license

> Any and all censorship of political, ideological or artistic nature is prohibited
I tried copilot like 8 months ago for supercharged auto complete only, but I wasn't a fan because it was too high latency. I usually liked what it would write, but the second or so it took would really break my flow and had the overall effect of slowing me down. Makes me wonder if a local LLM could be superior here.
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Some details expounded here: https://chatgpt.com/share/09a1cb0d-e0be-4b5c-80c7-596e5265d4...

Details on who Ko is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Wen-je
Has The Atlantic written any articles about how Google's skewed top results also warps reality?
I don't understand why Tumblr hasn't been able to lift itself up amidst all of this
Most of the pain of running databases in k8s is all of the "day 2" operations like backups, clustering, scaling, upgrading, tuning, etc., so I'm glad to see all that accumulated knowledge built into controllers like this.

One feature I feel is lacking is better handling of database credentials. I see there's a "copy to clipboard" button next to the password, which tells me we're still using the same single, static, plain-text DB passwords that we've been using since the 90s. I'd love to see some kind of cross-platform RBAC system that uses rotating credentials or asymmetric crypto or something.
If ISAs really didn't matter then Apple would have switched horses.
I'd bet on your computer using "modern standby" rather than WoL. Seems unlikely that your tablet would to send the special WoL ethernet packet just from a web browsing context.
> Compared to what?

Compared to not burning it.

> Over what period?

I don't know what you mean by period. If you mean period of effect, then indefinitely, since the CO2 sticks around, I guess?

If you mean period of burning, then at least as long as there's direct fossil fuel plants for it to compete with.

> Consider this at the extremes. Instead of investing in any photovoltaic

Who suggested a reduction in investment in anything?

I could also say that if we burned plastic for energy instead of... running hospitals, that would also be bad. Does your comparison make more sense than mine?

I don't think your scenario is even possible, numbers-wise.
Do you not have some sort of expedited appeals process in Brazil to short circuit maverick judges like this?
> Presumably OpenAI would need a way of discerning the useful output from the useless output

You are the validator, using real world testing. But not in one-off interactions, when you exchange multiple rounds with the model. After the whole chat session is finished, the model can rank their answers in context, having hindsight. They can just look at the later outcomes and observe which idea was good or bad. Especially bad ideas would elicit a response from the user, trying to iterate on them until solved.

Basically the LLM is exploring the world through indirect agency. They act through users, and collect outcomes also through users. More complex projects can even be spread out over many days in many sessions, LLM providers need to comb through the logs to see "idea -> outcome" chains.

This whole feedback collection process stops working in one-round interactions, like many we have in the API. But in the chatroom a significant number of interactions continue after the first response, or patterns emerge across multiple sessions, as new one-off interactions relate to past ones.

Scale this to 200M users, they have a huge amount of personal experience and interactivity to offer to the model. An experience flywheel that could be spinning once a year, or once a month, or even daily, absorbing new experience from users and serving it back to the users.
People always talk like this from the outside and yet when placed in the actual situation essentially everyone acts differently. "If I were in battle I wouldn't be scared" vs in actual battle essentially every soldier is scared. "If I were rich then I wouldn't worry about taxes" vs after becoming rich, essentially everyone worries about taxes.

Is there a word for this phenomenon? What makes everyone believe they're a special case?
CFML is nice, but what Adobe charges for ColdFusion is highway robbery. Like $100k/cloud CPU. Lucee is a fantastic alternative that frankly is more performant than ColdFusion.
> Zero carbon impact because it started out as atmospheric CO2.

How about leaks? Isn't methane a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2?
I mean, let’s be real. X isn’t profitable so does retaining a bunch of users from a country with relatively low disposable income really matter?

I fully support Brazil banning X because a country can do whatever they want, but let’s not pretend X owes Brazil anything.

Brazil is irrelevant to X and countries that act like dictators deserve to be ignored by foreign companies. It’s hilarious to see Brazil play their cards and show they have no power over their citizens by threatening to fine them for using a VPN to access X.

This isn’t bias against LATAM, I also want to see Australia lose business due to their crazy spy laws.
I mean, of course. If the people you wish to follow only post on Twitter, you have no choice in the matter.
Or "Go Map!!" for iOS, which has a a similar quest mode: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!
I got it from Batman Beyond.
Gosh, who will think of the shareholders?!
I tried items with rare values for 'surface.' I found and fixed a footpath through a pasture (the docs seemed to imply that "dirt" is sufficient for a path through a pasture). But my next item was in China and the surface was "木" which apparently means Wood. But the rest of the fields of this pier were also in Chinese, and I was too shy to update it. I hope that localization is handled separately and that it would have been fine, but... it would be super annoying if a Chinese-speaking editor updated an American map to have details all in Chinese. Googling "are tags on openstreetmap supposed to always be in English?" gave no hints.
Nope. Python type hinting is far far from Java like types.

And yes, I guess OP has now a large system that needs types enforced by the system to reduce the friction in evolving the stack.
I can only imagine what this refers to but after googling for a few minutes for "bluesky japan controversy" I'm just going to let this exchange color my impression of what's going on at bluesky:

> Deleted Post

>> Katie Tightpussy:
BLACKTHORNE: We are a moderation service for Bluesky with the goal of improving social media for progressive queer folks and leftists who wholeheartedly enjoy Japanese anime, manga, games, hentai, fan art, and doujin.

MARIKO: The Anjin incorrectly believes that he is an expert on Japanese culture.

>>> Sign in Required

>>> Sign in Required

>>> Yep, the "controversial fiction" thing is such a sad (yet hilarous) cop-out. They KNOW it's wrong so they employ this linguistic obfuscation to try and make people think they aren't pedos.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hslv64eax7d2lwrm7qtg44ud/po...
The models are so general that it is much easier to swap out GPT-4 for Claude or Gemini than most other APIs like payments for example
yup, just read the comment.
Perhaps we disagree on semantics here, but IMHO I wouldn't call this "reasoning". It's essentially just data compression, which is exactly what you get by constructing an encoder network that minimizes loss while trying to maximally crunch down that data into a handful of geometric dimensions.

"Mankind doesn't quite yet understand the geometry of logic" is laying it on a bit thick with the marketing speak, IMHO. It's just data compression whose result is somewhat obvious given what the loss function is optimizing for.

If a structure capable of real reasoning was being built, I wouldn't expect LLMs to get tripped up by simple questions like "How many Rs does the word Strawberry have in it?". There are only two simple reasoning systems you need to solve this question. You need to learn the English alphabet and you need to be able to count to a handful of single digit numbers, both tasks that kids of age 3-4 have mastered just fine. Putting together these two concepts allows you now to reason your way through any such question, with any word and any letter.

Instead, LLMs perform how we would mostly expect a stochastic parrot to react. They hallucinate an answer, immediately apologize when it's called out to be wrong, hallucinate a new, still incorrect answer, immediately apologize again, until they eventually get stuck in a loop of cursed context and model collapse.

I'm not suggested that an LLM couldn't learn such a reasoning task, for example, but it would need to look at many training examples of such problems, and more importantly, have an architecture and loss function that optimized for learning a mechanical pattern or equation for solving that kind of problem.

And in that regard, we're very, very far away from LLMs that can do any kind of generic reasoning, because I haven't seen any evidence that those models are generic enough that you can avoid learning lots and lots and lots of specific ways to approach and solve problems.

One thing I think it's critical to keep in mind is that improvisation upon contextually relevant data in your compressed knowledge base is not reasoning. It might sound convincing to a human reader, but when it's failing at much simpler reasoning tasks the illusion really is shattered.
The caps must be high enough that departments are in competition for funds. Presumably the outcome is then that the department for fluffy bunnies is funded up to its cap, taking money away from the department for unblocking drains.
I think Django's ORM is really great but only as long as that's the first thing you have seen.

If you started from Rails and ActiveRecord, you're probably not be very appreciative of Django's ORM.