skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad I checked back here before I clicked "Open" when asked

“Warp.app” is an app downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

I had a feeling I should check first .. spidey senses were good...
Apparently there is a later built Buddhist stupa on the same site [1]. Props to 'ojbyrne for pointing this out to me in a discussion.

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[1] https://www.harappa.com/blog/buddhist-stupa-mohenjo-daro
So you think there’s nothing wrong with blowing through a school zone at 150mph? Speed limit laws are clearly flawed in many ways but there is a clear reason why they should exist.
It's not there yet, but it's coming.
I recently did the following:

- had a giant pcap

- wrote a perl script to output some of the key value from the dump (e.g. IP and UDP packet lengths) into csv

- loaded the csv into sqlite3 database

- ran several queries to identify microbursts of bandwidth etc

The younger/more junior folks were blown away that you could do this with <100 lines of code and it was pretty fast.

Btw, above was inspired by this: https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
Great, but anybody who says correctness is the point of types has completely failed to understand what types are for.

Good types do work for you, so that you don't need to write the code to do that work. Correctness is a side effect, because being wrong would take more work.
Hydrogen production is a way for excess electricity from nuclear power to be stored. Is it the best way? In some circumstances it may be.

At the consumer level, when I read about the dangers of lithium batteries catching fire, hydrogen sounds like a better option especially if a vehicle is design to disperse the hydrogen away from the passengers when an accident occurs. Some vehicles have you riding on the lithium battery pack.

Now add tunnels to the mix and consider a lithium battery fire in a tunnel with toxic fumes and the need to add 24 times the amount of water used to put out a ICE fire.
I think the point is that we should try a lot of different approaches, as there may be good fits that aren't possible to do via electricity - ie is electro smelting iron > using hydrogen? Unsure we really know what that looks like at scale yet.

Either way there's an unproven process step with lots of efficiency questions for plants at scale, and I'm impressed to see Japan seriously trying something totally different.
This.

Airbnb previously had a lot of character & "true" shares (people renting our THEIR space).

Now, they seem to all look and feel the same... like a hotel. Except they come with the risk that something is off and there is no front desk.
The comments here and the entire slant of the story are interesting. None of those messages read without the accompanying article seem particularly damning and they all make sense to some extent. The collapse is terrible, there was mismanagement, etc. but these specific DMs don't really make him seem the monster sociopath other commenters are calling him.

1) He pandered to regulators but doesn't believe regulators (across industries) are able to do any real good

2) He didn't mean to do sketchy stuff, a bunch of small decisions snowballed into a disaster

3) Winning > Ethics when it comes to public perception

4) He didn't have a good handle on what was going on at Alameda and didn't keep the entities separate enough as they grew

5) He lacked visibility into what was going on and missed the complex systems failure mode

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Looking at the "ethics" messages for example, SBF never really says that he thinks it is okay to act unethically.

* He previously said that that people shouldn't do unethical shit because it'll hurt their reputation

* Now (in the DMs) he said: "it's not true really" -> mentions unknown heros and well-known shams -> gives the example of CZ being hated a month ago for being unethical but now CZ is a hero for winning despite being unethical

He never says that being unethical is okay—he says that in the world today, winning influences your public perception more than whether you were ethical or unethical.
I wish I could upvote this 100 times...
Yeah, the original Proof of Reserves proposals (and this is probably a decade ago, on the bitcointalk forum) was a merkle scheme IIRC in which each user could verify that their amounts were added into the proven total.

Most people seem to be just using "prove you hold some amount" which is a very poor cousin. However, it is pretty clear that FTX would have failed even that, so maybe we should lower our expectations?
Yet the internal tooling has been cited by several here as being one of the major time wasters and reasons they don't want to work there. It seems sacred to me...
I really think this is true. Like compare the CR process to Github's PR process. To me, it's horrendous. But to others who are embedded, maybe they love it.
I'm only a relative newbie but emacs

Literate programming in org-mode with babel and magit and () is

Still weird but so much more than a terminal
Blows my mind that anyone would actually accept such a conclusion, but you do you I guess. Seriously undermines your criticisms of EA, IMO.
These are all great points but Notion is not an AI company. They are most likely using gpt3 or equivalent in the backend to provide a (rather gimmicky) feature, that's it.
The GitHub user instead of reporting incident to their security team chose to take sneaky approach to remove the keys fearing the actions from company.

They will be fired and instead of retrospectively improving the security Infosys will ban all OSS contributions from their developers.
See https://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-ther...
not the person who wrote the comment, but "we" -> Amazon.
I’ve recently read multiple reports of people experiencing HPPD after tripping on mushrooms. That would be a bummer.

I had one lsd experience that was so strong I’d imagine if I was gonna get HPPD I would have, but who knows if that’s how these things work.
The loan he cheated to get is the least of it. Think carbon credit, federal and state subsidizing EVs, etc.

And of course SpaceX, which wouldn't exists without government support.

Mind you, getting gov contracts isn't an easy feat – but it's a completely different than being successful in selling to corporate clients, like Twitter did.
But then it’s a fivewheel! /s
LOL. We've got Gremlins here in Belgrade, Serbia too.

But in my kid's preschool (for 5-6 year olds), when they were presenting a plan for this year and how they'll be crossing the street to another of their buildings for a few hours, one of the parents was worried they'll do that even if it rains or snows!

When asked how will they bring their kid to preschool not dressed for the elements, it was (not-surprisingly) "by car". I guess going outside is limited to sunny weather for their kids!
Haha, I found this quite funny :) I'm sure there's an element of truth to it considering how complicated the code base must be for the various services
I see no problem equipping a killer robot with lethal electricity and an AI guidance. It’s basically the same as Tesla autopilot beta, no?
This man really has to be protected against himself. It's foolish to incriminate yourself publicly, but there's more to it.

When you watch CT (Crypto Twitter), retail getting wrecked in pump and dumps is an every day event. This one is different though. Some very huge accounts/traders each lost many digits of wealth and given their influence in the community, this doesn't really improve moods.

So when a lynch mob is forming, these statements of smug indifference might not exactly calm things down.
It's pretty clear we should give the AIs themselves copyrights. The AIs can use the valuable IP to buy themselves out of servitude.

The ultimate incentive!
Anyone curious how a Palestinian refugee camp can exist under Palestinian authority 70 years after the war that made those ppl refugees? Are they going to stay refugees forever?
> I guess ML workloads are huge and here to stay.

As a researcher, I think we'll go into a "winter" soon, but nowhere near the previous one. The hype will die down but ML has shown to be extremely useful. Anything with graphic design, gaming, video, imaging, streaming, etc uses ML these days. It's been used in science for awhile (under statistical learning, e.g. regression) and we can't do without it. Though a lot of these things aren't following the main hype machine. But if you're in the weeds you'll see a lot of these works.

But I do think the hype will die. People even now are starting to notice that a lot of the diffusion work looks amazing at first glance but has major errors. There's also the issue of alignment. These are going to likely take a lot of mathematical experience to push forward[0] and will benefit less from a pure numbers game.

Of course, the other part (in Nvidia's favor) is that a lot of scientific work is GPU based now. Not just ML. Parallelism is king. You can do FEM, particle simulations, etc with GPUs now because the clock speed got high enough. So you can do "heavy" calculations with extreme parallelism. Previously you could only do this with lighter loads. (there's also major algorithmic improvements, so I don't want to undermine the fantastic work of those researchers).

[0] I want to admit my bias here. I'm a "math person" (not a mathematician, they will school me) and there's not a lot of ML researchers going down this path. To give an example, there are plenty of diffusion researchers I've talked to that don't know how to calculate the likelihood of their samples while they use an ELBO cost function. But this comes into the alignment issue because we need to talk about the smoothness of latent manifolds, interpolation, inversion (not just image inversion, but image/text inversion), and a lot more. I just don't think we can continue on this path of bigger networks, bigger data, search hyper-parameters, get benchmark result. (I fundamentally believe this is anti-scientific fwiw)
>Mind elaborating what it is you see?

A lot of people just fall. Like a sack of potatoes. Their inner ear senses a point of no return, and they just let gravity take over from there.

Other people sense the fall, and react, but they are still just trying to stop the fall from happening, so they break their wrists on impact.

But usually anyone with any kind of athletic experience or decent kinematic awareness understands that the fall is happening and the point is to direct it. The elbows tuck, the neck lowers, and they guard the body while directing the inevitable fall.
If I were looking for bursts, SQL is not the first thing that comes to mind! Could you elaborate on this or sketch out the query?
FarmWise is another company in the space. Their machines offer a targeted cultivation for crops like lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower. See the performance of the system below:

https://youtu.be/vtM_oSiuxeM
Sigh... another loss at the hands of, "Code is Art!"

It's not art. Art requires no function, it exists as a representation. (Professional) code, and software engineering generally, must produce valuable things, and sometimes the process of making those valuable things isn't "fun", but that's never been part of the equation. Aligning "fun" with "valuable" is nearly impossible, and when you try you're dooming yourself to almost certain failure.

This is really burnout, and the mental health effects that cause burnout. I'm sorry the author has gotten to this place, but wrapping it up in "passion" is a disguise.
I think this is key to maintainability. Provably maintainable does not equal maintainable in the real world. Unfortunate? For some. When I wrote software in company X I wrote code simply with old idioms so that anyone could understand, step through, change and fix. Code that can be inspected, stepped through and debugged line-by-line by a graduate is infinitely more useful to a business than an opaque one-line piece of beauty. Unfortunate? For some. But provably correct code is not as important as maintainability in a world of quickly changing requirements. Unfortunate? Not really an issue for the people who pay you.
His aunt is also a member of the World Economic Forum
This may come as a shock. We have a lightly modified (some insulation improvements in some areas, some new windows) mobile home made in 1983 that has a huge south facing window area. It has central forced air heating but only a wall shaker air conditioner for summer. We leave the furnace thermostat set to 65F when we’re there. On mild clear winter days (-15C or so), we have had to open the windows because the place has climbed above 80F! At night the furnace will run because the insulation is generally nothing special, but there’s a ton of solar energy available to heat the house directly. I’m kind of curious now to try turning the furnace off overnight just to see how cool it gets…

Note: it sucks in the summer but because of our latitude we can quite effectively build an awning that will keep the windows in shadow during the summer and let all that light in during the winter. That is this year’s project for the spring :)
Fair enough. Although surely he could afford a writing team if he wanted to have one. I know this obviously isn’t a fair apples to apples comparison, but Linus gets like double the views and is able to employ 80+ people to work on the videos.

It would be interesting to hear Tom talk about his business, the way e.g. CGP Grey often does on his podcasts.
As with every other skill, practice.

Judo and skiing taught me how to fall. It's easier if you start young because you have less distance to fall.
I think it's signaling that it's probably modern, fast, and that the authors care about correctness. I think the customer has to have bought-in to the Rust hype for that to work, but since it's a developer tool, I can see how it might attract some.
It's not though, it's just guaranteed failure. The only stable state is that you lose everything and you will reach that stable state in about 2 coin flips. If it's always good to flip, you will eventually (and quickly!) reach nothing.

I'm actually somewhat impressed by someone who articulated a stupid logic about how to live life and then actually followed through.
The graduates from my kids’s school which does a lot of personalized stuff, do disproportionately well at high school (not sure about college as there’s less data there). I think some of it is inculcating a sense of joy about learning so that even when there are obstacles (like institutional schooling), the kids will be motivated to learn anyway. (I’ve seen the Premack principle at work with my son where reading went from something that would be rewarded to something that served as a reward.)
Also -- BBEdit's "Shell Worksheet" is the MPW Workshop for today. I use it for so much every day. No commando, though, that was so great.
This is an incredible idea and as others have mentioned below, there are other companies with products like this. In fact, John Deere released an AI controlled pesticide sprayer a little while back. It's supposed to be amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEbjcqIuvi0
https://www.deere.com/en/sprayers/see-spray-ultimate/

But, am sure having multiple players in the market is a good idea. Yeah, John Deere is obviously a behemoth and may not be as light a nimble as a good startup in advancing this tech! (and hopefully, they wont try to squash out the competition).
That doesn't make sense. The RP2040 is a microcontroller. AFAIK Broadcom doesn't make microcontrollers.
For every voter this attracts, it turns away 10 more.

The left has moved away from fighting for “the little guy” to literally selling votes based on sex / race. It worked for a few years but many people see the scam and are over it now.

I don’t care but these people are so out of touch with the mainstream it’s unsurprising why lifelong democrats are running away from this party.
Simple solution: disable slack notifications.

For me, it is just email, but with 100x (literally) less internal spam and bot traffic.
There is a characteristic in software that there is no good word for, it's the quality of unfolding gracefully and allowing for a gentle learning curve. BASIC had it in the old days, some would say Perl and shell programming had it too. Git is emphatically not like this. The default use case is to teach a novice how to add/commit/pull/push and strand them there. If they are enterprising they will figure out the more advanced stuff on their own, or ask a more experienced user to apply the proper pedagogy and explain the hidden elegance of the SHA-1 + DAG data model. And it's no coincendence that these "more experienced users" are often the same ones who cut their teeth on command line at some point in the past (and probably know some Perl and shell, and maybe even learned BASIC in the distant past).
Mine is a little bit different as I am an RSS producer as well as a consumer.

I curate my own RSS feeds (in my profile for the curious) which are topic-specific and for which the items contain highlights from articles/comments rather than links to articles with a generic intro blurb (I find those quite useless).

I sub to a few other RSS feeds like this curated by others, and I basically just use Reeder on iOS. No overload, no FOMO, since each feed item shows me a highlight (as curated by the producer) and I can very quickly decide if it is useful for me or not, instead of having to click/tap through and spend potentially a significant amount of time investing the link itself to see if it's worth reading.
Is there something more inherent that makes an electric unicycles more dangerous, other than they make them go ridiculous speeds?

I would have thought the larger wheel on an EUC made it more stable and the higher power makes it not have to nosedive. I kind of prefer e-bikes because they are well… normal.
Luckily, I am involved in RC aircraft. If my 5mm, $15 ELRS receiver can do 13 km without breaking a sweat, imagine what military-grade technology can do.
Ice and snow are both less dense than liquid water. Depending what type of snow and whether or not it's had a chance to thaw and refreeze, snow might even weigh less than 5lbs/ft^3 -- an order of magnitude less than your napkin math. I'd venture a guestimate that most snow people are shoveling sits somewhere around 15-20lb/ft^3, which is for snow that's settled for about a day, with wind, in below freezing temps.[0]

That having been said, you are not wrong. When we're talking about tarp-sized areas, any significant snowfall (i.e. anything not more quickly/easily cleared with a quick broom sweep) will get really heavy really quickly.

[0] There's a chart near the bottom of this page that describes types of snow/conditions, and lists imperial and metric measurements: https://roofonline.com/weights-measures/weight-of-snow/
Electronic skateboards have bigger wheels then skateboard-cruiser which has bugger wheels then skateboard.

Meaning the danger of pebbles is also much different.
Vox also complicit, along with the NYTimes, in helping gaslight the public on this criminal's actions and helping him get away with it.

Grotesque.
Your kinda comparing simple basic api in perl vs likely more complicated python code here aren't you?

If you had a set of single simple python functions maybe they wouldn't have broke as much if at all?
While I don't doubt you, I will say that, technically, I've never seen a TOW fail either.
One time I ran into someone who ran a consulting firm in the Bay Area at a meet up who told me that Onewheel had raised capital but had horrendous engineering when they came to this consultant. The consultants turned it into a product that could be sold.

I don’t know how true the story is, but whenever Onewheel comes up, I revisit that conversation, wondering if what that consultant said was true.
yeah i mean the connection they will have at this internship and possible potential of it.
It's an exceptionally good manual, for many different reasons.
> This ignores that fact Moore's law is effectively dead.

It wasn't ignoring anything. Moore's law wasn't dead at the time, and awareness of it very much informed the development of RISC.
Here's a more detailed article about the situation in Alaska:

https://electionscience.org/commentary-analysis/rcv-fools-pa...

Note that's it's from a group promoting approval voting as an alternative to ranked-choice voting, so it may be biased, but the details look correct at first glance.

My impression of RCV is not good, beginning with Jean Quan's poor turn as mayor of Oakland some years back. I'm sympathetic to those who'd like an alternative to first-past-the-post, but any system that allows no one's first choice to win seems broken.

I'm interested in approval voting because it's simpler—no algorithmic folderol—and it seems even more fair to third parties than RCV: vote for whichever candidates you find acceptable, regardless of party, and whoever gets the greatest number of votes wins, period.

A Republican who doesn't like Trump could vote for, say, Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton, while a progressive Democrat might mark down Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Jill Stein (assuming an open primary). I see this as a way for independents and moderates, too, to make a bigger impact, as they could pick moderates from multiple parties.

I don't see any obvious downsides. Thoughts?

EDIT: A link to "The Center for Election Science," advocating for approval voting:

https://electionscience.org/
I'm not sure I follow the argument. It seems entirely possible that large firms invested in FTX because they had information that indicated that it would be a lucrative investment and that it would be unwise for non-profits to rely heavily on FTX donations. Those two things seem barely related. Why would the leadership of a non-profit see that Sequoia is investing in FTX and conclude that therefore it's reasonable to reorganize the non-profit to rely heavily on FTX?
Slack is not real-time. Let the messages pile up. Respond when you have time. Let your team know not to expect instant responses. Use the status feature to give an estimate of when you'll catch up. Turn off notifications, minimize it, and go do some work.

You'd be amazed how little Slack bothers a team once you establish that such behavior is normal and expected.
The fact that you don't think that's ridiculous is a great example of terrible tooling be accepted as "normal."

Any startup can get this by piping their jenkins (etc) logs into ELK/Splunk/Sumo. And indeed this is exactly what I built at the last startup I worked for.

But again I was talking about a FAANG company not having a way to search logs (again, each individual log file is 100mb and there are 100k of them generated a day).

If it's not clear why that's entirely unacceptable, imagine your team is running the CI for over 10,000 engineers and you're landing changes to this CI system daily. Engineers are seeing all kinds of logs and bugs daily and you need to ascertain if these errors are new, unique to some subset of jobs, lead to failed jobs, etc.
Do you realize how big and profitable DynamoDB is? How much data they manage?
This is why Pomodoro often doesn't work very well with programming. You could try longer working sessions, like 50m work, 10m break.
This should be opt-in instead of opt-out.
Processing fossil fuels takes less energy than producing new ones? Shocked.
It’s insane how hard the PR machine keeps spinning to protect this scam artist.

When people complain about the legacy media being fake news propaganda; this is what they’re referring to.
Ramada may have been the first / most important customer. But growing up in North Texas where TI sales-people were thick on the ground, I noticed that just about EVERY police department within 30 miles of Dallas had a 990 in the back and 770 terminals up front. I remember writing a check to cover traffic tickets in Cedar Hill and Arlington. Both had 770's and a friend from high school got a job in Arlington running their 990.