skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the ever increasing cost (both financially and climate) of gasoline, it seems it would pay off in the long-term

A friend's Tesla they once worked out costs about "$1 per gallon of gas" equivalent. Meanwhile gas in Seattle is about $4-$5 per gallon
I say "Yes" to both of you.

Children should have privileges adults don't have. As they aren't full independent adults, it's fair to give them special treatment. Nobody is born an adult, so every person in society will get these benefits at some point of their lives.

At the same time, I don't see why airliners shouldn't be able to charge less for tickets that are truly "we will put you whatever we want irrespective of your needs and wants". Children who need to be by their parents shouldn't buy these tickets, the same way children shouldn't buy adult shoes.
I fed it some top half of the lines from here.. Aljazeera about the ongoing conflict.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/15/israels-wa...

and got this as

> output

Israel's Gaza Shitshow: 26 Dead, Beit Lahiya Residents Told to GTFO

More rubble, more bodies, more bullshit. Israel's playing whack-a-mole with Palestinians, hitting schools because why the fuck not? Meanwhile, they're telling folks in Beit Lahiya to scram, probably to make room for more "totally not settlements, we swear."

Oh, and Israelis are protesting for a Hamas deal. Good luck with that.
The exponent operator is just short for the POWER function in Excel. So from that perspective it is the correct behaviour I think even if it is mathematical incorrect.
>Serious question, if the United States decided to unilaterally cut North Korea off from the Internet, how hard would that be to do? Could we just knock out a few cables?

You will have to cut cables going to Russia (and\or out of Russia) and China at least.

Not to mention wireless comms.
It seems like there is an asymmetry, we need a way to allocate this pre-existing 'unlicensed' spectrum explicitly for public use... and 900MHz is def a sweet spot. It shouldn't even make sense to attempt to reallocate it. The public ownership should be immutable.
Strong +1 - the book is also very concise and full of practical advice. I wish we've put the learnings into practice even earlier in the process of building fragmentapp.io
Wow, that is a massive hit to fuel consumption from the A/C. What gives?
And for round two went with a lesswrong sequences..
Here's the source

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/gFvira6tHpLXnqCLH/p/TGux5Fhcd7Gm...

and here's the output

>output

TL;DR: People reject new ideas for irrational reasons, not just lack of credentials. Asking "Is that your true rejection?" can help, but be careful not to psychoanalyze.
Yeah we’ve been drone bombing other countries, even ones we’re not at war at, for 20 years. If most Americans Google which countries we have troops in they’ll be shocked to find we’re invading countries they don’t know about.

There are some good reasons people have given here why we aren’t doing it, as I suspected, but I’m sure borders aren’t on the list.
Driving in New Delhi is an entirely different universe than driving in San Francisco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPiP9PkLAs

Contrary to your assertions, operating a vehicle in an environment with humans is a social problem.
Is focusing on customers the wrong strategy for building successful products?
> Are either of you even former humanities PhD students?

I have my PhD in Greek and Latin. I applied to many schools for my PhD program and, on the advice of professors who had told me what I repeated above, accepted admission to the department that gave me the best aid offer, not necessarily the one with the best reputation. They were right, and I never paid a dime for my education.
Sheer enjoyment; my enthusiasm (Хочу всё знать!) for the language of Pushkin is only exceeded by my incompetence in utilising it.

(I'd thought you'd not only matched the verve but: saw mission — hit bullseye)

Not sure I'm resonating to the Smurfiki vibe, unless we're back to Goethe?

— ...a true horror, a realm filled with the relentless crashing quiet of peace punctuated by the wretched cacophony of joyousness...

— It's such a shame when a bad girl turns good

(wait a moment, I'm not really up on my lore, but this seems like it's leading up to a scene where Gargamel "Papa Smurf never told you what happened to your father" tells Smurfette to search her feelings, she knows it to be true? Nooooo)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaLa7NboOAw

EDIT: hmm, a Wellerman chastushka might take some reflection. In the meantime, I note that of course https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/thumb/6/6f/Кот_Мат... knows how to sew; in the middle of the ocean one certainly isn't going to quickly put into port and try to find a seamstress, after all.

[cf "(I like to shift girls)
/ While they're ironing my jocks
/ Or fixing holes in my socks"]
>So scrum as an ideology seems to be net-successful even if implemented wrong.

How do you get to this conclusion? I haven't seen any implementation of scrum that didn't slow down development speed, due to unnecessary meetings and micromanagement.

This might be that I've only seen 8 or so "implementations". If there's any evidence that scrum is a key net positive I'd like to see it at this point.

Kanban IME can work well if the manager understood the core principle: Limit amount of concurrent work, use daily standup to prioritize work and unblock people hitting the multitasking limit.

Sadly this concept which is the core tenet of Kanban and can be explained in one sentence was still too much to grasp for some managers, but I've at least seen most Kanban implementations be either a net positive, or neutral.

I might be biased by my own experience, but I still need to see a Scrum implementation that doesn't grind productivity to a halt.
In many places it’s actually illegal to sit at a red light or intersection with your car in neutral, foot off the clutch. You’ll fail your driving test if you do that.
If there is an emergency, getting moving is much slower than if you were in gear, foot on clutch.
Round 3:(and last round)

This time picked up one of PG's essays.... this one ..

https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

>output

TL;DR:

1. Name-calling is weak.
2. Ad hominem attacks are weak.
3. Criticizing tone is weak.
4. Contradiction needs evidence.
5. Counterargument can be convincing.
6. Refutation is strongest, refute the central point.
7. Classifying disagreement helps identify dishonest arguments.
8. Being less mean makes people happier.
Ah, sorry, I read your comment as disagreeing with me, now I see it's the opposite. Exactly, LLMs (for now) are good at writing low-level code, but we need someone to work on architecture.

I had an idea the other day of an LLM system that would start from a basic architecture of an app, and would zoom down and down on components until it wrote the entire codebase, module by module. I'll try that, it sounds promising.
Or you can download OpenSCAD.

https://openscad.org
Rust makes sense because it is Open Source and a growing language in the gaming world. Unity, on the other hand, is a proprietary, legacy engine which is on the way out. I would have selected Rust and Godot instead.
Hah, this is definitely going to happen. First llms kill the original public internet by simultaneously plagiarizing and deincentivizing everything original, then after it disappears they can sell it back to us again by unpacking the now-proprietary model data which has become the only “archive” of the pre llm internet. In other words: A product so perfect that even avoiding the product requires you have to use the product, what a complete nightmare
Why? LLMs are generally much better at writing code than doing whatever English major are supposedly bringing to the table.

> don't believe art can be taught in universities as a degree program

what does that have to do with studying English literature?
> Rangers spent 20 minutes removing it. Animals will eat the cheetos, mold will spread to the walls

Where it will be consumed by the mold eating cave inhabitants. Do they really think that cave ecosystems weren't prepared for a deer carcass? They had received external supplies of nutrients for millions of years.

Keeping caves clean is a good thing, but if people can't behave can be fined for it. In any case, regular cleaning teams should be included in the budget of the park as part of the management. Stop being cheap with nature.

Except for the aluminum and plastic bag, easily removable, this is a storm in a teacup. Would be relevant only when prehistoric art is present.
Same experience, but with TypeScript and Go. They gave me a 60-day trial (IIRC), I used it for two days, disabled it for the next 58 days, and after that removed it from the editor.
FPV Drone Simulator 2000
I spend an evening hacking together a stack of boards to create a drone interface for both my transmitter (via https://github.com/mikeneiderhauser/CRSFJoystick) and my goggles with a HDMI to composite to 5.8GHz video link.

The result is a lot of fun, and easy to make!
Rubbish. Humans absolutely hallucinate things, including lists of bars.

Most of them do it infrequently but it absolutely happens. Sometimes they don't even realise it (see all the research about fictitious memories and eye witness accounts).

It's definitely a problem that LLMs hallucinate all the time, but let's not pretend humans are perfect and never bullshit.

Hell, I've worked with one awful guy who did bullshit just as much as LLMs. Literally never said "I don't know". Always some answer that you were never sure was true or just entirely made up. Annoyingly it worked quite well for him - lots of people couldn't see through it.
Interesting to see that, apparently, Monero was never used.
Oh I’m not imagine anyone helping us. Im wondering why we aren’t cutting undersea cables or drone bombing land based ones.

All the “international sovereignty” responses are humorous to anyone whose paid attention to the last twenty years of the American military.
I'd say the same about microprocessors. They haven't changed _that_ much now in about 15 years. You could put a Core2 Quad on the same playfield as the latest and greatest Zen or Intel "14th Gen" - they're recognisably the same in ways that, say, a 1996 Pentium Pro and a 1981 8088 just aren't.

At the same time, I wouldn't write off machine learning models so quickly. Applied in tight focus, they're unlocking a bunch of capabilities, even if consumer-grade Dall-E, ChatGPT etc are mostly automated bullshit generators.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546343
God I hate programmers so much.

"Hurdurdur it's not my fault. The end users are wrong. We shouldn't have to spend time creating an interface and UX that actually works as expected"

Absolute fucking retards. We make tools for these people. If these tools do not work as end users would expect to that is our mistake. Stop coping about 'training end users'.
Because LLMs works like how system 1 does, with heuristics such as pattern matching, frequency heuristics, etc. The fall back to coding stuff works not because it's doing system 2, it's because there are many instances of system 2 thinking for this particular problem done by humans so that the instances can be found using the heuristics.
There was indeed sabotage, in the form of dismantling and not replacing hundreds of working mail sorting machines in an election year:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/08/19/repor...
https://truthout.org/articles/usps-sorting-machines-are-stil...
https://www.ajc.com/news/postal-service-tells-judge-mail-sor...
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/usps-removed-711...

I don't know how he hasn't been removed after this.
The tales continue at El Reg:

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
> Just like you can't substitute Mozart with 100 mediocre composers.

Commercially, you can. After all, that's the current music business.
How many? Near as I can tell a few drone bombs could accomplish this. We love drone bombing other countries.
Of course, a self driving car not trained for that situation would do as badly as a brand new 16 year old driver.

Just like the newbie it will learn, and get as good or better than everyone else.
It's good to not have an empty canvas. Like a writer and an empty page. But the output is not that good yet imo.
Input (copied from eigenvalues and eigenvectors Wikipedia entry): In linear algebra, an eigenvector (/ˈaɪɡən-/ EYE-gən-) or characteristic vector is a vector that has its direction unchanged by a given linear transformation. More precisely, an eigenvector, v, of a linear transformation, T, is scaled by a constant factor, λ, when the linear transformation is applied to it: T v = λ v. It is often important to know these vectors in linear algebra. The corresponding eigenvalue, characteristic value, or characteristic root is the multiplying factor λ.

Output: Eigenvectors are vectors that don't give a damn when a linear transformation tries to mess with them. They just scale up or down like they're at the gym. Mathematicians love these stubborn bastards for some reason.
I would have thought that would be Lua, not Elixir?
ChatGPT is remarkably good at removing bullshit, whereas this just gives an error.

I asked it to rewrite the following:

“This thesis critically interrogates how masculinist practices of breakdancing offers a site for the transgression of gendered norms. Drawing on my own experiences as a female within the male-dominated breakdancing scene in Sydney, first as a spectator, then as an active crew member, this thesis questions why so few female participants engage in this creative space, and how breakdancing might be the space to displace and deterritorialise gender. I use analytic autoetthnography and interviews with scene members in collaboration with theoretical frameworks offered by Deleuze and Guttari, Butler, Bourdieu and other feminist and post-structuralist philosophers, to critically examine how the capacities of bodies are constituted and shaped in Sydney's breakdancing scene, and to also locate the potentiality for moments of transgression. In other words, I conceptualize the breaking body as not a 'body' constituted through regulations and assumptions, but as an assemblage open to new rhizomatic connections. Breaking is a space that embraces difference, whereby the rituals of the dance not only augment its capacity to deterritorialize the body, but also facilitate new possibilities for performativities beyond the confines of dominant modes of thought and normative gender construction. Consequently, this thesis attempts to contribute to what I perceive as a significant gap in scholarship on hip-hop, breakdancing, and autoethnographic explorations of Deleuze-Guattarian theory.”

It gave me:

“This thesis examines how breakdancing, often seen as a male-dominated activity, challenges traditional gender norms. Based on my personal experience as a woman in Sydney’s breakdancing community—first as a spectator and then as a participant—I explore why so few women take part and how breakdancing can be a space to challenge and redefine gender roles. Using my own story and interviews with others in the scene, along with ideas from philosophers like Deleuze, Guattari, Butler, and Bourdieu, I look at how people’s bodies and identities are shaped within this culture. I argue that breakdancing allows for breaking away from conventional ideas about gender, offering new ways for people to express themselves. This thesis aims to fill a gap in research about hip-hop, breakdancing, and how Deleuze-Guattarian theory can be applied to personal experiences in this space.”
code is law, no?
What about shell companies? Corporations are people too!
I think that is about the same as the USA. Do you think zip codes wouldn’t work. I thought that it was the simplest mechanism. A city is an area and it is easy to tell how close to a zip code one is.
To be fair, I will do both presidential candidates.

Kamala Harris’s answer on fracking and position change.

Input:

"My values have not changed," Harris asserted. "My position is we have got to invest in diverse sources of energy so we reduce our reliance on foreign oil."

NoBS:

"I'll say whatever gets me votes. I like oil when it's convenient."

Trump between fund raisers in Southern California:

Input:

“I want to express my support for all of the families affected by the landslides in Rancho Palos Verdes,” Trump said. “Landslides are something to be taken care of … The mountain is moving and it can be stopped, but they need some help from the government.”

NoBS:

"Landslides suck. Rich people's houses are sliding down a hill. They want taxpayers to foot the bill. Shocker."

Both gold, hahahaha! Well done!
Yes I'm aware. It would be good to have a group policy or some such registry setting to disable them all by default for every computer on the network.
I thought the agreement is Microsoft gets full access to all the being models, except when they develop AGI.

If that's the case, I could see their relationship turning sour. OpenAI wanting to declare AGI to break ties with Microsoft; and Microsoft doing everything it can to deny that OpenAI has created AGI.
It's so disheartening that a lot of effort is put towards presenting ads to people in all spectrum of tech.
Noise, energy profile, safety profile, level of automation.

If they solve those well enough, it means a lot of the operational restrictions that make helicopters very limited in scope (few landing sites, insanely high operating costs due to needing very specialised, highly trained pilots and maintenance crew etc.) could be somewhat lifted.

Fairly big "if" though. Rotary wings are inherently high energy, and heavier-than-air flight has much, much tighter safety and reliability requirements than cars for a good reason.
In the US at least, programming languages were either developed by large corporations (Sun Microsystems, Apple, Google, Bell Labs, IBM) or research institutions (MIT) or Government (Ada, COBOL).
it will happen sooner or later*
This is hands down the best use case for LLM's I've seen to date!

Makes me think of Karl Pilkingtons bullshit man super hero
https://youtu.be/1lRIQGU2RRk?si=d1ea8Sc44PyBy6yO
Works also the other way round:

> PLEASE ADD BUSSWORDS AND OTHER BULLSHIT TO THIS:
> We track everything you do on our site. Accept it or get lost.

results in

> Leveraging cutting-edge data analytics and user-centric engagement metrics, our innovative platform seamlessly integrates a comprehensive suite of proprietary tracking solutions to synergistically enhance your browsing experience. By accepting our state-of-the-art privacy policy, you empower us to deliver personalized, value-added content tailored to your unique digital footprint. Should you opt to forgo this transformative opportunity, we regretfully cannot accommodate your online journey at this juncture.
Sound like we live near each other:)
When challenged why we'd scrum since we were doing better as a whole before (better products, happier devs), mgt replies that they'd need scrum to detail the work we did so that they could write longer bills to the clients.
E.g. OpenGL normalized device coordinates have x=0,y=0 at screen center, with top left being x=-1,y=1. It's easier to reason with in many cases.
Samuel L. Ipsum[0]:

> Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show's called a pilot. Then they show that show to the people who make shows, and on the strength of that one show they decide if they're going to make more shows. Some pilots get picked and become television programs. Some don't, become nothing. She starred in one of the ones that became nothing.

>

> You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man.

>

> Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.

>

> You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man.

>

> The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.

Output

> Pilots become shows. Some don't.

>

> Ice moves fast. Avalanche killed some. Oath broken.

>

> Can't give you the case, been through too much shit.

>

> The righteous man faces evil. I'll strike down with vengeance.

It didn’t recognise the filler, but I love the fourth one.

[0]: https://slipsum.com/
Which most recent (and how recent) were started by individuals in their spare time?

Perl is one that comes to mind and it’s old.
Is it? The thing's huge, air conditioning is never cheap. A quick search says average cars consume ~25% more gas with AC, making it somewhat high.

I think short trips at low speeds are also terrible for AC, dunno how they did the projections.
Introducing checkboxes somewhere in the bowels of settings adds more ways for things to go wrong.

What is the default? Do the defaults differ across versions? How do you keep it consistent across computers and installations? What if you actually need the function ad hoc?

This reminds me of CSV export. I haven't used Windows for a decade but I remember that if you wanted to change how decimal numbers were exported you had to change the locale and reboot the computer. To change a setting in Excel. That is insane. Sprinkling checkbox patches isn't too far from this.
The company isn't optimising for fastest development speed. They typically optimise for low variance, consistent value in support of existing processes.

Interestingly, if you want highest value then for software it is best to use a high-variance strategy. But that is never going to come out of a company large enough to need professional management because it is pointless to manage large numbers of people to a high variance strategy. Google is an interesting case study where they tried that and, by and large, flopped. It makes more sense to spin out separate companies VC-style. I assume programmers occasionally quit companies, build something and sell it back to the company at extortionate prices which would be the right way to do fast development.

That isn't to say professional management is bad - large companies need it. It is just a fact that large companies aren't good at development and something like scrum elevates them from total failure to unproductive but fumbling in a good direction.