skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s annoying. It was annoying when San Francisco school boards were doing it. It’s annoying when Trump does it. The illiberal left and right need to just create their own maps and dictionaries and leave the rest of us alone.
FWIW, I don't think you should cave on this. For me, your choice to use it over "hallucination" instantly elevated the insight of the lessons. I also think the authenticity of the voice of the lessons benefits from owning the decision to use it fully rather than compromising with the shorter "bs" version.
Given his historic drug abuse, it's anyone's guess.
If you read the executive order, it's not about inclusivity and the term America does not refer to the continent. Quoting the order, it's to "honor the contributions of visionary and patriotic Americans in our Nation’s rich past".

The term "Gulf of Mexico" has been in common use for over 400 years, long before the US was even a thing. No one had a legitimate problem with the name.
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM; retains Black Friday
I'm still working on it, but I think a key idea is that 1) The "host" tells you he is going to eliminate one of the two losing options, and then allow you to choose from the two remaining options. 2) The host allows you, if you wish, to "protect" one of the options from being eliminated. If you choose to protect, you may still choose either of the remaining options after elimination occurs.

The correct solution is to protect one of the options and then choose the other option.

The real challenge is coming up with appropriate flavor text for this idea, but I think I'll get it eventually.
This says 16->18 [1]

Where are you getting 22+?

Definitely an update to my mental model though.

[1] https://autorecyclingworld.com/what-is-the-lifespan-of-a-veh...
Nice to see a mention of Reading UK in there - for those interested, DEC's first UK office was upstairs at what is now a Brewdog bar.

These days, I can frequently be found in said space on Wednesdays, practicing my improv skills.
Fixed. Thanks for the reminder.
I like to think there's a middle ground somewhere between speculators and bureaucracies; a group of people who are actually interested and incentivised to serve the customer and perform the function of the organisation to the best of their ability. I may be too naive.
it is necessary so that some Adam Lanza-wannabe doesn’t get any ideas on how to quickly become infamous
It seems like this could be incredibly fraught with danger once LLMs are involved (the story isn't exactly clear whether they are). If there are no surviving native speakers of a language (or very few) doing something like training an LLM to generate text in that language would run the risk of e.g. transferring English grammar to the vocabulary, and causing a hybrid language to become the dominant form of that language, because the LLM is used widely for study and the native-speaking elders are not.
If they had a reputation for committing those homicides in Europe, that seems sensible. As stated though, it would be a big waste of their time. I mean, they are free to do their own risk assessments and run their security as they see fit either way, though.

If you really believe the public is kept safe most effectively by pretending to be fully blind to nationality when choosing who to screen at an airport (since you can't intensively screen everyone) I don't know what to tell you.

Although it's interesting that the same people who would take that position seem to also argue that colorblindness is actually a sin if it's done while processing a college application.
I won't say what I've named after certain regimes, but it involves dietary fiber.
Your sense of frustration seems to stem from thinking about something which is similar to big-O, but not actually being big-O.

All of the points you raise are valid if you want to have a good understanding of actual runtime cost of an algorithm.

None of it is relevant if you want to compare algorithms according to big-O, in order to find one which doesn't lead to failure[1] when faced with large amounts of data.

Perhaps you should define your own big-R notation for what you're after.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/expon...
Wow, it's like 12 year old boys or something.

Where the adults at?
> canada calls it CUSMA and Mexico calls it T-MEC

Huh, Tratado entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, TIL!

(Honestly, kind of genius.)
It's actually even more relevant here than it appears, in that the rest of the comment is true: half the article really is about nicknames that people do still use, so there was no reason for the author to object. But that point is lost thanks to the snark.
I just want Istanbul to go back to being called Constantinople.
Indeed although it wasn’t a fighter; it was a reconnaissance aircraft.
I just read that Mistral has opened a new extensible data center near Paris - a good thing for the region.
He single handedly also vindicated one of the most authoritarian regimes - China - in how it slapped Jack Ma as soon as he started entering politics and gaining influence beyond tech entrepreneurship.
Modern macOS updates take forever too. I had one clocked at 40 minutes! In that time I could reinstall Ubuntu 4x over.
In this case it would be the fact that the order is unconstitutional.
You have to pay interest when you invest on margin and a margin call can wipe you out. Investing on margin is serious riverboat gambling, not retirement saving.
How regularly was that happening pre-911?
Yeah, one of those funny legacy things from the days when convenience and cost of storing alternate identifiers dictated designs. Just like how my SSN was printed on my school ID that I presented at the library and dining hall 20 years ago. NBD!
I'll suggest to the CAN powers-that-be to impose an export tariff on the intellectual property.
There isn’t a continent called America. It could have been called the Gulf of North America if we wanted to go that way.

I think we can acknowledge that this is just kind of stupid and rude but mostly petty without catastrophizing about the whole thing.

Meanwhile people will actually keep calling it whatever they want. Let’s switch it back and forth every time the White House changes teams, the minor confusion will remind us that the US government is only changing what it calls things. The actual name comes from what the majority of people call it.
Back in the olden days of hot lights, grow houses could be detected by the large amount of electricity being used.
What about criminal use of punctuation? :)
Vanity of course. Same reason we want Canada and Greenland. Makes us look bigger on a map. Some people think it is because of minerals or national security and so on. But to a narcissist, vanity trumps everything.
They are, at minimum, information about a particular persons values and perspective. Collectively, those individual opinions are what shape elections and foment uprisings.
I wonder how useful this really is.

No doubt, it's excellent for archiving, but that's not the same as "preserving" culture. If it's not alive and kicking it's not a culture IMO. You see this happen even with texts : once things start being written down, the actual knowledge tends to get lost (see India for example).

This "AI to help low-resource languages" thing is a big deal in India too, but it just feels like another "jumla" for academics/techbros to make money. I mean, India has brutal/vicious policies that are out to destroy any and every language that's not English (since it's automatically a threat to central rule from Delhi), but pretty much no intellectual, either in India or the US, actually cares about the mass-wiping out of Indian languages by English... Not even the ones who go "ree bad British man destroyed India" on twitter all day.
I’m saying it’s pointless to who was first.
You asked specifically for a reference to what laws the team might be breaking, implying pretty clearly that you didn't believe any such reference could be produced; when it was, you moved the goalposts.
You can achieve 2x leverage without the risk of margin calls by buying ETFs like SPUU (or SPXL, UPRO if you want 3x leverage).
no, because i didn't watch it. I've never really been into star trek. i watched a few of the movies - nemesis and the one before it, the jj one(s) and then i was done.

If i can remember the review it was "this is a capstone on TNG and probably the entire franchise for most of the older fans" and the first two seasons being disregarded, seasons 3 is "passable"
>The traditional auto industry would have never embraced EVs to the extent they have if someone did not disrupt the market in a way like Tesla did.

Unless you have some sort of way to investigate alternate timelines, there is zero evidence of this claim, including the absurd "never" claim. Many of the innovations that made EVs possible -- for instance rapid advances in battery tech along with the computational improvements to go with them -- came from outside the auto industry. And for that matter the automotive industry had been iterating on EV tech for decades before Elon started dumping money to buy himself credibility. The first lithium-ion EV came out in 1998.

The auto industry was getting there. The blip of Tesla had little impact on the overall timeline, and it certainly isn't a "huge net positive" for humanity. It's a barely noticeable nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Elon, in his absolutely desperate need to constantly be The Subject, has a brilliance in choose the inflection point for buying into something. If it's the emerging hot new thing, Elon will appear with big bags of cash demanding that he be acknolwedged as the leader that made it all happen.
This is a fantastic use case for LLM’s. Also, godspeed to these researchers! There’s unfortunately not a lot of time left for many of these languages.
Yes, I meant parity-independence with speculation. Essentially you assume either you are or are not within a string at the start and do your computation based on that assumption, then throw away the result with the unsound assumption. Both assumptions can share most of their computation I believe, so I can understand one might see it from the other perspective where you'd start with calling it parity-independence rather than speculation with shared computation.
Twenty lessons on tyranny: https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-on-tyranny
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Luckily in America if someone has serious grievances about this they can choose to vote for a candidate that will revert it. Given the other things Trump is up to, this is a non-issue. The collective time spent discussing it is sad.
> You also don’t hear about all of the people who failed because they tried something novel and it didn’t work.

Or all the people who, through ignorance or hubris, thought they could do better than the state of the art. Or all the people who independently invent things that already exist. These may be what you're referring to, but thought it's worth re-stating these as they are far more common cases than people inventing truly novel approaches.
already a thing. here's one example from Canada https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/wes...
I just don't understand why some people are so fascinated by this. Can you all admit that this is not at all practical? I swear C++ folks like it for the sake of it. No other engineer do this. Only antiques people or whatever.

Can you imagine an engineer that is adamant on using his mystifying bespoke tool instead of just using a ruler. "But what if I have to measure it in the 4th dimension!?".

I was expecting something simple but good Lord, its kwargs. Not some magical asynchronous runtime.

inb4 there are still corner cases so you can't just say "users don't have to know the implementation details so only one person has to suffer". I bet money this abstraction is leaky.

Why can't you just do this at the language level like any sane person?
I got 5% in the nineties
Deepseek is run by a hedge fund and they are 100% in it for the money and not the culty AI doom BS, which helps a bit.
Have you driven one? The Model 3, particularly the 2024 update+, is super fun to drive. Zips around town really nicely. There's very little to maintain.

Most of them don't go wrong, so the dominant experience is the above.

+The new model is usefully more quiet and has better suspension. Previous were a bit rattly and very noisy.
See recent paper, noting the trend and that the rightmost point of the trend is already 8 years ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01698-1/figures/4
He is 100% of the reason I do not drive a Tesla today. I'm not the only person who feels this way.

If he buys OpenAI he will be 100% of the reason I don't use it.
You probably gotta have some wild AI and Quant skills on your resume to get any sort of response.
I mean, you could invent tetraethyl gasoline and CFCs.... you don't have to be super wealthy for that, but getting the world to adopt them in horribly harmful ways certainly takes capital.
I've always kept by boots on flying out of Dublin.
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You know what, I can't place where exactly I heard it was C++ rather than C and they just ship you a binary blob executable, so I may be wrong and it absolutely could be plain C.
IMO this offer is exactly to prove that point.

Sam, if the non-profit is worth $40B then clearly you would be willing to sell it for $80B.

That's pretty strong evidence that the non-profit isn't worth just 40B and thus the basis of the go-private is invalid.
Atlanta, GA has underground power transmission through much of the city (and specifically my neighborhood within the city) and we can still lose power in storms. What isn’t underground currently is being moved there in much of the city. However, the transmission equipment is still outside and still has physical limits. There’s only so much water, so much wind, and so much lightning electrical systems can take without someone going dark. Underground trunks can also flood and short so they’re not a full panacea in areas that have heavy storms.

We’ve had a mild storm season the past two years and we’ve maybe been down seconds in total in my area.

While the average I’m sure is correct, the distribution is going to depend a lot on what is going on with nature. When I lived in California I lived in an LADWP area so I didn’t experience rolling blackouts. As a kid I had friends that would come over because they lived in an Edison area and play time in air conditioning at my house was much more enjoyable in August. If you were to find the average downtime during that period of time I expect it would saddle everyone with 10-15 minutes of outages even though my area never went down and my friends lost power for a few hours each week during heat waves.
I don't think this is correct. See this article from July 2017 [1] Banning petrol cars was already discussed, it mentioned many car constructors, but not mention of Tesla. At that time, 27,903 Tesla cars were sold in Europe [2], so the market wasn't disrupted at all.

> France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced.

> The Netherlands has mooted a 2025 ban for diesel and petrol cars, and some federal states in Germany are keen on a 2030 phase-out.

> India, where scores of cities are blighted by dangerous air pollution, is mulling the idea of no longer selling petrol or diesel cars by 2030, and said it wants to introduce electric cars in “a very big way”.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/06/france-ban-...

[2] https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/tesla-europe-sales-figures/
At least in Princeton experimentalists do complete integrated MS/PhD within 5 years. Having a separate MS is atypical for American-educated students, plenty of schools (all the top schools IIRC) don’t even have a program, the MS is only offered as an incidental degree of the PhD program.
You know who he is when I mention him by first name. That is what makes him a target, irrespective of the quality of his ideas or whether he's a decent person.
Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4B
Nothing vindicates the CCP.

They enact laws guaranteeing free speech and human rights, then execute their critics and sell their organs.
The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)
My partner and I did exactly that. She let me choose. Ended up with the surname from one of my favorite literary characters. Changed my first name to match as well. Happened to be a childhood nick name anyway, so I've always answered to it.
Elon Musk-led group makes surprise bid of nearly $100B for OpenAI
> blame lies equally with all active fund management, as well as the investment managers (e.g. pension funds) who decide to allocate to them instead of to a passive tracker

Except active management works for any metric other than long-term yield maximisation. (Most institutions have short-term needs, whether for liquidity or optics.)
Dupe (409 points, 4 hours ago, 454 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
I don't tinker with Vim. I wrote my config many years ago and I touch it maybe once every few years. Otherwise it's completely rock solid.

I also find it highly amusing when people talk about needing to get work done and Vim, I mean I didn't get staff at one of the highest paying, hardest companies to climb at because I was sitting there tweaking configs instead of having impact. Vim lets me have impact by getting out of my way and letting me do precisely what I need to do wherever I need to do it.
private equities and startups/small businesses are fundamentally different in terms of the 'skin in the game' that startup founders and small business owners have in their business. They've typically invested themselves significant parts of their lives into their businesses. The same cannot be said of private equity funds, and you should know better.
I believe it is Google’s policy to show users official map labels based on the geolocation data of the user. If you compare maps between countries with border disputes, the one you’re “in” always shows all of the disputed territory as belonging to that nation.
Clearly Jack Ma should have pledged his commitment to China's core socialist values like Musk did: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...

And maybe Jack Ma should also have advocated for Taiwan's submission to China like Musk did: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...
I've been using this and it's a lot of fun
Dupe (409 points, 4 hours ago, 455 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
The first aircraft? Ok.

And how far did aircraft get before we were able to make functioning wings that work by flapping in the way of birds?

(Actually, have we even done the latter? I imagine we have, but I’m not sure.)
I guess just like First CityWide Change Bank.
Yes, it seems that the #1 lesson he learned from his first term wasn't that you have to have appoint only intense loyalists who will never turn on you, but rather that flooding the channel helps tremendously to cause the important things to blow over more quickly. And the American Left, with their tendency to explode over anything mildly 'offensive,' is absolutely the perfect target for this trolling, since they can be easily trolled with things like this that have zero significance, and are free and legal to do. So that his opponents spend about 90% of their energy fighting the 90% of things that don't matter.
In a way that's what Claude Artifacts are. That said, I think there are many more ways to get gen UIs wrong then there are to get them right. Most users and use cases will be counterproductive with a dynamic UI. Debugging will be an absolute nightmare if not outright impossible, same with security.
That's Quanta for you.
One of the reasons why I love the Angry Videogame Nerd is that when he came out, the state of third-generation retrogaming nostalgia involved a lot of wearing of rose-colored glasses. Remember Castlevania? Remember Mega Man? Double Dragon? Remember having to blow on the cartridges before they'd work (which never did really work)? Etc. The AVGN stood as a counterpoint to all that, reminding us that many of the games from that era -- even games we loved or wanted -- kind of sucked, and that we can appreciate modern games for the extra bit of care that went in to them to make them not suck so bad. (This was 2004, though, and what goes around comes around...)

The same is kind of true of retrocomputing. We look back to these old platforms as if due to coming from a "simpler time", they never had any latency and never experienced bugs. And sure, if you fire it up for five minutes on some online WebAssembly emulator you find on Hackernews, it seems much snappier and more pleasant to use than Windows 11. But back then, we were running them on CPUs literally hundreds of times slower than even a potato-class computer from today. And due to memory protection being frickin' absent from almost all consumer-grade operating systems, they crashed. A lot. Even the Amiga was crash- and Guru-Meditation-prone depending on what you were running on it. It was such an enormous relief for me, trying out Linux or even Windows NT for the first time, to watch the OS simply yeet out a misfiring app; disconnect any access it had to the network, file system, or window system; and proceed merrily on its way as if nothing happened. Not following the exact sequence of steps it required to set up the message pump properly so that your program can respond to messages as required in Windows 3.1, for instance, can cause strange glitches within Windows itself, requiring a restart of Windows; or even hard-lock the system requiring a cold boot.

Our computers are so powerful these days, and our software so sophisticated, that they've eliminated entire classes of problems from the old days, only to open the door to entirely new classes of problems (like adware that would have brought a Pentium II to its knees, and sparked a user complaint campaign that would have resulted in major egg on the vendor's face if not bankruptcy from the ensuing lawsuits, being routine, and even required, on commercial operating systems of today).

Offtopic, but here's how to feel old: More time has passed between the debut of the AVGN and the present, than has passed between the debut of the NES in the West and the debut of the AVGN.
There might also be the option of just optimistically assuming that, for points in a file with a sequence of like >4K bytes of proper newlines with proper comma counts in each, that here probably isn't in the middle of a multiline string, and parsing it as such (of course with proper fallback if this turns out false; but you'll at least know that this whole run is in the middle of a multiline string).

Also, if you encounter a double-quote character anywhere with a comma on one side and neither a newline, double-quote nor comma on the other, you immediately know 100% whether it starts or ends a string.
> Why can hedge funds negotiate such high fees despite lackluster performance?

As you point out, what counts as performance varies. Magnitude of net returns is important. But by analogy, you could get massive net returns betting on the Powerball.
I don’t think they ever shipped with a Mac, but they were available. I had a Voodoo in a Mac clone. It was a strange setup. You plugged the monitor into the Voodoo, then ran a second video cable from the computer’s built in video out to a second port on the Voodoo. In normal operation, it would pass the video signal through, and when using 3D acceleration, it would take over the video signal.
> which means that mail in cities tends to subsidize rural services

Do USPS or other mail services in the US have pricing that depends on location? In Poland where I live (much smaller, more uniformly populated and not federal country), I've seen no such things. The prices are the same everywhere, so it seems to me that in every private, commercial mail service the cities kinda subsidize the rural areas.