skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the one where we paired all day, every day, from day one. Everything was learned in context, just when encountered, and there are so many little tips and details that just wouldn't have been documented if onboarding was done differently. The problem with documenting a large system was less needed by use of microservices. So you had docs for the connection of services and most services were small enough to get by with high-level in-repo docs.
13,000 years ago, very elephant-like creatures roamed N. America.[1] So the ecological issues are not going to be a big problem. Besides, elephants stampeding through Salt Lake City is not an example of an ecological issue. Call Animal Control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomphothere
>Why does it matter? The press does context-free puff-pieces all the time,

Yes, I'm very aware of the meta-game around "puff pieces" which I've explained before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30881420

It seems your "Why does it matter?" was just a rhetorical question as prelude to your comment about puff pieces already existing in abundance ... But I'll answer it as if you had asked that question earnestly: It matters because readers would like to know how to gauge the significance of unfamiliar tech mentioned in the article.

So we have 2 interpretations of this thread's article:

(a) this poacher detection tool is a true breakthrough -- and the inventor also happens to be a teenager; the tech itself is not hype. The idea is truly a game changer and while the inventor's age is very young, that's a footnote to the tech invention.

... or ...

(b) the tool's tech (machine learning) is not significant and may not even work in the real world -- but the teenager's attempt at problem solving is showing promise of future things to come; let us celebrate this young person's effort.

A previous example of the first (a) type of story is this one a teen discovering a new classical algorithm comparable to a quantum algorithm:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654220

That wasn't some pure human-interest puff piece about teenager Ewin Tang. Instead, a respected computer scientist (Scott Aaronson) said it was legitimate new work that advanced our understanding of the field.

>1. Sometimes the "revolutionary tech" is not just plain evolutionary, but fake. But a layperson reading the hagiography can't tell the difference

Right ... and readers don't want to mistakenly interpret the story as type (a) when it was actually type (b). The gp (Avalaxy) of the subthread tried to give us some extra perspective about this story that the journalist did not.
I don't think calling it a stencil copy is the right mental model.

These models take 5bn+ images and use them to influence the weights on a giant array of floating point numbers. Each input image has a truly tiny effect on the finished product.

The final model is on the order of 4.5GB - the compression ratio is unreal. Nothing of the original images remains.

So "stencil copy" doesn't work for me.
The 20 years leading up to 2004 the average was > 6 million square km. 2012 was 3.4. 2020 was 3.8. In the context of the previous average, that does seem close. What was your point?
That's really cool.

Why is the red line diverging from the blue line, since they seemed to be connected earlier in the graph?
Added a bit on buying exactly the right peripherals. USB-C is like desktop Linux to me, where it's reliable only if you're extra careful.
Yes.. but a human can understand what I want and anticipate various outcomes from much shorter conversations that don't involve all this ridiculous prompting. Asking this system for a simple picture like "a dog smoking a cigarette" reveals just how limited this system is.

Thinking that this system, with such a small set or data and no natural language processing, is going to replace artists anytime soon, is, I think, incredibly eager to the point of foolishness.
Out of curiosity, why don't you make "YC churn" announcements read-only, like job ads are?

There's not really much curious conversation when they happen, and not really a huge chance of it, either. As an example, the announcement of sama taking over was a hundred and fifty comments of almost exclusively "Congratulations!"

They're posts that are almost exclusively doomed, either to incurious compliments, insults, or needless pessimism; what questions that are asked usually don't get answered, so there wouldn't really be a loss in it anyway.
> power ... exerting force over a minority ... free software movements
were never about the openness nor the accessibility of the source
code. But about issues such as this.

Yes, Free Software culture has always been more about justice on a new
(digital) frontier where new forms of injustice and abuse roam wild
(and have only grown worse).

I sincerely think the best model for understanding big-tech
corporations like Google is as serfdom under feudal warlords within
modern fiefdoms. It closely mirrors these historical power relations
where laws and constitutions have nothing to say.

The article is long and complex but I eventually found the kernel in
this line:

> "A Google spokeswoman said the company stands by its decisions, even
though law enforcement cleared the two men."

Though the moral questions behind it all are very complex, this case
is not itself actually that complex. There was no mistake. No lack of
proper investigation or tardiness by the police. The child, parent,
doctor and police - all of the parties except Google - acted fairly,
in good faith, mutuality and consent.

Google is the problem here, and simply believes itself a law unto
itself, that's the nub of it. For all the posturing about complying
with the laws of nation states, companies like Facebook and Google
have grown smug about their power. When they roll over the toes of the
innocent, they laugh and say "and what are you going to do about it?"

We are in new "might is right" times and nobody big enough has yet had
the courage to say "Act justly, or we will hurt you back", and then
follow up.

For the ordinary citizen, the only sensible course is to resolutely
refuse to use their services and products, and Free Software which
provides so many alternatives to Google, Microsoft, Facebook and
suchlike is the solution. It is the moral choice that a good
citizen can and should make in these times.
I agree the terms have become pointless. I have been thinking about opening an actual school for DevOps, or at least IT Ops. There is virtually no education for it, but it's a complex subject matter that requires years of experience. The SRE books are a peek under the covers but leave so much unsaid that it's really only useful at "doing operations", not digital transformation.

To properly build and run a high-performing organization, you need to understand at least 1) the entire history (up to today) of software development practice and production operations, 2) all of the competing requirements of product design, development, and operation, 3) architectural best practices, 4) the industry standards that apply to the work, and 5) tech product-aligned business management methods.

Basically you need a generalist who has 15+ years experience and has tried and failed at everything under the sun. I think of it like carpentry before there was a building code, and before the introduction of apprentices and licenses. Trying to build high-performance orgs without a master builder to show you is like trying to build skyscrapers after having built your own home (and having never seen a skyscraper). Or worse, taking an old barn (non-tech enterprise) and trying to build a skyscraper out of that. Without a trade school it will continue to be just a craft.
I still see them. They come and go, but are always present at some level.

2022-08-29T17:35:12.617Z [DEBUG] sshlog gen 113.61.219.237 admin admin SSH-2.0-HELLOWORLD
2022-08-29T17:48:17.879Z [DEBUG] sshlog gen 218.92.0.190 root poohbear SSH-2.0-PUTTY
2022-08-29T17:48:18.041Z [DEBUG] sshlog gen 218.92.0.190 root p@ssw0rd3 SSH-2.0-PUTTY
2022-08-29T17:48:18.2Z [DEBUG] sshlog gen 218.92.0.190 root p@ssword! SSH-2.0-PUTTY
2022-08-29T17:50:13.507Z [DEBUG] sshlog gen 185.191.205.92 hl hl SSH-2.0-libssh-0.6.3
2022-08-29T17:52:57.28Z [DEBUG] sshlog gen 138.68.91.192 victoria abc123 SSH-2.0-libssh-0.6.3
By the way Lurkars, I love your app, and would probably be using it if I hadn't created my own. :)

I appreciate your post here and think a nice rant can be a reasonable way to address ego and jealousy. I have similar feelings as you and have ranted to my friends some of the same things you said.

In the end though, for both of us, I think the jealousy is mostly unfounded. We can rant and then should probably let it go.
My 2019 16' MacBook pro does about 2 hours of battery with only 488 battery cycles. i9 processor with AMD Radeon Pro 5500M. I'm just doing the most basic dev stuff. Generally a Chrome instance with ~20 tabs, VSC, and a Next.js process. I can't use it on my lap too long, it's hot. The fan never stops. Sometimes I look in the activity monitor to see why, but it's never something specific. A chrome tab using too much CPU or something. It's been the fastest self-depreciating machine I've used.

I recently switched to a M2 Air for personal laptop. Same exact workflow and tools results in zero heat, and the battery can do a few evenings of coding without needing to be charged. It's a gamechanger.
But author of the article says he would be fine with AI trained on licensed images, which could be also on bigger scale than a single human is capable of.
Looks like some people doesn't like it because the data it was trained on but others are worried about the technology and its capabilities over humans.
Secret shopper and encrypted radios?

If the radios can be trusted, you feed bad data to specific people and see when the poachers show up. Seems like there are some solutions.

When I was in South Africa, the anti-poaching crews were clearly underpaid judging by their cloths, demeanor, and gear (old radios, and the ratty shotguns). If the job is so important it should be better paid.
‘Girls Who Code’ Team Up with Tomahawk Missile Maker Raytheon
I'm a bit confused by that article. It says things like "the problem is that equal temperament isn’t perfect" and "because guitars are imperfect instruments, they can never be completely in-tune" and "if you tune your open strings perfectly to pitch, you may still notice that some chords sound slightly out-of-tune."

That doesn't sound like a description of a problem with equal temperament. In fact, the whole point of equal temperament is that any given chord has precisely the same tuning in every key. Isn't the purpose of these staggered frets to tune the guitar to more accurately match equal temperament? In other words, a guitar string played on the 7th fret is supposed to be tuned exactly 7 12-TET semitones above that string played open, but with completely straight frets (in lines exactly perpendicular to the strings) it's difficult to get every fret on every string to be accurately tunes.

I believe this is what's referred to as intonation. Many guitars have some form of manual adjustment, like a movable bridge saddle for each string, and it's common to use that to slightly adjust the length of each string so that e.g. the 12th fret is accurately in tune with the open string. These "true temperament" guitars seem to have done a similar thing but with small adjustments to each fret on each string. Presumably the fret arrangements are designed to match that exact guitar fretboard with some specific guitar strings?

The article says "with a normal guitar, if you play an A Major chord, then play a D Major chord, those chords will be slightly out-of-tune with each other." Again, this doesn't sound like a description of a problem with equal temperament. From what I can tell, these "true temperament" frets would help specifically with playing the same chord/interval in different positions.
My needs are far simpler than that. I don't need state. I don't need dynamic content. I don't need ads. I don't need tracking. I don't need search. I just need a way to publish content and maybe an RSS feed. It doesn't even need to serve files. Everything is static. (I'm not saying fasterthanlime has all those things. Just saying what I don't need.)

I can't even imagine I need a template system beyond something I can write in a few dozen lines with some regexes.

I did the SQLite thing more than a decade ago. I ain't going back to it unless I have a really really good reason for it.

I really just need a purely static web site where I can write Markdown posts. There's some other stuff I want in terms of producing the static content, but in terms of web site functionality itself, it should just be HTML, CSS and some images.

I also don't mind re-compiling. For my needs, "compiling" my web site is likely to take less than 1 second.

Definitely don't need plugins. :)
> This is why the Inflation Reduction Act is so effective.

It's not very effective because the sum difference is barely a drop in the bucket. It's not enough to significantly impact inflation at the scale of the US economy. Only the Fed's rate hiking is going to do that at this point, as they intentionally attempt to cause a recession to destroy demand.

Compare just the annual US Govt debt accumulation versus the difference between spending increase & tax increase in the act. How much new debt is the US going to take on this year? The Inflation Reduction Act, like so many government programs, warns you that it's a lie and a joke right in the title. The moment they chose that name, they were telling you everything about it: it wasn't an inflation reduction act.

They championed it also as though it was a huge deal for climate change, it's not, that's a lie as well. Climate change is overwhelmingly global as an issue, there's absolutely nothing they can do to meaningfully offset the expansion of emissions elsewhere around the world. If they were serious about climate change, they'd have named the act: Stop China From Building Another Hundred New Coal Power Plants Act.
It's still twelve notes.
This is definitely a huge factor, especially when understanding short term inflationary trends, or inflation in a particular good or service.

But very long term and holistic, systemic inflation, that 2-3% annual target, has very little to do with supply and is almost exclusively printing money. It's a slow drip, a covert tax on savers and gift to debtors, that the government can feed off indefinitely so long as they never get too overleveraged and forced to print money too fast to cover their obligations, shattering the trust that supports the system.
That explains a lot about California
The problem is that there is no way to know what this fella would have liked. His existence seems lonely and generally miserable, maybe he would have preferred to be contacted? Or maybe not and he was content living on his own? Right now there is no way to know. I don't think that asking people "hey, what would you like?" is "hurting" them; quite the opposite actually.

Furthermore, many – though obviously not all – people are generally quite happy to share aspects of their culture and languages, especially when they know it will die out.

Of course, actually communicating with this man has some practical barriers in terms of language but also trust considering his tribe was murdered, but I don't think it would have hurt to try and ask, as long as you don't force anything.
Article doesn't explain what's wrong with mermaid?
(Acorn cofounder) We largely agree ourselves (so much we wrote Rancher 1.x with its own simpler runtime, before k8s took over the world).

But that's the obvious runtime the market is interested in right now. So what we are focusing on is let the infrastructure/ops team do their k8s thing, but insulate the devs/people that just want to run apps from it.

If real demand for it appears, with that abstraction we could write an alternate backend that talks to say Nomad or a-fancy-shell-script-that-runs-docker-cli instead of k8s. And then your app's Acornfile could now run on a totally different runtime, with no (or maybe minimal) changes.
How to Init a String, Looking for Sanity
Yes the end user experience is not good with too frequent updates. Vs code asking me to restart every single week for updates is just a bad user experience. I would much prefer monthly or quarterly bigger updates.
Stimulants are the only type of meds that's ever worked out for me. Unfortunately stimulants can induce anxiety which is a trigger for Maladaptive daydreaming itself.
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens:

“Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. It wasn't easy. Wheat demanded a lot of them. Wheat didn't like rocks and pebbles, so Sapiens broke their backs clearing fields. Wheat didn't like sharing its space, water and nutrients with other plants, so men and women labored long days weeding under the scorching sun. . . .

The body of Homo sapiens had not evolved for such tasks. It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets. Human spines, knees, necks and arches paid the price. Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agriculture brought about a plethora of ailments, such as slipped discs, arthritis and hernias.

Moreover, the new agricultural tasks demanded so much time that people were forced to settle permanently next to their wheat fields. This completely changed their way of life. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”
> “opposite attract”

This is neither right nor wrong. As is usually the case, it's quite a bit more complicated than that.

Most people who enter a relationship with someone else prefer a partner with a significant overlap in their demographic. Especially attributes like age, race, class, culture, height, hobbies, ambitions, etc. This is not universal, of course, but it is far and away the most common case, and is supported by both research and casual observation.

The most robust romantic relationships seem to be when the two people are largely similar but whose more minor differences complement one another in a positive way. One way to summarize it: A strong team of two is more than twice as effective as a single individual. Relationships that don't last tend to be because the individuals cannot find enough common ground to be happy in the present and don't see a positive future (the most common case), or because they are _too_ similar, grow bored of the relationship and feel like they are missing out on some critical piece.

There are outlier couples who seem to do just fine despite apparently massive difference differences in personality, culture, and so forth, but they are just that: outliers.
We need to regulate Google and require it to have a transparent appeals process.
Oh that does look interesting and can lead to some very flexible styling. I can't seem to find this on caniuse.com what name should I use to search?

> The above code queries the card container based on its size, and effects change only when the card has a width of 420px or above.

Typo? Code shows 600px
like guantanamo ?
Could just have drugs be legal for those of age if they do them in private spaces.

1) Then you wouldn't have shady operations and drug cartels producing and selling drugs and the illegality, by nature, supporting said cartels

2) Jails wouldn't already be full

3) Cops and courts wouldn't have to spend so many resources trying to enforce the dumb laws.
The Evolution of ICVFX: ILM Stagecraft and Dimension
"End-to-end virtual production is complicated. I like to compare it to aerial photography. We’re still in the helicopter stage. To fly that helicopter, you need expensive, specific equipment and someone who knows when it’s too windy. It’s complicated. It is getting more democratic, for sure, but we aren’t quite at the drone stage yet."
Rapid release is fine but companies will try and cheat:

1. Release often

2. When a release goes badly (and they will) do some version of '5 whys' and fix the root cause.

3. Continue to release often

That step 2 is often missing and what usually happens is that no engineering time is committed to the solution. Instead they implement more process which costs nothing, doesn't solve the issue and slows development.
I can't believe these actually used to be popular but they were. I wonder if their over-the-top nature made learning how to use a computer mouse a little more fun.
The implicit argument here is that humanities grads are somehow more likely to "rebel" because they are disaffected due to overproduction of similar deluded or "fake" elites. This is like a 90s deadbeats vs suits style bifurcation and there's no numbers provided to specifically prove "radicalisation" and "rebellion" only amongst humanities grads.

As a result, EOT seems to enter spotlight effect territory where influential socialists who have humanities backgrounds are seen as typical of ALL of that category. A similar logic would relate terrorism to ALL engineers because of something like the Salem hypothesis.
"Visual Basic or Pascal"? Is this written in early 90s?
Modern electric pianos support changing from 12TET to other things. I wonder how it would sound to have an electric instrument retune itself throughout a performance as the key changes. Would it be worth the hassle?
When I was a wee lad, “programmers” wrote software and sorta tested it and then kicked it over the fence to “systems administrators”, who chain-smoked and were very, very un-woke.

This was a bad system.

To the extent that “DevOps” means anything, it’s that the spheres of capability and responsibility need to have tons of overlap: SWE’s need to be in the oncall loop and know how the filesystem works, and SRE’s need to be serious coders.

That’s it: everyone codes, everyone operates. We all automate where feasible.

Sidebar: What’s with the crazy surge in BuzzFeed-style titles on the front page? It’s not a federal matter but it’s not a slight change YoY either.
Common Lisp has this in the `setq` and `psetq` macros. E.g. exchange `x` and `y`:

(psetq x y y x)

You can easily have a nesting reduced binding macro, like (var (x 1 y 1) (list x y)), with sequential binding.

Untested:

(defmacro var (pairs &body body)
(if (oddp (length pairs))
(error "~s: variables and init-forms must occur pairwise" 'var))
`(let* ,(loop for (var init) on pairs by #'cddr
unless (and var (symbolp var)
(not (eql var t))
(not (keywordp var)))
do
(error "~s: ~s isn't a variable name" 'var var)
collect (list var init))
,@body)))
*rolls eyes*

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587740
I would for sure. I often come across similar looking persons (height, haircut, style, etc.) and it’s kinda awkward enough, I don’t think I wouldn’t realize I’m in front of my doppelgänger.
To me what youre writing sounds like a parody given the context. And I feel like I could write a form webpage with a logo in significantly fewer characters than used in your explanation for why you need all that stuff.

But this isnt my field of expertise so I'll have to take your word for it that you're not joking.
This shouldn't have been retitled. The original title is "My Summer of Nixon and Watergate", which is a pretty good title for the article. "Nixon: The Trump of 50 years ago" is a very bad title indeed, as it bears no relation to the contents of the article. No need to put on an "NY Post" title, we're here at HN for the civility.
You need to explain what exactly needs to be made illegal, cause it's just regular VC to me. Many VC businesses lose money for a long time, including the likes of FB or Amazon, the strategy being illegal doesn't sound right to me.
He's a senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Finland.. His conclusions may or may not be correct, but surely "kook" is unfair.
Are you sure this is India? I thought India had an Apple-owned service center in Bangalore. And their company-owned stores are coming eventually (Apple's consistently been meeting the local manufacturing requirements)