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I think that ambiguity is part of the charm of natural language instructions

I’m laughing at the part where they say they’re going to do a complex task and the chosen example is “remove null values”.

df = df.dropna()

Wow

Edit: more seriously though… this is a non deterministic pipeline that seems to mutate your data in place with no indication of what it did.

fauxpause_on Pinball is booming in America

Ahhh the legs comment is very interesting. That makes sense

fauxpause_on Pinball is booming in America

Dumb question but how do you do this? Are you gripping the machine with your hands and literally lifting it from different sides?

fauxpause_on Pinball is booming in America

Question, I played a pinball video game a while back (Demon Tilt). It was largely just a pinball machine. But it also let you nudge the ball and this was pretty critical to doing well. Are physical machines supposed to have this tilting mechanic? Because I’m vaguely aware that TILT is a thing you can be punished for. And I’m wondering how it is possible to avoid unlucky deaths otherwise.

fauxpause_on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

Doesn’t matter. It won’t be well received. It sounds negative to most readers and being technically correct warns you no points.

fauxpause_on Ask HN: Is depleted uranium being spread from the Khmelnitsky explosion?

My ultimate point is that if you are in Bulgaria you have nothing to worry about from DU ammo in Ukraine. Which was the original question. I find your other points to be a straw man. Most banned weapons are about indiscriminate civilian killing or needlessly harming soldiers that would be already removed from the battlefield.

There’s no evidence that this stuff can blow elsewhere at concentrations sufficient to cause harm very far (maybe a couple dozen miles). Hence, “highly localized”.

fauxpause_on Ask HN: Is depleted uranium being spread from the Khmelnitsky explosion?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197787/

This study from 2020 found an 89% increase, which is a large effect size, but it’s still just 1’s of people per 100,000 more getting cancers. It’s not a massive public health hazard. War is complicated.

Regardless the effects are highly localized. You’re fine if you’re not nearby.

fauxpause_on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

Interesting. Never heard that before

fauxpause_on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

There’s a big gap between engaging in political speech and funding a campaign

fauxpause_on Ask HN: Is depleted uranium being spread from the Khmelnitsky explosion?

You are very unlikely to see a material concentration of this stuff unless you’re very close to the site of the explosion. The risks, if any, come from people handling hunks of it like armor plating and bullets .

fauxpause_on Ask HN: Is depleted uranium being spread from the Khmelnitsky explosion?

This man was expelled from Azov about a decade ago for being anti semetic and went to jail for a domestic terror plot. Do you think he is a credible source?

fauxpause_on Ask HN: Is depleted uranium being spread from the Khmelnitsky explosion?

No. Depleted uranium rounds have been used in previous conflicts. They exploded in those conflicts. There was no material radioactive impact of this. It’s also unlikely that the Russian claims are accurate. Russia is falsely playing up these things as nuclear weapons. They’re not.

If you’re concerned about radioactivity you can just look at your own link. The measurements of radiation are all that matters. Not some scary cause. As your link indicates, levels are fine.

fauxpause_on Lyft CEO David Risher reportedly says company is 'open' to acquisition offers

You’re doing that thing again where you imply there is no middle ground between a few shares and a billion dollars worth of shares. It’s a dumb straw man.

Elon musk saying he would sell his shares because he was backing out of an agreement to purchase those shares at an inflated price is obviously going to drop the price. This is not the same thing as a random shareholder who happens to own stocks and wants to divest some.

If you want to sell all your shares for X, you’d be an idiot for not selling some of them for more than X. This is not difficult to understand.

Acquisition offers for less than market value are extremely rare, absent non public information. They are called takeunders. They generally only happen when a company is on deaths door. Which lyft is not. It would be seen as really dumb to offer less than market value in an acquisition bid. Stop making up rhetoric as if this were a normal reasonable thing to do. It’s not.

fauxpause_on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

Is that an accurate statement? I have never heard that included in the definition of separation of church and state. Sounds wrong.

fauxpause_on Lyft CEO David Risher reportedly says company is 'open' to acquisition offers

I don’t know what to say other than that you’re wrong. you can easily sell lyft shares. The public generally does not know who holds lyft shares or when they’re sold or care when they do. The only exception to this is those with insider information. But even then most people don’t care.

fauxpause_on All the exciting media outlets are dying – what comes next?

Which is why I like specialized orgs for niche topics.

fauxpause_on All the exciting media outlets are dying – what comes next?

Some irony about the request at the bottom:

> Fund the journalism we need now

> We need you now more than ever. In turbulent times, it is crucial that reliable media remains available to everyone. That is why we depend on your support to keep our journalism accessible and independent. From economic uncertainty to political polarization, the challenges our society is facing today are too important for half-truths.

> At The Walrus, the future of journalism is funded by engaged citizens like you. Together, we can preserve the integrity of Canadian media and ensure that our democracy thrives. Will you join us?

Anyway. I personally hope we see more orgs that are dedicated to niche topics. They do one thing and you go to them to read their one thing, like the institute of war for Ukraine (and iran/Iraq/Taiwan to lesser degrees).

Most news will find its way into the public consciousness if it’s important without journalism.

fauxpause_on An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

Sure. But not easily.

fauxpause_on Lyft CEO David Risher reportedly says company is 'open' to acquisition offers

Is your serious belief that people can only buy or sell their entire collection of shares as one unit? Because that’s the only way your post makes any sense.

If you own $1B shares of Lyft, and you think it would be great to sell them for less than X, you’d be pretty dumb for not selling whatever you can at X. The fact that they are not doing this suggests they would not be happy to sell for less than X.

fauxpause_on Lyft CEO David Risher reportedly says company is 'open' to acquisition offers

It’s a liquid stock. You can sell it right now. There’s no world where you hope for it to get bought at less than the current market price but don’t think it makes sense to sell your holdings at the current price.

This is true even if the selling of your holdings causes the market price to drop.

fauxpause_on Erdogan Promises to Transfer Power Peacefully If He Loses Ballot

Most inflation

fauxpause_on TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges

Spread outrage, controversy and doubt.

Have a neutral mutually beneficial idea? Let’s contextualize it as a divisive political issue that is championed by the political leader you hate the most.

fauxpause_on An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

You think you can pull in almost 4M per year by being hot on the internet?

fauxpause_on Lyft CEO David Risher reportedly says company is 'open' to acquisition offers

Why would shareholders be willing to give up something for less than they think it is worth

fauxpause_on An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

Not as depressing as straight up loneliness

fauxpause_on An AI Girlfriend made $72K in 1 week

It absolutely does not “very easily” make that much money

fauxpause_on One Day You'll Find Yourself

Just old probs

fauxpause_on YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

The goal does not seem relevant. The goal of a bank robbery is to profit from the bank robbery.

fauxpause_on Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved

I don’t think it does. It says that much was due that year.