skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting theory, but there are other hypotheses out there. One I've heard a lot is that the post-pandemic inflation surge hit everyone, and made all incumbents unpopular. I suppose that if the anti-incumbent results across the globe continue for several more years, we will be able to rule that out?
I'm transitioning to teaching math after a 30-year career as an engineer. I am really conflicted about the use of LLMs for homework.

One thing we *for sure* know that employers are going to want is that one employee does the work of 10 using llms. A

I'm wondering, why don't we give the employers what they want? Why not teach the kids to be super-effective with alms, and then We just give the kids 10x the amount of homework and tell them to get it done anyway they want to?

Sounds rough, but that's the reality which almost every creative writing professional is facing right now. And as soon as the technology makes it feasible, that's the reality that every software engineer is going to be facing. All this talk about 10x engineers...employers are going to expect all of us to be 10x engineers.

I mean, imagine a gym class which teaches kids how to run down an antelope. Because for 200,000 years running down an antelope was a core survival skill, and just because we had supermarkets doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to live off the land.

From John Henry vs. the Steam Hammer, to accountants using spreadsheets in the 80s, the whole story of technology is making 1 person able to do the work of 10. There's no use trying to pretend LLMs didn't happen. They happened, and they are not going away.
It actually does help, in fact it helps MORE if you cant afford a house, or are homeless, to have a strong social net.
Not arguing that the US isn't richer or can offer more financial resources to its citizens.
Standard internet outrage bait. There are no ads in the photos. The person uploaded their photo to Meta AI's "imagine me" feature which generates photos of you in exotic situations, and now the company is...putting them in exotic situations. That's literally what it is for.
> You just need to test that your endpoints return the right HTML piece. You don't need unit testing the frontend since you don't have that much logic there.

Only using the standard Django test client? I don't find this myself when I've had to work with HTMX code e.g. if you're using HTMX for your sign up form, it can be completely broken on the happy path and on form errors if the HTMX attributes are wrong, and the standard Django test client won't let you know, so you lose a lot of confidence when making refactors/changes.
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They don't but if it is a popular video the likelyhood of it being archived increases. It is possible to submit URLs to archive.org manually too. Also the youtube videos downloaded by archiveteam volunteers[0] possibly end up in wayback machine though I'm not sure if it happens automatically anymore.

0:https://tracker.archiveteam.org/youtube/
You couldn't just pair the device to all of them and then seamlessly switch? The only thing the account is adding is removing that initial step on first pairing, but even that could be done without an account if the new device C was paired to host A and came in proximity to host B that was in connected at some point with host A.
This was my experience too, scaled back in time to when I graduated in 2010 from UBC.
Femtocell equipment exists; the real issue is whether any of your local carriers support it.
The idea is kind of interesting, but who from Meta thought this would be cool to do such thing ?
>Voters, eager for change, will choose populism because they aren't being offered any alternative. But nobody wants to address the root causes here: housing unaffordability and massive wealthy inequality.

Well then, frankly, given your apparent learning, try encouraging progressives to actually address the root causes, rather than constantly spouting progressive-sounding apologia for them. Not to tell you in another country how your politics works, but I know that in the United States and in some other countries I'm acquainted with, the progressive base in major cities are, if anything, even more attached to their housing nest-eggs than the homeowner/smallholder classes in smaller cities and more conservative states. This preference is visible in the differences of housing policy and rents between, say, California and Texas.
Rule #17 from where? I'd like to take a peek at what the other rules have to say!
And then you get to WAI-ARIA's practical examples and they have a yellow warning intoning "not intended for production environments" and there "may be support gaps" in assistive technology: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/combobox/examples/c...

I think everyone's afraid of getting sued.
The median wages for Toronto and Montgomery are actually quite similar:

Toronto: $84k CAD ($58k USD)

Montgomery: $55k

The person living in Montgomery can easily afford a house and a middle-class life. Can the person in Toronto?

Would I rather live in Toronto personally? Yes. But on a median salary, no way.

https://www.city-data.com/income/income-Montgomery-Alabama.h...

https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9877-City-...
I assume "tan suit" is referring to:

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

I follow US politics regularly, but I hadn't heard of this so I don't know how well it's known... but it has it's own page so maybe I'm in the minority here.
You realize most European armies have tons of US equipment right? They are barely able to hold back Russia, with US help. Now they're supposed to build up their domestic DIB, hold off Russia, and fight a war on unfamiliar territory?

I doubt they'd adopt outright appeasement, but they would be walking very cautiously.
OP says the US portion of eastern divide trail, which is on bikepacking.com :

https://bikepacking.com/eastern-divide-trail/
A hobby is something you’re supposed to do for fun, not out of habit.
Decline of the stay at home mom. Both parents tired from work means less quality attention, less consistent meals, etc..
Could you share them? Maybe in a form of a museum?
Great product, is awesome play with RSS feeds. Will check it out.

Want to add for anyone wanting to quickly apply a filter to one RSS feed I recommend https://www.siftrss.com/, it doesn't require create an account and it works perfectly.
> I really appreciate when brands just name things like they are.

Sure, but I find this branding even more confusing.

"Dude, you're getting a Dell!"

"Oh, neat! Is it a PC or laptop?"

"It's a Dell Pro... laptop."

"..."

At least with XPS, Latitude, etc., consumers were able to easily distinguish between models, after getting familiar with the product line. Naming all products "<company name> [Pro,Pro Max]" will always be clear as mud. Not to mention that "Pro Max Premium Plus Ultra" is dumb, in that Apple way. Apple is notorious for naming all their products the same, so consumers have to use launch years to distinguish them.
I think problem is not so much having named product lines but having too many overlapping product lines.

Having loads of random product numbers is really no better than named ranges.

If you only have 3 product lines then people will learn the names and can understand the differences when shopping.
For those whose browsers lack WebGL2 (like Brave), here's a map of the trail: https://keepcalmandpedalonblog.com/the-eastern-divide-trail-...
That sounds a bit like "The police carefully investigated themselves and firmly established that no abuse or wrongdoing took place".
In an early chapter he talks about how well LLMs knowing medical and legal information but doesn't mention how it makes things up... Was hoping he'd discuss the challenges and hurdles right away...
No. I use AI as a fast but stupid research assistant. It aggregates information to point me in the right direction but I don't trust it at face value. I tried copilot for the first time last week and found it useful for writing bash boilerplate but not much else.
There are a huge number of temporary residents in Canada, either as students, or on a post-graduation work permit, or as temporary foreign workers. By cutting back on these programs bringing in temporary residents, and also slashing the permanent resident intake, many of these temporary residents will need to leave. As such, the government is projecting a net decrease in population over the next two years.
Well I guess I won't be getting a new XPS with Linux when this 9343 finally dies, then...
One steelman might be to replace "fascist" by "Malthusian populist", eg: someone who wants to decrease the national population of nonwealthy people to place less strain on what they see as a fixed pie of resources for the remaining "first-class" population.
Yeah not seeing it either, both images say, only you can see this..

Feels more like it generated more than the user asked for and now it’s just showing those images in their feed.
There is also RAAM, but across the country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_America
The US imports most of its oil while exporting the oil it produces. Ooops.

The US imports pretty much everything consumers consume. Ooops

The US would have nobody to sell anything to. Ooops

The US is now in a local conflict that a very large % of citizens does not support. What happens after the next election?
Look at the Linux kernel. It uses gotos for exactly this purpose, and it’s some of the cleanest C code you’ll ever read.

C++ destructors are great for this, but are not possible in C. Destructors require an object model that C does not have.
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For the live-action, logical conclusion of this concept, watch HYPER-REALITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
I'm looking for a flash game that was parking on a parking lot. It was super accurate in terms of the turning radius and I've learnt a lot in it to apply in real life. This was 2d game btw. Anyone remembers?
So the big-name channel gets a personal response. What about the many non-famous channels that ChainPatrol must have made false claims against? How many strikes or false claims does ChainPatrol get before they are permanently booted off YouTube and all their revenue streams get taken from them?
Again, that's generally fine and correct, but when you have 2 separate departments that do almost the identical job, it's time to question whether or not that 2nd department is needed.

My argument wasn't that most management wasn't necessary. Especially for something as complex as modern cars, there is a need for organizing and managing the whole process correctly. What companies like VW suffer from is too much management.

I've worked for one of their sub-brands. It was not a rare sight to see that there were individual contributors that had more than 1 manager while working on a single project. It made no sense from any conceivable standpoint. The movie Office Space comes to mind.

The main problem I saw while working there was that to be considered successful, and get corresponding salary adjustments and promotions, managers increased their head count by any means necessary. That included hiring and promoting more managers who's sole goal was to increase it even further. There came a point where my team had 3 managers at once, all on a different career level, but all responsible for only my team.
Division Lead (responsible only for Team X) -> Sub-division Lead (responsible only for Team X) -> Team Lead (responsible only for Team X) -> Team X.
That structure made no sense.
Except perhaps the most well known contemporary art museum in the world: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798
Companies need to be reminded that their operation is subject to our own ToS, the law, and it supercedes theirs. We can change it at any time and the sycophants defending any legal behavior aren't winning any favors. The behavior you see on HN playing defense for violations of privacy is disgusting, but I'm glad it's out in the open for everyone to see how far they'll go.
Climate change is the byproduct of the desired outcome, energy. Advanced AI, if you buy Yuval's argument is the threat in and of itself.

That's just a matter of how you slice your concepts. You could say burning oil is a threat in and off itself, for example. Or oppositely, "the threat of bad AI" is a byproduct of "useful AI".

So Climate Change is a problem that can be 'solved' while the main goal is pursued.

I don't think many people trying to solve climate change are trying to end industrial society. They are trying to find an energy source that doesn't produce Co2 pollution.
When people talk about ending the fed they don't just mean the actual Federal Reserve. They mean the Federal Reserve along with everything they control such as fractional reserve banking, quantitative easing, etc. Perhaps there is somebody out there who wants to end the fed, but keep fractional reserve banking, but I haven't seen them.

Fixing that will, potentially fix the issue ... Or completely crash everything.
The Zelensky curse strikes again.
Rational fear of a crime being committed? I'd struggle to call that emotional harm. I might not be upset about a threat, but still respond to it by changing my behavior or actions, and for various reasons society wants to discourage people from using the threat of initiated force in most situations.
This really drives home the point eh?
While there is disagreement on the exact definition, Wikipedia sums it up pretty well [1]:

> Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy

A good litmus test is to simply see how many parallels you can draw to Nazi Germany. So let's take a few points in relation to Trump:

- "far right": the attack on the bodily autonomy of women, attacks on LGBTQ (particularly T) people, etc

- "authoritarian": Hitler was elected (technically appointed) Chancellor before becoming a dictator. Trump was elected but it really took the Supreme Court to completely invent the idea of presidential immunity to make that happen. There is absolutely no constitutional basis for that decision. This, and various political moves to argue more power should be held by the executive, gets wrapped up in a psuedo-intellectual veneer like "unitary executive theory" [2];

- "ultranationalist": we just had an election campaign of outright race-baiting and villification not seen since 1930s Germany. It will be official government policy to build concentration camps and to use the military to round up undesirables;

- "belief in a antural hierarchy": well, that's just white supremacy.

As another parallel, it's worth noting that many on the right will argue that we need to root out "cultural Marcists" [3], which is eerily similar to Nazi-era "cultural Bolshevism" [4].

Another Nazi-era conspiracy is the Great Replacement [5], which has been resurgent in the last few years (eg [6]).

This isn't unique to the US as you'll see all of these traits in other countries (eg Reform in UK, AfD in Germany, National Rally in France).

Fun fact: one of National Front's founders (Petain) signed the armistice with Nazi Germany in 1940 so collaborated with Hitler as Vichy France [7].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

[3]: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_t...

[6]: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/25/1171800317/how-tucker-carlson...

[7]: https://www.france24.com/en/20180220-frances-jean-marie-le-p...
Does that mean foreign countries (Russia, China etc.) can pour billions into political Facebook ads, and the only thing US citizens can do is to purchase ads to counter the foreign ads? I am sure Zuckerberg would love that!
- No physical keyboard + touch keyboard (Windows Mobile had this first)

- Modern OS kernel (not embedded specific kernel) (Blackberry had this first)

- Desktop browser engine (iOS didn't have a "desktop" browser engine, it had a stripped-down mobile browser engine. But on this note, Windows Mobile did support desktop browser engines.)

- Capacitive touchscreen + finger instead of stylus - one or two phones had capTouch before, but they were far from standard, and they still had physical keyboards for typing (LG Prada had the first capacitive touchscreen)

- Vertical by default orientation (Almost every smartphone at this point was vertical by default, with horizontal-by default being the exception.)

- Short 1 day battery life in favour of more power/features (weird to list, but was a bold move everyone mocked then followed) (Windows Mobile had this years before Apple)

Literally everything that Apple is credited for with the iPhone...others had it first. The true genius of the iPhone was the marketing...Apple still gets credit today for "inventing" features that Android phones have had for years (zoom cameras? AI? notes? custom emojies? embedded fingerprint readers? integrated payment?)

Apple has always been the follower: it copies what others have done, and makes minor improvements, then markets the hell out of those minor improvements to make them seem revolutionary.
So you're saying that if I'm rich and I want to speed I hire a driver with no money and quietly cover the fine for him?

I've always wondered about this loophole in that system.
Still sounds saner than what they actually did.
Hey this reminds me of my good friend Chris Smith, who recently completed the Tour Divide -- a solo, unsupported 2,700 mile bike race from southern Canada to Mexico. He did it in 48 days -- which would be impressive for anyone -- but the kicker is, he's legally blind. https://blindguybiking.org/

EDIT: adding link to his youtube videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx86K7wVysS06YQqC6Q5jiRNw...
Absolutely. The public doesn’t care what word games you play or what rights you allocate yourself in a terms of service if you pull off something shady you deserve all the bad publicity you get
It's first party marketing so always orienting the scale towards "higher=better=ours" and measuring via "whatever measurement gave the best numbers to present". They could give all the information in the world and I'd still wait and see what 3rd party reviews say the performance actually is rather than look into the 1st party number.
Ehh, I think a surprising amount of the Quebecois’ problems were self-inflicted by letting the Catholic Church run people’s lives, and the Quiet Revolution helped a lot. Like, it wasn’t the anglos bullying people’s grandmothers into having an eighth child after a rough pregnancy, the local priest would take a few minutes during mass to call her out in front of he whole community.
Yes, an American invasion of Canada would immeidately set the stage for a worldwide rationale for opposing US interests.
What, exactly, is the mechanism by which the Tories winning the Canadian election causes your murder?
It looks wonderful, but the adoption will be a thoroughly uphill battle. Be it from browsers, be it from designs and implementations on the web.

I'll be first in line to try it out if it ever materializes, though!
The cure for that, for me, was easy (but sucked).

No one wanted to hire me, so I started writing software for organizations that help people, for free.

I feel that my software Makes A Difference. It doesn't make money, but it acts as a force multiplier, for people that help people.
To be replaced with "Dell," "Dell Pro", and "Dell Pro Max"... Those tiers seem oddly familiar. They also throw away what I thought, as a proud long-time Dell Precision owner, was decent branding of their different lines for various market segments. But maybe it's a good thing - most major brands seem to offer too many laptop choices.

Shopping for a laptop recently has left me, ironically, running for Mac. The experience on most windows laptop vendor sites is awful:

- Dell's sales page focuses on proprietary names like "ExpressCharge TM", "Stealth Mode", "ComfortView TM", "Cryo-Tech TM", etc, that mean nothing to me [0]. It also gave me a pop-up when I went to a specific laptop's page.

- HP has way too many categories on the landing page [1]. I mistook "Elitebook Ultra" for their top-of-the-line, but then discovered they're $3000 lightweight notebooks with Snapdragon chips and Qualcomm GPUs. The first and second laptops shown appear to have identical specs, but differ in price by $2000 [2]. Trying my luck elsewhere, going to "ProBook" gives me no less than 53 options to read and sort through [3].

- Lenovo is actually decent [4]! The product lines are named well and properly explained. The UI isn't as pretty as HP's, but it's a lot more functional.

- Asus overall [5] isn't great (more proprietary names like "SmartHinge" and aesthetic-focused product descriptions). However, the Asus ProArt site is done fairly well [6].

Almost every windows laptop feels like it's trying to sell me on everything that isn't specs. "SmartHinge". "Stealth Mode". "Youthful" aesthetics. Weird proprietary bloatware and extended warranties.

And, even on the sites that don't give me confusing marketing, I'm left to figure out whether I need Windows "Pro" or "Home", what the hell Copilot+ is (a $20/mo upsell [7] that I'm guessing the laptop will forever beg me to add, like OneDrive used to), and if I a guide to get rid of spyware, bloatware, ads, auto-installed candycrush, and other anti-consumer jabs once I actually buy the thing (like I did with Windows 10 when it first released). And then fight every month or two when it inexplicably can't find the license for Office I pay monthly, for and locks me out of all of my documents.

With a Macbook, contrarily, I know I can actually research the silicon, figure out the specs, and actually get what I ordered / expected. I also know I won't have to fight the OS nearly as much, even if Apple has its own upsell attempts, anti-consumer warranty/repair problems, etc. I never would've expected to feel that way. Especially not 10-15 years ago.

But maybe Dell's rebrand helps them move back in that direction a little.

[0]: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/scr/laptops

[1]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/cat/laptops

[2]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mdp/hp-elitebook-ultra-3074457...

[3]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/vwa/laptops/brand=ProBook

[4]: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/

[6]: https://www.asus.com/us/proart/laptops-home/

[7]: https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/what-is-microsoft-copilot
I voted Liberal in 2015. Because of that betrayal, I never have since or will in future.
Unless you're looking for some other feature. Once I learned what novamin was, I started getting a toothpaste with that in it. I think only two such brands exist.