skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m so excited about these. I think the coolest thing would be exploring areas that are hard to hike to.

But I really want a good safety story. Maybe it needs airbags all around to turn you into a giant beach ball if something goes wrong?

Or at least a lot of redundancy.
Time is a flat circle, they've reinvented the automat.
It would be a real boon for non-programmers if you could build a text adventure game just using text dialogue with a system like that, interactively describing all the locations, objects and interactions.

After that you could of course add AI-generated images, videos, music and voice (TTS).
Come on, I 100% realize that jetpacks will probably always be impractical/unsafe. Although, I think there’s a lot of allure in the same way that there is for motorcycles. I imagine you would get this sense of free flying, like a bird — it just seems fun. And if we somehow magically engineered past the energy and safety problems, you’d have mobility like a helicopter, but without needing the helicopter pad in cities. Like how scooters and motorcycles can be more convenient in cities because they’re easier to park. Dream a little, it’s fun.
>A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures in an instant with unflagging confidence in its own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or even awareness of the level of expertise of its audience.

tbh sounds like a lot of people, myself included
i coached my sister through her first steps as a software developer. ignoring the error messages was a real issue at first!
Maybe more novel punishments, like if you do X, then all senior staff, CEO, board members, VPs, etc are restricted for a period of x years from using private jets, charters, or business class in commercial airlines. If they fly it MUST be in economy class; this applies to both work and personal travel.

Let's start taking away the perks. Golf course memberships are next - they can only use lower tier public courses. Next are restaurants and lodgings, 3 stars or lower.
What in particular makes it so compelling?
Rights of millions impacted when Apple does business with authoritarian regimes
iPhone followed the name iPod. I actually think iPad is great.
> When visiting countries with a lower GDP in other parts of the planet, I was shocked by the madness of this cheap workforce : they cost nothing, so a lot of workers were working in pretty unproductive jobs.

Funnily enough I had the same thought when I arrived at JFK; compared to EU airports there seemed to be so many people just pointing you in a direction or yelling at you to get in a queue. It struck me that better UX and signage would make those people redundant (literally)
ChatGPT/GPT-3 magic for me is its (near) "universality". At some point, The openAI simple API model may turn into a highly developped web of segmented/specific (= better valued) services (like Watson now ?). This mean we lose that "freeform" experience (= difficult to value cause more like a generic commodity)

Apart from this segmentation, there is the spectre of increased throttling to also dampen that magic. Not only legal but economic, reputational [1], cultural [2] and, what else ? Even OSS models like SD are already wavering.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/google-execs-warn-of-reputat...
[2] https://petapixel.com/2022/12/19/artists-stage-mass-online-p...
rqlite[1] author here, happy to answer any questions.

rqlite offers horizontal and vertical real scalability, but only vertical for writes. See https://rqlite.io/docs/guides/performance/

[1] https://rqlite.io/
Living in a couple hundred year old house in the country, I find the idea that you'd actually keep mice out of a house like this somewhat hilarious.
To get the same benefit of posting article without writing new one.

And it worked, it reached front page again. I wonder how often then recycle articles and post them with fake dates.
> What you say is reasonable and I utterly agree, however just know that this conversation has been weaponized by the right.

That’s a roundabout way of saying “my political opponents are right about this but I’m going to refuse to acknowledge that because I disagree with them about other stuff.”

Also, the opposition to “wokeness” is not “far right.” City Journal is an urban conservative magazine, a group that skews moderate. Many of the writers, like Nomani, were Democrats back when that mainly meant you favored higher taxes and more social services. Opposition to “wokeness” helped Glenn Youngkin win Virginia, a state that voted for Biden by 10 points, and helped DeSantis win a 20 point majority in a state Obama won twice. In states like Florida and Virginia, which turned blue thanks to immigrants under Bill Clinton’s brand of economic liberalism and social conservatism, opposition to “wokeness” simply reflects the democratic party’s shift towards a more socially liberal platform.

As applied to education, “woke” ideas are far left, attacking ideas like color blindness and race neutrality that are widely held by the center, and most minorities themselves.
For some reason, every startup that gets a modicum of traction immediately attracts copycats. Most of these don't get very far.
There are definitely a few things I don't like in Django. Extreme OO with generic class based views, I hate mixins of any sort as well. But the organization, functionality and robust 3rd party app ecosystem are where Django shines.

Also it's easy to use Django in a function centric way (see Adam Hill's django-fbv).

I have objectively measured myself in how fast I can build a crud app. Even though I am a Java expert and maybe only a mid-level Python person - I can build sites faster with Django than Spring Boot.

Now having said that there is a certain size project that I feel is Django's sweet spot - 5 devs or less (maybe 10 if you are strong on type hinting and other tooling). Anything bigger and it's Java all the way.
This is the same Washington Post that published an article[0] claiming "Shark Week" is racist, right? Sounds like a political agenda.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/05/shark-week-...
> But I wish there were a language that solved the two-languages problem (fast vs. easy to work with).

That is the motivation and purpose of Julia.

For some people's workflows it already seems to have solved the problem, but in general the "easy to work with" part is still in progress IMO. Some of it is the (in)famously annoying compilation delays, but a large part of it is just a tooling and ecosystem thing (both of those sides of the issue are being actively worked on).

The difference from C/C++/other low level languages is that it's not the language itself that's difficult to work with, it's the current tools and workflows that are suboptimal. The language is pretty well-designed and fun to work with, so there's hope that it can actually solve the two-language problem for a wider variety of devs and their needs.
Google 3.0 would be a minimum. In industry 4.0 times, it should at least be google 4.2, but why bother with minor versions: Google Googol!
(with or without the faculty sign. As long as users say the want the new Samsung iPhone [sic], no one cares if that is barely even a meaningful number)
> It's really weird seeing letter ё in English language title.

It’s not, for the varied reasons I gave. I know that this is yet another variant. I agree there is a problem with it in that its meaning is not well-known (so you may want to use more well-known alternatives), but not that the diacritic itself is “weird” or foreign to English language users.
Cryptonite? I am... not sure it means what you think it means.
It does not guarantee, but it is actually quite hard to cause a memory leak by accident, because at the same time Rust makes creating cycles hard.
FYI, MR has been reviewed and merged. Thanks again for your feedback, much appreciated. (GitLab team member here)
Me: ChatGPT please write 500 words for todays essay on the importance of writing 500 words each day.

ChatGPT: Ok, here is an essay…
The province of Alberta in Canada is famous for trying to be rat free, and I think they mostly succeeded
I live in Europe and have been to my fair share of hotels (though mainly in northern europe), and have never had to bring my own linnens.
Never heard of it either.

Its different for hostels tho
Sounds like an airbnb
Adult popunder campaign used in mainstream ad fraud scheme
I use UE5 and I started playing with Godot[0] years ago, and I think this article on game engine selection has some merit on the importance over which game engine leads in a multi-billion dollar industry that is so pervasive in our culture and economics[1].

I was using Raylib for my fun little toy projects and a gateway library into game dev, but it is not as much of an integrated system as Godot, UE5, or Unity.

Gamers are made use to very high-end graphics and the look and feel that would lend UE5 and Unity an advantage, although Godot's capabilities have improved exponentially since I first played with it. It is also a very nice community.

On my last project, a very large walkthrough with animations of a very big model was very playable on everyone's laptop where I worked, but this was more of a visualization application. It was done in UE4 and utilized a company's proprietary kit to make it happen, not vanilla UE4.

[0] https://godotengine.org

[1] https://members.newdesigncongress.org/the-coming-game-engine...
What Is Flipper Zero? The Hacker Tool Going Viral on TikTok
I don't disagree, but there is one use-case they cover well: quick shortcuts for the most used tools you need, particularly now that every desktop app is getting replaced by a web one. I keep updating and maintaining the bookmark toolbar in my browser, because i use it several times a day. Some people do that with some sort of homepage, but I find the toolbar quicker for me.
Looking at europe i think it's an actual shortage of workers which leads them to pick (or hold on for) better jobs, and this is the new normal now, and you can't fix it with immigration either
In older texts the notation appears on other words like coöperation. Some Americans use dieresis in their names as well (Zoë and Chloë are increasingly common for example). Furthermore the dieresis (trema in French) in naïf is doing the same job as a dieresis in English, so it can be easy to make the claim that we got all dieresis from French, but in reality it seems to have been borrowed from Ancient Greek as late as the 1600s, and gone directly from Ancient Greek texts to the languages that use the notation today (Galician, English, French, Occitan, Dutch)
It also learns on its own quite fast. Last week it thought "Malta hetki", means "Moment of time in Malta". Now it knows better.
Yeah, "OO is going out of fashion" is a common phrase in gamedev, but what's actually meant is "deep class hierarchies defining the behaviour of game objects is going out of fashion". Most ECS code is still written in OO languages and makes heavy use of OO features.
BoA is an equal opportunity violator. If you click on the name, you'll see that half of its $80B of penalties are from financial offenses and the other half from consumer protection related offenses.

I believe Wells Fargo is about to rise in the rankings as well. I didn't see their $3B+ penalty announced last week on their list yet.
Return an error or fatally exit the program, depending.
We also need retrofitted houses that can be easily cleaned/serviced.
I’ve been quite tempted to delete my account and start again so getting to 10,000 doesn’t become a goal. It’s fake internet points but I feel the temptation nevertheless.
The F-35B Can Eject Its Pilot Automatically
Arrogant ignorance is a giveaway of a modern developer.

There is shared content there. If you lack it doesn't mean everyone else is. My music preferences are saved as bookmarks in my browser (among other places). I want to listen to the same music both at home and at work.
Defect and Cooperate are terms of art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma#Generalized...

In a "one hand washes the other" model of cooperation, the right hand would be defecting if it was frequently washed by the left, while never (or infrequently) washing in return.
Checking in at Vegas casinos can be a nightmare if there's a big event going on--and that's pretty much the only reason I'd be there. But if there's not a line--and there usually isn't otherwise--I'll just check-in. More likely to get some sort of upgrade that way at the chain where I usually stay. And often I'll have a question or two.
It absolutely is used in English, although not commonly, and it was more common in older texts. Nowadays it’s mostly used in proper nouns like Zoë, Chloë, and in some spellings of my own name, Coën.
It is also fact that the more money you have, the more options to increase your wealth are actually offered to you. Means there is no "equal footing" to begin with. And when it comes to covering your basic human needs there is an upper limit to that, even if you go the luxury route.
A less restrictive world is not necessarily a better world. We live on and are proceeding to ruin a finite living area called Earth. Only with some kind of massive social re-engineering will any semblance of modern society still exist 200 years from now. That probably has to involve restrictions on how people eat, work, and mate.

The modern Western idea appears to be to treat life like an infinitely reconfigurable video game tuned to every individual. That will soon become a luxury for only the richest people. The rest of us need to get by as best we can, and that may mean young women and men will have to take what they can get and make themselves happy with it.

My wife dreams of winning the lottery and transforming our lives. Meanwhile we are genuinely content in our relatively hardscrabble existence… only because there is no alternative to it.

BTW I kidnapped my first wife (well she ran away from home to live with me, so her parents thought of it as kidnapping). She was 18, I was 17. But I had my own apartment, so… My second wife kinda sorta kidnapped me. Or at least she stalked me for a year before revealing herself and unleashing her plan to marry me. My son’s wife of eight years came for a visit from Canada and never returned home (for immigration reasons they were forced to get married sooner than they wanted to, so I guess America kidnapped her?).
I think you just summarized most of this list and this movement (not all! but most).
Publish collection of all zines as a single book?
Turbochargers are pretty light weight by comparison. The energy they store is minimal - they're just there to shunt more air into the engine, not provide 20kW on demand.
BlinkRead – A TLDR Chrome extension powered by OpenAI GPT-3
Don't know, now I have to go look that up
Domesticated animals are often more cooperative than their wildtype kin.

I suspect humans, over tens of thousands of years, have successfully domesticated not only b taurus and c familiaris, but also h sapiens.
Apple’s way of naming things generic names makes it almost impossible to search for information related to them on the internet. Almost think it’s intentional so that people have to use them as the resource for all information related to Apple.
My first job was for $8.90/hr and I was beaming when I got first paycheck. $16/h was more than a single person at the whole restaurant was making.
I tried Inform years ago, and finding Rosetta Code solutions in Inform 6 and 7 intrigued me. The '99 Bottles of Beer' solution was the first I looked at then[1]. This was even after I had played with NLP in the 90s. It seemed right and strange at the same time.

This has been blown away by ChatGPT now!

[1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_bottles_of_beer#Inform_7
I'd absolutely love that opportunity. I'll be out there with my wife and son next year. Would love to drop by and meet a hello HN-er.

I'm pete hat watson-wail period es.
Or mines, as they've proposed in my area.
There is a sample content, and for high-quality stuff it is perfectly fine to share paid content.

It is not like everyone is obligated to follow freeware/freemium/patronage business model.
> Is there anyone on HN who is from DataScience field like me and has learned Rust?

Yeah me. I’m data science/data engineering.

Wrote and debugged a lot of R and Python, fair bit of Spark too.

Learning Rust was fine. Not trivial, but definitely worthwhile. I work on more “data systems” than once-off scripts and analysis in my work, so the performance and correctness of Rust has proven more valuable to me than the flexibility and development speed promises of Python. The former lends itself to difficult to maintain, hacky, patchwork code, and the latter falls apart after the nth time you have to fix some Python code in prod that’s failed 3.5 hours into a process, because some random package has thrown some as-yet-unseen error.

There’s some interesting stuff happening in the data space in Rust-polars data-frame library gives you pandas like functionality, but with better performance and type checking, the data-fusion stuff is making strides as well. There isn’t a 1:1 replacement for all your ML libs, but it’s getting there!
Linfa and SmartCore are making strides on the sklearn-like space.

Would you use Rust to replace your ml stuff in Python at work tomorrow? No, probably not just at the moment. Is it worth learning because it’ll make you a better dev, and give you more options and tools the next time you have a non-standard problem to solve? Yes, definitely.
s/quantum/quadratic/ (you got me confused for a second)
Right, this is a problem with reference counted data structures in general. You're correct that Rust doesn't try to solve this particular problem.

Put differently, the borrow checker won't allow you to create a cycle of refrences (the & kind). But you can do it with library types such as Rc.
No, because new resources don't materialize like manna from heaven. Someone, somewhere needs to reorganize resources in a more efficient way or discover new ones. If you benefit "equally" from that change in dynamics to the person who actually catalyzed the change, then there would be less incentive to catalyze it in the first place.

It may happen from time to time because people are curious and benevolent. But, in general, if catalyzing that change has a cost, then the society depends on some people sacrificing their own good for everyone else's. In other words, the benefactor will have paid to catalyze it, but they'll only get an "equal" share of the gains to the people who sacrificed nothing.

I think you probably don't mean "equally" though. You probably mean "fairly". And it's probably true that "sacrificing" 20% of a billion dollars is a lot different than 20% of ten thousand dollars. But rates of return do tend to decrease at scale, maybe not enough?

Personally, I think taking from the catalyzers isn't optimal. It's also petty to worry that they benefitted "too much" from their actions. If we must tax, tax land and consumption. I haven't thought it through, but maybe a 100% estate tax, minus some reasonably capped life insurance for spouses and dependents, would reduce some of the feelings of unfairness that people experience.
I only know this word from context. And it is actually written with "k". So what does it mean? (Context/my reasoning: If you have to prove that you are a smart programmer you can't stay away from learning Rust. Hence it is kryptonite.)
> And even then, the HIP C++ compiler library is bundled as part of Orochi instead of being part of the app. This means that your app using Orochi will not run on a future GPU gen unless it's updated against a newer Orochi runtime.

Ugh. Leave it to AMD to make something that technically works but is an absolute nightmare.

IIRC this machine code nonsense is also the reason that GPU support is such an issue for AMD: to 'support' a chip, they need to bake binaries for that chip in all libraries. So to enable RDNA1, they'd need to ship RDNA1 code in all their libraries, which would make the install size balloon to crazy levels. At least Intel got it right.

I do believe that running oneAPI on AMD is possible, but it still needs HIP/ROCm? Wonder if it would be possible to bake a L0 backend for AMD that just uses SPIR-V like the Intel stuff does, side-stepping this issue entirely.

Frankly I wish AMD and Intel just started working together more on this stuff. Both of them stand to gain from a cross-vendor standard that works well.
As a cyclist, I used to talk to some drivers who did particularly dangerous maneuvers near me. Often I talked to them at stop lights, though not always. The goal was to get them to think about how what they did was dangerous and didn't have any benefits. If I'm stopped at the same stop light as them, did they really need to pass me so close? I stopped doing this after one driver tried to stab me. (That guy was arrested.) While some drivers were appreciative, I encountered far too much road rage when doing this and decided it wasn't worthwhile.
Rust fails to create branch-free code
I actually haven't tried this... do you know off the top of your head what it takes to make a cycle with Rc?

It should not be possible with normal borrows (and safe Rust) since they're statically checked to be acyclic.
There was always a WASP cultural undercurrent that discouraged openly acknowledging the competition. But I think even those folks agreed that test scores were the proper way to identify the smart kids. The school certainly didn’t shy away from promoting the number of merit scholars and semi finalists it had. Downplaying that is a significant change of course.
Was surprised to see that the HBO logo was not computer animated. It was literally a block of polished metal.
Did we just fucking ban PTFE? Are government policies getting more and more insane every year?
Self check-out works amazingly well in the country I'm from (the Netherlands), most shops have even done away with most traditional check out lanes, leaving only a couple for people that don't want to use self checkout. You do have to scan the bar code of every item the same way a cashier would but because many more self checkout counters fit where there used to be only one traditional checkout lane, you never have to wait for a free counter so it still saves a tremendous amount of time.

Shoplifting is countered by random inspections so every so often before you pay, your checkout locks up and e clerk comes over to scan 5 items to ensure you've scanned everything. I'm pretty sure they also link that data to your customer loyalty card so I hardly get checked anymore..
Photopea is a surprisingly comprehensive free photoshop clone that runs in the browser. I've used Photoshop for more than two decades, but these days I only use it a couple of times a month, so learning these new tools and their completely different workflows have not been worth the time yet. I have yet to find anything that I couldn't do in Photopea. You can pay for a few extra features, or to support the developers, but the free version is complete.
Money follows money.

If I have 10€ and I make 1% profit, I've made a whopping 1€. Now I can buy a few potatoes.

Someone with 1M€ makes the same amount of profit, now they have 10 000€. That's a good few months of living expenses for the regular person.

And this is not even taking into account the access to different people and resources you get just with having enough money to get into the right circles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_delay_line, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Us_delay_line.jpg
I have done all of those since the day I was born - I was of course born a long time in the past and the past was pretty evenly distributed
For work travel, you may not have a choice. (I can and do book directly when I sort of have to but I shouldn't and don't make a habit of it as it's against policy.) And you run into small foreign hotels that aren't really set up to take direct reservations especially from those who don't speak/read the language.