skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every once in a while, I see some posts based on maps and projections. And I cannot get it when adults still discuss these stuff. I had my first atlas when I was a 4th grader and the projections were depicted in detail in the first 15-20 pages. It is easy and foundational that I assumed everybody was aware of this information. Instead people rediscovered the Earth on each blog post mentioning the exact same thing. Amazing.
I should clarify that Hulu's "ad-free" tier isn't entirely ad-free. Certain programs may actually have an ad play before them, though usually I've only noticed this when, for example, Hulu has a deal with an existing channel to stream a show as soon as it airs on cable TV.

Annoys the hell out of me that they continue to call it "Hulu (No Ads)". It really shows the level of respect they have for their customers.

https://help.hulu.com/s/article/ads-no-commercials
I might have missed it today in your articles or comments here--it's been a hectic day--but has there been some study of just how different code would be given that the students are using the same text from questions? Is there randomization intrinsic to Copilot, or is it just because minor variations in textual input causes code to be so different?

My wife taught CS, she did catch cheaters pre-Copilot, and my first thought it that she probably would enter test questions and print out a reference sheet for Copilot generated results.
Pioneers Sitemap (1996)
> But I think it would help to understand if Supabase is fully managing key backup and recovery internally, how exactly is that working?

Supabase persists and protects your key and we will provide API and CLI access to retrieve it securely. This is a pre-release so we haven't worked out all the use cases yet but those are the basics for MVP.

> 1) Being able to store your database backups in less trusted locations,

Yes. Using Transparent Column Encryption you control on a column by column basis how your data is stored encrypted so you have more fine grained control over your data.

> 2) actually keeping the secret data secret, which amounts to keeping that encryption key secured at a much higher level than the database backup itself.

Yep, we don't have all the answers there, keeping the root key out of SQL is a big one. Maybe requiring MFA to access the key even with the API, there are a lot of possibilities. Thanks for your feedback these are all going into my notes for an upcoming release.
Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Retrospective
I think DALL-E might be programmed to not depict violence, which is why it doesn't "like" rendering humans on fire.
Machine Learning Interview Questions
Thank you for your kind words Jose, going all the way to the form (and table/list) rendering is the ideal for me and would greatly improve my phoenix experience!

Was that syntax documented 3 years ago? I don't really remember but definitely even if it was I couldn't find it. Also you should agree that it's non intuitive.

Finally, you are right about assoc, I don't use it because I prefer the left_join/on syntax but that's not a correct argument .
> I tend to hate woke disability jargon like this because jargon has the incredibly ironic flaw of being less accessible to people with learning disabilities, who are ESL, or who are young.

You must hate literally everything that's not basic English.
Occam-2 was definitely not my most favorite language, but an interesting experience. Thanks for the link; I only had the original manuals and Pio2 at the time. Using http://any2djvu.djvu.org/ I was able to generate a fast, compact version of the referenced PDF.

Btw. Pio2 can be accessed from here: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/geraint.jones/publications/boo...
>"the rain follows the plow"

For those who aren't familiar, this expression refers to the mistaken belief that if you cultivate the land with crops and you planted trees, this would cause a change in the local climate. They thought that each little homestead (farm) would convert the local clime to an overall wetter, more productive one.
It is actually more like a suburban express rail then a subway. But this is justifiable because the Bay Area is densely populated with a large international airport, so trips will be generated from multiple locations.

To clarify, these stops are:

1. Downtown San Francisco, which is a future station that will probably open later then this section.

2. SOMA, the only for sure stop in San Francisco proper when the line opens.

3. SFO airport. Makes sense because the airport will generate lots of trips.

4. San José, the largest city in the Bay Area with many connections to other public transit options.

But you can expect express trains to actually skip SOMA and SFO (and possibly even San José).
Having used numerous chat apps, Slack is definitely among the best.
I am unsure, but maybe because we go in expecting more attention and all we get is an automated and canned response from the doctor, and this makes us think that an app could do it as well.
The Trouble with the View from Above by James C. Scott (2010)
To me the most interesting thing about the article was actually just how bad the results are. It's interesting that you picked the Dark side of the moon one, as to me that seemed by far the worse one - none of the pictures really resembled the simple geometry of the original. While I understand why recreating the Nevermind cover was difficult, it was surprising that recreating such a simple geometric pattern failed so spectacularly.

The only cover that really worked from my point of view was the Velvet Underground one, and perhaps the Rolling Stones one. Abbey Road came closer than what I thought it would, but was pretty bad ultimately, and the other three really had nothing usable.
Torvalds is a better programmer than that.

Pull requests are feature of GitHub, not a part of git.

https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-...
Does the fact this voodoo exists and is semi-worth knowing make anyone else angry?
This appears to be a gamechanger
There are a number of commercial service providers, nanoracks being one of them. It’s best to shop around as they have developed specialized solutions (chip cells, partial/hyper gravity, crystalography, plant bio, etc.)
I guess another potential option is that companies that stake large amounts of ETH don't exist in the US?
It can be a good place for fun, yes.
Literally every web framework ever in every language has been littered with issues. What point are you trying to make?
Data entry jobs have a pretty hard cap on how much you can get paid. Besides no one wants to see a person's resume say "data entry" for 10 years.

That would be shooting your own prospects in the foot.
Really fun, but laggy and eventually it failed to place blocks.
The culture around p.r.s is truly a high barrier of entry for many people.

Figuring out how all of this works is substantially more difficult I find in practice than fixing many longstanding trivial bugs in a great deal of software.
Also it can give some people gastric problems. I don’t have an issue but know people who do.
...And? Having a goal and being even 1% along the way of achieving it are extremely different things.

I have a goal to be immortal. Am I a threat? Of course I'm not.
Thanks! Your blog post on using GPT-3 dialog to explain SQL queries was a big inspiration for me to start posting my prompts publicly: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jul/9/gpt-3-explain-code/
Apparently there's an approved Lyme disease vaccine in the US, but they decided there isn't a sufficient market, and stopped production.

Now if we could selectively just eliminate those 2-3 sub-species of bean counters responsible for this sort of decision...
They were post-WW2. The German Miracle in particular came about when Germany went full free market as a way to recover from the economy being burned to the ground. This boom lasted until 1970 when the socialists were voted into power, and on came the taxes and hamstringing. The Japanese economy immediately after WW2 was run by American leftist academics, who refused to allow big business to operate. The economy flatlined. Until that was rescinded, and the Japanese free market economic boom began and ran up into the 80s.
I think the rust compiler kind of does this: https://mobile.twitter.com/hmemcpy/status/115189096847766732...
It would be interesting to create this on a larger grid, I wonder what the technical limitations for this are.
[off-topic]

Following the spirit of UNIX, I did a little analysis on the upvotes this post got over time (fish-shell):

while true; curl -sL 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32534173' | pup '#score_32534173 text{}' | awk -F'[^0-9]*' '{print $1}' | tee -a points; sleep 15s; end

(Initially I used `grep -Po '\d+'` but switched it with an awk solution due to...context!)

I started it approx. when I posted it. Now ~2 hours have passed since. Using `gnuplot`:

f(x) = a*x+b; fit f(x) "points" via a,b; set terminal png size 1920,1080 enhanced font "Inconsolata,20" ;set output "HN-analysis.png" ;set grid; set ylabel "points";set key bottom right ; set xlabel "sample # (15s interval)"; plot 'points' w linesp lt 7 lw 3 lc rgb "orange", f(x) lc rgb 'blue' lw 2

We generate the plot: https://i.imgur.com/pS6AaI5.png

(The jump #100 sample is due to a network error on my side)

And here are the coeffs. of a linear fit over the data (note that every 4 samples is 1 minute, so this post got ~1.52 upvotes per minute)

a = 0.380809, b = 19.8437
I understand this position normally, but we unquestionably need many orders of magnitude more investment in non-carbon-producing forms of energy and energy storage if we have any hope at all of decarbonizing at some large fraction of current living standards. The situation right now is really dire and almost any cost is worth paying.

IMO we definitely will not do this investment, so the remaining likely scenarios are grim. Either we successfully decarbonize but at much lower standards of living OR we just keep burning stuff we found in the ground and the biosphere collapses.
...and you managing your own secrets is way better than a third party?

wake up people, its all the same types of servers managing the same type of passwords with the same types of security layers, not one is better than the other! nobody has a 'secret sauce' to storing your passwords.
isn't it usually the opposite, except for client applications that ignore the ttl they got from their recursive resolver as they don't want to bother with keeping track of ttls?
Integers, Decibels, and Graphs
I do believe there are too many of us humans on this planet but something tells me we can do much better than culling ourselves.
I'm not sure how it would be done, there might not even be enough existing code to train it on, but I would like to try out Copilot for code-based CAD models in something like OpenSCAD. I've never tried it at all, but thanks for sharing your experience, all.
My Experience Building Africa DoorDash for Agriculture
It been over 2 years of setting on this journey of building Doordash for Agriculture, like Doordash logistics have been a key in the success of this, and building in Africa, Nigeria to be precise have come with it uniqueness of challenge. I came across YC materials 2017 and it has help along in the journey, and have since participated in 2 startup school

Three of my experience that I like to share building in the space and learning how it wouldn't work and how it has worked are;

1. Just like many ecommerce that works in Africa build for business, it makes logistics cost worth it and enable avenue to make revenue on logistics.

2. Build on few niche product, this we make a mistake with when starting and till today our platform have multiple product, but really our focus on some select few.

3. Don't there to be all asset light, it is a mistake as inflation favors asset and many of the customer will be sticky all because of the logistics structure and asset all together. (So raise money early and go all in on Asset.

I hope to look back on this and have give away some wisdom and recipe to the success of what we are building, all together it has been a very tough journey and all thanks to grant and supportive founding team to have survive in an industry of low margin and tremendous impact. As Africa have 60% of the world arable land and with the work of digitization we are doing at DayDone holds a huge opportunity to a brighter and more sustainable future for all.
How does this book compare to Guns, Germs and Steel?
Hi, It's really me. The equivalent these days is the term "Precision Cosmology", implying all that's left is the next decimal point. To which I reply: "Precision Cosmology is precisely wrong."
"DZ" isn't 'wrong', it's a perfectly valid two-character string consisting of "D" followed by "Z". Assigning to a multi-character string a encoded representation that isn't the concatenation of representations of each character in the string (especially while insisting that that makes it a distinct character in its own right) is what's wrong.
fp32 underflow precision error in log_softmax may help “grokking” in neural nets
carbon fiber doesn't come in big billet chunks that you can cnc machine into any shape you want. you either need to fabricate something from pieces of carbon fiber plate (which is available in up to 1cm thicknesses) held together with adhesives and fasteners, or custom-form a carbon fiber piece from your own custom mold, such as if making a carbon fiber road bicycle frame, which has huge upfront costs and is only economical if you intend to sell thousands of units.
The article notes the fact that Mercator is better for ocean navigation, but fails to understand how that’s connected to its prevalence: the mapmakers were seafaring explorers.

Classrooms have globes. Insofar as the Mercator projection is widespread, however, a responsible teacher should explain the historical connection between ocean navigation and mapmaking. Not recount a totally manufactured example of racism.
It was quite a pleasure for me when the D compiler was converted 100% into D. I immediately set about refactoring it (a process that continues today).

One consequence is that pointer bugs in the compiler have become extremely rare.
It's probably over optimistic to see this as some turning point in how we (society) deals with social media, that's at least a generation and sensible regulation.

But it's a start to see how as a "job" managing social
media is all-consuming
You'd be surprised how many businesses run FreeBSD and keep it a secret as a competitive advantage.
I think because Zig compilers can compile C but not C++.
> you just know this is going to be another ecological disaster and/or privacy scandal waiting too happen.

Agreed. Yet the preventive solution seems obvious: we need to set aside our differences and work together bending the economies of the super powers towards the miraculous development of smaller rice.
Facebook terminates 60 workers who were chosen 'at random' by an algorithm
Gastric problems to me, in other words are, a problem for my intestinal microbiome which my health depends on.
Thanks for assembling it, bookmarked!
Seems very complete.
there's always going to be some metadata for the file that needs to be looked up before you can start seeking (ACLs, sector/extent/cluster location, etc)

the index goes in there, no extra seek needed
Joe Biden as Geralt of Rivia (Images by Stable Diffusion AI)
Not astroturfing, just have a different opinion than you do.

Again, there is no evidence and 'we've all seen it' is a bunch of BS.
To add some further recollection. The talk wasn't about what the code presently was, it was aspirational: about how the structure could be wholly rearchitectured. The goal was simplicity. In networking, you have protocols which a varied and can be mixed and matched and layered, devices which can be plain or have different and varied off-load capabilities, things like power management and hot-plugging, and yet in all this you want to architect code that is modular and has maximal re-use and yet is also high-performance. This talk predated things like wireguard (which presents as a device implemented in software) and network namespaces but you got the impression that it was feeling out these possibilities without explicitly articulating them.
It's very popular in hardware-accelerated computer graphics. It has much more range, and a bit more precision, than the traditional integer 8-bits-per-channel representation of colour, so it is used for High Dynamic Range framebuffers and textures.
It's also ubiquitous as an arithmetic type in mobile GPU shaders, where it's used for things (like colours) that need to be floats but don't need full 32-bit precision. In many cases it doesn't just save memory bandwidth and register space, but also the shader core may have higher throughput for half precision.
> (as others pointed out, check your employment contract's IP clause and the IP laws of your country).

This is the most critical part. Using the US for example, this software whether OP reveals or not belongs to the company (even in California). The reason is it uses the same data, the same processes, and likely even the same language. Therefore, it is "in the line company business" and most judges would rule in favor of the company despite it possibly being written on OPs own hardware.

Best advice is to just delete it, or come up with a thoughtful way of bringing it up as this comment suggests. As it stands now it's likely that OP is in hot water legally otherwise. good middle ground is to take what you've written and draft it into a proposal, never mention the code you've written, and get paid to rewrite it better. Worst case you tell them, and then the company gets their IP lawyers involved and things get dramatically worse.
This work is impressive, but ... that's still a binary blob, and isn't the system it has to be run on kind of one as well?
None of the AI generators retrieve things they were trained on, they don't work that way. Everything is original. However our definition of "original" might vary a bit, but so it will vary for any work of art any human artist do as well, as they are also trained on the same images. In the end, a lawsuit and a courtroom might have to decide if by chance someone or some AI creates a picture used commercially that seems similar to someone else's trademark or copyright.

Most of the images I've generated using Dalle 2 feels completely original. Just have a look at the reddit r/dalle2 and I'm pretty sure you'll also decide they're "original works".
If you follow that line of reasoning then you should just abolish medicine overall. I don’t think anyone reasonable would agree that’s worth the trade off.
This is awesome! I'd love to use it on the command line, or as a json API!
Clickbaity but it's not as thrashy as I expected. Yes, people do enjoy pauses for bodily functions and whatnot. Great science
Bruce Lee (1984) music remix
I mean .so files should have a way to express "I'm backward compatible with a previous version".
“Gun” here is a metaphor for capital, which is the instrument of might and right. In capitalism, individuals rarely need guns, because the system has in place necessary measures for what an individual could achieve by resorting to a gun.

> I might argue that the more likely scenario in a socialist society (i.e. anti-private property) is that a man who paid for three seat tickets would be forced at gunpoint to hand those seats over to people who didn't buy any tickets.

Why would a society that has allowed freedom to purchase three tickets would allow others to violate that freedom? Anarchism is not disorder.
Check out https://github.com/rickhull/conway_deathmatch for a simple ruby implementation. Also there is an elixir branch...
Seems there is room for improvement, if it takes one woman nine months to birth a baby, nine women ought to be able to do it in one.
STONIA PRONGAND! I would not buy a propane container which looked like that.
Microsoft has a history of being laser focused on petty things like number of apps or how naming it the Xbox 2 would make it inferior to the PlayStation 3. If they had instead focused that energy towards quality, who knows what might happen.
You mean HN? No. This is intellectually curious.

Social media is either some evil bent on destroying our democracy and mental health, or it's going to transform everything for the better.

Of course it is more nuanced than this and we are starting to see
how society will deal with it. European Digital markets act and similar regulation is one direction but it's mostly about how individuals
learn a common "social" way to deal with it. Is it acceptable to not reply,
to not reply immediately, what's wrong with over preparing posts or over selling your life

And the people most likely to guide mass behaviours are of course celebrities
We use Vapor3 and the language is ok, but the deployment story (docker/k8s, for us) is a nightmare and has caused us unending drama. Things seem a little better with newer versions of vapor and swift 5.5, but our experiments don’t seem to have gotten very far, and the upgrade story is quite a lot of work.
Misleading title - they were contracteors through Accenture. Ending a contract isn't the same as layoff / firing / termination. The article mentions Apple laying off recruiters - again those were 3rd party contractors, not Apple employees.
Seems ver problematic to not even question why this is a good thing we need. The ecological and potential health risks of ingesting batteries seems quite problematic.
Is Pine64's open hardware losing its luster?
Bring Your Own Camera: Baltimore residents pool resources to stop thieves
Is there any way to get it to respond the same way when something is outside the golden path? So for example, if you gave it the backwards sentence task, it would respond with "I don't know how to do this" or really any way of programatically evaluating that it failed, without needing to know what the task itself was.
Don't you think that the UI is not very good? First, there is no *quickly* accessible home screen with icons like in Android or iOS. Second, there is no quick search so that you can start any app by typing 3-4 letters like in Gnome. Instead, the UI makes you make lot of unnecessary gestures to perform a task. If you want to copy, copy the latest ideas and not make a clone of Windows 3.1.
The repeal allowed banks and investment houses to be run under the same roof, changing the aggregate risk profile of financial institutions greatly, in the direction of significantly higher, and now correlated risk.
> One thing I miss is certain jokes at school/work based on TV commercials.

One commercial I remember was for shampoo for women. The girl who tries it gets a "hello Betty!" from the high school hunk, and she preens.

For a while every Betty in my high school got that treatment :-/

I suppose the commercial didn't actually work, because I have no recollection of what that shampoo was.
I once saw an article asking biologists this very question. I wish I could find it.

What I recall is:

* some species of mosquitos are an important part of ecosystems, e.g. a big chunk of biomass in tundra regions. (I didn't even know there were any mosquitos there!)

* but the specific species that carry malaria: no. They gave some general platitudes about niches and every species being important... Almost. These ones, kill them all. The important stuff these mosquitos do can be done by other insects.

Edit: https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a looks pretty similar to what I read. Either this one is slightly more nuanced or my memory dropped some of the nuance.
As I see it, z is a different type than x and y. It’s the causal arrow linking x to y. The existence of a second causal arrow would make it second-order.
The story is significantly more complicated:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/lyme-vaccine-history-ly...