skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't see anything I hadn't also seen on busy streets in SF

This is an almost uselessly low bar.
In addition to reading about Django, since that's what you use, I'd suggest finding a small bug to fix in the core project or a still-developing project in the ecosystem. It's a pretty mature project, so there's not a ton of low hanging fruit, but with new releases (like 4.1 that just dropped), there's always a few weird edge cases to fix.

Claim the issue and ask for some help (after doing your homework), and I suspect you'll get helpful direction. That was my experience anyways.

It will likely take some time to find something that looks interesting and solvable, but that's the best way to learn IMO so it's worth the grunt work.
The usa and europe are doing amazing. They are down to 1920’s or 1940’s levels depending on how you count it. And they didn’t just out source it.

https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1300448982733189123
I bought some tools at Harbor Freight recently that were stamped "Made in Taiwan"
> @railgun_project says This is a well known drawback of proof-of-work systems that was talked about even before Ethereum was launched. It is inaccurate to say that this is a recent "disclosure"

this isn't an inherent weakness of proof-of-work systems, it's a weakness of proof-of-work systems that allow difficulty back-off if a block is not found quickly enough.

It's always been kinda hilarious watching the various crypto factions slapfight and strawman each other to hell and back... ladies, please, you're all awful, each in your own way.

(coming from a person who backs neither and merely follows crypto-tech in order to refute the arguments more accurately)
WHy not per gdp?
In the US at least, running afoul of Export/Import controls and laws guarantees a stay at Club Fed.
I actually make a mental map of which concepts the other person understand, and which ones they don't.

Trying to find relevant examples and activities to teach just this one thing, using all previously learned things, is an enjoyable intellectual exercise by itself.
I've been collecting all my notes on UUIDs here https://github.com/sw-yx/brain/blob/master/R%20-%20Dev%20Not... in case it is helpful to anyone
Call the Turing police!
This comment is spot on. Configuring the most expensive EV I could think of (Porche Taycan Turbo S) with all the options I could easily add comes to about $225K USD. That leaves ~$30K USD for a solar install to match the price of the Lightyear..
It also doesn't matter because you're usually eating a burger with some kind of condiment or side.

Whether it's a mushroom/egg/tomato, coleslaw on the side, ketchup, tzatziki (lamb burger) or something else, most burgers will have juices enough to not make them dry.

You also might not want to eat 100% of the rendered fat from a burger. Some fat is good, but it's still a very high-calorie substance.
Not compared to the amount of coal they are rolling out.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317274-china-is-buildi...
For a moment I thought it was a link to one of those Youtube videos. Didn't expect New York Times to resort to such titles.
That doesn't sound very boring. That sounds like it has several unnecessary moving parts. Makefiles (and the binaries they run to actually do all the heavy lifting) tend to be more fragile and less portable than their advocates let on. I often come across repos where I don't/can't trust the Makefile finish to completion without error, so I end up cracking it open to see what it's trying to do and then just running those commands manually.

People also inevitably end up forgetting how to use their static site generator setup. (Even in your "boring" example with "just" make, you will perhaps forget the templating language.) A ripe case fit for field study: <https://web.archive.org/web/20210331182731/https://corythebo...>

> So, time to update the website, but the first wall I hit was that I: ¶1. Forgot how my over-engineered SaaS was supposed to be used (no documentation because I built it myself and was lazy) ¶2. Forgot how to follow the esoteric Hugo conventions (has documentation, but it's not easy to parse at a glance)

> I was pretty annoyed with myself for having fallen for the trap of not documenting my own systems, but not sure how I could have remembered all of the Hugo-isms, especially since I don't update this site very often and don't do static site generator work outside of this.

If think you want to use a static site generator, first try just making your site capable of self-replication. Write a document that lists all the transformation steps that should be applied to the input in order to produce the desired output, save that as something like makesite.html, dump it somewhere on your site, and have it so that when you drag and drop the directory containing your site sources onto the page, then it spits the publishable version back out. (Just make it so that your makesite.html is written for a dumb enough audience that your computer (read: Web browser) can follow the steps on its own.)

Alternatively, don't use a static site generator. Adopt a regimen where the publishable representation (what would be the SSG's output) is also the canonical representation (i.e. "source").
What about oil changes?
Innocence is like the crust of a pie: made to be destroyed.
No. It's 32-bits minimum. It can be anything larger. That's what the language says. Assuming otherwise is nonportable.
I quite enjoyed using Logseq (esp programmability with queries, etc), but I can’t use it at work so I’m sticking to the Emacs/org-roam ecosystem for now.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349990
And you need to have an appropriate Time Machine backup target...
Chrome and Firefox have both supported NTLM for years.
> I still can't get over the banana-pants insanity of the first count

As someone who's unfamiliar with this, could you explain what's banana-pants insane about a company inflating their hard-to-discover numbers, for profit? I thought that was, unfortunately, banana-pants standard? For example, the fiction that is Twitter or Reddit's user count.
Yes. I've totally bought into the smash burgers meme and they've never let me down once. I'm also a pretty terrible cook and don't follow the instructions too closely (e.g. I smash them before putting them into the frying pan since I don't have a big/flat enough pan). Delicious every time.
https://en.jingos.com/jingpad-a1/ maybe. I doubt the screen is matte
Conference proceedings. When I was at a computational linguistics conference back in ~2004, I was appalled when another attendee checking out from the hotel left his printed conference proceedings there, saying the electronic form (CD then, web pages now) was good enough and a lot easier to carry around. I thought about that as I carried the printed proceedings (large conference, so large proceedings) back on the flight home.

He was right, I was wrong. And I haven't seen printed conference proceedings for some years now.
Right. Prior art is about what it is, not who publishes it.
Marrying a language model with a search engine and a long term memory module is a great direction. I hope such a system can perform the role of a research assistant. But in order to make it shine, it also needs the skills of coding and problem solving other models have. I bet this could be the Google keyword search killer, why suffer through the arcane keyword searches and spam when you can chat your problem away.
Electron 20.0.0
Honestly, I would argue that progress in AGI is actually sublinear. We are not significantly closer to AGI today than we were in the 1950s, as far as I can tell.

The fact that LMs can seem like they generate meaningful sentences is nothing more than a nice trick. My bet is that they will turn out to be a dead-end on the path to actual language processing (that is, the ability to
read a book and use the information therein to achieve a goal).
This is something I have noticed with a lot of models. I'm not sure what the technical term for it is, but when there is a repeated sequence of human input with model generation following (like a chatbot) it seems to be unable to focus. When you prod it to regain focus and come back to the topic being discussed it starts making up lies.

If you use GPT3 for a large amount of content generation the issue of focus doesn't seem to be so prevalent, but it has zero guarantee of truth.
> arguing that Twitter lied about its numbers for years specifically so that someone would buy it at an inflated price?

On one hand, venture-funded hockeystick-startups like Twitter definitely aim for a quick exit to make cash, so it's not totally out of the blue. On the other hand, Twitter is publicly traded and therefore already had its exit.
I get what you're saying; the US is far from the shining example of what a democracy should look like.

On the other side of that coin, though, China is taking us for a ride. Politically speaking, it's unwise to continue giving them power over our supply chain. Ultimately it's a monster fight with no real winners, but ensuring that world superpowers stay competitive with one another is how we prevent mutually assured destruction. Even for China's allies, I fail to see how hamstringing the CCP is a bad thing.
Interesting! This reminds me of /r/cscareerquestions: both the good and the bad.

Good: you're trying to create a space where a lot of people have similar professional goals and can riff off each other.

Better: the two of you have a lot of content backed by your own, verifiable, professional experiences.

Bad: why would someone qualified to give advice want to join the community? What prevents your forums from devolving into the blind leading the blind?

Case in point: your video on "why you should start your career at a big tech co" is very clearly driven by your own personal experiences. At one point you allude to optimizing for compensation, but you don't discuss fintech options (Jane Street, Citadel, etc.). Skimming through some of your comments on other threads, I also just don't see a lot of respect for the nuances of different folks' individual circumstances: understandable given that you two are a finite resource, but you also need to attract users who can give that advice, and I don't see a carrot there for me.
I find it rather ridiculous and in bad faith that Musk is harping on the bot issue for 2 reasons.

First, it wouldn't matter anyway. He signed away any and all rights to due diligence in the agreement.

And secondly, it's completely impossible for any outside analysis to determine the number of active users on Twitter because most active Twitter users don't tweet or interact in anyway. They just read tweets and those users see ads, which makes them monetizable users.
As soon as AGI is inventing shit, patents won't matter anymore. That paradigm will blow humans out of the water.
Yea, this never happens: https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/what-can-i-do-about-the-m...
Microsoft Edge Payment Info Disappeared
I went to pay for something on a website and my credit cards were not saved. When I went to the settings to view my payment info, I'm left with a banner at the top that says, "Try the new management experience in Wallet." If you click on the "Go to Wallet" link, it brings me to edge://wallet. The link looks like a phishing scam, but can't find anything on whether it is legit. Have any of you experienced this?
Wouldn’t the first count apply to anyone interested in buying shares in Twitter? Artificially inflating the mDAU figure makes the investment appear more attractive and valuable than it really is.
> Twitter committed fraud by lying to the SEC about the mDAU numbers with the intent of inducing Musk to buy Twitter at an inflated price.

What is that commonly-used aphorism? "One man's trash is another man's treasure"? Like, even if this is true, Musk didn't do (and subsequently waived) due diligence.

> No, really, this is the allegation

No further comment on it.

> Count 2 is that Twitter committed [Texas fraud statute] by lying when it offered its shares. It's shotgun-pled, so I don't know which specific statements are supposed to be wrong, but I'm imagining it's basically the previous count recast under a different statute.

If it's due to Texas laws, is the appropriate jurisdiction is the Texas courts or... oh, he's trying to claim that the case should be heard in a federal court (for diversity reasons). Good luck though Musk.

> Count 3 says that Twitter broke the contract by failing to provide information.

What information? The contract is already in the public, but okay you want to waste court time.

> Count 4 says that Twitter broke the contract by instituting a hiring freeze.

Twitter could just point to its peers like Google, Meta and Microsoft.

> Count 5 is pretty please declare that Twitter lying about mDAUs is a materially adverse event that is cause to break the contract.

Yeah, at this point I'm convinced that Musk wants to just waste everyone's time, especially after the chancery court denied his petition to schedule the hearing next year.
> But that's not how most human communication work.

It's not even how it can work. See the Malicious Genie problem for a memorable demonstration of the fundamental problem. Chasing "precision" beyond what's necessary tends to harm communication, not aid it. Norms and context are super-important.
Uber's Still Not Profitable
To be fair, your suggestion that the person above thinks „making money justifies rape and death“ ist pretty far fetched. They basically said „if you want a big festival you book popular band“ and you said „so you thinks rape is okay?“. No that’s not what they said.
Suggesting the thinks the result is „okay“ because they gave a - imho totally reasonable - explanation for a decision someone made some ~23 years ago is pretty disingenuous at least.
Sure why not? I doubt an independent Hawaii would shut down friendly relations with the US and punt its military presence.

They can have a referendum and see if they would like to lose their US citizenship Medicare/Social security.
Telecommunications is interesting in that everything strives to be backwards compatible and will accommodate the lowest common denominator to connect a call. It's very much like Microsoft Windows, in that backward compatibility is both a strength and a common source of problems. Government mandates don't usually go beyond borders, so carriers have to accommodate international operators.

And any new features or technologies often introduce or expose problems.

When Caller ID was introduced, there was a huge backlash around privacy. Callers were upset about having the number they were calling from being exposed. If a doctor called a patient it could expose his direct or home number instead of the office number. In the age of phone books, a phone number could be associated with an address. The ACLU sued to block Caller ID until it was possible to disabled it.

Because large call centers operated hundreds of numbers and wanted a way for them to all appear as the same business entity. Carriers later implemented ways for these customers to spoof Caller ID so that the carrier wasn't responsible for maintaining it. Carriers connecting calls had to trust the originating carrier's caller ID info as well.

All these requirements allowed for a bad actor to spoof Caller ID and for it to just be trusted.

Carriers use to have star codes you would use for certain features like disabling Caller ID, disabling Call Waiting, and, famously, calling back a number that called you. These are similar to the AT codes you can issue to the modem in your cellphone via the dialer. Kids today will never appreciate REM's Star 69.

When digital cellphones arrived, they presented some odd challenges too like the fact that call information was transmitted digitally to the carrier and not via analog tones. Because number presses on your cellphone didn't equate to analog tones over the line, cellphone users couldn't interact with IVR menu systems (e.g., "Press 1 for English...").

Character limits in SMS messages come from the fact that they occupied the null space in beacon messages transmitted between cell towers and phones. Before MMS was a thing you couldn't send longer messages or if your phone broke them up into chunks, they might be delivered out of order or not at all.
Corporations are slow AIs running on bureaucracy and humans.
IMO, this isn't great.

It's competing with laptop + USB monitors that are optimized for portability. That setup is a little less elegant, but it's less expensive and it's composed of reliable components. And, you can easily use the stand-alone laptop in cramped quarters like on a bus/airplane.

The only real downside is, it's a little less compact compared to the Asus design.
His Tweets are all done with an iPhone, as Twitter allows you to see what client a tweet was made from. The only way bot behavior could be done on a smartphone, is if the phone is an iOS virtual machine, and the tweets are programmatically generated using some algo.
sorry, I'm not English native speaker, I intended exactly that: it should be there, because it's where they were physically manufactured.

Made in Taiwan is, at the moment, legally like "made in California", which is a fine Beach Boys album, but not a recognized country of origin label.
It would be more accurate to bring up the expanding population of Humanity
The world reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It would be more than 100 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960. Thereafter, the global population reached four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987, six billion in 1999 and, by some estimates, seven billion in October 2011
There are more people living in more places then ever before. If a hurricane hit an area no human lived, did anybody notice?
This reminded me of Leonard Susskind's "Theoretical Minimum" physics lectures.

"A number of years ago I became aware of the large number of physics enthusiasts out there who have no venue to learn modern physics and cosmology. Fat advanced textbooks are not suitable to people who have no teacher to ask questions of, and the popular literature does not go deeply enough to satisfy these curious people. So I started a series of courses on modern physics at Stanford University where I am a professor of physics. The courses are specifically aimed at people who know, or once knew, a bit of algebra and calculus, but are more or less beginners."

https://theoreticalminimum.com/home
But they have to lie in order to comply. It's not just about following stupid rules.
Thank you. That was one of the few life-changing moments in my life. It was so obvious in retrospect. I'd been glued to the screen since I started typing in programs from the backs of magazines in elementary school. It wove a powerful spell over me: "you own this little universe, and you can make it do anything you want it to -- as long as you can discover the right incantations." I was hooked. I guess I'd thought of becoming a doctor even earlier and it had somehow stuck in my head, even though that clearly wasn't my true passion.

I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me before then that maybe, just maybe, I should consider that my favorite hobby was also a nice career path. When my boss (who I profusely thanked later in life) pointed that out to me, I was blown away. I didn't sleep well afterward, at first because I had seen my whole planned future fall apart and re-form in a completely different way, and later because I couldn't wait to get started.

I've never looked back, not for a second. This is what I was meant to do. I love it, I'm good at it, and I've never since wanted to do anything else.
It's not a direct comparison, but there are definitely many games that could be feasibly built in any one of Godot, Unity, or Unreal. There's a lot more to consider beyond just the engine features, such as the asset pipeline, the tooling ecosystem, and the availability of third-party assets and scripts.
My use case is research-oriented and it’s impossible to impose that much structure on tasks — for me it’s mainly about keeping track of tabs/links while I go through them and organize my mental models (they’re not even really tasks). I don’t know about the applicability for a more execution-oriented workflow.
> I still can't get over the banana-pants insanity of the first count... arguing that Twitter lied about its numbers for years specifically so that someone would buy it at an inflated price?

Not a lawyer, so could you explain why this is banana-pants insanity? There's malicious fraud (unlikely) and then there's the more likely case of under-investing in bot-detection and expunging efforts, e.g. "in favor of other priorities", to keep DAUs and subsequently valuations high for a potential sale.
That is a misreading of twitters filing.
> On X11, skipTaskbar sends a _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR message to the X11 window manager. There is not a direct equivalent for Wayland, and the known workarounds have unacceptable tradeoffs (e.g. Window.is_skip_taskbar in GNOME requires unsafe mode), so Electron is unable to support this feature on Linux.

One Linux-specific change, and it's a design regression made only because GNOME/Wayland no longer supports the feature. Yipee!
> displays are actually pretty much negligible in terms of overall health, but don’t quote me on that.

Yeah, forget that. It's unreasonable to assume "negligible" is in any way or form acceptable when it comes to vision. It fucking isn't.

Here's something fun! You can actually subjectively measure how bad it is. All it takes is or white background, in full screen, full brightness, in a dark room. It creates a burning-like sensation in the eyes. Then stop, wait a few minutes until it fades and repeat the process with the filter on.

You'll actually notice a difference.
Isn't that only true if you ground your own beef? I assume supermarket ground beef is ground in batches of hundreds of lbs
How many truckloads of money is this?
I eat a pound of ground whatever three or four times a week, be it elk, wild boar, venison, and sometimes 'burger.'

Always ground. I can incorporate other things to make it be whatever I want, and there's no issue with rare-not rare. Outright burgers aren't worth the hassle to me. Anyway, I couldn't eat a 1 pound burger most days, but have no issue with ground for some reason.
In 3.4 I could not get in-app purchases working for iOS apps. Is it fixed now?
What are you talking about? Google spams you to use Chrome every time you visit their website. Literally the most used website in the world, tells you to use Chrome any time you're not using Chrome.
World Sports Photography Awards 2022 winners revealed
We can't talk about this when you don't know what "dystopian" means.
I sincerely desire to avoid having a mobile, internet connected device that equips many sensors and cameras in my home that is designed, manufactured and supported by a Chinese company.
The steam explosion is based off two assumptions: You're starting with cold sausage that heats up as it coalesces into the star, and that the steam gets trapped by the solid mass of sausage above it. Stars normally coalesce out of hydrogen that doesn't need to go through as drastic of a change as a sausage would when transforming into fusing plasma. My assumptions are probably at least partially incorrect because my field of expertise is really ribs and brisket.
We treat a submission as a duplicate if the story has had significant attention in the last year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

If a story hasn't*had significant attention in the last year or so, then we don't treat it as a dupe, because it's important for good articles to get multiple chances at getting attention. Otherwise the randomness of what gets noticed on /newest would be even more dominant than it already is.
Seems only slightly more intelligent than Eliza from the "conversation" I had with it.