skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author sounds like even though they have read extensively about various "best" practices, they did not really gain an understanding of the tradeoffs involved with each one.

> “Don’t Repeat Yourself” (DRY) is basically good advice, but sometimes just copy/pasting things is just the more pragmatic thing to do, and not really a big deal.

Duplicating code on purpose is not about being pragmatic, it's about recognizing when DRY would violate the single responsibility principle.

The ability to weigh tradeoffs in context is what makes some engineers better than others.
I guess it would be an interesting experiment to randomly mix 'good' art into the bad art collection and vice versa and ask a load of critics and/or artists to comment on them.
> using a spoofed number of the victims.

Open telephone system security holes seem as much a malpractice as the militarization of police.
Hall of shame: Fake LosslessCut clones
> A conoid is a ruled surface whose rulings are parallel to a plane (called the directrix plane) and intersect a fixed line (called the axis of the conoid) (Gellert et al. 1989, p. 202). Examples include the circular conoid, helicoid, hyperbolic paraboloid, parabolic conoid, Plücker conoid, right circular conoid, Wallis's conical edge, Whitney umbrella, and Zindler conoid. If the axis is perpendicular to the directrix plane, the conoid is called a right conoid (Gray et al. 2006, p. 436).

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Conoid.html

so, a surface with stripes - example https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1366651
Well, given the centuries and number of people and things around the globe that fit some kind of Christianity, yes I expect the meaning of the word to be pretty diluted.

That's the same logic regarding any concept at that scale ("American" would be the same case, there is a tight definition, but the wider usage has almost nothing to do with it)

To me that's just how language works.
If you start that charity, I think there's a decent chance the substack author will write a blog post about it. Seems like a great idea to me.
I distinctly remember a captcha which asked me to identify fire hydrants. Some of the pictures were hydrants, while others were standpipes. These are different things, and I answered accordingly.

The service refused to acknowledge my humanity until I relented that a standpipe was a hydrant. If at some future date any of us burn to death due to an automated fire truck that misbehaved due to this, we’ll know why.
This is the more correct answer. It's also answers why developed nations became developed and undeveloped nations did not. The west advanced just fine without "brain drain" in the centuries prior.

That being said, I wouldn't use the US as some bastion of progress. Technically, we haven't progressed much since the 70s? 80s? outside of GDP going up, but that's just a number on a chart. Most of us today could go back to the 70s and live not much different than now (compared to the any earlier decade). It's mostly a side effect of being the world's reserve currency.
Responses to animal welfare articles are sad. There are mountains of evidence[0] that many animals experience emotions (including suffering) in much the same way that we do. It's tough seeing people say, without hesitation, they'd kill millions of animals over a single human.

> Shrimp are a test of our empathy. Shrimp don’t look normal, caring about them isn’t popular, but basic ethical principles entail that they matter.

I think we'll be looking back in the not-so-far future with disgust about how we treated animals.

[0] RTFA
They don’t call anymore. They just text.
Even if that were true, and it's not, it would be mitigated by better training and careful psychological filtering.
> A conoid is a ruled surface whose rulings are parallel to a plane (called the directrix plane) and intersect a fixed line (called the axis of the conoid) (Gellert et al. 1989, p. 202). Examples include the circular conoid, helicoid, hyperbolic paraboloid, parabolic conoid, Plücker conoid, right circular conoid, Wallis's conical edge, Whitney umbrella, and Zindler conoid. If the axis is perpendicular to the directrix plane, the conoid is called a right conoid (Gray et al. 2006, p. 436).

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Conoid.html
The number you’re citing is much higher than the number of firearm-related homicides on your linked page; I believe that’s because it includes suicides, which are not relevant to this conversation.
Man, This looks really awesome! However I have some questions.
1. Do you plan CPU overclocking of your gaming rigs? I'm asking because on so many PCs it doesn't seem realistic, so why did you go with 13600KF CPU instead of cheaper 13500/13600 non-K CPU? Also, If you don't plan overclocking didn't you through about going with cheaper B760 Motherboard + 10Gbit/s NIC?
2. Why did you choosed so slow memory? These i5 can benefit a lot in gaming from fast memory such as 7200MT/s+. 6000MT/s CL30 would probably be at same price as your kit, while providing nice performance boost in games.
3. How does Key rollover work for you on K120? Can you use Shift + W + 1 key combo for example? Just asking, because some people on Internet say such combo won't work on later batches of K120.

In this setup what I really appreciate is that you didn't go with Virtualized PCs route (that causes a lot of problems with modern video games) and so much amemities for your cat :)
Here's the thing. We're talking about people who are the accessibility team for hCaptcha. They should at least have a figleaf of an understanding of life for blind people.

The other problem we have is that online companies tend to be accountable to no one. Short of law suits, my friend who got banned from hCaptcha for "not being blind" has no recourse, because nobody is accountable.
Unfortunately, even understanding these things, on a shared connection it might take you literally two or three minutes of captcha work before Google recognizes your personhood.

Am I identifying the boxes wrong? Am I doing it too fast? Where do "Stairs" begin and end? Does a motorcycle include its rider? Or is Google just fucking with me and failing me on purpose?

My workplace had a period this year where captcha was put into the cashier checkout process.
I guess I've spent my whole life waiting for the funny reveal that this whole thing is a funny prank. I like when things are funny.
These are already users that want to let the company know that they are blind in order to qualify for special treatment. In that case showing the certificate doesn't seem to be much of an extra privacy issue to me.
>There's a bunch of free riders in the form of shareholders artificially driving up the price of goods.

Isn't this a natural consequence of capitalism in entrenched industries?
A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers
Why not make future pages better instead of old existing pages better?
Why not improve the browsers or web assembly or dom or anything that hasn't changed in 20 years?
I am perfectly happy with having to prove that I am blind to get my bus pass, but if It was necessary to access a website I would just not use that site. Lets hope it never gets that bad. There's always Anticaptcha to fall back on, but I hate their business model.
Brain drain is a real thing, but there are other issues preventing poor countries from being rich. Most of all political dysfunction.

As far as brain drain goes, I don't think there's much point in fighting it. Cities like Singapore and Dubai demonstrate that you can quickly build a city/country people want to live. Why shouldn't Bhutan have to compete with the rest of the world to attract young, talented people? They should! And they can do fine at it, they just have to prioritize it. And from the article, that's exactly what they're doing.
Plain hybrids currently do sell better than PHEVs or EVs.

I'm not sure in which "best of both worlds" a standard hybrid is better than a PHEV - a PHEV allows for cheaper fuel (grid electricity) when it's available. That being said, the extra cost is associated with larger batteries than standard hybrids. As batteries come down in price / size, I'm not sure why people would want a standard hybrid over a PHEV.
If nothing else, I love the logo. A hyper-realistic take on the ElePHPhant [0].

[0] https://www.elephpant.com/
> Dealerships generally get your name and phone number if you call them to ask about the price including fees and taxes. If you make them post defaults online, they get nothing from you. Clearly better.

I email, not call, and I lie. About my name, phone number, all of it. Best they will ever get is zip code. They could post defaults, but then I still don't know the actual OTD price -- it's already a hassle today because I have to be aware that dealers will advertise discounts that are only available in-state, and only mention that detail in the small print. I live in a metro that spans two states so this is common.

> I'm curious about this. Do you have some examples?

My state has a plethora of plate designs, and how much you pay depends on which you pick (it's really just a scheme for getting more revenue, of course). I can also choose (dependent on the vehicle, not all qualify) to pay for an extended registration period.

> They just choose not to disclose it.

I agree that they should disclose it. And they are required to by law. It's on the Monroney sticker, and it is included under "Total MSRP".
A lot of people buying BEVs aren’t doing it for economy or environment, but for the driving experience. It’s a splurge for sure, but it makes driving more fun.
Off topic, but it seems like self-loading pistols took a weird detour; at least for cartridges too powerful for blowback operation. There are all sorts of weird delayed-blowback systems that were popular between WW2 and 1980-ish, and now 9mm and larger seems to almost exclusively use a 1911-style short-recoil system.
I was little, but I remember using Windows 95 on a machine that had it pre-installed and it ran stably from what I recall. They're good childhood memories more than that I'd be a revisionist agent

That Windows Vista and newer look better, even if their design languages are mixed (old and new configuration panels mixed depending on which ones they could be bothered to recreate, for example) and are more complex, I don't think anyone argues. I've never heard of anyone using the simpler classic theme for reasons other than nostalgia or performance
“Moral bankruptcy” seems like a quite apt description of the state of affairs of being unable to afford to operate morally at a given level of scale.

Scaling is not a right.
> How many people would agree to get branded with a hot branding iron in exchange for a billion dollars?

Temporary pain without any meaningful lasting injuries? I do worse long-term damage than that at my actual job just in neck and wrist damage and not being sufficiently active (on a good day I get 1-2hrs, but that doesn't leave much time for other things), and I'm definitely not getting paid a billion for it.
It seems statistically rare (highly unlikely) that a SWAT team would injure or kill someone in the US too. I can only find references to 3 - of which only 1 is a result of a direct shooting by law enforcement. The other two are a shooting of law enforcement and a heart attack.

Here is my reference for 3 events in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du...).
I've had multiples of my students get into legal trouble over the years from using these. Just understand that almost all of these professional level software packages phone home even after being cracked, so you basically have to airgap your computer if you use them. It's a major reason why I steer them towards open source CAD packages, and towards the pro level CAD packages with usable free hobby licensing.
Suggesting we murder ("euthanize") people who are predisposed to a lack of empathy is probably the least empathetic reaction I could think of. The proposed answer to sociopathy is itself sociopathic.

This inherent contradiction is evidence enough that no sufficiently objective metric may distinguish "sociopath" from "not-sociopath". The power offered is great enough that it would be immediately abused.
Hybrids don't really solve much.

All they do is slightly improve fuel efficiency; but they cost more to buy, and cost more to maintain. I had to dump my first hybrid because I couldn't find anyone to fix it.

The way to think of it is that a hybrid (both traditional and PHEV,) has more parts than an ICE car, which has more parts than an EV. It's more things that can fail as the car gets old, and more things to pay for when the car is new.

Edit: I should add that hybrids were good for automakers to dip their toe in the water for electrification: IE, get the supply chain working and get institutional knowledge. But, that ship sailed 10 years ago.
> although the old multi-windowed interface was just something else

Well, it's pretty good for multi-monitor setup. Dedicating the whole monitor for the image without endless panels in the way is convenient.
You're absolutely right. In the situation you describe, the culture is already so screwed up with perverse incentives that you end up not caring if what you're doing is best for the company, just what is best for yourself and your compensation/image at the company. And I don't blame anyone for acting this way when it's what bad management is rewarding and demanding.
I would love a 10-15K BYD. I was told recently desiring a BYD is un-American when I can spend 3 times the price on a Tesla. No thanks! I’ll hold out for something truly cheap. Cars in America are insanely priced.
> it seems the problem is not with happiness, but with the seductive appeal of materialism and the effects of exposing one culture to another.

I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but what struck me is that your comment would fit seamlessly into a text from the DDR regime, when it was still alive. (You know, the former communist republic of East Germany, which needed a wall to keep its citizens within the socialist paradise)

I'm not saying that this makes your comment wrong, I'm just wondering what this means with regard to former communism.
It's hard to really say objectively, as the strange yellow American school bus is kind of an iconic image - perhaps because it looks so different to a regular public transport bus as seen around the rest of the world.
This sounds like the same argument that was made for about 10 years (2000 to 2010) that micropayments would save traditional (print) media in a digital world. It didn't work due to market fragmentation and friction to make a payment.

And, the reality of your fancy idea is that normie users would turn away if they made a mistake on the CAPTCHA and were suddenly presented with a screen "charging" them one pence.
Software engineers find compilers interesting and useful.
Is there somewhere I can find more info on this? Car enthusiast here who is genuinely interested in learning.

My impressions had been that it largely mirrors the EV market: A few early PHEV models (such as the BMW i3) had poor battery management leading to unreliable battery packs. This was fixed in subsequent generations and is not a problem unless you are scraping the bottom of the used market. That's much the same as how EV batteries are generally reliable unless you buy early versions of certain problematic models (particularly the Nissan Leaf).
I'm not talking about changing the healthcare system entirely, but the tax deduction status.
I'm planning for a fault shifting where every accident with a "self driving vehicle" will require the victim to prove that the vehicle was at fault.

A Tesla robotaxi missed it's turn and ended up in your living room ?
You must prove that the road's quality is correct, the lines were painted with the right tint of white/yellow for the federal "Self driving code", the distance of your living room to the road respects the said code, your house siding are in a accepted material,...

You were hit by a waymo while walking on the pavement ?
Prove that you were wearing a color approved jacket (Soon for sale on Amazon !), the cement's quality,...
Congratulations on shipping! This looks incredibly polished for an initial release from a solo developer. And as others have said, great name!

As a T1D dad it's great to see work like this, not least because it should raise the expectations of what we should expect from well funded engineering teams within the established players.

Right now it's not a great fit for my use case, in that one phone follows my 9 year old around, but the bulk of management happens on other phones on distinct accounts.

I agree with @jcims point about the permissions, greedily allowing write permissions to those data items up front feels like a real point of friction, I'd much prefer to see that done lazily at the point the user is enabling a feature that needs it.
> What makes a bad art piece anyway?

Whatever the people who buy art and are influential say is bad. In general, very wealthy people and the dealers in their orbit determine which art is worthy and which art and artists will be forgotten.
true. I wasted over a year waiting to get a base model Toyota Sienna, and eventually realized they might as well not exist.
Could you save on pumping energy by sending the water to underground aquifers rather than the surface?
I actually went to the penis museum 5 years ago! It was... maybe not the best thing. It's not exactly clear in a lot of the marketing materials, and even once you arrive, that it's just a single room behind the front desk. It felt a lot more like a road side attraction than anything else. The gift shop in the front was a similar size to the museum in the back.

To be fair my expectations of a penis museum weren't THAT high, and it was still funny to go and get pictures! But that's about all the experience really is.
Hono is to credit for the design, really nice!
It demonstrates awareness, it’s not proving it’s aware. But this is nonetheless a demonstration of what it would look like because such output is the closest thing we have to measuring it.

We can’t measure that humans are self aware but we claim they are and our measure is simply observation of inputs and outputs. So whether or not an AI is self aware will be measured in the exact same way. Here we have one output that is demonstrable evidence in favor of awareness while hallucinations and lies are evidence against

There’s nothing gullible here. We don’t know either way.

Also citing lecun doesn’t lend any evidence in your favor. Geoffrey Hinton makes the opposite claim and Geoffrey is literally the father of modern AI. Both of these people are making claims from the level of measure that is to high level to draw any significant conclusion.

> Either way, you can’t just “teach” laws to statistical models and have them always follow. It’s one of the main limitations of statistical models…

This is off topic. I never made this claim.

> It demonstrated generating text, which people attribute to a complex internal process, when in reality, it’s just optimizing a man-made loss function.

All of modern deep learning is just a curve fitting algorithm. Every idiot knows this. What you don’t understand is that YOU are also the result of a curve fitting algorithm.

You yourself are a statistical model. But this is just an abstraction layer. Just like how an OS can be just a collection of machine instructions you can also characterize an OS as a kernel that manages processes.

We know several layers of abstractions that characterize the LLM. We know the neuron, we know the statistical perspective. We also know roughly about some of the layers of abstraction of the human brain. The LLM is a text generator, but so are you.

There are several layers of abstraction We don’t understand about the human brain and these are the roughly the same layers we don’t understand for the LLM. Right now our only way of understanding these things is through inputs and outputs.

These are the facts:

1. we have no idea how to logically reproduce that output with full understanding of how it was produced.

2. We have historically attributed such output to self awareness.

Shows that LLMs may be self aware. They may not be. We don’t fully know. But the output is unique and compelling and a dismissal that such output is just statistics is clearly irrational given the amount of unknowns and given the unique nature of the output.
Also, where did the human come from? Are they already on their deathbed, prolonged in this thought experiment for only a few fleeting moments? Were they themselves a murderer?
The FPTP system of elections used for most federal elections in the country is certainly the worst part. Stabilizing at only two viable parties rather than several that must (most of the time) form coalitions to govern causes a bunch of problems, with few benefits. It is also why so much of the rest is hard to fix, including why this system of elections has been so hard to move away from. At the strictly federal level, the notorious electoral college system reinforces FPTP and has accomplished little of its positive intentions, leaving only "give lower-free-population slave states more power" (which has become simply "give lower population states more power" after the civil war) which effect is simply bad, as was the original primary reason for including it (and again, secondary reasons like "direct election of a position like president is kinda dumb [true!] so we should instead vote for trusted, wise representatives to go make the decision for us" never worked as intended, so aren't reasons to keep it)

The Supreme Court was recognized as super-dangerous at the founding and the solution some of our much-revered founders provided was "I guess we can just ignore them when they do really bad things?" which definitely seems not great.

Lack of a defense against gerrymandering is extremely bad, but file under things that jettisoning FPTP would largely fix without further specific action. The many ill effects of FPTP are why it's so bad.

There's some evidence that common law significantly increases the overall cost of government administration over continental systems of jurisprudence, though that's a more-recent and developing area of potential weakness.
I'm not sure there's much correlation between governments wanting their people to be happy and building gulags.

I'm not that up on George Bernard Shaw but there is now a World Happiness Report published out of Oxford, not far from where he used to hang out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
U.S is outperforming everyone else economically. At what cost though? And for how long?

There is an insane wealth gap. People always seem to be stressed. There is plenty of food, but quality isn’t great. We don’t even need to start on healthcare and housing and college tuition. Then there is gun violence. Women’s rights are going away slowly too.

Sure, developing countries have lots of problems too. I suppose each person has to decide what kind of problems they are ok dealing with?

Sad part is - most of these problems are man made. Even sadder is that just a few dozen people seem to be the cause for most problems
> How lucky for you

Yes, surely it is a very good position - but it's not just plain luck, it comes from lots of training.

> No need to present arguments

The argument is there, you missed it: "If you do not find X a «hard obvious fact», try arguing for the opposite".
> I don't think anyone has ever thought that best practices will always benefit you.

Whenever a "best practice" or "convention" has been presented to me, that is how it has been framed. (...it is best practice, therefore, it will definitely benefit you to follow it)