skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are we paying these folks – a tale of DevRel
replacement for dialyzer?
The rational explanation why the majority of items are neutral tones/grey is because this maximizes the market. This can be seen on automobiles, where silver is the most common color because it’s easier to sell second hand, so manufacturers learned to optimize for this.
That’s why casinos use chips btw :-)
So tell us more! Work Life balance? Do you want to keep work separate to life as well? Keep work at work and socialise with all your friends you made in.... summer camp?
To latch on to this great post there are a couple of other worthwhile discussion points:

We're still in a nuclear war mental model. We can't build beautiful things if we think they'll be destroyed in a war. We still have a societal level PTSD from World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and other things.

World War I veterans came back with horrific problems. That's why architects like Frank Lloyd Wright built bunkers that blended in with nature. As they entered into professions like architecture they avoided symmetry, and this was cargo-culted into the present day where we build very weird, stressful objects like Boston City Hall [1], suburban homes that are incoherent and have hidden front entrances (although the car is very prominent) or throw a bunch of scrap metal together and call it art.

I'm not religious at all but right now we face a crisis of what we are building for (as opposed to constructing buildings and temples to the glory of some god or gods). I'm hopeful that either the environmental movement or our desire to become a space faring civilization will reinvigorate the passion of our species.

There's also no point in building a very beautiful building that will last a long time while you are living in Austin, TX if you think in a few years you'll move to Seattle or maybe Washington DC before finally settling down in Kansas. I have been encouraged to see that remote work has caused people to change their location priorities and invest in their current homes instead. Major headwind is just that most homes that were constructed are either in isolated, car-dependent suburbs and/or they are built using the cheapest materials possible. But you can see that people are willing and want to invest via new offices, garage gyms, etc.

I'm really disappointed in our financial overlords who haven't built a single beautiful building for society anywhere in the US. Even their own houses typically look like architectural garbage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall
Ime its like solving puzzles. Maybe like getting really into Go or some similar game.
You ask us to tell you what programming project you should finish, but it doesn't really matter.

Any project will become a chore after the initial novelty driven excitement fades. The trick is not to demand that it will be so fun that it pulls you in like a black hole.

Motivation problem you talk about can be overtaken with the sheer willpower or using habit.

While ninjas can cut their leg off when trapped to avoid being caught, us regular folks do better using habits and not willpower like you tried before.

There is a whole book on the subject, it is called Atomic Habits. It teaches you how to form habits with least amount of toil. Maybe hearing Blinkist short version will be enough, maybe not.

Once working on the project becomes a habit it costs no energy to start, you just do it like you (I) pee first thing in the morning, it comes out efortlessly. But be wary, all work and no play makes Jimmy a dull boy. Have some treats for yourself for what you acomplished. Maybe measure the time spent on the project with a Pomodoro app and go to see a movie after every 20 pomodoros? Double that after each time you get the prize, but ask yourself if you find it.fair and be fair with yourself when it comes to rewarding yourself.

A difficult to form habit will disappear quickly if you give up on it just for few days.

Good luck, may the force be with you.
Is this an Ayn Rand quote out of her novels? It sounds that way but I can’t find it.
>The parse tree does exist somewhere in the brain

Is that even clear? Parse trees are a discretization of stochastic grammars, for example, with probabilities of "production rules" set to either 1 (so you get the right hand side rewrite) or 0 (so you don't get that as an option).

Disclaimer: worked on stochastic grammars for computation in recognizers 20 years ago, not sure how the defs might have drifted since then.
But when? The internet is much more dangerous now than it was in the late 90s.
This feels less like it tells us anything about the world but more about how small the author's conception of it is. Reminds me of people who complain about how music is "bad these days" but they're only talking about what they hear on the radio and aren't really exploring what the landscape has to offer

A lot of what gets created is for functional purposes, and it has always been that way. As time goes on, the functional stuff gets torn down and replaced and anything that's appealing or well-built gets to stay. This gives the impression that the past was full of ornate, well-constructed wonders. But is and always has been an illusion

There were probably people 200, 300, 1000 years ago who thought "Everything is so ugly these days" or didn't care. It's not about what buildings look like, it's about how we live our lives
> I think the normal zig compiler has a C backend which was run on itself, the source cleaned up by hand then checked in

This didn’t ever happen, but may happen in the future. The usage of the WASI blob is a temporary alternative.

AFAIK there will be a forthcoming blog post that’ll clear things up.
Hey, one of France's neighbours here: Nobody gives a damn about you talking about dumb shit, as long as it doesn't endanger one or many people. What we actually care about, is a bunch of people - who coincidentally seem to come from the same political spectrum - using a public space, to artificially push unfounded conspiracy theories, and trying to rile up society, so they can seize power and abolish democracy as a whole. All by using fake accounts, bots and apparently Russian money to destabilize society, and also gathering weapons for their great "liberation" from the deep state or some shit. At the same time they keep on whining about "freedom of speech", every time their bullshit is getting called out.

Just recently, a bunch of conspiracy freaks in my country were raided by police, since they were found out to be preparing for a coup. Funnily enough, it was once again people from right-wing parties, Qanons and one descendant of former royalty in Germany.
> significant bother

Fabulous.
There are tons of open source STT models, what makes whisper so valuable? I especially don't get it on mobile, where the native STT built into the OS is now real-time and includes punctuation (at least for iOS). I love the open-source approach to the model, but it didn't strike me as particularly better than other open-source or built-in models.
>hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across?

The type of person who stopped their reading on totalitarianism with the fall of the Nazis rather than the fall of the Berlin Wall tend to be unreliable narrators.
No, absolutely no. Private keys as a form of identity are flawed because they can't be recovered if lost and can't be revoked if leaked. In the real world, as opposed to crypto dreams, both these capabilities are not "nice to have", they are hard requirements. People lose their passwords — something they can remember — all the damn time, yet you're suggesting to use something that has to be stored as a file, but must be kept secret but at the same time stored reliably. And it's not just for authentication, it's the identity itself.

Private keys as a form of identity can't possibly work in the real world.
But they do use it to manipulate you.
But all of these use a bit shift instead of the (I)DIV instruction. I wasn't saying compilers can't be stupid, but the AI-generated comment explicitly stated that the shift operation was more efficient than division, not that it would result in fewer instructions emitted.

midpoint_rep_lodsb_handwritten:
endbr64
movq $0x8000000000000000, %rax
xorq %rax, %rsi ;convert two's complement to biased
xorq %rax, %rdi
addq %rsi, %rdi
rcrq $1, %rdi
xorq %rdi, %rax ;convert back
ret

(sorry if I got the syntax wrong, AT&T is just horrible)
In the US, it used to be Senators casually getting nostalgic about the good old days when segregation was still legal and active. They've mostly all died by now.
Europeans gain access to Apple parts, manuals in Self Service Repair program
Finally, externally visible module constants (i.e attributes)!

Ok, probably not, but one can dream.
> I think the next major evolution in phones should be removing the screen. We need to develop a voice assistant technology which retains context and can "understand" in a more conversational style, but I think that once we've jumped that hurdle there would be plenty of people—for whom phone-staring is currently an act of boredom or filling time—who would willingly get rid of that screen in favor of a voice assistant.

have you heard of Google Assistant? It does exactly what you are saying. They do have a screenless device too. Also there is Amazon Alexa that basically does the same thing.
Ask HN: Do you know the accelerator/VC firm Antler?
What was your experience there?
Particularly if you didn’t get funded how did it impact your career? Was it a good use of your time and (lack of) money?

I would be joining as a founder without a startup, which makes the whole thing less “driven”. I mean startups pivot all the time so it’s not these relevant but it worries me slightly to be joining without any clear purpose other than “finding a match”. I guess I should look at it like a free “Master in Startups”.

I’m particularly curious about the network and the opportunity for people who “failed” the first stage and didn’t get founded. Or got funded but burned through the 80k and didn’t manage to raise any more money.

What was life after that? Did you get hired by a fellow cofounder from your cohort? Did you get hired by Antler past companies? Did you wonder the land without a penny to your name?
Early in the year I made the switch from Modo (by The Foundary) to Blender 3.x, and I've been enjoying it. Since I use 3D software for my video games business it's quite daunting to switch a significant part of your workflow over, because the muscle-memory of all the shortcuts is all there, and you've learnt the Way To Do Things™ in that particular piece of software.

As much as I liked Modo, I was paying a monthly subscription, and now with Blender I don't and it's got this enormous open-source community that provides a lot of long-term confidence, which I wasn't quite getting with Modo. The UI changes going from 2.x to 3.x was pretty important in my decision to switch.

One thing I found helpful when moving 3d modelling softwares was to setup all the keyboard shortcuts to your previous software's bindings, and then you can tackle figuring out the UI, the different object modes and the Blender Way To Do Things™. There's plenty of preference files around on the web that you can plug them in and get going quite quickly
Even English has a ton of digraphs which are technically two or more letters but are actually one "sound". We have a bunch in English but th, sh, ci are favorites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)#English
Haskell is both compiled and has arbitrarily large integers. Granted, Haskell isn't used for high performance systems, but it can be used to generate programs for high performance systems.
I like the piece. The tone kinda gives me the same vibes as Neil Strauss' The Game (vibe heavy anthropology trip into the distasteful, or at least unnerving, subculture).

The part at the very end about the internet people winning is the part that freaks me out (and drives my own middlingly unhealthy doom-scrolling). Just the other day I saw Curtis Yarvin is now some minor Rasputin figure for Peter Thiel, and I couldn't help but think "that lunatic monarchist edgelord from years ago is now influencing where real real political money gets spent?" I don't want to be an internet person, or even pay as much attention as I do, but it feels kind of like even if you don't believe in the internet, it believes in you and it'll eventually show up anyways.
I use Vivaldi because it simply has more the features in a better package than these open source browsers. Maybe some day Firefox stops fucking around with and just starts stealing UX features from Edge and Vivaldi so I come back, but for now I can't start using it.
Primary source direct from Germany’s Minister of Justice: https://twitter.com/marcobuschmann/status/160046813821829939...
The potential is seen now. if you restrict it too much, people will develop their own.
A open source alternative to openai is sorely needed.
> when all your cars and buildings are super-colorful, they clash. They become garish and ugly and screaming for attention.

This is not necessarily the case. Many places in places like Iceland, Norway, Greenland, and to a lesser extent the rest of the nordic countries and some others, like the netherlands, have very colorful buildings, where each building is a different vibrant color, but nevertheless everything fits together nicely, without becoming "garish and ugly and screaming for attention", instead looking quite humble and cozy.
As an engineer who has spent time commissioning electrical systems on oil rigs, I've had the opportunity to witness some truly fascinating tests. However, out of all the tests I've seen, the black start test is by far the most intriguing.

Similar to the article, but at a smaller scale, it takes power to start up one of the ~7MW main generators on an oil rig. During commissioning, a black start test simulates a scenario where all power sources on the rig are exhausted, and the emergency backup systems must be used to bring the rig back to life.

Starting the main generators on an oil rig is no easy feat. It takes a significant amount of power to get these massive machines running, and it's not as simple as pulling a cord like you would with a lawnmower. In normal circumstances, the rig uses tanks of compressed air to start the generators, but during a black start test, these tanks are assumed to be empty.

So, how do you start the main generators in this situation? The answer is with a special emergency hand-cranked air compressor. By cranking (and cranking, and cranking) this compressor, you can generate enough air to start a small air compressor, which in turn is used to pump up the air tank and start the 1.5MW emergency generator. Once the emergency generator is running, it can be used to power the compressors that fill the large tanks needed to start the main generators.

Watching this process unfold is truly a unique experience. To see a massive oil rig slowly come to life, all thanks to one person cranking away at a small air compressor, is truly impressive.
> But otherwise, the answer to most of the rest of the essay is: economics.

Correct proportions cost nothing. And that's just for starters.
Yes, just like learning concepts from reading books.
I appreciate this article. First, it is well written. Second, it is well-versed.

I know many, many people who have fallen into this trap of being an Internet "coolguy" and are absolute boring, anxious and insecure nerds in meatspace. Ironically they often yearn to connect their irl popularity with their internet personality. It's as if they realize the Internet moves fast with or without them.
Ask HN: How would you adapt ChatGPT to be a proactive chatbot?
ChatGPT is based on you asking a question and they answering. You are the one excited and interested in the conversation and the other side is reactive.

What about the contrary ? How would you change the prompts or send hidden prompts between conversations to make ChatGPT the one actually interested in you, and not the contrary ?

I tried asking questions with the additional "(answer with a follow up question)", but it didn't always worked.
You're missing the bit where you use the black start source to start the other sources.
Tolkien Reads – The Ride of the Rohirrim
The wiki still claims 3.4 hasn't released, although the download page has been updated. What's weirder is that past releases have had a easy-to-consume release notes[0], but 3.4 doesn't? Maybe posting it here now is jumping the gun a little?

[0]: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-3/
This can't be done without compromising the user experience.
I miss Art Deco. At least to me, it seems like a flexible style that looks good, while not being purely ornamental.
And also, is there a movie named "Army Soldier II" with Ryan Reynolds in it, or was I just supposed to understand an oblique reference to something else?
There's an amusing anecdote that does the rounds about Napoleon mandating a national register in the Netherlands, and the Dutch not taking kindly to that by registering using all kinds of silly names. Unfortunately for them the register stuck and centuries later there's people going through life being called "John Big Buttocks" and such.

Amusing but alas, from when I looked into it it seemed like it was made up.
Biology isn't STEM now?
At a minimum you need a way to collect information from each workstation for all of the installed programs and patches/hotfixes installed. There are tons of companies that sell software that does this out of the box, usually either with an agent installed on each workstation or a single server sitting on your network that uses an account with the necessary permissions to remotely grab that info.

Once you have the data you can run reports to see what the worst offenders are and perform corrective actions such as updating software. If you want to do this for a small company like yours look into setting up a Wazuh server since it’s free and open source.

For large corp environments there is software that can automatically patch out of date software but the costs are high and you have to be extremely careful because these process can occasionally break an end user application.. Usually there is always some sort of change management process that has to be followed for that for obvious reasons.
SEO spreads its tentacles even into the vast recesses of the military industrial complex.
> I was comparing the teacher evaluations given by teacher unions to the evaluations of teachers based on student improvement over time on standardized tests.

Wait. You were comparing the evaluations of teachers based on how teacher unions ranked them, compared to the evaluation of teachers based on the standardized test scores for their students?

How is that at all useful?

Why are teacher unions ranking teachers? How does that affect anything? How are standardized tests - which aren't designed as a measure of teacher effectiveness - at all relevant, and not full of noise?

We know methods like VAM (Value-Added Models) are extremely easy to misuse - so easy the American Statistical Association points how how it's difficult to apply them to ranking teacher effectiveness (see https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/POL-ASAVAM-Statement.p... ). Why should I believe this book you cite - which seems to be written by a journalist and not a statistician - does a good job of it?

> then you use the phrase "grades given by unionized teachers", which makes no sense.

That's because I didn't understand what your argument was. The usual argument is "teachers unions mean teachers are bad at their jobs so we can't trust their judgement and GPA. Instead, we need to look to standardized tests." That's the argument I thought you were making.

> it doesn't even do any analysis on GPA as a predictor of future success relative to other standardized tests

No, it doesn't. It does give the citation: Bowen, Chingos, & McPherson, 2009 . But https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400831463... is behind a paywall.

If you want to argue that the summary of the citation I gave is a poor interpretation of the research, then go ahead. But then I can say that your summary of the book you read is also wrong.

A book which I also cannot read.

And which does not appear to be peer reviewed.

> It's not peer reviewed. It only examines data from one university.

Thing is, the second link also gives citations to other research.

] If standardized testing is not as reliable a measure of student success, as proposed by the
researchers previously cited ... Hodara and Lewis (2017) concluded that HSGPA was a better predictor of college performance than standardized exam scores, especially for students who enter college within a year of completing high school.

These are not meant to be read in a vacuum, but as an indication that the certainty you state is far from established.
any idea why it was dropped?
I had lunch with him on Wednesday and wish I said more.

I also worry about the hidden pressures of praise. A overly critical inner life can interpret it as “I like you as long as you are useful” which is of course not the truth.

I have appreciation for the creators in my life, even when they no longer create.
Yes, but there’s a PhD student working with Jose on this and I think the timeline was 18 months. My guess is it’s a joke around how stable everything in the Elixir world remains compared to other constantly evolving ecosystems.
Any idea on what happened with Apple becoming a sponsor? Apple Silicon compatibility is achieved but I don't see Apple in the sponsor list: https://fund.blender.org
dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33867537
As another point of (less rigorous) annecdata from a group of ~50 or so college students in Northern Eu:

- Facebook: they all use it for messenger only

- Discord: only a small few use it

- TikTok: a couple of them post, but all watch and pass them around

- Instagram: Most of them use it and post occasionally

- Snapchat: They all use it daily and they all see each other's real-time location. This is mind blowing to me as it generates a lot of drama: "Why was my ex at your house at 3am?"
Ask HN: Local implications and economic impact of datacenters?
The largest clean energy datacenter in the world is being built in my city.

https://ctpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Panel2Wick.pdf

Has anyone seen any data/research regarding the impact of datacenters being built in smaller cities?
Nationalism on internet scale
It looks pretty well archived to me, where are you seeing things missing?
Yeah I'm having the same problem. I get "An error occurred. Either the engine you requested doesn't exit..." or "An error occurred. If this issue persists..." 90% o f the god damn time wtf
More plausibly, they are seeding the Demon Haunted World theory to distract the populous from their immediate problems. I found the timing of resurgent UFO/UAP stories & official statements at the height of the pandemic quite dubious.

I did/do really enjoy the thought experiments posited in these comments. For more than a few minutes my mind's eye forgot that my finances have been a slow-motion trainwreck these last 3 years.
The Mental Disorders that Gave Us Modern Architecture

https://commonedge.org/the-mental-disorders-that-gave-us-mod...
Supposedly, multiplications of low numbers works quite well, so I think it should be able to multiply individual digits without problems.

> Ironic that an AI built on flawless massively parallel floating point multiplications struggles with arithmetic at a higher level.

The same thing can be said about our brains though. Our neurons perform millions of calculations each day, but we can still struggle with doing a single on consciously.
A lot of people responsible for 20th century architecture believed more or less that beauty is Literally Fascism, so that's another component. The ugliness isn't always accidental.
I just mean consciousness as opposed to no consciousness. We don't know what causes it or where it comes from.
U.S. to spend $1.5B to jumpstart alternatives to Huawei