skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pixtral Deployment on AWS [video]
Drinking coffee in the morning is better than all-day drinking for heart health
I don’t think you and the comment you are replying to are in conflict. Documenting and rolling it out piecemeal is the correct way to make a large change.

I think the point is, either actually commit to doing that, or don’t introduce the new pattern.
Quoting myself from a previous post, I think we can solve several problem at once; including funding the sites you visit. Now I just have to get off my lazy ass and build it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677216

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I’d like to see more work put into finding ways to utilize the work from PoW. For example I have an idea to use Monero’s CPU-favoring PoW for PoW based DDoS protection as seen in Tor [0]. When a user accesses a website they are given a PoW challenge to complete. This challenge is actually for a share of mining rewards as in P2Pool. The mining reward share would go to the website operator. This would harmoniously improve several things about the web. First, it would help protect websites against layer-7 DDoS attacks. Second, this L7 DDoS protection reduces the webs dependence on companies such as Cloudflare, the internets biggest man-in-the-middle. Third, it provides a way to pay website owners costing the users a small amount of their computers time and energy in much the same way as ads do currently. Fourth, it reduces the webs dependence on advertising as the way to fund your website. Fifth and finally, it helps secure the web-native currency in which website operators would be paid and which others can use for whatever they want.

I think such a solution would be truly beautiful.

0: https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defens...
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Using Google site search is a great way! For example - site:lever.co “Software Engineer, Machine Learning” OR “Machine Learning Engineer”. This is helped me search for a lot of jobs that weren’t advertised.

You can do this similarly for greenhouse.io, ashbyhq.com, myworkdayjobs.com, breezy.hr, workable.com, dover.io, ats.rippling.com, icims.com and other popular ATS websites.
You still have to distinguish between hard, absolute facts which definitely exist and representations thereof in human language. The facts never change (the distance between Dallas and Houstom doesn't change while we are having this conversation), but accurate descriptions require additional concepts and now we get into the imprecise world of human communication. Doubting the precision and accuracy of human language is a fair point, but that doesn't make facts themselves subjective.
> I'm not arguing that gears aren't capable of logic. I am arguing that gear-based logics severely restrict the capabilities and increase the physicality and physical constraints in ways in ways which fundamentally differ from those of purely electronic systems, and are best considered "analogue".

But the only electronic part you actually need is a toggle (well, a handful of them in series). That doesn't increase your capabilities beyond gears, except that you can pick up a faster signal (and then the only thing you can do with it is slow it back down).

> A digital watch can fundamentally be implemented entirely in software, in ways that I'll venture a hardware watch cannot be.

If you say hardware can't truly be represented, then neither can the quartz crystal, and I would argue that output hardware can't truly be represented either. So the two things you're doing entirely in software are the conversion from 32kHz down to 1Hz, and the conversion from 1Hz to a series of digits.

But the type of watch we're talking about doesn't have a digits display so discard that.

Now the only thing you're doing in software is dividing by 2 a few times, maybe also dividing by 60. That's not beyond the capabilities of a simple mechanical system. There's no need to have "software" involved either. "Software" is orders of magnitude more complex than dividing by 2.

Or, another way to look at things: A watch just like a quartz watch can be implemented completely in hardware, if you put in a """crystal""" that wiggles at 8Hz instead of 32768Hz.

I see your point about speed being a meaningful difference in many areas, but in this case the only thing done at high speed is slow it back down.

> There's also the point that gears ... rotate continuously, rather than discretely. We can modify that (e.g., with cams or similar designs), but there's still that continous rotational motion at core.

The gears right at the core of a mechanical clock are moving in pulses. It's not very far off from what the transistors or vacuum tubes would be doing.
Why not just kill JavaScript during this opportunity?
> How far it it from Dallas to Houston? On a paper map, it might be a few inches. True, within that context. Or you might get an answer for road miles. Or as the crow flies. In miles? Kilometers? It's only fairly recently (in human history) that we've even had somewhat consistent units of measure.

No one’s opinion is going to make them closer together or farther apart, though. The distance (in whatever context) can be known. Can be objectively measured. That makes it a fact.

> I'm making an argument for maintaining skepticism in everything, even (especially?) things that you know for sure.

Are you skeptical about which way to put your feet when you get out of bed? Do you check to make sure every single time?
Yeah absolutely taking artificial sweetener can't cause a glucose spike itself (no glucose or minimal amount to be derived), but maybe it could contribute to spikier glucose in general (due to sweetness contributing to hormonal dis-regulation/lack of satiety and overeating)
> Single-digit million lines of code (~5M, let’s say)

as someone working on a 60M codebase, we have very different understandings of the word "large". My team is leaning more towards "understand the existing code, but also try to write maintainable and readable code". Everything looks like a mess built by a thousand different minds, some of them better and a lot of them worse, so keeping consistency would just drag the project deeper into hell.
"Disposable income" means income after taxes. The word you are looking for is "discretionary income", which means income after taxes and necessities.
So much for the supposed zuck rebrand; it's still him
This extends to the mainstream social networks. Bytedance, Meta, X. Google is barely better, since they're an ad company, working for them is working for the ad industry. I'm sure many a reader here working at the named places will scream "But I'm only working on the Meta Quest/Gmail/something I consider unharmful!". Now think about how you feel about that argument when someone working for the defense industry claims the same. Those don't claim it as often though; IME, unlike those at the above companies, people in defense tech are more likely to be honest, open and aware of the ethical trade-off involved.
Listen to this person, this is brilliant advice
Aka “let’s do it all in Excel”
I don't think gyms let you wear jeans. Something about friction with the seats or something.

That said, appropriate gym wear is readily available at Wal-Mart. T-shirts, sweats, cotton athletic shorts. Ladies are going to want a sports bra, and may wish for leggings which my wife picks up for $5 a pair at Old Navy all the time.
Thoreau was a phony who’s mom washed his clothes
It sounds like you may be heading in the direction of postmodernism, and/or post-Marxist Critical Theory
or in London.
Indeed, how to fact check the fact checkers?

If we could have legitimate fact checking that really works, then I guess we wouldn't need any politics at all.
The situation the author describes sounds like a summer day hike in subalpine terrain at Rainier. I’d do that in a cotton hoodie and jeans, and I recreate in that part of the cascades 12 months a year. Our forecasts are some of the best in the world, and even if they missed the solution to getting rained on in July on a day hike is to walk back to your car a little damp and disgruntled.

Your example actually makes his point almost exactly. The 7 day thru hike is akin to when hiring a data engineering team and investing super heavily makes sense, the day hike is when you’re chatting with users and figuring out the domain. The “wrong” tools are less consequential at the start and when the stakes are lower.
I've done that something like that.[1] It's appropriate where there's a significant cost to detecting obstacles, because it tests few unnecessary cells.

It heads to the goal until an obstacle is reached, then follows the wall. Unusually, it forks and follows both the left and right wall simultaneously. It's not always optimal, but the optimal algorithms such as A* have to test more cells.

This algorithm runs my NPCs in Second Life.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/lslutils/blob/master/npc/obsol...
Before GPS There Was Loran
I just buy whatever Apple sells. I would get the Pro Display XDR but it's too expensive and the Studio one is still great. It has good DPI and colors, good size, power over USB-C (so I just have one wire on my desk) and most importantly when you rotate the display it switches between portrait/landscape automatically with an accelerometer. And I like not having to research dozens of different models.
No, that's not what disposable income means.

Disposable income means income after taxes. It does not include any expenses, housing, health care, or otherwise.

from the OECD website:

> Income includes wages and salaries, mixed income (income from self-employment and unincorporated enterprises), income from pensions and other social benefits, and income from financial investments. It is less taxes on income, wealth, social security contributions paid by employees, the self-employed and the unemployed, interest on financial liabilities, and the change in net equity of households in pension funds.

A bit of a clearer explanation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

The reason why the US has such high disposable income is because Americans have to pay for so much more out of pocket than other OECD countries do. Once you factor in health care, education and other social services that are cheap or free elsewhere, Americans are generally worse off than many OECD countries.
Ford CEO on why it's so difficult for legacy car companies to get software right
Incorrect. See below.
Sam Altman is full of it.
Apple seems ecosystem driven. At the product level, there’s not a big difference between an iPhone and Android phone, except the iPhone integrates well with the Apple Watch, iPad, AirPods, Apple TV, and MacOS. The resulting user experience is good, as is being able to drop into an Apple Store in case of a problem.

I see Apple pursuing a long term vision where product integration and privacy are pillars in a seamless, trusted ecosystem.
It exists. It's called Chrome OS.

The problem with schools and libraries is that network effects meant that there were lots of people who could dork with Windows until it sort of worked. With Linux, those people were much fewer and further between.
I didn't wear cleats until I was almost 14 playing baseball.. I just used tennis shoes.. some of my friends gave me a hard time about it. I could hit dingers all day so no big deal.

But you know what. I wore a helmet at every at bat. Did I really need it for every at bat?? No; But I had it.

There's a long list of dead people who went into the wilderness or hiking under prepared. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean the same outcome for others.. I know this is supposed to be a metaphor for when to buy and upgrade the tools you have. But safety should always come first.
I like Octal [1] and even bought the paid version. It’s been a pleasant experience!

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...
Sucrose is 50% fructose. HFCS is typically 42-55% fructose. They are essentially indistinguishable to your liver.
I saw this news a few days ago and it really just gives me the same feeling as when Elon Musk says "full self driving is coming next year" for the 11th year in a row.

I think a big part of the job of modern CEOs in tech has become this kind of publicity stunt to generate hype and keep the valuation of the company high.

I'm sorry but there's no research out there that is anywhere close to AGI. I doubt openAI has some knowledge that no one else in academia has to that extent. This would be such a huge development that I'm sure we'd be seeing glimpses of it in formal research by now.
You’re presuming that the debate has to be carried out according to utilitarian rules (do benefits of free speech outweigh harms caused by certain speech). But why should it be?
Bangladesh isn't in Southeast Asia, so not sure why you picked that.

might be referring to Malaysia, Thailand, Indo or the PI
So far, just basic REI and LLBean store brand. Non stretch fabrics -- I'm too old to look good in tight pants.
> How come automatic, standardized, non-ide bound automatic formatting has only been a thing in the past decade or so?

A lot of it boils down to "because the people writing code parsers/lexers weren't thinking about usability". Writing a C formatter, for example, depends on having a parser that doesn't behave like a compiler by inlining all your include files and stripping out comments. For a long time, writing parsers/lexers was the domain of compiler developers, and they weren't interested in features which weren't strictly required by the compiler.

Another effect of those improvements, incidentally, has been higher quality syntax errors.
This is why Ford is on a hiring spree for software developers and why they restored the old train station in Detroit to give them a cool place to work. Farley believes that it is a strategic advantage for the only other car company writing all their own software and that's Tesla.
Sounds interesting! I love all these edge experiments. But as long as there is architecture dependent code for models, I feel these edge experiments can't fully express their strong suit.

You try to run something and Voila you need Ampere or Hopper or Laplace for flash attnt.
Both positions can be true - what you said, and what the parent said.

The problem with what you said is that it's a statistic lumping all households together. As such it's largely meaningless because it lumps Elon's household with some person living in a trailer park in Montana. They are unlikely to have similar disposable income.

Equally, while health care might represent 17.6% of GDP, this of course provides no limit on any one person or group. Indeed, assuming that most billionaires are not spending 17.6% one can assume the real cost to many I'd much (much) higher than that.

No to the parent's statement about "poorer". There are many things to measure here beyond just "cash in the bank". And there are terms like "middle class" and "majority" which are imprecise.

Nevertheless the point, as an anecdote stands. While America the country is rich, not all the people in it are. Indeed it seems to be increasingly split into rich and poor - the middle class is shrinking.

The good news though is two fold. Firstly most Americans seem happy with this setup (presumably because it maintains the illusion that they can obe day be rich.)

Secondly the majority of (not rich) people believe that having rich people in charge will benefit them. No doubt the incoming government of billionaires is something to look forward to.

Which is all yo say that each country gets what they want. The US _wants_ for-profit health care. They believe it is the best in the world. Other countries think its bonkers and have other approaches. That's perfectly OK.

Indeed this is democracy in action. We vote for people who will best do what we want them to do. Who guide us, not just by their words but their actions. We clearly understand the actions of the incoming guy (he's been there before). He's clearly pro-health-company (not pro health consumer) so this is (quite literally) what people want.

The future looks very bright indeed!
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The way Community Notes usually end up working in practice is comments that provide sourced context that may be [arguably intentionally] omitted in a topic. For instance if it happens to be that there have been 27 different studies showing no statistically significant reduction in spread of infectious diseases with healthy individuals wearing masks, then that would likely be a community note on the first one. And vice versa if rent has been demonstrated to keep rents below the surrounding means in the cities of Blah, Bleh, and Bluh, then that would often end up a community note on the second.

It basically helps reduce the hyperbole/echo chamber effect of such comments/topics. Vice/versa if those topics were "Respirator masks are useless." and "Rent control is always good." then the community notes would tend to go in the opposite direction. It's just a really good idea. For that matter I think a similar algorithm would also work well on general upvote systems at large.

I'd also add that one of the biggest issues with "fact checkers" was not only sometimes questionable checking, but also a selection bias - where the ideological bias becomes rather overt in both directions. Whether that be in deciding to "fact check" the Babylon Bee (in an overt effort to get it deranked), or in choosing not to not fact check statements from the lying politicians that one happens to like.
This is an impressively high sick-burns-to-words ratio, well done!

“I don't need to make an LLC” also pings way too hard here.
The data would suggest that isn't the case.

> Record numbers not working due to ill health
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65596283

From the summary of the data[1] being relied upon in that report:

> The number of people economically inactive because of long-term sickness has risen to over 2.5 million people, an increase of over 400,000 since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

> Over 1.35 million (53%) of those inactive because of long-term sickness reported that they had depression, bad nerves or anxiety in Quarter 1 2023, with the majority (over 1 million) reporting it as a secondary health condition rather than their main one.

Bad nerves and anxiety could be a reason for a tiny number of people, but those numbers are huge, and if you think I'm lacking compassion for this, hearing what whistleblowers say regarding the way assessments are done[2] may be relevant:

> Sickness benefit assessments via telephone (rather than in-person visit) are now routine and it's not always necessary to provide proof of a sick note. In the film, Michael Houston, a former assessor, is asked how well it's possible to discern, over the phone, if someone should qualify for full sickness benefit. "Not very," he replied, "which is one of the things that ethically and morally I didn't really feel comfortable with."

That's not even the half of it, and that website has stories of people trapped in the system.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotin...

[2] https://www.benefitstrap.com/sarah
It would be nice if the research could be just for the general public good instead of having to have an explicit use for the military to get the money.
Your Trump trial example actually proves the opposite of the point you’re making. CNN’s legal analyst of all people wrote an article explaining why the prosecutors “contorted the law” in pursing Trump’s conviction: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-was-convicted-.... Remember, the prosecutor initially declined to bring the case. And those problems with the underlying legal theory are still subject to review on appeal, which very well may result in the conviction being overturned. There’s actually a lot to debate there! Including whether the “shared context” you mention still holds in the circumstance of a blue-state jury trying Donald Trump. And I’d certainly not trust anyone—especially people without a legal background—to moderate people’s statements about Trump’s trial and conviction.

Heck, even lawyers don’t treat legal judgments as god-given “facts” except in specific legal circumstances. The questions at the back of every chapter in a law school textbook will ask the student whether a particular case was rightly decided or wrongly decided and why.

The better way to think about legal judgments is not in terms of “facts” but rather “process.” Even a final decision by the U.S. Supreme Court does not establish god given facts. It merely is the end of the line in a set of procedures that lead to a particular result in a particular case. But even judgments of the Supreme Court are second-guessed every day by 20-somethings in law schools around the country!
"Other people can do what they want" is not an opinion, it's a fact of life. You can deal with it, or you can get so upset that you try to physically stop them. Is that something you want to do over the use of language?

Evolution is not about "selection", you're referring to a biological concept known as natural selection. I'm sorry to tell you, the evolution of a system simply means the development of the system over time. Feel free to check a dictionary. You should look up "homonym" while you're at it.

For someone so bent on controlling the English language, you should put more time into understanding it.
Being synthetic, they also release microplastics into our freshwater when you wash them. I do my mountainbike trailriding in jeans. Have never experienced much of a downside. Also, big plus: jeans look rad when you patch and mend and dirty them!
There are pants that look like jeans and feel a little bit like them - athleisure - that probably don't have this limitation.

I had a pair. I wish I knew how to identify them because searching for athleisure jeans is turning up traditional jeans as well, including slim fit which would be worse. Maybe non-denim jeans.

Edit: I think the brand was Prana. Maybe they were denim, but "performance denim". Is all denim unwieldly in extreme situations? My jeans like this felt different, to where I might like them significantly more or significantly less based on what sort of pants I felt like wearing on a given day. They seemed a lot more like pants and less like jeans. https://www.prana.com/men/bottoms/denim.html?srsltid=AfmBOoq...