skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A car is an inelastic good that is priced beyond what the market can actually bear. This is why the used market is so insane: people make do with a secondary market because they need the good but can't afford it on the actual market. And now there's a supply crunch on that secondary market, because the primary one has risen so much.
No not even close by every single possible measure.

I was there, I suffered through it, Google would have to make TONS of hostile moves for that fact to change.

I have no interest in the arguments of a closed source subscription service that wants me to switch to the bundled browser of the wealthiest company on earth's most popular consumer OS, lecturing me about using the 4th wealthiest company on earth's browser that I freely installed.

The most important one from an anti-trust perspective, every device I've ever had Chrome on I've had to seek out and install/make default Chrome, that includes my mobile devices which used the manufactures browser by default.

If I want to use chromium I can, Safari has been VERY late in implementing certain industry spec standards (SSE's, web sockets, IndexedDB API, animations, relative color syntax, container queries, a bunch of <video> stuff, flexbox, the list goes on and on.)
> But everyone just started writing everything in JS, and the ecosystem ended up as a mish-mash of native/non-native.

Because the native written stuff breaks all the darn time and it creates cross-plat nightmares.

My stress levels are inversely proportional to how many native packages I have to try to get building within a project, be that project in Python, Java, or JS.

JS+Node runs on everything. Prepackaged C++ libraries always seem to be missing at least one target platform that I need!
Given the rise of Physican Assistants and Nurse Practitioners and their expanding scope of (even independent) practice across various states, specifically to address this growing shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs), it almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that fewer potential physicians choose family medicine as that's the first specialty that seems most likely to be addressed by PAs and NPs.
That's exactly it. Up until now, it was widely believed that this would risk nuclear war, which is why it wasn't allowed.

But now the US is about to have a President who is far, far more favorable to Putin. Would Putin blow up the US just before it's going to cease support for Ukraine entirely?

This is a calculated risk. Everything about this war has been a calculated risk (and indeed, any war). There is a strong argument to be made that nuclear war was never really going to happen, and that we should have allowed Ukraine to attack Russia more directly all along. The present administration rejected that, but now that calculation has changed.

Is it correct? Who the heck knows.
Comparison of Operating Systems
You're talking about the implementation of the protocol, right?

That is a good implementation of it, called GraphQL Yoga[0]

However I'm concerned there is a slight disconnect here. I'm saying that the technical specification of GraphQL does not lend itself to being bad, rather its the failure of developers to really understand its purpose and what its for (its a giant aggregator, with various ways to optimally aggregate things together, depending on what is optimal for a given problem set)

For that, I recommend becoming more familiar with the specification itself[1] because thats what I'm talking about. The specification (and thus its technical nature) doesn't prescribe anything regarding how you get data on to the graph. Many people equate GraphQL with database problems[2]

This doesn't mean I don't understand that GraphQL has shortcomings, but all approaches to APIs have short comings. I have found GraphQL has the least amount

[0]: https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-yoga

[1]: https://spec.graphql.org

[2]: Common complaint I see all the time. I find it stems from a failure to understand how the entirety of GraphQL is meant to work, and some of the mechanics within. Like when to appropriately leverage DataLoader[3], for instance.

[3]: https://github.com/graphql/dataloader
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As a blind person, I genuinely believe that hCaptcha, being as terrible as it is, is still the best solution among the ones that we can physically achieve in the world as it exists right now.

Audio captchas don't work for people with hearing issues and/or who don't speak your n supported languages, where n is usually <10. I've had to help people out with these over the phone, it was not fun.

Even for people for whom they do work, it's worth keeping in mind that bots can solve them by now, and so users whose activity looks too fraudulent, who are still given access to the visual captchas, have to be blocked from using the audio ones. I have also seen this happen.

Text captchas are a non-option by now, they're very easy to solve with LLMs, and the way they have to be phrased makes it impossible to align LLMs not to solve them, like you can do with the visual ones.

Google's ReCaptcha can get away with having no actual challenge for most users, blind or otherwise, but that's because they're Google, they do enough user tracking that they don't actually need a captcha. Google is the only company that can get away with this, and even for them, it doesn't work in all situations, even when the user fully trusts Google and has not adjusted any privacy preferences.

Sure, you could stop using captchas entirely, if you're fine with receiving dozens of viagra ads on every single platform each day, abolishing all "contact us" and comment forms on the internet, having a significantly higher credit card fraud rate (which translates directly to higher prices and a much worse experience for consumers), and getting all your semi-public records and social media activity immediately scraped by shady companies and sold to anybody who expresses any interest. Unsurprisingly, most users are, in fact, not fine with this.
It's the same feeling I had after reading the article, though, and I'm pretty familiar with anthropic reasoning.

The anthropic principle is the most plausible answer we have to the honestly quite reasonable question of "if all of these things are so unlikely, why did they still all happen?", so why not emphasize it more?

The idea is also pretty powerful in ordinary/non-metaphysical contexts in the form of survivorship bias, and something useful to keep in mind whenever listening to somebody successful post-hoc explaining how all of their conscious past decisions inevitably led them to where they are.
Other ecosystems usually do not have problems to the extent the author had.
My rationale is that they're teaching cars what things they shouldn't drive into, so I'm pretty liberal with what constitutes a motorcycle, including the person on top.
There are alternatives, like Web of Knowledge. You basically need to be in a Uni for that though.
> 22. Switching on sort by date will impose a filter to papers published within the year, and you cannot do anything about that.

!!! And here I thought it's been broken for years, and a sign of decay due to lack of internal support.
I doubt any real expert would be tempted by an offer to author new material, because that cannot be done in a good way.

One could author some projects that can be implemented in FPGAs, but those do not provide good training material for generating code that could be used to implement a project in an ASIC, because the constraints of the design are very different.

Designing an ASIC is a year-long process and it is never completed before testing some prototypes, whose manufacture may cost millions. Authoring some Verilog or VHDL code for an imaginary product that cannot be tested on real hardware prototypes could result only in garbage training material, like the code of a program that has never been tested to see if it actually works as intended.

Learning to design an ASIC is not very difficult for a human, because a human does not need a huge number of examples, like ML/AI. Humans learn the rules and a few examples are enough for them. I have worked in a few companies at designing ASICs. While those companies had some internal training courses for their designers, those courses only taught their design methodologies, but with practically no code examples from older projects, so very unlikely to how a LLM would have to be trained.
Your source says “the fatality rate did not change appreciably”.
India's central bank plans to create a cloud platform for financial firms
Amid controversial changes, Reddit is getting more popular–and profitable
As the saying goes, there's a special place in Hell for the Dulles brothers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles
Look guys, google sells a pc. It can run web apps. It can ran phone apps (android vm). It can run desktop apps (linux vm).

And it no longer runs like the original chrome os did way before (simple and lightweight). It needs to be in the $600 price category to be decent.
I gave MediaWiki a shot just now but it's seriously lacking Markdown support. Seems that there's a plugin for it but that's a no-go in the docker setup, would need to make my own container because it depends on some php package that doesn't come in the default image. Really a shame the docker setup isn't made to be extensions friendly.
I would love Google developing an Android desktop enviroment meant to be used as an OS alternative to Windows and MacOS. Probably they can have a native compatibility with Linux software, and maybe bring some good UI, UX. Midrange Phone hardware can handle your average productivity needs.

Desktop Mode in Android 15 looks like a move into a desktop set up.
I don't get what the irony is here.
No we don't have w proof. We also have sufficient evidence it is not causes by humans, but this doesn't suit the narrative.

So keep the wood burner on!
wait for the offer, then say on second thought can’t do it if it’s not remote.
None.

There are no "best" version of captcha. I've worked on several large scale projects where captcha was floated and then quickly abandoned in favor of other methods like Honeypot or using other methods to weed out bots and other 3rd party agents.

If you have to use captcha the least worst are probably reCaptcha V2 and hCaptcha for accessibility.
Farmers' Suicide in the United States
And at this point that would also benefit the US. That mass security is not cheap.
> Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

Does it, though? Node wasn't exactly new 4 years ago, and plenty of other languages would offer a better experience for even older code -- Java, C, C++ to name a few.
Watching CGPGrey's "The Rules for Rulers" after the re-election of Trump [video]
Is there something specific that you worry about when running a database on a networked file system? I would imagine that any database which is correctly fsync'ing the data to the write-ahead-log should work just fine.
End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015)
Curious as to why you would want to build that yourself when so many solutions already exist (Supabase, NeonDB, AWS Aurora or RDS, etc.)?
Do you do anything to handle/detect write conflicts?
That works, but EV chargers are rare enough that you can't just see the charge meter getting to low and get off at the next exit for a fill up like you can with a gas charge. If you don't pay attention you can end up with not enough charge make it to any charging station. People run out of gas too, but most cars the gas light comes at with 40 miles of range left - 40 miles of range won't always get you to any EV charger (and with different charging standards you cannot be sure your car can charge at them all though this is getting better and will likely be solved in a few years as we move to NACS).
If you care about it being an OSI-approved license (or purists arguing that it's not really "open source"), then any restrictions on who/what can use the software violates the FSF's "freedom zero": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
You’re absolutely right. My rational brain agrees and chalks it up to poor project management. However… emotions run high when you have zero idea why something isn’t working and the process of elimination is pretty taxing. So the point for me is venting / maybe someone will read this and remember to write their node version down!
Thanks for taking the time to give input.

You might have missed the part in my original outline, but I am already a proficient programmer with decades of experience in a number of programming languages. Also, I've taken theory of programming language courses at university.

What I'm lacking is hands-on experience in everything else that's relevant in the profession.

Like I've pointed out, I spent my professional career in academia, and although I've done lots of project work in the field, I doubt that the academic setting is comparable to professional software development.
Injuries did increase, though, and I can't think of a plausible mechanism that would somehow cap expected outcomes at "injury but not death".
Your source is wrong. No one was selling new cars in 2010 for $5000. (Source: me, and my memory isn't that bad yet.) That's the reason I brought up the Yugo: in order to sell a new car for $5000 in 1985, 25 years prior to your Aveo example, a company had to buy the leftover tooling of the Fiat 128 (one of the biggest pieces of shit I've ever owned) and cut even more corners.

So 25 years on, without even looking anything up, it's pretty reasonable to assume no one was selling a car for that same price and adding airbags and ABS for the U. S. market. But if one insists on a source, Motortrend said they sold for around $12K in 2010: https://www.motortrend.com/cars/chevrolet/aveo/2010/
... or it might prove that it's impossible to self-improve given the current constraits
Nothing new here, the Swedish government has been publishing this guide since the second world war [1] and updates it regularly. It is not directly related to an increase in international tensions and would have been published even if Putin and his cronies were out on the pony farm. The last update was published in 2017/2018 by the previous labour-led government, now that Sweden is part of NATO it needed an update to reflect that fact. Previous versions were published in 1943, 1952, 1961, 1978, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2017/2018.

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_kriget_kommer
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We'd much rather give away our tax dollars to the military-industrial complex to go get the oil than risk consumers having to pay more at the pump on tariffs.
IANAL, but even if the new federal regulations say "Tesla cars can do anything because political corruption doesn't matter", individual US states would still have options.

For example, requiring certain proven capabilities or features for anything using local roads state highways. So the harms of Full Self Driving Always Next Year could at least be limited to interstates.
Inspired by the ideas from this Cognitive Architecture paper and an insightful Langchain Blog by Harrison Chase.

For production use-case, we're exploring how to create closed-loop, safe agents in healthcare — systems that can reason and execute on patient needs in a secure and reliable way. The key is understanding how these agentic systems should think, the flow of execution in response to patient intent, and ensuring safety through structured, observable loops.
In other words: Licenses are only as useful as your ability to enforce them in court.

And yes, the companies are fully aware of this and that's why they do it, they know you won't dare sue them.
Dealing with node-gyp cost me at least 5 hours a month in the 2010s. I'm so very happy to not see those errors in my console anymore.
FWIW, I went out looking for a better category (something more like "two-wheeler" but without the engine), and discovered that Wikipedia actually agrees that scooters are motorcycles.
Shakespeare in RP loses most of the raunchy jokes as an example of the above.

My highschool English teacher was horrified when she figured out why us boys were laughing when reading her copy of the first folio, our hick accent ment we were getting some of the jokes she didn't even notice.

Theme rhyming with sixteen in the Cranberry's song Zombie is another.
Mining Old Data from NASA's Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries
For babies and mentally disabled people, we absolutely know beyond any doubt that they are capable of feeling pain, intense, blood curdling pain.

I don't think we can say the same of shrimp.

That's why humane killing of cattle (with piston guns to the head) is widely practiced, but nothing of the sort for crabs, oysters, etc. We know for sure cattle feel pain so we do something about it.
Yes, Chrome is the de facto standard, and often the only browser thoroughly tested against. Even now though it isn't as dominant as IE at its peak though.

No, Chrome isn't significantly behind on adopting new standards compared with other major browsers (I'm looking at you Safari). IE6 to IE7 was about five years!
Yeah it’s called the gini index. US isn’t great but isn’t anywhere near the worst.

In absolute terms though just look at pictures of e.g. rural Russia va Moscow.
The army that is conquering is carrying best practice weapons, wearing best practice boots, best practice fatigues, best practice tanks, trucks, etc.

They're best practice aiming, shooting, walking, communicating, hiring (mercs), hiding, etc...

The people that are in the weeds are just doing the most simple things for their personal situation as they're taking over that granite rock or "copse of lush oak trees".

It's easy to use a lot of words to pretend your point has meaning, but often, like KH - it doesn't.
Also, Gatsby has dependencies that aren’t even Node. I have had it break too.
Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict
Delete this comment right now, don't give them ideas.
Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video
Just want to say this is super cool. I'm excited to see what people build on top of it.. seems like it could enable a new category of hosted data platforms-as-a-service (platform-as-a-services?).
Words great, until a page rejects email with a '+' in it.
> In fact, you see this in this thread where either you or the huge number of people trying to dissillusion you from the maximal position you've staked out on LLMs is wrong and one of us is incorrectly rationalizing our position.

I by no means have a 'maximal' position. I have said that they exceed the intelligence and ability of the vast majority of the human populace when it comes to their singular sense and action (ingesting language and outputting language). I fully stand by that, because it's true. I've not claimed that they exceed everyone's intelligence in every area. However, their ability to synthesize wildly different fields is well beyond most human's ability. Yes, I do believe we've crossed the tipping point. As it is, these things are not noticeable except in retrospect.

> The point is that the ways in which it fails is completely different from LLMs and it's different between people whereas the failure modes for LLMs are all fairly identical

I disagree with the idea that human failure modes are different between people. I think this is the result of not thinking at a high enough level. Human failure modes are often very similar. Drama authors make a living off exploring human failure modes, and there's a reason why they say there are no new stories.

I agree that Human and LLM failure modes are different, but that's to be expected.

> regardless of the model

As far as I'm aware, all LLMs in common use today use a variant of the transformer. Transformers have much different pitfalls compared to RNNs (RNNs are parlticularly bad at recall for example).

> Go ask an LLM to draw you a wine glass filled to the brim and it'll keep insisting it does even though it keeps drawing one half-filled and agree that the one it drew doesn't have the characteristics it says such a drawing would need and still output the exact same drawing. Most people would not fail at the task in that way.

Most people can't draw very well anyway, so this is just proving my point.
I was just thinking how I’d like to have my NAS run scheduled scrubbing but wanted an email warning when it was upcoming to prevent unexpected performance issues.

I don’t want my NAS reaching out to the internet except for OS updates and maybe packages to add functionality. I certainly don’t want to hook up one of my email accounts. A tool like this is perfect. I’ll check out the currently maintained projects listed in a sibling comment.
I swear this was working for me until literally today, it was really useful to find older ML papers?!
I find this indistinguishable from any modern/contemporary art museum.
> using the 4th wealthiest company on earth's browser that I freely installed.

99% of the time I use Chrome it's because some site does not support Firefox (and that often includes Google sites/apps). (The 1% are for APIs that Firefox, consciously or out of resource constraints, does not support.)

In what sense am I "freely installing" Chrome in this situation?

Just today I had a family member reach out to me, unable to use government e-signing on their phone after I'd switched their default browser to Firefox (they were getting tons of ads in mobile Chrome, which does not support plugins and accordingly also no ad blockers). Turns out they support only IE/Edge, Safari, and of course Chrome...

> every device I've ever had Chrome on I've had to seek out and install/make default Chrome

My Pixel came with Chrome preinstalled, as far as I remember. (I don't recall if there was a browser selection screen.)

Sure, that's a Google phone, but then again Windows is a Microsoft operating system.

> the arguments of a closed source subscription service that wants me to switch to the bundled browser of the wealthiest company on earth's most popular consumer OS

Oh, I'd also not advise anyone to switch to Safari. Apple absolutely would pull exactly the same or worse as Google if they could, I have no illusions about that.

I can't wait for the day they're finally forced to actually allow alternative browser engines on iOS and switch to Firefox everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_we...

tl;dr as of 2021 Gini coefficents, Brazil is the worst and Japan is best large nation... (there's tons of nuance missing here, but that's the basics)
> Americans won't buy cheap cars

Sure they will, they'll even buy cheap EVs.

The highest lifetime EV sales in the US is the Leaf, Model 3/Y, and Bolt. They aren't at the top of the list because they're the best cars on the market, but because they are the cheapest.
> And what do you think a broad non-compete clause is?

Pretty universally illegal. California doesn't have noncompete clauses at all. Texas, the state I'm most familiar with, doesn't allow them to be enforced except for skills that are proprietary to an employer, .e.g., supporting specific software in a specific way or something. Pretty sure most states that have them are the same. Making burgers isn't going to do it, and nobody would sue you over it anyway, they'd sue the new employer whose lawyers will know better.

I have had an employer try to get me to sign an illegal noncompete before, but that was because it was a small employer who didn't know the law. When I quit I politely informed him that it was unenforceable. He didn't try. That doesn't mean employers who know better don't try to intimidate employees, but they could just as easily threaten to break your kneecaps. Probably they won't.
It says ‘metric’. Good.
I still have mine from 2017 in a kitchen drawer, as an immigrant it was quite informative, it's how I've learned that Sweden will never surrender and any messaging about it is enemy agitation to be ignored.