skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say yes it is. For humans there is plenty in the world that is completely novel, and we can (and have to) reason from abstractions or first principles. Being exposed to millions of every day things doesn’t give us intrinsic knowledge of writing fiction, algebra, artistic expression etc. instead, we have to apply abstract knowledge and reason. This may well be possible for an AI system, but I haven’t seen GPT3 or DALLE do this.

It’s hard to test this on DALLE or GPT3 as the internet is a summation of all known knowledge in effect. True unbounded Original thought is hard, and given they have seen everything before, it’s impossible to know if it’s original or just seen it previously. It would be interesting in a decades time to see how DALLE or GPT3 deals with novel ideas that it was never exposed to.
The problem we are trying to solve is keeping the co2 stored somewhere. In the past there were no wood eating fungi which meant forests were really good at co2 sequestration. That is no longer true, plants alone cannot get rid of excess CO2 anymore so we need humans to do something.
Yeah - unfortunately YouTube really, really want you to pay for YouTube Premium so they don't allow videos to continue playing in the background. Sorry about that, I know it's annoying. There's nothing I can do about it for YouTube but I'll look at adding alternative music sources like SoundCloud
> The character "à" as a single byte E0, as far as I know, is not UTF-8.

It's not, but I wrote "Unicode" and "code point", not "UTF-8" and "code unit". It sounds like you don't know the difference, which makes this whole discussion a bit silly and probably a bit pointless. One of the best explanations I've read is this one: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/... and especially the section on grapheme clusters.

> Your PS snippet failed for me "Method invocation failed because [System.String] does not contain a method named 'EnumerateRunes'."

Sounds like you're using the outdated windows powershell, not pwsh.
... or a fast car with a load of magnetic tapes (or memory cards, per M. Munroe) in the boot fuelled up and ready to roll. (-:
Loved noclipping around the color cube but for some reason the WASD keys would get stuck for me :(
In the libreoffice project, we have implemented some of this eg. no c style casts, using clang plugins, which avoids needing a custom build of clang. But always good to see people experimenting in this space!
Finding 5 5-letter words to cover 25 letters under 1.5s via Linear Programming
Hello everyone. I recently watched Matt Parker's video on the Jotto Problem, which basically asks to find 5 5-letter words such that they cover 25 characters.

It appears that there's a race to find the fastest solution / algorithm and I thought i'd give it a shot. As far as I know, this is the fastest solution.
Oh yeah, the ladders were mostly a side-issue considering Grenfell Tower fire as a whole. I focused on them because this is an article about fire trucks navigating european city streets.

The main Grenfell story IMHO is about Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex obtaining fraudulent certifications saying their flammable cladding products weren't flammable, and a light-touch regulatory system letting them get away with it. And the TMO attempting a refurbishment where they only had budget for the flammable ACM - so anyone who bid on the work with safe materials was knocked out of the contest.
Cap and trade is an example where speculation and hoarding would be good for humanity, instead housing gets more expensive and CO2 certificates get allocated to coal plants for free completely undermining the purpose of the program.
I thought they only had one reason: "operational reasons"!
(just because a game is 'more than open-ended' doesnt make it 'open world', which is a term that already has a definition, and is not relevant to sims core gameplay)
People do go back to the signup page a lot. Redirecting them when detecting an existing account from the email is enough in the most common cases.

Users doing "clever" stuff like a random email each time, will also probably understand the situation when they go write down which email for which domain they used and see another entry next to it.

There will be some numbers of users that can't be caught and will create many new accounts, but if thwy use your seevice that much, it will probably stop at one point.

Nothing is foolproof, but there can be many ways to mitigate the issue.
E-bikes are good but the building configurations we call cities are no good.
I'm still struggling to find the right blend of self study and group study. With peers you can coast along through the help of others to pinpoint you where you missed something, what's the "right" path to a solution. Which means .. you didn't really understand it. But sometimes I found solutions on my own, but then I realized that there were still some issues in them. I'd say it's important to self study but to reality check regularly.
Imports from 3rd party packages are always absolute. That's why I prefer imports from first party packages to be absolute as well
Good luck in Poland, where an hour delay for a train is not a surprise. I recently had one delayed for over 2.5h and had to get a hotel due to missed connection. No point even bothering asking them for a refund.
Out of the last ten times someone called me I picked up 1 time and then I was expecting a reply on the thing I was currently working on.

People who call me get served last, the fastest way to get my attention is a message or an email.
How about not requiring an email address from the user in the first place?

Give them the option to enter an email address with a "test" button next to it.
Habitat Lucasarts Mmorpg (1985)
The validator that proposes the block with the slashing in it gets a small reward, while the rest is burnt. There are dedicated slashers on the network that observe attestations and block proposals for violations. They can either selfishly keep those observations until they can be included in a block, or broadcast them to the network so whoever is up next for proposal can slash the misbehaving validator. The whistleblowers themselves (altruistic slashers) get no reward, only the validator including it in a block does.
A smaller binary will not necessarily be faster - specialization can bloat code size, but having a specific version for a given subtype can be much faster. It’s a tradeoff.
You are calling me heartless for suggesting that suicidal people often crave approval for their decision. I can't see how that's heartless unless we ARE expected to support their decision, which you say we aren't.

My personal feelings about suicide become relevant when others start involving me in their suicide. I can't just "get out of the way" when I am put in that position. (The state has already gotten out of the way, as long as suicide is legal, which ofc. it should be)

The elephant in the room is that most assisted suicides, including the one in this article, happen with people who would be capable of doing it on their own.
While ergonomics matter, I don’t believe the question is settled at all - for very high performance applications C++ is the answer for a long time to come.
"Is this just a sinister way to generate more sales?".

This is a problem that primarily effects people who difficulty unlocking activation lock because

(a) they have forgotten their icloud password AND don't have access to the linked e-mail account any more AND don't have access to the associated phone number any more AND don't have original proof or purchase

or

(b) They stole your phone.

I think Apple's solution is reasonable
sorry about that! just fixed it in a recent push.
This was my first thought. I just have a * rule on my domain hosting account to send all email to my gmail, but can’t actually send from any of those addresses. I’ll usually sign up with website@mydomain.com
> Physical cash or coin, exchanged between parties, is trusted by both parties yet leaves no transaction record.

The cash/coins are the record in this case: that was the point the GP was trying to make. But, they are not required for the transaction to take place: a trusted ledger also works.

> A finalized and appended bitcoin block needs no further trust. It is settled.

Of course it needs trust: you have to trust that Bitcoin is doing what it promises. Every time you sell something in exchange for bitcoin, you have to trust that:

- the network is working as advertised

- your client is working as advertised, it's not infected with some Malware to report the wrong info to you

- there is possibility of a 51% attack

Also, the latest finalized and appended block often changes. You actually have to wait until there are several other blocks appended after the one that contains your transaction until you can be sure the transaction won't be reverted.
> This is not about SDR

Can the satelite in question grow software defined optics and look at things?

Can it grow software defined manipulators and fix an other satelite?

Can it grow a software defined solar sail?

If the answer to these is no then what makes it different from a spaceborne SDR? (And for the record ain’t nothing wrong with that.)
(Disclaimer: I both self-published books and also write a paid newsletter on Substack)

The author of this article makes the point that Substack pays ~90% in revenue, versus traditional publishers which do ~10%.

While this is true, I do think the author seems to deliberately avoid mentioning the self-publishing platforms like Gumroad, Podia etc which allow authors to keep 95-96.5% of revenue when publishing books, and also have a direct connection with people who bug the books through emails. I say this as someone who published through one of these platforms. (Also, there are other newsletter providers which charge even less of a commission, like Revue charging 5% or Ghost or ConvertKit charging a monthly fee based on the number of subscribers, which could come out to below 5%)

A real (financial) pull of publishing a book via a monthly, paid newsletter is the higher revenue per customer. A customer won’t pay more than, say, $40 for a book. But they’ll more likely pay ~$120 by paying $10/month for a year. See also how Steven Sinofsky is publishing his book series Hardcore Software on Substack with the option to pay up to $300/year to get a final, printable PDF edition of the series once finished. I paid $100 to read this series for a year and one of my friends went for the $300 option.

Holding on to publishing rights is a huge difference when going self-publishing or newsletter-first. When I worked with a traditional publisher, only then did I realize I have no rights to publish my words without publisher consent: this was when I asked if I can share drafts of my writing in public, and the publisher said this is down to approvals on their end. This realisation was a reason I ended up self-publishing instead. As the author of the article notes, by keeping publishing rights, it’s always an option to sign a contract with a publisher for a print book.

What is not written in the article is how self-publishing makes a lot more (financial) sense once:

1. You have enough of a reach to not benefit much from the - sometimes surprisingly little - marketing that a traditional publisher does

2. The association with a publisher brand is no longer a priority.

3. You don’t need a publisher helping you finish a book pushing you with deadlines (they sure help!)

4. You are ok paying for - or doing yourself - editorial things (development editing, copyediting, proofreading)
Only on a short term basis. As the snow is melting, this creates a large number of small, shallow ponds where mosquitoes can breed without being eaten by fish. As the year progresses, these ponds dry up, reducing habitat to those permanent lakes which likely have fish present that predate the water part of the mosquito lifecycle. Moreover, there is a lag introduced by the predator-prey dynamics, in particular short lived species like dragonflies and mosquito hawks that predate the flying stage. Thus, it can take a few weeks for these predators to start reducing the number of mosquitoes.

Source: I’m hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and I have been swarmed by mosquitoes on several occasions. Mosquitoes were particularly bad in Yosemite in late June and Washington in early August; mosquitoes are finally letting up now that theses processes are taking place. Let me just say mosquitoes make the most of that interval before predators dominate.
For real, true

Can't wait for sentence level autocorrect to appear. Because doing it at word level is not enough.

I mean, ok, swipe typing has been a great improvement. But depending on the keyboard it manages to do stupid crap even at word level (like suggesting a 8 letter word if you just "typed" 3 letters)
Huh, just like he’s had multiple browser sessions open - I have multiple email accounts and don’t want to send this reverse verification email from my client… I also don’t want my full signature shared. The reverse way is way worse for me.
You can stake on a Raspberry Pi and an external SSD, if you hate yourself enough. Most home stakers run on micro-PCs like Intel NUCs or Optiplex Micros.

Attestations occur for every validator once every epoch, i.e. once every 6.4 minutes. It is not related to network activity in any way.
Thank you for your kind feedback!
I wanted this tool to be thought provoking and not just mindlessly watch AI write the entire essay for you.
There are a lot of articles focusing on how close does DALL-E match some prompt, but I wonder if this is a suboptimal way to explore the medium.

What if you can get a lot more out of it by embracing the unexpected responses. Can it be a tool for exploring lateral thinking? You provide a prompt computer responds with images that are a prompt to human.
A baby swiming next to a dolar bill outputs a distorted person face inside a dolar bill with some baby features, could be the start to a rabbit hole of prompts and images where you'll end up with something completly different than your initial expectations.
Isn't it possible to reach London from Paris by train?
Why should I have to go through all that faff when I have a perfectly good password manager?
Love the sounds. Very reminiscent of Defender
> "JBIG2" and its derivative "JB2"

I don't belive that's correct; it's rather the other way round.

https://github.com/barak/djvulibre/blob/release.3.5.28/libdj...

> JB2 has strong similarities with the forthcoming JBIG2 standard developed by the "ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 Working Group 1" which is responsible for both the JPEG and JBIG standards. This is hardly surprising since JB2 was our own proposal for the JBIG2 standard and remained the only proposal for years. The full JBIG2 standard however is significantly more complex and slighlty less efficient than JB2 because it addresses a broader range of applications.
It’s close to instantaneous on an iPhone SE?
You may enjoy also the fantastic Aquis Querquennis roman camp in The North of Spain, lying under a reservoir and currently over the water level by the dry spell.

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

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Aquis+Querquennis&t=newext&atb=v31...
It’s not only easier, it’s the only way you can teach a large number of people at the same time.

College wouldn’t exist without it.
What a pain. Nope.
Ask HN: What do you have in your office that inspires/amuses you?
I finally have the luxury of a dedicated home office room after decades of living in apartments with some corner repurposed as office..

My office is pretty much blank other than a bunch of plants and I would love to hear what interesting things(posters, desk top sized marvels, whatever else) you have that inspires/amuses you while you work?
Those using it for big projects, is it possible to have some feedback about what is still missing or libraries are there but still need more development. Like does it have the library for Elaticsearch? Everything for auth? Etc… which important library lack documentation? For instance I saw that the one of Stripe is not that good.

That’s what stop me from using it. Being in a startup we don’t have the ressources to have developers having to code other things on top of raising a startup from the ground…
I’m not sure I have much sympathy for the problem. Copilot is going to force everyone to move up the abstraction stack.

I absolutely disagree with how Copilot has been trained on the intellectual property of others, and I think Microsoft/GitHub should be taken to court over it (and I say that as an IP cynic, but if you play that game, you should stick by the rules), but this technological cat is out of the bag.

Students (and everyone else) should be thinking much harder about how they test and verify the behaviour of any given piece of code and how they design systems to stick together. This class of technology is going to automate away many of the jobs where you just pump out code. This is fine. It’s no different to someone inventing a burger-flipping machine, and I’m sure many here would agree it’s better if humans didn’t have to flip burgers for a living (modulo solving employment being necessary for a decent/tolerable existence). It may turn out that the next step in software productivity is not a new generation of cool and highly-abstract declarative programming languages (4GL) but simply automating away the drudgery of writing code in the extant kinda advanced languages (3GL) which are ‘good enough’.

Arguably Copilot doesn’t change much about the software development process. You can already get software developed pretty cheap if you farm it out to low-quality contractors or a lot of juniors straight out of school. There’s a whole branch of the industry that will hire anyone straight out of university to manage and front development teams in South Asia. But as we say, quantity has a quality all of its own. And the only way to manage software (not code) quality with this method is to verify and test that the deliverables actually meet your criteria and expectations.

It’s currently a great time to focus on TDD/BDD and code specification because our time spent on the D is about to get a lot shorter. There is still a place for artisanal hand-crafted code. But the mechanical loom has arrived.
SPF and DKIM are universal. The proof is transactional email services. There was a time when they sent emails on behalf of clients. Now, they do it on their own account.
It’s a YC company. I don’t see much special for it, let’s see how long it lasts. At least Medium did some very unique things with their text editor (I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world of online editors, barring Google Docs)
awesome! I like the arrow keys arrangement very much. but the F1~F12 is not required. for the rotary encoder, it reminds me of another keyboard recently appeared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGShD9ZER1c
but it's far more powerful.
The bullet points were really insightful. Dr Peterson has been banging a drum about people rejecting religion and those traditional structures, but he's been saying "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

And this article is taking the good points of historical lessons and trying to make the argument that this is what feminism should be about.
I'm definitely seeing the trend here about the topic prompt!
Just starting to realize that this indeed is a bad UX choice. I was always logged in when I was developing so didn't think about this issue.
Will fix ASAP!
And that case he drove out a racist asshole. He did the good deed
That doesn’t solve the issue of passwordless login, though, which is the fact not everyone has access to their email on every device at all times.

Need to check something attached to a work email (hello Slack) but purposefully not got work email set up on your personal device? Good luck
For now, the configurability of the sattelite appears to refer to using a configurable antenna array, which allows the configuration of a variable number of beams, in various directions, and with various directivity properties, presumably besides an SDR.
Is it just me or is that a depressing fact? The Danes have a rather sweet setup with a good cycling infrastructure, mostly flat terrain and a rather mild temperate climate. It's difficult to reproduce that everywhere.
No, it's within normal range at average height. And below average for US males under 40 (or any age female).
>Most estimates put the expected energy savings from the switch to PoS to be around 99%

It's actually closer to 99.95% [1] which is significantly less than a 99% reduction.

[1] https://twitter.com/0xstark/status/1457823831360368640
Dane here: essential bit of info is missing in the discussion. Cars are MUCH more expensive to buy and own (sales tax used to be 180%, but I’m expat). I knew very few < 24 yo who could afford a car. Personally I got my first at 32 … when I moved to USA. But cars here are dirt cheap to buy and own.
a keyboard or guitar. mirror. a nice window on the side so you can rest your eyes far every few minutes. green plants within view
it's from one of free resources on figma! It's called "SALY - 3D illustration pack"
> Also, Chrome itself is a password manager.

Until the day Google locks your Google Account.
Duplicate of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512918 (over 200 comments)
One of the reasons a train might be cancelled:

> "Predicted flooding earlier today"

Not much of a prediction, is it?
Looks like a grave site?
I literally released it couple of days ago so I haven't thought about it yet. The costs are minimal atm, so I'm just trying to reach students who can make good use of it for free
According to the press release, it is just a spaceborne SDR together with a very configurable antenna array, which can be used to provide various kinds of communication links.
> What's the point of having an explanation of a subject that only makes sense if you are a domain expert and presumably already know about the subject.

If you're in a related field it means that you can understand things very quickly. The majority of the professional scientific articles on Wikipedia are written by scientists, for scientists, with a high information density. As a scientist, I really value this. Quite often the simplified explanation comes later, bit it's important to note that a lot of the technical detail that is lost in the process of generating it remains absolutely vital and removing it may be unintentionally misleading...
> Amazon for some reason treats every season of a TV show and HD/SD versions of movies as independent items in their library

I don't know how it is in the US, but in Japan, it's even worse than that. Japanese dub and English with Japanese subs are different items (although the UI has a way to choose between audio and subtitle channels), and Japanese subtitles are burned into the video.

Very often, despite all the config being in Japanese, it will complain in Japanese, when starting a video, that there isn't an English dub for the show, as if I had asked for it, which I never have.

In related info for Anime that is definitely not an English dub, it shows the names of the US voice actors and their related works more often than the Japanese voice actors.

Multi-season shows in the Prime Video app might be either separate items or not, depending on the title. Through the Fire TV home, though, it's a huge mess. You may have Season 1, 2, 3 under an item for $Show, with Season 2 being the second half of season 1, but on netflix and season 3 really being season 2, on netflix as well. At the same time, the real season 2 is also a separate item which has 2 seasons, with season 1 being really season 2 on Prime and season 2 being... season 2 on another service. Confused?

It's often super hard to get those non-season 1 items as search results too...

Things are however a little better if only using the Prime video app.
Windows Sandbox is an ephemeral VM with zero configuration that starts up to a blank Windows desktop in about 20 seconds on my machine. Boxes is just a simple VM configurator, its closest equivalent would be VirtualBox.