skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As one who wrote (over 10 years ago, still improving it) and sells a weather app targeted at storm chasers, weather enthusiasts and spotters... I find the NWS data to be fragmented, often based on ancient computing standards (look at how NEXRAD data is formatted - it's binary for a 16-bit computer), and very hard to find documentation on.

Companies can add value by providing documented, consistent API's for data that, yes, is free from the government. NWS does not face the market incentives of a company, and it shows.

And yes, a bunch of companies take that data and hype it, but that's not particularly new - it precedes apps. I've long seen claims of forecast accuracy from private companies that are, well, absurd, given the limits chaos (and other issues) place on forecasting very far into the future.

The Big Data Project is a substantial improvement in terms of access, but the data itself is still in the legacy formats. Also, some data is not well suited for mobile access - it's in giant binary blobs (NEXRAD Level II) or requires multiple HTTP operations to acquire.

But... at least it's available and free (except for lighting).

I'm not talking about model data - I let others worry about that, and for personal use, I use sites like the excellent one from College of DuPage ( https://weather.cod.edu/forecast/ ). I've watched friends in the research and operational community describe their frustration at the decision process that went into GFS modernization, and how it was frustrating to see ECMWF beat it out in forecast skill (I'm not up to date on where that stands now).
The most valuable software tends to be written by people who commit to their work.

The frequency of job hopping is inversely proportional to the time spent working on a career.

Gaming the system for a large salary early on without much experience only hurts the employee with burnout and getting replaced with better developed talent more deserving of the role.
Mercury, a Planet-like static site RSS feed aggregator
I feel like the statements conflict or just seem to conflict.

> And yet… we pulled this from our platform pretty quickly. Why? Once people learned the messages were co-created by a machine, it didn’t work. Simulated empathy feels weird, empty.

That statement seems to imply people didn’t know, and later found out after the fact.

I’m not sure what happened exactly.
Dunno, to me it says something a bit anthropic about the ability to extract entropy from stars.
Agree. People bought tether to have a stable store of value so it will only push funds into USDC or similar.
The discussions online about this make me wonder what the discussion around asbestos bans or other similar wide spread materials and appliances was like.
I miss game consoles not having dashboards. Game just runs.
My uni used scheme to teach us about recursion. Honestly I don't get it, why not just use Python? That would have been much more useful and applicable IMO.
It’s truly maddening as an Aussie. How many apps just ignore the BoM? I expected the Apple one not to, but it does. It’s frustrating when friends visit me and check the weather on their phone and the data for the Google and Apple apps is so bad.

I use Willy weather that uses bom. I don’t love it though. Any recommendations? I personally can’t stand the actual BoM app as an iPhone user but I appreciate that they tried…

R.I.P Pocket Weather :(
> So why doesn't that happen? Is testing improvements too expensive? Do scientific programmers just have no respect for the craft whatsoever? Is there nobody with the necessary interdisciplinary skill set?

Academia relies on paying grad students peanuts and dangling the carrot of being able to get citations under their name to make up for it. There's no way to publish a paper by cleaning up code, much less get cited for doing so.

Bear in mind there's basically zero "general" funding available. Everything has to be paid out of a specific grant and they want to see it being used for that specific purpose, which likely ends with publishing a paper.

But the short version is yes, academia has no respect for the craft. Papers are what matters, so code will always be the minimum necessary to publish a paper, which is generally: copy someone else's fortran/numpy code, tweak it enough until it runs (once, on your laptop) and gives the result you were looking for, publish.
Before you even get to the Marketplace blade, the Xbox Live blade was an entire upsell blade if you weren't paying for Live. Depending on your opinion of "ads", that counts for some people as a giant ad. (I don't entirely agree with that sentiment myself, but it is something I've been asked to train myself to see.)

(ETA: In a similar vein, the bright logo of Windows Media Center in the Media tab would look like an ad for an upsell to many.)
Gas stoves are so nice relative to electric stoves. I guess as the electric production mix moves to renewables gas is becoming increasingly worse in carbon footprint.
Mathematica is available for free on RaspbianOS. You should be able to run it in a VM anywhere.
In some types of matrix orgs it makes sense as there is a distinction between project leadership and staff leadership.

- The staff/personnel manager is there for managing the engineers and getting their time allocated to projects. The 1:1s are for these managers to understand their engineers' skills, weaknesses, goals, and direction for growth/development so they can effectively allocate them.

- The team leads and project managers participate in standups so that the teams can effectively operate, work gets done, and project leadership knows what is happening.

The division makes sense when you have a lot of projects which may only be funded for parts of the year or where development isn't regular. Doubly so in industries which have a legal requirement for strong compartmentalization of knowledge & involvement. In these environments, your team leads, project managers, and standups will change like hats over the course of weeks, months, and years while you likely will only change personnel managers and 1:1s a few times over the course of a decade.
Reverse Engineering Obfuscated Code
As the article says several times, there was no informed consent.
You are against cspan?

I had no idea that was anybody’s viewpoint.
> You’re totally right! This is why the remaster of Star Trek TNG looks so good, but we don’t have good remasters of Voyager or Deep Space 9 - the former was shot on film and they rescanned them all, whereas the latter were shot on electronic format, so there’s no going back and re-scanning.

Nope, all four were shot on 35mm, but the latter three were transferred to videotape for editing, while TOS was cut on 35mm negative, so it could be “remastered” from the film more easily.

For TNG, they had to rescan and edit, and recompose VFX, and recreate some of the VFX in CG, which was much more laborious, than the process for TOS, which, in addition to be edited on film, had more practical effects and simpler other effects (which the remaster was used as an opportunity to upgrade, in some cases.)

AFAIK, cost for expected return is why they didn’t do for DS9 and VOY what they did for TNG.
maybe so. 30 years ago I don't think Northeastern would have been considered elite tier. But based on its current acceptance rates, it's getting pretty close.
Nearly half of Lebanon's national debt of $85 billion has been spent on the electricity sector and the state can now only provide 2 hours of electricity per day, thus the solar power boom.

A much more interesting piece than I expected, though I will note that some European countries have been hard hit in the energy sector of late as well, what with France rationing power this winter, for example.

Edit: Let me once again suggest we rely too much on generated electricity and should shoot for a return to passive solar design and daylighting to help stabilize the world economy.
No you were clearly arguing for "memorable". Do you argree now that it's a worthless quality for a name? (in software engineering)
Assuming that Tether is a fraud...:

The problem is that Tether is either worth $1 (Current status quo), or $0 (When everyone loses faith in it.)

It will transition from one to the other at... Some point. And there will, by definition, be a lot of bagholders who have not managed to redeem it in time.

The rest of the ecosystem will not have a soft landing from that. Oh, sure, anyone who bought USDC will be fine, but all the non-pegged coins will be in for a very, very rough ride.
Yea, the electricity grid fucking sucks so lets ban gas -- people's last hope in a power outage for fresh food or heat.

I'll pass.
What about induction cooktops?
Pull request opened https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins/pull/1896
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/0XTuy
Exactly this. Saving is very important, but also spend money on things that are meaningful to you now.
>The internals aren't revealed

They are when devs put all the code into those header files.
In 2013 it was not a commonly held position that Google was primarily an ad company.

It's neither here nor there, but it's worth mentioning that Google as a search engine was around for five years before that SEC filing. As I'm sure you remember, that was a very long time in the history of the Internet to that point. Plenty of time to build good will and ruin it later, as we saw a similar pattern with Chrome years later.
You don't have to look too far back -- the absolutely unhinged takes about replacing incandescent light bulbs was a good example. Slightly different since there weren't explicit health concerns with the bulbs but it was still wild.

Edit:

One article from the time - it was a regular bugaboo on Rush for half a decade; https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jul/11/republic...
I hope you screenshot comments like this so you can look back on them when you're older and cringe at yourself.
Induction > gas any day of the week. Early induction ranges definitely had quality problems, but now even an average induction range is super nice.
Are there anomalously few bullshit problems compared to other places you have worked? Is there weirdly little paperwork? Do other teams doing roughly similar work have ongoing problems that you just don’t have? Do you have weirdly few, oddly productive meetings?
The point is to effect their decision making so that they decide not to invade a sovereign nation. Military posturing is part of deterrence and we should celebrate a cold war over a hot war.
The article is about the finding of the IRP.
This is why vaccine development and pharmaceuticals in general should be a public good, owned by the public sector, priced as a public good.
This is nonsense for two reasons.

1. Tether isn't an investment, it doesn't pay yield, and the only direction it can go is down. It's either worth $1 (it's current value), or $0 (when it falls apart). That's not an investment. At least when I go to Vegas, and put my wallet on black, I can win money.

2. Since when were Canadians unable to... Buy stocks..? Mutual funds? Index funds? REITs? BTC? Degeneratively day-trade options and meme stocks and margined-to-the-neck forex?
> The counterargument is that we Americans tried it that way, and to summarize: it did not work out very well

Actually no, it did work really well. The first century in the US saw leaps and bounds of economic growth, and for the common person most of all.

Of course, generally things are better off today, after having benefited from all that early growth. Still, the pace of advancement has slowed, and most of that slowdown has come from people thinking they can redesign society.
my point is a card bought for doing GPU computer not being able to work as a normal graphic card is not a problem

I'm aware that currently GPU compute only cards are not widly used outside of the server space.

But that's not because people need the consumer GPU features (bedsides video decode) but because the economics of availability and cost lead to consumer GPUs being the best option (and this economic effects don't just apply to customers but also Nvidia itself).
I played Duelyst a lot when it came out and it's always been my favourite in that CCG trend of games. I was quite saddened by its demise and I'm glad there's still an active community around it.

I think I'll work on a French localization on my free time, as it seems restrained to English and German at the moment.
I would prefer they legislate it have the same harware specs and access to the same training data as the prosecutor bot.
open-meteo.com looks awesome. I've been messing around writing a snow forecast app for skiing/snowboarding for a while now and the main thing I'm missing is historical snowfall data. Do these data sources exist in a machine readable format and I've just not been able to find them? If so, would you ever consider adding precip + kind of precip to your historical API?
What is the value of holding USDT over USD? Is it that some places that have other coins won't hold USD but will hold USDT?
How is this relevant? My job isn’t a publicly elected position.
> I am not sure that would be a majority opinion. Robocat’s Law: software complexity increases until it can’t be understood by anybody.

Plenty of banks don't understand how their software works. But they can see that at the end of the day it calculates the right amount of money. (If it doesn't, eventually the client complains, or eventually your manager complains, depending on which direction it was wrong in). For a lot of these scientific modelling systems there's no such sanity check.
> You are against cspan?

Why would you assume that?

Covering Congressional busines (speeches, votes) is different from following people around on the floor during 1:1 conversations.
This is entirely based on heath concerns -- there's no way to cook with gas indoors that doesn't pollute your home. There are tons of gas furnaces, fire places, and hot water heaters that are "direct vent" so 100% of the combustion air & their byproducts are sequestered outside - perfectly safe to have in your house.
This is not true. There are State and Federal restrictions on mass layoffs, which generally require a few months of notice. Giving severance is understood to count as notice. In any case you'd get the money, and you probably wouldn't be useful anyways.
A Skeptical Take on ChatGPT (Gary Marcus/Ezra Klein)
There's a transcript available, direct URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
> It's just going to be whatever arbitrary text that already exists in the training dataset is closest to the semantic phrasing of the question.

My understanding of machine learning in general is that this is not how it works, and rather it uses a neural network for a lot of what it does (which isn't merely picking the closest arbitrary text in its training set), though I don't know details about NLP specifically. I am aware that some activities involve ranking the similarity of particular texts, and picking the closest matches (that's how embeddings get used for providing context to prompts), but I didn't think that's how the underlying models operate when, say, asked the question I asked it.

Regarding the rest of your remarks, the aim isn't necessarily perfection. You listed some other possible outputs, but the fact is that it didn't offer these options, and instead it offered the correct one, and it seems that a system that uses ChatGPT + something else can provide an improvement over ChatGPT on its own (with the downside being that it requires more resources to provide those answers).

Is the other "completely valid and possible output" you provided actually likely? Even a human could possibly make the mistakes you list, but possible doesn't mean probable, and being possible doesn't take away from the results of such a hybrid system being an improvement over ChatGPT on its own.

I didn't think guarantees are the game here. Achieving something closer to what humans are (and even some humans struggle with logic and mathematics), and even exceeding it in some places, would be of immense value.

> ChatGPT cannot do anything at all without making a guess, because "guess" is everything that ChatGPT is

Is this different to what humans do? There are accounts of the brain where it takes sensory input, updates an internal model, and makes predictions (guesses) about what inputs it expects to receive. Getting better at guessing might be the right game to play. i.e., it's not a criticism to say it's guessing, because that's what these models are trying to do. If it can guess reasonably well when a question is mathematical or logical, and can guess reasonably well about how to structure a mathematical or logical equation or statement based on that text, then that could be fed into another system to produce a more accurate answer.
we have plenty of exposure to US stock markets? and the treatment of all capital gains as half of your marginal rate regardless of time held?
From what I have seen in TeXmacs documentation, they have implemented pretty much every feature of TeX's linebreaking algorithm and more (microtypography, global page breaking, etc) so my claim above was not to say that the documents TeXmacs outputs have suboptimal aesthetics (to be fair, modern versions of TeX have all of these features, as well, although not the original TeX, alas). What I meant to say was there is no (even theoretically) possible way to have a perfect WYSIWYG editor if global paragraph/page breaking is desired. For example, due to global page breaking, one may be editing a line in the middle of the document and its position on the page (and the page number, left/right headers, etc) will be constantly changing---not good for the visual experience. I do not know how TeXmacs deals with these (extremely rare, admittedly) cases but the discussion was about the true WYSIWYG vs not so take it with a grain of salt. Let me say this again: TeXmacs is an outstanding piece of software. If in thirty years, a TeXmacs file format is still readable by the newest version (possibly with some easy tweaks), I will consider switching from TeX :). My other (minor) concern is that the LaTeX files that TeXmacs exports do not render at all as the pdf files TeXmacs produces itself. So as a WYSIWYG frontend to LaTeX, TeXmacs is ... not quite. Which they never claimed to be so I cannot fault them for this.
yarg was holding together pretty much every tech company.
70% of the oxygen on Earth comes from algae in the sea, not forests - which notably, also aren't really "carbon sinks" either since trees breath O2 and emit CO2 as well sometimes.

But it's also weird to say that you'd need more forest then that, as though it's mutually exclusive. Our suburbs can be extremely green filled, as can our cities, but probably more notably is the simply wrong element of it: the Earth is at no risk of running out of oxygen due to "too many human beings".

PS:

Of note [1] it's not a super reliable source, but this eyeballs that you'd probably need about 10,000 leaves or 700 house plants[2] (keeping in mind a houseplant is very small, so a large tree probably does substantially better).

[1] https://gizmodo.com/how-many-plants-would-you-need-to-genera...

[2] https://medium.com/@candidegardening/how-many-plants-would-i...
That's true, but that's easy to track, as everything in the blockchain is transparent, that's how people found out about the insider trading at Coinbase
Could Mushrooms Be the Drug to Finally Cure Eating Disorders?
I couldn't find the study from the publication mentioned in the article.

I have a gas stove and I cook all the time. The stove is probably burning for upwards of 20 minutes every single day. Is that really a cause of asthma? If 20 minutes does it, wouldn't cooks (presumably with burning stoves for hours and hours 6 days a week) experience it far greater? Maybe professional kitchens have proper ventilation, so it doesn't matter.

I'm assuming the original study would answer some of these questions.
> I wonder how Tether getting broadly delisted would impact crypto prices.

No reason to think it affects prices at all. The exchange would offer a cash pair or other stablecoin pair. Most centralized exchanges are combining stablecoin pairs anyway to transparently offer one USD pair.

Tether is most often used as a pair on derivatives (ie perpetual futures). An exchange won't delist tether without having an alternative for perps.

The only reason anybody brings up this stuff is because of all the narratives people spin about tether.
That casualties number for the Qatar WC does not present an accurate picture. That number of deaths is the total number of expat deaths during the period of construction. It's not just workers in stadium construction.

"Overall, 15,021 non-Qataris died in the country between 2010 and 2019, according to the government. A Guardian analysis in February 2021 found that more than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar since the award of the tournament. The death records were not categorised by occupation or place of work."

It's a normal number considering Qatar's 3 million population is 90% expats.
(co-founder here) a bit of a cheap shot :( ...

We strive to earn our users trust every day. We read every piece of feedback that comes in and try to make the product better. At the end of the day, we only make money if our users use our product and opt to pay for it, so our incentives are as aligned with our users as they can be.
COVID + biggest crypto bubble (so far). I can’t imagine what a sustainable level for them is. For what it’s worth I found their site totally usable if high on the fees but I’ve lost all interest in the fools game of crypto
It seems very tasteless to keep calling these new projects YOLO, especially considering that the original author has denounced that whole industry.
Basically, Lebanon had 30 years to figure out how to build basic infrastructure like a proper electrical grid and production (from 1990, the end of the civil war to present). Instead, crooks, thieves and fraudsters figured out how to bilk the nation of billions while leaving subpar services in their wake.

My parents have had solar thermal collectors for hot water on their roof in Lebanon for 3 decades now... other than a few days in winter when you need to use the electric heater, its been a near perfect fit for purpose.
This is interesting. If I understand correctly, European housing evolved from open to closed kitchens during the same period that American housing went in the other direction.

A friend of mine in Korea has an apartment with both solutions. There is a large kitchen area open to the dining/living area, and also a sliding glass door separating a second complete (but small) kitchen with a large window to the outside.
I’m curious how often you encounter web designers with enough experience with CSS to make web components worthwhile but not enough “JavaScript know how” not to.
Same here. Tried a few hours apart. If you're looking for the API docs, as I was, they are here: https://docs.pirateweather.net/en/latest/
On Neeva's front page, they show a side by side of results for Neeva vs. Google with the query "what to do in a car accident".

The example they give for Google is not even close to the one I get in both regular and incognito mode.

My result is a step by step guide from Allstate with more steps provided than Neeva. I only get 3 on Neeva vs. 8 on Google.

The first result that shows on Neeva is a broken link to an Australian gov site. I'm in the US. The second link on Neeva is the exact same link as Google.

So Google is actually giving a way better result because it gives more step by step information, provides a working link, and the website is localized to where I live. You don't want people calling 000 over 911 lol.
like anything the government bans, price will go up
"But I stress that the universe is mainly made of nothing, that something is the exception. Nothing is the rule. That darkness is a commonplace; it is light that is the rarity." - Carl Sagan