skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing is a form of communication, communication is the exchange of information: good information communicated badly is more valuable than bad information communicated well. Structure and clarity are inputs as much as they are outputs: focus on the input, and the output will improve. The challenge for output-massagers is that grammatical and phrasing improvements are marginal. My writing isn't great (I'm using colons in this message without any confidence that they belong there) but by focusing on the important information, I am able to communicate well in a professional setting.

My ideal tool is one that focuses on the input, rather than the output. A tool that accepts input as the units of information I want to communicate, priority ordered and linked by relationships, and the tool turns that into a narrative journey for humans to enjoy. I don't want a tool to tell me my colon should be a comma, or my phrasing is redundant, I want a tool to output the best written way to communicate information for the audience.
Interestingly, my experience is totally different. I loved working with XAML and C# for building Silverlight apps, and would have preferred using that across more platforms. Especially with a nice editor like Expression Bland that got folded into VS.
When i was 5 i was given a gameboy color, i got additcted to it, so my parents banned everything "computer related" until i was 14, depending on their mood this also included tv. When i was a kid i hated it because my parents were never able to explain why they did. But looking back, i think it was the right move. Many people i grew up with became dopamine slaves and cant stop themsevles from indulging in socialmedia/ videogames/ hedonism every day. From 14-18 i played videogames everyday as much as i could each day. I dont consider it a relapse because im antisocial and will naturally gravitate to an activity i can do alone. If i never had the childhood without tech, i could see an adulthood without anything else. If you have never lived your life without freedom, you really dont know it's value. If you always had it, you either over value it or under value it. I became a software engineer, but generally have grown a dislike for 70% of all tech on the market. I will probably end up raising my kids as close to amish as possible. Will the pendulum swing the other way and they rebell? Maybe. But a rebellion into a worse solution is temporary and I'll always support my kids in a low tech household when tech burns them.
I suspect rooftop solar for most folks isn't producing electricity when they need it, at least not enough to satisfy their peak demand.

That leaves PG&E buying your excess at exactly the time of day they don't need it. And you continue to pull load at peak demand (like everybody else) so you need the grid connection.

It's a lose all around for PG&E. This change recognizes that.
> What’s surprising to me is how someone like Carmack didn’t have enough totem-pole clout just from who he is!

He is a game developer. Some people now at Facebook have breakthroughs in Computer Science on their resumes.
I disagree. I have a 38" ultrawide monitor (that I love). That is a long way for the mouse pointer to go every time I want to select something from the menu bar.

To make matters worse, I have progressive lenses and the "sweet spot" for the text to be in focus within my field of view is relatively narrow. So not only would I have to move my mouse quite a bit if I had a global menu, I have to move my head quite a bit as well.

I think Fitt's Law is something like Moore's Law: both couldn't be counted on to go on indefinitely.

Fortunately for me, I use KDE and could switch between the two if I wanted.
MX. Fast. Stable as a rock.
Yep, you're right. I guess all that felt longer ago than it actually was
IRIX, at my first student job at my university.

Most servers were already Linux/x86 based at the time (2012), but I vividly remember SSHing to that one machine where things felt just... different.
Iodine in water ionized on the picosecond scale, by laser pulse.

Would be mildly surprised if that didn't happen that fast. I guess the interesting twist is that the medium is flowing liquid.

How long does this state last? If one were to, say, write a series of bits into the upstream side of the flow, how many such bits could you recover downstream? The potential I see here is possibly a delay line for THz band signals, not so much the basis for logic for a 1000GHz CPU. But delay lines are darned useful things.
Marginal rate for power is small, yes. But the grid consumers are paying for the whole grid. Of course they are, somebody has to.
Remarkable article.

2000-odd words, goes into great detail talking about politics, psycho-analyzing the Tories...it is all because they went to Eton...of course...the Brexit, the bankers...it is all so simple.

A brief sentence is expended on planning, no mention about supply-side problems, the productivity crisis in govt (which is now 50% of the economy)...nothing.

I will say this another way, you can measure the intelligence by looking at the gap between how often they talk about Brexit and how often they talk about economic reform. People who talk endlessly about Brexit have nothing to say about any economic reform...beyond reversing Brexit (and then say, without self-awareness, something sniping about the "religion" of Brexit). There is no content.

The UK has many problems but the worst is an elite that is almost totally preoccupied with arguing and rutting with other members of that same elite. Recursive, insular, almost no connection with reality.

That was the problem from the 20s until Thatcher (with exceptions, there were a few good men on both sides...Labour just totally imploded first). That crept back into the Tories in the early 90s, and crept back into Labour with Brown (I will ask you this: Brown oversaw one of the most catastrophic bailout programs that actually brought down healthy institutions...he is still advising Labour, how...he devised not one but two constitutional programs that imploded...he is STILL advising Labour on a third one, how...the article talks about people leaving politics, if people leave how is this unflushable turd still there).

All of the Tories who left after Brexit were some of the worst, most incompetent people in politics. All they did by the end of 2019 was argue with other politicians, they had no connection with reality. The current Cabinet are fine, there are lots of very obviously competent people attempting to deal with massive structural issues (Home Office has gone feral, Justice has gone feral, Health is beyond repair...again, the article mentions not one word about this...why might that be?). Look at Labour...they have Starmer (not wholly competent) and Reeves (who is risking a coup by meeting the Tories on policy)...again, the biggest issue is the profound lack of progress made on massive structural issues and this comes down to a failure of political leadership, not a failure of voters.
Spelling and grammar is secondary to good communication.

I would say you (or your app) have a ways to go yet.

This post is actually about validating a business idea, but that portion of the post is pretty much a byline.

A computer is never going to read your mind and understand the idea(s) you are trying to convey. (Caveat "640k is enough for anybody...")

I am not convinced your problem is language/spelling/grammar. You are reducing communication to a protocol when it is so much more.
Agreed - a way to archive both HN threads and reddit posts + comments would be very useful to me
In that case you can also replace yourself with yours and it may let you know if it thinks there may be something you may be interested in.
Ow wow. Since you are a bit in the know, do you think wpf might start a new life on Linux as it gets opened? Xaml wasn't bad.
There's an eerily relevant scifi story by Asimov about a scientist and Multivac (Asimov's fictional supercomputer) trying to understand what makes jokes funny [1].

The scientists feeds Multivac hundreds of jokes, and the supercomputer eventually comes up with an answer: it turns out jokes were devised by an alien intelligence to study mankind, a psychological experiment of sorts. Multivac also asserts that once humans become aware of this, jokes as an experiment on mankind will become invalidated. Suddenly everyone stops laughing.

Let's hope ChatGPT continues getting its explanations all wrong!

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[1] "Jokester": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokester
I guess Elon sees this and that‘s why he is betting high on verification badges at Twitter
> I wonder where this trend - fortunately a limited one - with putting confirm buttons at the top comes from

Original small screen iPhone, where it's easier to reach the top than the bottom, and it's less likely to be an accidental touch.

But now it's cargo-culted everywhere.
Come to Italy, there's people from the hills sellings eggs from their cars.
Btw, China has a space station all alone, only country in the world. How so?
The interesting thing about this is that it's a RISC-V machine, at least for me. A few years ago RISC-V dev boards were much more expensive than their ARM counterparts, nowadays they still are but are getting closer in price parity.
The part about Drupal I really liked was the ability to handle structured content, not just a bunch of posts of free text written in some WYSIWYG editor. It required a bunch of modules, but later was part of the core CMS. This was really powerful to create specific workflows and ensure consistency.

But for a small site Drupal got far too complex with later versions, and upgrading was pretty much impossible. Especially if you used any modules, it got very messy very quickly. Not sure how much better the other CMS are at this.
The accusations were partly based on him cosying up with terrorists, from Hamas, Iran, etc. Is it too much to ask that a candidate for Prime Minister should respect the Rule of Law?

There's also his support for Chavez/Maduro, his suicidally naive pacifism which helps the enemy, etc.

Oh, and the episode with the mural, where he was too stupid to understand why a picture of fat people with hooked noses oppressing "the workers" would be offensive to a certain group. And what kind of adult sees the world in that way anyway?

[edit] Whatever. Downvote me. You people will never win in the real world.
Authors need to rethink the name if possible. I automatically read it as Crap language, maybe I have borderline dyslexia.
This is going to take a long time. Longer than one would think if one is using the progression of the language model as a basis for this prediction.

There are a lot of pitfalls and erroneous assumptions built into both Google's current search and the information used to train AI/ML models. Two big ones are "assuming that a person searching for something and accepting the answer means it's a successful search" and "assuming a person searching/asking for something actually wants what they're asking for".

I'm a librarian with several years of reference experience under my belt and neither of those things are true. They're both good tools for a well considered and well informed information search, but that 'well considered and well informed' is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
... but still rely on metrics. Yes, metrics are something easy to compare how things changed, but the system as a whole is more complex than that. There are things that are binary (you get there, you lose), there are things that are multifaceted and is not easy to put an linear number to it. And the Goodhart's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) should be taken into account, specially when you lower the number of metrics. They may be a guide, but be careful if you put them as target.
See examples in the second section and the results in the paper: https://kcsrk.info/papers/pldi18-memory.pdf
I've been looking for this software for ten years. My eyes thank you!
Tautologies in Discrete Mathematics
If you imagine arbitrarily good technology VR still feels like a niche while it's easy to imagine lots of uses for a lightweight stylish internet-connected HUD that supplies realtime information--even if we're talking years in the future. I tend to believe this is one of the next consumer (and industrial) device categories but a long way to go as a wearable. (We'll presumably see it on a phone first.)
“Don’t focus on the real, proven and documented conspiracy. Focus on the fake ones.” Epstein killed himself which is well documented. No, pizza gate is not real and a anon is a larper.

This Twitter leaks are on the same level as PRISM, except it’s FBI instead of NSA. It’s significant because USG is fairly decentralized and just because one agency has gone rogue does not mean all have. We now have evidence that both FBI and NSA are rogue agencies.
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Nice! I left Drupal at the 7-8 transition stage, it was kind of hard to upgrade. And I actually said something like "Maybe I will come back to Drupal when they release 10". Now it's 10 and it's time for me to think about coming back.
> honest crypto exchanges

I am reminded of Diogenes walking the streets of Corinth during the day with a lantern, looking for an honest man.

The only one I would expect to be somewhat honest is coinbase, on account of the mandatory SEC filings and actual audits (vs attestations) but Enron, MCI, Tyco, and many other companies had the same oversight, so I’m still skeptical about coinbase being honest.
Can you post the original to compare against? I read through this while thinking 'grammar seems fine, doubly so for a non-native english speaker' until the last sentence.
Trying to be responsible on my farm in Iowa. Thinking of solar (ground-mounted, plenty of space here).

First we upgraded our HVAC, the old one was inefficient.

Well now our power bill is < $100/month because the new blowers are so frugal.

Ironically we now can't make solar pay, because it would take decades longer in payback than any solar system is expected to last!
We version-control all of it. Your assumptions don't matter for reality.
He did give a course "Design of Computer Programs" https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...
using Python. I'd recommend it too. (Most of the pytudes came later.)

(disclosure: I helped a little bit when he developed the course.)
Show HN: Auto-Generate Python REST API Clients Using OpenAPI Generator
Hi all,

We've refactored the Python client generator in OpenAPI Generator(http://github.com/openapitools/openapi-generator). To give it a try, please follow 3 simple steps below:

1. Download the Java JAR: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/6.3.0-SNAPSHOT/openapi-generator-cli-6.3.0-20221217.085631-50.jar

2. Rename the JAR as "openapi-generator-cli.jar"

3. Execute the following command to run the generator for the PetStore API: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/3_0/petstore.yaml

Mac/Linux:

$ java -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -g python-nextgen -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/3_0/petstore.yaml -o /var/tmp/python-nextgen/

Windows:

$ java -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -g python-nextgen -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/3_0/petstore.yaml -o C:\tmp\python-nextgen

(If JVM is not installed in your machine, please use openapi-genreator-cli docker image instead: https://hub.docker.com/r/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli)

If you've any feedback or question, please reply to https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/pull/14157 to let me know.
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Your car is also using metrics to keep you safe, maybe even alive at many moments. Active stability control and ABS are massively data-driven and essential parts of modern driving safety and are always on.

I think there’s also an issue of layers of decision making and the requisite metrics at that layer. Abstraction is useful in business just as it is in operating a car.
Apropos. Lowest Layer is called "Graffiti Layer". It serves same purposes, but instead defacing the scenery you do it in virtual world. Graffiti lovers can then but their VR glasses on and walk around admiring these artworks.

Legal issues like doxxing are easy. The map contains only pingable URLs and somebody else is legally responsible for the wrongspeak.
I like GNOME too. It's the most usable Linux GUI I've tried to far, with Cinnamon a close second.

I like the fat title bar with controls. It's like the Windows 7/macOS aesthetic without wasting space for a title bar above it.

To me, the people complaining that the save button should be on the bottom instead of the top have the same limited view as the people who complain that macOS has the window controls on the top left instead of the top right. It's an arbitrary difference that they claim goes against human intuition but I have seen no proof of any of that, only assumptions based on what direction they read in.

I don't use the save button, I hit enter after typing a name. I don't hit the open button, I double click. Maybe that makes me weird, but I think the "problem" is grossly overstated.

Seems to me like some people just want to go back to the GNOME2 days and that's fine. I may think it looks janky and outdated, but that's what some people like.

Luckily, they don't need to use modern GNOME, there are projects out there that replicate the older design style. I don't see what constantly harping on the newer UI adds if you're not going to be happy with it anyway. Unlike with Windows, where I sorely miss the glory days of Windows Aero, there are alternatives one click of a button away. Just install something else, anything else. KDE and LXDE allow you to recreate your weird old setup with some tweaking, go use that.

However, I do have some problems with the way the GNOME team operates sometimes. There have been attempts to address the file picker problem that went absolutely nowhere. The decision to completely abandon all styling options also disappointed me. The unreasonable demand of forcing client side decorations onto everyone because of their preference annoys me greatly. I like the stuff made for GNOME on GNOME but I wouldn't use it on any other desktop environment or operating system because the "let's do everything ourselves" approach makes applications look incredibly out of place.

Of course, the constant ranting about any change that doesn't turn GNOME back into GNOME2 only drives forward the segregation between devs and their users. After all, if nothing GNOME does is ever any good according to the loud minority, why even bother listening to them?

The most used Linux distros out there are Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, all of which ship GNOME out of the box. There's a good reason for that.
Do not enable channel notifications. Only direct messages and perhaps for some specific channels that you care about.
Clever use of "points" to obscure the actual spending. But I am skeptical of micropayments ever working. It's been tried so many times, in so many variations, but never taken off. I don't see any obvious secular shifts that would mean that its time has come. Including Twitter's gyrations.

I'm sensitised to this topic because I once tried another spin on "pay us upfront and we'll sprinkle out your money to publishers". Heck, I even had the idea of using an invite list to create an air of exclusivity. But people before me thought of it. And people after me thought of it, including well-funded giants like Google. Where has this gone to date? Approximately nowhere.
Sounds like Steve Jobs.

Someone who is visionary, accustom to being in charge, and uses their intuition/gut as their compass because they fully understand the buck stops with them.
> If people in rural areas NIMBY away solar power in these areas

This really needs to be talked about more. Solar becoming a religious political topic is tiring at best.

I've been looking for property for about half a year now, with the goal of a small house on a large (10 acres+) property with a "large" solar plant in the back. The number of places where this is basically impossible to do (politically) if you are not a giant corporate is the norm. I doubt there is a "solar friendly" county in the country.

People vehemently fight this stuff even if the only potential way you'd ever see the panels is via drone. It's honestly really depressing, and I've been curtailing my dreams due to it.
This. Read fiction, read good writers, write articles, read what you write, edit before submitting.
Don't code an app.
So, why not O3DE?
Reminds me of the time I bought a new iPhone and the touchscreen didn't work properly when it was below about 20 degrees.

Leave it to Californians to forget that winter exists.
I'm an autodidact and that's something I definitely struggle with. I'm good at getting the "gist" of something by scanning fast, but then I get hung up in the details because I didn't go back and actually work through the formalisms in the paper.

JC strikes me as someone that would do the math however, or at least would code up something that probed it real quick.

Just to ramble about another point I wish I'd made in my post above: I've had some success in my career by depersonalizing these kind of debates. Instead of "my plan" vs "your plan" try to frame it as everyone enumerating the possible plans as a group, brainstorming on benefits vs risks on each of them, etc. So if I set myself up as facilitator on the white board aggregating everything, without pushing my own view much, I find it tends to get less into back and forth arguments. Not a silver bullet but that depersonalization is a big part of how I think about these dilemmas now.
> ..in office but barely in power

To me this sums it up. The political kayfabe is in part constructed to make it appear like the government is in control of state affairs, but Blair's legacy was to remove power from government and spread it thinly through an increasingly overweight bureaucracy that answers to itself and only sings the governments tune when it empowers itself.
This year, I asked ChatGPT to describe the value that my general position brings to a company, and it rattled off a bunch of abstract qualities that fit the bill. I distilled that down to a single sentence and used that to describe my “contribution to the business goals”.

My final answer wasn’t total bullshit, but there’s no way I would have come up with it on my own. I think part of the reason is that we often are “in the weeds” of the organizational hierarchy and lack sufficient perspective about how we fit into the bigger picture.
Make sure to subscribe to a channel that is super busy that you don’t care the slightest bit about. That way it will always be red dot and it will mean nothing to you.