skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could endlessly go on about the economy/COL, immigration, crumbling healthcare, housing crisis, far-left ideology going mainstream, etc.

But I could frame it much simpler than that - Canada, at least in cities of modest sizes and up, is rapidly transitioning from a high-trust to a low-trust society.

An anecdote: my sister is more than 10 years younger than me, she's currently attending the same university as I did over a decade ago; in the span of less than half a year, she's got 2 bikes stolen - her original bike with front wheel removed to bypass the lock in late summer 2024, then the entire lock cut to steal her replacement bike in December; this would be inconceivable to me during my time living in the same town.
>> "I don't understand the use-case for an programming environment where the program looks like a text file, but I need to click on a while loop and then click on the "condition" field in the details column to edit the condition code with my keyboard, rather than just select the condition code in the main view and type there"

In PWCT2, just click the (Start Point) and press CTRL+L and all of the interaction pages will be opened to quickly modify the input for any component.

PWCT2 is designed to be used in different ways based on the context.

1- If you like writing code, just write code, and PWCT2 will convert it to a visual representation.

2- If you want to explore the environment and learn about the visual components, you can use the mouse to discover and use any component.

3- If you know the component name, just use keyboard shortcuts to create programs quickly.

4- Using the Time Machine and playing programs as a movie, you can read large programs without touching your mouse or keyboard. Just watch while drinking your coffee.

5- The advantages of interaction pages (data-entry forms) become apparent when using large components, such as those representing GUI classes.

6- Using the steps tree, we have drag-and-drop functionality, allowing us to quickly organize the logic of our programs.
The barge company in question is Koch Industries (yes, that Koch Industries). Starting in 1982 they leveraged Deming’s ideas, realized 30% profits, and pushed it far enough to enter the dark side.

> Koch’s dedication to Deming’s ideas eventually led the company into several sticky situations, not the least being targeted in a Senate Select Committee investigation for oil theft in 1988, a direct result of immense internal pressure on employees as part of its continuous improvement program.

[1]

This is powerful stuff. When you empower people and set a goal, they will do anything it takes to hit that goal, including breaking the law.

[1] https://commoncog.com/deming-paradox-operational-rigour/
HDMI Forum Announces 2.2 of the HDMI Specification with 96 Gbps of Bandwidth
And of course the M1 Air is basically another in the line of Macbook Airs but with a better processor.
As far as I'm aware we have no laws about going and making a moron out of yourself advocating for giving the country away. Nor do I particularly think we need any, morons can be morons, the rest of us can ignore them (and I say this as someone strongly against the idea of joining the states).

Naked sedition would be promoting an actual invasion, not just floating the idea of Canada joining as the 51st state voluntarily and figuring out the logistics of how that could happen (which as far as I can tell is all this is).

We don't have an equivalent of the American Logan Act that would make this illegal.
Why did the Swedish model fail? (1993)
You hear other companies saying they're pivoting to making AI-ready CPUs soon and I'm like dude, my iPhone SE 2 has machine learning processing!
“Then I noticed he was selling the exact same model of laptop so it was easy for me to realize that he had just "bought" my laptop to remove the listing so it wouldn't compete against his”

If he got the laptop but didn’t pay, then he is probably selling it.

If he didn’t get the laptop, then he was trying to sell it on (for a profit) before he even got it from you?
And what then do I do with the RSS links? The last time I dealt with RSS at all was in the Google Reader days. Are there cross-platform solutions that maintain any context? Is there any way to reply or give feedback through RSS, or participate in conversations?
First, let me admit I'm slow to understand, and I also may have explained the above poorly.

The PDF is thousands of newlines, with multiple entries on each, convoluted with lots of garbage formatting. The only data to be preserved is winning num, date, evening/midday draw, fireball number (introduced in 2020-ish?) and factored along with the change from one to two daily draws (2001-ish) as acceptable anomalies in the data set, which has been done, I believe.

The difficult part of this, actually, was cleaning the squalid pdf.

In the end, after the work was all done, script using OCR would successfully append a number to the cleaned text/pdf, but usually not the correct num. The only reason I used OCR was that I couldn't find the right frames in the webpage that contained the latest winning numbers, and getting html extraction to to work in a script failed because of it.

I must admit, although I have used JSON files, I don't know much about them. Additionally, I'm ignorant enough that it's probably best not to attempt to advise me too much here for sake of thread sanitation - it could get bloated and off topic :)

I think with renewed inspiration, I could figure out a successful method to keep the public file updated, but I primarily need surefire methods of analysis upon the nums for my anomaly detection, which is a challenge for a caveman who never went to middle/high school and didn't resume school beyond 4th grade until community college much later. Of course, the fact that such an animal can twiddle with statistics and data analysis is a big testament to the positive attributes of LLMs, which without, the pursuit would be a vague thought at most.

Although I welcome and appreciate any feedback, I'm pretty sure it isn't too welcome here. I'll try to make sense of your suggestions though.
I’d agree with your assessment of what Apple considers a photograph if I could turn off the post-processing that turns everything in the background into a smeary, blobby mess.
UK uses AI to tackle 'bid-rigging' collusion in public procurement contracts
Unlike most states, Alaska is heavily dependent on the federal government due to the massive defense footprint and ANCSAs.
It starts with the assumption that our observations of cosmic expansion are false and due to time dilation from a clumpy universe, then works out how clumpy the universe must be to account for our observations.

For timescapes to "work" time must run 38% faster in cosmic voids. This works out to a density difference of about 100,000 times what we observe with many existing methods.
He stays on until late march, they need to select a new party leader and then an elections held
Qualcomm Bringing Snapdragon X Series to Mini PCs for as Little As –$600 USD
No understanding it to me points out a monstrous narcissistic complex in you.

While I can understand not wanting to have a kid of your own blood very easy for many different reasons
I am reading "The Last Hero" by Terry Pratchett and it has a mission patch design that is obviously inspired by NASA mission patches. It has the motto "Morituri Nolumus Mori" on it and some great artwork.
Heh it's not just you, but the entire thread. It starts with a nitpick, and devolves into a discussion entirely alien to the original post. This is similar to how LLMs catch on to a single word or topic and run with it. All replies also have that pleasantly informative tone typical of LLMs. Even your last reply is too nice. :)

But don't mind me. Just found it curious. You don't seem like an AI from your profile, but these days one can't be sure anymore. Cheers!
DisplayPort, the better (and open, unlike the deeply encumbered HDMI) standard, already dominates monitors.
Too late to edit, but I scrolled right past the "Morningstar Pre-Sale Report, September 2024 [Pg. 14]" table. They've been primarily lending to deep subprime borrowers since at least 2021.

Considering other subprime lenders have reduced extensions while Carvana has doubled them, I'm guessing their lending standards have cratered even by subprime standards and Ally isn't happy.
It's the kids whose teachers can't or want to adapt that will most likely suffer in their education. Not saying it is easy, but it is possible.

I have a friend who's a teacher that is pioneering methods to include (modified / preprompted) LLMs as a part of their lessons. He calls it Modern PBL: Project-Based Learning. He wrote a book on it if you are interested:
https://a.co/d/7MFQ5wa
addictive
No, this is garbage. I have plenty of real accounts I need to log into already, I don't need another one that is there just so the vendor can track me and try to enmesh me in their ecology.
> This describes my wife almost exactly. Developed gluten and lactose intolerance right around 40.

Anecdotally, I've heard this from other women in my wife's peer group so I also wonder if some of this is related to hormonal changes from child birth or maybe even pre-menopause.

Her reactions are not as severe as your spouse's -- just gasiness and general abdominal discomfort (enough that it's not worth it for the satisfaction of eating pasta and dairy day-to-day). She will still occasionally indulge.

I, for one, still happily consume gluten and lactose (to her chagrin) despite being Asian.
First past the post is awesome.

I moved from a proportional-representation country to a FPTP one (Canada) and it's so much better to have a specific individual who is my MP.

Back where I was born, there's a grey and anonymous party list of people selected by extremely dubious internal party political means. I never felt the slightest bit represented; and the political process was completely opaque.

Now I have a dude with a newsletter, an email address, and an office.
Canada has a parliamentary system where the leader of the party with the most votes becomes prime Minister. So Trudeau can step down as leader of his party while remaining Prime Minister.

In this case he intends to stay on until his party selects a new Prime Minister
Agree. Its more confusion. PVC / PV are native to k8s not something part of statefulsets. In fact you _probably_ only need to use Statefulsets for databases. Which is probably going to be abstracted away with Operators.
>> "This particular implementation doesn't strike me as extremely useful, but stepping away form text based files opens up quite a lot of possibilities"

The visual representation could be improved and made easier to customize over time. What truly matters is the concept and the interaction approach, which enable the creation of a general-purpose VPL that can be used for any programming task.
> the simpler debunk is that fatty meat only gives you a fraction of your daily nutrition

I have tried the hyped-up "carnivore" diet myself for over 1.5 years and counting (started at a tender age of 35), with different levels of strictness (diary/no diary, no cheat days / once a month / twice a month / once a week), while doing blood tests every month. My wife thought I would die, but I was curious whether I would die, or how quickly my health would deteriorate.

Happy to report that you're wrong (based of my own anecdata), and not only fatty meat (even without diary) does provide enough nutrients and energy, but it noticeably _improves_ the blood work results and _lowers_ blood cholesterol.

> apoB concentration in the blood which is independently causal in atherosclerosis

I am pretty sure you're unintentionally mixing up 'causal' and 'correlated'. Correlation is not causation. For example, atherosclerosis might be causal in in increased apoB concentration, or something else completely might be causal in both atherosclerosis and increased apoB concentration, but apoB concentration by itself could be independent from atherosclerosis, or even inverse causal.

> We have converging lines of metaanalyses that show this connection which is why reducing saturated fat is a unanimous guideline.

If you're a US resident, I'd like to let you know that your newly elected administration is allegedly going to change the unanimous guidelines soon. Not saying whether it's a good or bad thing, just that your argument from authority is much weaker in our discussion than you think it is.
This assumes that people arrive at stated preferences rationally (i.e. "I have observed the behavior of Tic Tacs and read some papers on the topic and believe them to not be sentient"). Instead, my intuition is that most of these opinions are a result of emotions ("I find Tic Tacs disgusting and therefore think that I am justified in harming them, but because I'm a good person, this also necessitates that they are not sentient because good people don't harm sentient beings.")

So disagreement is not over whether Tic Tacs are sentient, it's that one person finds them disgusting and the other does not. For the person who finds them disgusting, the person who wants Tic Tacs to not be harmed is not just somebody with a different opinion, it's somebody who is now also disgusting because they are arguing for and defending something disgusting. This then justifies negative emotions and negative behavior towards that person (and vice-versa).
You're welcome. And thanks for offering your unasked for and useless input.
World hunger is not caused by lack of food. It's caused by lack of will.
The first type is vastly more common than the second. So I don't think it's unfair to malign sales in general. And if I'm buying a suit I need a skilled tailor to alter it to fit me, not someone to convince me to buy a suit - if I'm in the suit store I already know I want a suit and for what purpose.
I feel the same way. There’s a shift that happens at around 80 people where not everyone rows in the same direction. Incentives become different because not everyone “lives and dies” together or by the same metric. By the time you are at bigco status, this is so ingrained that work becomes repeated prisoner’s dilemma trials.
Some believe that it’s better if representative democracies represent their constituents. Newer voting technology that permits a greater alignment of representative distribution with voter distribution is preferable to those people.

Personally, I find it galling that the massive Californian population of Republicans and Texan population of Democrats frequently go unrepresented.

You seem to believe in the primacy of FPTP voting in itself. That’s the difference.
Taking back the Panama Canal comes to mind.

It seems to me that he really wants to do some empire building, but hasn't figured out a way that people would actually accept (and isn't interested in the modern version of treaty based "empires").
<< Worse, it’s almost impossible to participate in the discussion without being given a derogatory label.

Yep. I have mostly withdrawn from most conversations on the subject given the level of irrationality and, on both sides mind, layers of unstated assumptions that are almost never explored openly or in good faith.

<< For example, is the feeling of potential harm, harm?

I would argue that it is, but its impact should be minimal. It is effectively impossible to argue away someone's feelings. If they feel harmed, threatened, fearful, sad, angry, depressed, saying "don't" won't help and that is regardless of whether those feelings are justified or not. There is a reason for it. Feelings are by their very nature not quite open to logic.

But then.. I have a general problem with reorganizing the world based on 'good vibes'. Actual freedom is only freedom if other people can do things that can make people uncomfortable. In other words, perception of harm to one person is a good time to another.

<< Pragmatism seems to be dead.

I hesitate on that front a little. If I were to guess, I would argue that the pragmatism is very strong now, but it is wielded in the name of a specific cause. In other words, any means necessary are used to get to the desired point ( again, both sides -- if we accept US political framework ).
It wasn’t mean to.

The entire last paragraph was a bunch of questions meant to invoke discussions and theories.

It has no ads, the author is already a well known economist and has nothing to prove for trying to be a “thought leader”.
Well, he's not had the best holiday season, lots of turmoil in his cabinet and parliament has been completely stalled.
There's some grim humor in the fact that the poster reflects on his sister's use of chatgpt, and just ends on that point. I have to wonder if he decided to talk to her or his parents about the situation. I didn't see anything in the post to suggest it, just a "this next generation is cooked."

Who cooked them is the question? Children won't raise themselves generally.
You can map a PVC back to a pod without statefulset. You just need to create the PV and PVC and map it to a deployment.
Tangential, but I think I speak for many when I say that we no longer need to specify "X" as a name for twitter -- just call it twitter and tweets and ignore the abysmal rebrand until the day that it gets reverted.
You think the market is going to collapse but you're happy about it because it'll be bad for the conservatives?

You might want to rethink a few things.
H1B / Offshoring Concerns
Reddit post pulled despite a a very healthy debate over a growing issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1htnn3m/ame...

With all the debate over H1Bs, Offshoring is orders of magnitude more damaging.

Of course they want to bring in Indians. Why would they want to pay a US citizen $100,000 a year or whatever the commensurate salary is for your job:

https://47cleanupcrew.com/america-doesnt-got-talent/
A calculator can be trusted to give you the right answer if you punch in the numbers correctly. An LLM cannot.

That's because a calculator is designed to give the right answer. An LLM is not. It's only designed to produce text that seems plausible based on the prompt. "Plausible" is not the same as "trustworthy".
It really isn't. The "tic tacs" example is deliberately absurd, but here in California it is illegal to eat horses as a result of a ballot initiative, but it's fine to eat cows and pigs, and most people do. You can argue that it's all okay, you can argue that neither is okay, but there is not an argument to be made that eating pigs is okay and eating horses isn't. At least, no argument that doesn't boil down to "ha ha we got the majority of the vote".
classic neal.fun
3x price increase for a 20x transistor increase = 85% cheaper per transistor, not to mention that the new transistors use far less power and thus generate less heat/offer better battery life

TSMC's results are always very impressive. Wonder how long they can keep this momentum.
Hey, I just added "play without account". Read the note too. Thanks for the feedback. I might think about multiplayer feature in the future.
Nevil Shute was an engineer and he wrote some well respected novels like the nuclear war story On the Beach (made into a movie twice), A Town like Alice (made into a film and TV series), and No Highway (sometimes called No Highway in the Sky after the title of the film based on it), which actually deals with aircraft engineering and the problems involved in designing early jet airliners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute
TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case
My daughter is only 1 and a half years old now, but my concern is more that she'll be implicitly competing with classmates that are using tools like this, whether we allow her to use them or not.
All of us concerned with this 10 years ago were called 'racists'. Welcome to I told you so.

I solved the issue personally by changing careers into something that's not being outsourced (and won't any time soon), since nothing was being done about it.
An 'uncensored' dark web AI is offering step-by-step guides on how to make meth
You can connect the dots easy when winning the lottery or being Steve Jobs. But for the majority will not magically connect.

In short this is called survivorship bias.
Alternatively, employees aren't fungible cogs, and experience in the specific company, with their specific technologies and management culture, counts more than new hires who need guidance.

It could be an extreme reaction to the large number of new hires in the 2022 era.
Where are the parents? This is easily addressed with a discussion about the importance of learning for yourself, and some accountability. They’re only 11.
Why would Mark care about appeasing the market? He has a controlling interest in Meta and can’t be fired no matter what the market thinks.

You can accuse Meta of a lot of things. But being short term focused is not one.
Only anything tjat is for business. I still have to find a normal tv that has displayport
Hey, I have added "Play without account". You can play it without login now. But your stats will be saved locally and you won't be able to get position in leaderboard. But if you want to, then you gotta register. I hope you give further feedback after playing the game.
> shouldn't act victim

Where is anybody "acting" victim? Isn't choosing to open an OnlyFans and posting on it to make rent and travel money the opposite of playing victim since they're taking agency over their situation?
At some point we have to stop reaching for these lazy "it's like a past change" quips. Not just regarding LLMs, but everything of the format "people who criticize the new thing are all luddites/fogies".

X may in fact be like Y. But make the argument - don't just sarcastically imply it.
In the US some psychopath straight up shot and killed a climate activist who was in the way of his car. It’s a miracle something similar didn’t happen there.
A structured approach would be able to easily do things like ignore when a symbol was renamed (since that wouldn't affect the tree structure). So there are good reasons for wanting to do it that way, vs. a line-based diff.
That's the very worst point of view you'll ever get of Canadians. Of course people in a busy train station during rush hour aren't in the best mood.

Travel the country up and down, big cities and small towns, and I guarantee you will conclude that Canadians are the best people around.
reminds me of cookie clicker!
US notes are much more durable than most other countries’, and last much longer in circulation.

The fed has calculated that the seignorage vs. printing costs of switching to coins about balance out for dollars.

Pennies however: we keep them just for nostalgia.
Warren Buffet's holding company's HTML website
Using a calculator to answer "how many seconds are in 3 minutes" requires you to understand that that problem can be modeled as 60 * 3. Using ChatGPT doesn't.
Ranked choice isn't the only alternative voting system that encourages moderation. Approval voting is vastly simpler to understand and implement and also accomplishes many of the same benefits.

Simplicity is an underrated value when it comes to elections. People are more likely to trust that which they can easily understand. And ranked choice, fairly or not tends to cause a lot of confusion.
nice touch that the ruler is inscribed "do unto others..." :D