skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring all the flak Stephen Wolfram gets, this is something that Wolfram Alpha does much better. Asking `escape velocity on Enceladus` to ChatGPT, it gave correct formula and still wrong result. All the hard-work of generating computable verified results for the Wolfram Engine database seems invaluable in comparison.

The deeper fact that Stephen Wolfram talks about in comparing ChatGPT vs Symbolic AI is true too. A layer deeper from ChatGPT is just a bunch of floats. So it is a lot harder to debug why the system arrived at the wrong result. For symbolic computations there might be a way to resolve how the expressions were transformed by the compiler and where it went off track, a debugging in true sense.

It is my gut feeling that we might see a next AI winter in a decade where we will finally start combining symbolic and connectionist approaches.
Actiondesk (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Designer (4-6 months contract)
System for converting television into interactive networked video games
Might also be a problem because I am sure this is a calculated risk. We can pay X amount of law suites until our profit is impacted.

Didn't Ford do a similar thing with their explorer? They knew about a roll over issue but decided that it was finacilly cheaper to pay the lawsuits than recall the vehicle.
Good point. And I'm not saying documentation is not needed. But that documentation should document the "theory" that already exists, or should exist in the code. When code is documented we do that in terms of the names of modules and classes and methods that exist in the implementation. But if those don't make much sense then neither does the documentation.

Maybe a good metaphor is to view the code as a simulation of something, and the documentation as the description of what that something is and how it behaves.

For instance say the software implements matrix multiplication. It is easy to document if its "units" correspond to the well-known concepts from the theory of linear algebra. But if the code implemented matrix multiplication but used random names for its modules classes and methods it would be difficult to explain what the code does.

Any explanation must assume that whoever reads it has a basic understanding of the basic concepts the software calculates and manipulates. But as said it is challenging to come up with such a theory and that must be done when the code is written, so the code itself reflects that "theory".
> If it goes to 70c, for example, arbitrageurs will likely step in to pick up cheap USDT and take on the redemption risk.

Only if Tether is visibly doing redemptions. If they freeze redemptions then you'd be dumb to pay 70c for their magic beans. So there's a tight linkage between the onchain price and redemptions.
Certainly.

But companies will offer this only if the downside risk is bearable. Which, (IANAL) is quite certainly much bigger in the US than in Germany.
It's the literal text of the amendment. And the opinion of most historic and legal scholars.
My 2016 adaptive cruise control already does this. There must be more to it than this. ACC will follow the car in front of me to a complete stop if necessary already. And then resume too.
How did you track it?
If your pointers turn out to overlap then maybe you get "impossible" stale reads or something, but you don't get demons flying out of your nose like in C.
By the way if you want to explore network science but don't really know where to start, consider Gephi (currently being refactored, and just updated a few days ago) or Cytoscape (if you're more drawn to bioinformatics).

Both make it easy to load/generate standard datasets, import tabular data, and have a good selection of plugins. It's easy to kick stuff out to either from NetworkX using /gefx or graphml, and you'll be able to experiment with a wide variety of layout algorithms and metrics. If you don't find the toy/benchmark networks intuitive, considering hitting the HN API for your source material; it's a lot easier to grasp the topic by studying relationships that are already familiar.
You weren't the only one to think about the complete loss of the ozone layer.

Remember the Sunblock 5000 commercial from Robocop 2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJzfmWO3CU
Do you have a link to one of them? I am having trouble finding anything that looks like this.
Hey, it's better than burning coal. The thing I would celebrate here is that the technology is cheap enough and available enough to enable people to work around their government's failings.
Some feedbacks:

* Typo "through it’s 24 pins" -> its

* Tables should be consistent in sorting order (some are low specs to high specs, some are the other way around)
Or even household income of 900k a year.
Exactly my experience with Rackspace.
It makes much more sense to me then the non-sense Tesla does. Tt is a use case which would be very valuable for me. In Germany they are now in principle allowed to offer this up to 130km/h on the motorway. They don't offer it yet, but that would already be a killer feature for me.
Sorry, let me rephrase.

In JS, if 1 developer and 9 users with a total of 10 separate browser instances all call the same function, the code will be parsed 10 times.

In Unison, the AST is generated by the developer, cached, and the 9 users can call it by hash (assuming they have access to that database where the AST lives) without reparsing the code.
It is slightly different if the manager is also a developer, in which case they also have blockers to report. We have scrum masters to deal with blockers. They are not management, just one of the developers most of the time although I have had dedicated scrum masters in the past. The crucial thing is to make the standup a safe space for devs to openly discuss problems without their line manager breathing down their necks. The other thing management tend to do in stand ups is to use the time for irrelevant announcements, most of which should have been an email.
I always used IGraph because there are both R and Python versions, and I learned R first. I never had any complaints about it for the baby-scale problems I used it for, so I never bothered to try NetworkX.
Reminds me of the pony motor on old large excavating equipment. Both are also “big iron”
Highly recommend Ben Eater's video, which in this embedded developer's eyes has been the clearest, best explanation of the fundamentals of a CPU as I've ever seen.
Could this be done in other languages too?
What does that mean? 24/7, or which ones still keep up well 10 years after they were released? It depends what you want to do with it. Decide what specs are important, look at some benchmark comparisons, browse ebay.
Not once ever. Once per toolchain version and unique argument set. Perhaps the toolchain starts by attempting to never offer arguments, and perhaps it has lofty goals to release on day 1 with a perfect compilation model. All of my experience suggests these constraints are untenable, so ever is somewhat of an embellishment.

The model also precludes cross-unit optimizations so there's a performance upper bound on compilation model that leaves it in the middle tier of performance without the model being broken (given things we've seen before).
As a native Berliner, I have had quite good extensive experience with local dentists. I would not say that one can call it a scam per se, not at all.
Please ask around in advance which doctor is recommendable, if possible. And I am grateful for our health insurance system, I must say. It does have its flaws, and schlimmer geht's immer.
Maybe a good place to start is an old video game console. Those have a lot of community info because of interest in retro gaming/emulation, plus they're simpler than modern hardware.
Except African Americans had far worse immunity
Well, at least you usually can't store into the code or execute on the stack any more.
> So Xorg has gotten a lot of the benefits of Wayland's development "for free" anyway

Mesa was in X before Wayland was a thing.
Management being present really does change the dynamic of pretty much any meeting. I watch as junior members of the team either clam up or start show boating. There is even a correlation between camera off and management being present. IMO developers have their best discussions when there is nobody there to impress.
>The German law allows autonomous driving up to 130 km/h although Mercedes currently only allows their system to work up to 60 km/h.

That's weird; usually laws are behind the tech, not ahead of it.
GIFs are huge. Leave it as a video.
If you're touching the live end, it doesn't matter much.

Electricity doesn't take the path of least resistance. It takes all paths. Think of it as a resistor network:

(+)---[R1]----[R2]-----(-)
\--[R3]--/

R2 and R3 are parallel. R2 is you, R3 is the "path of least resistance".

If R1 is sufficiently high, e.g. the light was off but the switch interrupted the neutral side, and you touched the neutral side (i.e. the lamp was between mains and you), then the "path of least resistance" matters: R1 and the parallel set of R2/R3 form a voltage divider, and the smaller the combined resistance of the right part is, the lower the voltage across you.

That voltage is all that matters. If R1 is small enough to be insignificant, e.g. because you're touching mains and R3 isn't a short to ground, the voltage across you will be mains voltage.
Any scenarios which include the US going to war against China is unrealistic so not worth contemplating beyond intellectual curiosity, anyway.
Debugging AWS Lambda Runtime Errors
Debugging Serverless AWS Lambda runtime errors.
> sure this is a calculated risk

Sure hope it was! Point is they're putting their money where their mouth is. That's new.
Would love to see that load balancer implementation, as I'm a scrub and this project fascinates me.
https://www.microcenter.com/product/657530/micro-center-16gb...
I read the article and find myself thinking Michael Crichton made these same (supposedly now new) assertions, based on scientific evidence from research into the topic as a medical doctor himself, 30 years ago, and then based a very famous book and later movie on it.
There's various bits and pieces around the margins of grid/table/sorting that make it so it doesn't surprise me that it's not natively provided.

But the lack of a combobox in HTML, I don't get at all. datalist kind of sort of does it but not quite, plus it's inconsistently implemented as to what it actually shows.
> companies will offer this only if the downside risk is bearable

Is the liability in Germany uncapped?
To start, I just used google maps to find walks around my neighbourhood long enough. I then started going by my watch and caring less about distance. I started hiking again after a few months, after a long hiatus. Small walks to start, an hour or so on a Saturday. I bought a cheap gps watch on run-out clearance mid year, to help me track miles as a friend and I set a large goal. Pen and paper could have given the same metrics though.
Tickets can also be some documentation about why some code is why it is. Put the ticket number in your commit message and use git blame when you want to understand something better. By fixing code without tickets you make this impossible for future developers.
But sometimes you can almost by accident achieve results impossible with phone camera. Recently I've started using camera with 50mm lens with f/1.2 aperture and my first "real" photo (dog of my parents) was already such a huge success for me, that I've got it framed and gave it to parents for christmas. Without that camera it would be just another photo of many, but small depth of field added nice dreamy effect, plus dog was too close so framing was not ideal. All of this "defects" added to a great photo.
> a distracting and pointless animation

I have been curious if these animations are superfluous, or is it a way of hiding how slow it takes to get the result?
Not the parent.

It's likely a safety issue in the case of grid-connected solar installations. These panels are designed to send excess electricity to the grid, and if the grid is down, the utility needs to make sure that busted cables are not carrying electricity... for the safety of the repairmen.

https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/do-blackouts-...
> built as a compatible alternative to the Dark Sky API

OP is talking about the copyrightability of API's (which they are clearly exposed to as they built a drop-in replacement). The relevant case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
I would love to hear about people at Zapier talking about this process -- it sounds delightful. Many companies have a really rough internal transfer process and being able to try out or go into a new role sounds like a really good fit.

I've also seen other things that a company puts out that makes it sound delightful (Patreon layoffs, Netflix culture) but talking to people internally gets a very different opinion.
Mainland-Taiwan issue is a civil war and thus can hardly be called 'imperialism'. On the other hand, the US presence in the region is.
Tesla (TSLA) continues discounts in several markets as inventory piles up
This title really undersells the absolute insanity of the described solution. This is a beautiful example of "if it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid." The justification is very convincing.

One thing I'm curious about: how did you build your corpus of meme images and videos?
In Sweden the same applies, at least if you have panels that can feed back excess into the grid for payment.

In case the main grid goes off, your equipment is supposed to stop working so that it doesn't feed power backwards into the grid while some person is trying to fix whatever broke, so unless you have a battery/UPS and a large switch to flip, your solar panels "die" along with the grid.

The alternative would be to have totally separated panels, but many opt in to selling excess back, since it gets more and more profitable as prices go up.
You should try out Chisel. I learned and used VHDL first, but after switching to Chisel I realized it was much better designed and avoided many of the footguns you'll likely encounter with Verilog or VHDL. And in general, it is a joy to work with.
Oracle argued that interface calls were copyrightable. They lost anyway.
The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)
But the twenties of today are also wary of many thing that we, the fourtier tech (bearded white males? true in my case) cared about.

"We" built a free, open, internet. Which brought the twentiers mostly surveillance capitalism by a few monopolists. "We" built a system in which companies that seed division can generate trillions of revenue from that. Twentiers (tweens?) rightfully are sceptical about the things I am sceptical about today, but which I rooted for (and spent my energy on) in my twenties.
Great news. Kudos to Igalia!
> At the same time I don’t think there’s anything preventing you from ignoring 90% of a console and just launching disc-based games.

It takes longer to run the game ever since the 360/PS3/Wii gen, and the 360 is notoriously annoying about user sign-in, and there's that center button you accidentally press mid-game to bring up the hub. Wii has probably the worst dashboard cause you need to set up the IR transmitter and Wiimote to get past it even for games that only use GC controllers.

I get the media center thing as a selling point for other people. I just have never used a game console for things besides games.
Can we please not link to trash like Fox News on HN?
That would be a much less useful gun than a lot of the modern 3d-printed designs. You'd want some kind of a handle and some way of injecting the pin into the bullet and some kind of a breach (informally speaking). Now we are talking some manufacturing, be it milling or drilling or sawing or whatever. If the result supposed to be as small and convenient as some 3D printed designs are, some metalworking or very precise woodworking is required.

The article is about Canada. And apparently there is a niche for some people who'd rather produce and sell 3D printed guns than "tubes and pins". And I pointed out some of the reasons. A 3D printer reliably produces parts that are quite precise with a lot less effort. That is worth a lot of tradeoffs, even if traditional craftspeople scoff at the properties of the plastic.

On HN there will always be people nitpicking on every detail left out...
Simplistic and probably bad advice unless you want to prioritize strength over everything else and can't gain weight otherwise.
Cloud Native Certificate Management
Last week I've tried to understand how Chip8 worked, and it did help me understand this article a bit more.
I've written so many tests in my life I think I know what I am talking about. It's not naive, it's what professionals do.

Learn to separate tests that use outside resources and behave undeterminastically from the ones that are never flaky, make sure to cache the latter. If you don't do that you're still in the dark ages of testing when tests are a pain to touch and fail all the time for no reason.
A price correction that is long overdue.
(2006)

Kinda good article, but why write 'heavyosity' when 'gravity' was already available?
You'll only cause an accident if the faster traffic is driving too fast for the conditions and/or not maintaining sufficient distance from other vehicles, especially your vehicle.

You could ram the other vehicle. In that case no amount of safe/defensive driving would stop that.

But a safe/defensive driver will go as slow as you do if you merge in front of them.
don't think that qualifies as a brake check.
Possibly, but then you are now doing the same thing! Also my hacker news account is anonymous, on twitter accounts tend to be people posting as themselves. (I haven't posted on twitter before, mainly because of that).
pandoc has a built-in converter. Put your maths in Markdown between dollar signs and use the --mathml option to pandoc.
Yeah, SQL has its problems too, a lot of them seemingly from legacy support. I could write a nice one-page guide to using SQL the easy way and getting past the gotchas I've waded through, but it'd drown in the noise. The worst/funniest one is how you should only use `timestamptz` and not `timestamp`.

It's also complicated out of necessity. A relational DBMS is doing a lot of things people maybe take for granted or don't realize they need.

I think NoSQL was the natural next step after ORMs, which are also used in a lot of places they shouldn't.
Change the destination output device in Web Audio
Microsoft in talks to invest $10B in ChatGPT-owner OpenAI
My understanding is that in this case Mercedes if fully liable if something goes wrong - so you are allowed to watch a movie or read a book. If the car proceeds to crash into the car in front of you, Mercedes is on the hook, not you.

I doubt your liability is waved when reading a book while using the adaptive cruise control in your car.
I think you can by simply disconnecting from the grid. This is a obvious prohibition, same reason why male-to-male electrical cables are prohibited and not sold: doing so will electrocute anyone trying to fix the grid.
My go-to editor was Paint.Net on Windows too, it's really good. When I switched to macOS, I found Krita which is pretty nice. I have really basic needs and Krita is free, so your mileage may vary. It's presented as a painting app on the official website (and the specialized UI looks really good), but you shouldn't be lost on the default GUI configuration. It's available on Windows and Linux too (and I just saw there's a Steam version, but it's not free).
> * Better auto configuration - less need to write a config file for the most common configurations

Better until you compile a new kernel and realize that you don't have keyboard and mouse in X because it insists using an obscure (event ?) interface. And then press the power button to restart.
Any source that strength training "improves" posture? I don't believe there's even an accepted definition of what "good posture" is supposed to be.

I hear this touted often and have never read of clinical data that would support the idea that "muscle imbalances" are a thing and cause of perceived undesirable body position.
The Future Dominance of Solar and Wind Energy
I made an account to also reply to this. My first hacker news comment, here we go.

These are all good points, and I want to add another good niche.

The government research labs need people. The pay is not as good as the private sector, but the desire to work on meaningful projects is aplenty. Batelle is the big one, with smaller labs. It's a complicated bureaucracy, but as a researcher, support staff for projects, or scientist, you don't have to go that route. All the mentioned paths can be hard to start in except the military straight up, but you mentioned other problems with that option.

Government labs have projects with clearances and without, and by working for one you can start to build a path to getting a clearance. If you have experience as a SWE you should be able to find a job at one of the many labs all over the country.

To clarify, They are mostly DOE.
https://nationallabs.org/our-labs/

https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/national-laboratories

I've heard kf SWEs, engineers, and data scientists who started there. Also companies that are government contractors can be a path to breaking into the field like Oracle, IBM, AT&T, and traditional defense MIC companies like Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, etc.
My #1 recommendation for anyone thinking about the convoluted OCR solution: use a cheap OCR API and save yourself months of time / hassle / upkeep. Google's OCR API is a good place to start, but AWS has one too and dozens of others out there.
Uranium is everywhere, but I'd probably be uncomfortable too if my neighbour had plutonium at home.

I think there is a middle ground. The bar for prohibiting things should just not be too low and I feel that it has been pushed lower and lower to crazy mom levels over the last couple of decades. It is time for the pendulum to swing into the other direction in my opinion.

People seem to realize now that banning things has negative side effects and can enable criminals.
Show HN: Golang config library with hot-reload functionality
I recommend this to all new managers; I call it my blue bible
I don't want (

The market wants me to have )

Typical pre-seed in our space is 1,5-2,5mio. Pre-Seed!

I remember good old times when 100-150k was a decent pre-seed round. This inflation is crazy.
nginx makes it really simple to setup a load balancer, it defaults to distributing requests equally between all upstream hosts but you can always assign weights to each of your server. https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-...
Wow. Didn't ever think that there is something like this. I've heard about UML, but I've always thought that it is something related only to programming.
Or it might be something related to this: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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