skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Willie's picnics are legendary. Hill Co, hmm. Spent many a summer jumping off the cliffs at Lake Whitney. Can't say I've ever been downtown though. We got to the lake "the back way". I had North Texas in mind, didn't equate the heart of texas as North. That's like someone from Winterfell being called a southerner by a wildling. It just ain't right!

That 80s summer was a bit early for me to be getting off of work, unless I get credit as having a job from being outside all day playing in the woods, creek, and fields doing whatever a young lad in the 80s could get away with since as you've said there was no internet, console gaming, tablet/devices, or anything else other than UHF TV (gag me) and 3 networks (that signed off to the national anthem each night at midnight) to really do. The area I grew up in is steep with history of cowboy vs native american lore. There was a small fort nearby. The creek in the back had ruts hardened into the limestone that I was told were made by wagon wheels. This seemed logical to me as my friends and I found several buried wagon wheels, arrow heads, and lots of fossils in the creek.

Edit: nearly forgot to mention the pecans at my grandparents house. they had the lovely giant soft shelled variety. every year, all of the grand kids would get to play the "who can get the most pecans from the yard" game. these would then become the spoils that we'd use for the next year. as the trees got older, they would produce so many nuts that their limbs would bend to the point of breaking. (for those that don't know, you can shout at a pecan tree and the stress from the sound waves will dislodge at least a couple of limbs.) as we got older, we realized we could just shake the limbs and have fresh pecans that the squirrels hadn't had first crack at yet. after the raining of nuts stopped, those low bowing limbs would let out an audible sigh as the weight they had been carrying was suddenly released.
Is he still running it day-by-day? It averaged 20% annual return for 4 decades under his watch. So if he invested $1000 on day one he grew it to $1.5M by the end. And with the 66% loss he's still at $990K.
The thing is every project has mistakes. Things that aren't where they're supposed to be, that somebody means to tidy up sometime later, but just hasn't gotten around to yet. Every project has at least a little bit of a mess somewhere. When all you have to go off of is the code itself, then can be hard to tell the difference between the mess and the design.

A junior dev who comes in without much coaching, might just reference an anti-pattern from the "mess" section and replicate it throughout the code base. And then do that enough times, and a senior dev who gets brought in might conclude that there's no design at all, and that what it really needs is a rewrite.
Google's moonshot factory is coming down to Earth
How was it not consensual?

https://www.businessinsider.com/company-using-chatgpt-mental... states that all users opted in to the experiment. They simply didn't tell the users once the experiment actually began.
I have no particular recent examples in mind, though I believe the Rust documentation is pretty good. Maybe browse these search results where similar questions have been asked previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=documentation%20examples
You can flip the order of the steps and it works pretty well imo: answer on Slack, and then once the discussion is complete, clean up the messages and put them into the docs.

This has the added benefit that you can have some back and forth to get to the root of the question before documenting it.

The key thing is that you have to make sure to actually do the step after (transfer to docs), even if it's a quick copy-paste with minimal editing.
I've been following geohot and Comma for years and I am quite impressed. I like their pitch of Comma being the android of the self-driving world.

Will I ever buy one? No. I am lucky enough to live in a city with great public transportation, where trains are already "chill."
Cool Chemistry Digital Art that I did some visualizations on last year.
All new buildings that took advantage of 421a tax breaks are required to be rent stabilized, so they aren't that rare, just close to market rate right now
This all makes sense to me, but how do you reconcile it with the fact that job tenure in Silicon Valley tends to be so short? (Like, people hopping jobs every few years?)

* If churn is lethal, shouldn't we expect the center of the software industry to be in a city where people take a more conservative approach to their careers, sticking with a single employer for 10+ years?

* If churn is lethal, wouldn't we expect a stronger focus on retention of software engineers? Instead, it's common to offer new hires generous packages, and common wisdom is that constant job hopping is the path to high compensation.
This is suddenly a highly debatable claim. Traditional ML was "data hungry" and required massive datasets for features and difficult to acquire "clean" labels.

You can ask ChatGPT to generate these datasets now. However it's unclear if future models will rely on such datasets if large models already have the answer. Here is an example of a ChatGPT generated dataset for a misinformation classifier. ChatGPT Can generate 10 examples every time I hit enter, I asked it to create this dataset using the format.

sentence, misinformation (1,0), notes

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The earth is flat, 1, This claim is widely debunked by scientific evidence and research.

Vaccines are harmful and cause autism, 1, This claim has been disproven by multiple scientific studies and is not supported by medical evidence.

The Holocaust never happened, 1, This claim is a historical denial and disregards the overwhelming evidence of the genocide of Jewish people during World War II.

Humans and dinosaurs coexisted, 1, This claim is not supported by scientific evidence and is a popular conspiracy theory.

Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, 0, This is the standard boiling point of water at sea level.

The moon landing was faked, 1, This claim is a conspiracy theory and is not supported by any evidence.

Climate change is not caused by human activity, 1, This claim is not supported by the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence and research.

The sun revolves around the earth, 1, This claim was disproven by scientific evidence in the 16th century and is now considered a flat-earth theory.

HIV does not cause AIDS, 1, This claim is not supported by scientific evidence and has been disproven by multiple studies.

Vaccines are safe and effective, 0, This claim is supported by the majority of scientific evidence and research.
Huh?

Documenting a terrible project is an excellent way to propose and volunteer yourself into a new project of your own design and ultimately get promoted into lead/architect/SME types of roles. I don't know anyone who has done it any other way.
Not just TNG, but the late-60s Original Series of Star Trek too; the remaster looks absolutely amazing. It's too bad they screwed up shooting DS9 and Voyager that way.
What happens when a CPU starts
While this may be true, it takes more than just engineering skill for this to work in a predictable manner. Often an engineering interviewer takes their ego into the process and it becomes a competitive game or an opportunity to show how smart they are.

I 100% agree with you but it's not as easy and scaleable as it seems.
Absolutely gear heads exist. I also agree with the idea that purposeful constraint can be fun. I have a 40 year old manual focus lens myself, just to fool around. Chose your own style and gear, do what you want.

The only thing I object to is to declare a sense of superiority by dunking on somebody with a different approach. Even more so when the "rational" arguments are completely opposite to one's own behavior.

I'm well aware that my response comes across as salty, but the well runs deep. I've been involved in online photo communities since they existed (and also run one myself). This guy ticks all the boxes of a particular stereotype I've come across since the very beginning: a gatekeeper-like imposter artist.

They'll take their "minimalist" camera, go on a walk, and randomly come across a bare tree with a raven sitting on it. They'll take the shot, go home and then try to backdate a deeper meaning. As if there was some grand idea behind it all along. An artistic vision executed. Something cliche like "when winter sets in" or "life has no ups without lows". Next they sign it with "Leo Leica - photography", which suggests a business, but there isn't any.

They'll have "award-winning" on their profile but fail to mention it was the daily random award from freephotocontexts.wordpress.com.

It's all pretense, fakery, copycats.

That's enough salt for today. I can write books full of bullshitting photographers.
In a retail or home setting, you can mount the sign on a wall and route electrical wiring through the hole for a flush fit.
"What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?"

Nothing important. Usually it's just telling them what I did over the past 2 weeks.
The "cascading failure" GIF[1] from Wikipedia's entry of the same name[2].

(I'd love to see similar style animations of various crypto algorithms like MD5, AES, etc if anyone has the cycles.)

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Networkf...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure
Lovely.

The only way to achieve peace is to promote the glorious war. There are definitely no other ways around. To save what have left of democracy, we need to invest another 10 trillion USD other people's money into this new adventure and China will suddenly become scared and creep under a chair with their tail between the legs.

Disclaimer: I am getting really wealthy selling weapons, but this has nothing to do with the absolutely neutral statement above.
Both Excel and Google sheets have recently acquired the ability to create named functions (lambdas). So, the gap has suddenly reduced drastically: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/08/named-functi...
> I believe creating and developing science demands a higher than BS degree.

Tell it to Freeman Dyson. In philosophy you could tell it to Derek Parfit. There are quite literally tens of thousands of people with higher degrees than them in their fields who achieved nothing comparable.
That's literally the point of the product... non ads based monetization
To be clear, I pass no judgement on any setup. At all. Use a smartphone. A single lens. A bag full of them. You do you.

I specifically objected to the weird comparison the author makes, the sense of superiority, the self-contradicting arguments.
I used HC extensively, both by itself and with code resources that I wrote in Pascal or C. I certainly pushed it way beyond its capabilities, by using the parse-able pieces of text strings as crude data structures. What unreadable code I wrote. But HC was a great way to write small but useable programs for people.

I switched to Visual Basic when it came out. VB did a lot of what HC could do, plus it had more traditional structures, and was more than grudgingly supported.
> I think the issues you’re mentioning are potentially impacting the world policies

That said, the climate models tell us very little useful information we didn't already know. I don't think they have much policy impact. Climate change as a phenomenon is not proved by computer modeling, but by real world measurements and established theory about atmospheric processes.

Irregardless of the code quality, the uncertainties in the model are enormous. (No code can simulate the earth without uncertainties.) We can't use such a tool to finetune our response. Gambling for 2.5°C and getting 5°C is too great a risk.
We need to cut emissions as quickly as we are politically able to achieve.

I agree large scale modeling generally should be taken with a (big) grain of salt. Looking at you epidemiologist and economists...
Apple to Begin Making In-House Screens in 2024 in Shift Away from Samsung
> Interestingly, it now correctly outputs Honduras for the second largest country in South America

Did you mean Central America?
Seems somewhat similar to the situation where cellphones/handiphones took off in infrastructure poor regions quicker than in many advanced economies?
https://archive.ph/EysoO
Went straight from "if you're poor and desperate [..] there are many ways to "live" that, while not particularly desirable to most people, are certainly available" to "I have a friend "whose family know how to work off the books and avoid the IRS [..] bought a building in Brooklyn for a low million dollar figure [..]. But their household was probably below the "living" wage, from the point of view of this data set, for the past 25 years."

That's a sleight of hand. "But look, I know some poor people who cheat !".

Yeah, a minority cheats. Now if someone can come up and say there are way less poor people than we think in NY and back it up it'd be another story.
I have friends who had the same experience for Goldman Sachs as a new grad Dev.
>Wouldnt that much icecream would have so much mass it would form some kind of icecream blackhole?

Absolutely; a cubic lightyear of ice cream would have about the same mass as the observable universe, with a Schwarzchild radius of billions of light years.
UK Phyto-V study: nutritional interventions and long Covid (2022)
How is that? How do you suppose the British government could have avoided this? You speak of Ukrainian lives, so presumably you are referring to foreign policy and not domestic policy. Through which foreign policy decisions has the British government caused this?

It's not like Britain could have kept energy prices down by not aiding Ukraine. It's also hardly realistic to suggest that British aid to Ukraine has come at a significant expense to the taxpayer, given the baseline defence spending by Britain to counter Russia.
I suddenly have the urge to install a gas stove
I didn't say they were similar value, this is a strawman.

But if we're looking at art, and you show me the original Starry night, a print, and then a picture of the kool-aid man busting through a wall, and ask me which 2 are most similar, I'm going to pick the starry nights
And what an example of the "worse is better" theory the whole time! ;-)
Oh yes once per week is certainly overkill.
(co-founder) Working hard to address.
Even that isn't sufficient for archival purposes, which an academic journal should be aiming for.
Purchase Windows 10 with support for less than 2 years of support, or just buy brand new hardware for your entire business so you meet Windows 11 requirements. I know there are hacks to run Windows 11 on non-Windows 11 compatible systems, but Microsoft needs to rethink their strategy if they want to maintain market share (personally, I would love if some form of Linux were able to pull ahead in the desktop OS market, but we've been through this before)
There is actually a fairly firm definition of food insecurity. I have some links in this post [1]

It is based on survey data with set questions. Answering yes to any of the following can categorize you as food insecure

A parent lost weight (for any reason)

Adult(s) cut size or skipped meals in 3 or more months of the year

Relied on few kinds of low-cost food to feed child(ren)

If Elon Musk skips breakfast to lose weight and succeeds, his family qualifies as food insecure.

This is why you see very different summary statistics. 1 in 5 children suffer food insecurity versus 0.9% of children have gone hungry at lest once in the last year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31277978
> I keep trying to understand why Hypercard was good.

I reckon it’s like the GUI version of BASIC.

It was, as other comments point out, kinda toy-like, but in a good way as well as a bad way.

It gave Mac users a way to “play” with their Mac and make it do their bidding in much the same way that BASIC interpreters built into pre-GUI home computers did.

It was half way between magic and godlike power - at least for some people. It gave a very low barrier to entry feeling of “Oh, I get it now. I can make this machine do what I want it to do. I am in control now!”

In my head, Director or Flash was the next equivalent tool in that niche.
Hotz is scary smart
Not to mention there aren't any examples of mythical 200iq people who explain things in a perfectly concise manner.

It's a stereotype machine.
I agree that not everyone has a knack for it. But I don’t think that’s the only factor. Software design/architecture is also hard and many devs aren‘t particularly good at it. We still recognize it as an important skill that requires education and training (and experience). If even just 20% or so of devs would get up to speed with how to write adequate documentation, and were enabled to invest the necessary time for it, that would already be a huge improvement.
Are you implying that a significant amount of coders are "on the spectrum"?

Not that I disagree -- working in highly technical fields this long, I could categorize 80% of my co-workers as lacking typical social and communication skills and you never know the real reason. It's to the point where I see women get promoted to management roles more often because they're superior communicators.
There's the theory and there's reality: resources being limited and a finite employee can run things at any time, companies have to compete for their survival by hiring high while killing their competitors.
I wonder how Tether getting broadly delisted would impact crypto prices.

Theoretically, its cash on the sidelines, so shouldn't impact the price.

Increases the likelihood of tether imploding as withdrawals shrink the proportional size of any reserve issues. That could certainly create a lot of negative attention, raising fear and dropping price.

Practically, I think tethers are often cash set aside for purchasing crypto in the future, so I wonder if this will lead to a significant portion USDT converting into BTC and other cryptos to become more 'liquid' in terms of transferability within the crypto banking system. (Not all exchanges people hold Tethers on are necessarily hooked up to their banking info for a wire transfer). Some might trade to BTC to move the value, which could increase price.

Who knows, will be interesting to see how it plays out if/when it plays out.
As an Australian, my main issue with almost all Weather API's and services is that the data is almost always sub-par to the weather data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). It would be great if there was a backend provider concept, so that I could tell my devices (such as an iPhone) to only use BOM data for it's inbuilt widgets.
Interesting, looks like a blanket statement that any stablecoin could be considered a security or derivative.

> the CSA is of the view that stablecoins, or stablecoin arrangements, may constitute securities and/or derivatives. Crypto trading platforms that are registered or that have entered into a pre-registration undertaking are reminded that they are prohibited from permitting Canadian clients to trade, or obtain exposure to, any crypto asset that is itself a security and/or a derivative.
Commerce clause.
> gifts and snacks

> the Tesla store sells snacks in China?

Why would you presume that, especially since it's paired with "gifts"?
Boot into a Linux live CD/USB and see if the problem persists there. If it does, it's a hardware problem, if not, might be software.
Damn. This is going to shock Canadians. The only two investments or risk Canadians could make or take were housing and crypto.
It is actually not a bad domain. Six letters. Short and (mildly) sweet.

1. wfromh.lk seems to be an active site. You can ask them if they want your domain.

2. Some countries seem to be using "W from H" as an abbreviation for "work from home".
Display this in those countries as a domain for building a work-from-home site.

3. Come up with creative uses for your domain and mention them when you list it for sale:
Examples: Watches from Heaven. Weight loss from Herbs. Wealth from Health.
Thank you very much, this was exactly what I was looking for.

Just In vaguest terms, if you could go over your own route, with no personal details, obviously, I would be appreciative.

What barriers existed, what would you prepare for differently, etc.
I don't think that sort of story is allowed.
Pylance is used in a number of Microsoft products, quite a few of which are not open source, whereas the previous language server was only used in the VS Code and VS Python extensions, which are open source. There's your license difference explanation. As to why the old language server was retired, it had a different architecture which involved reindexing all the code all the time, and the team couldn't make it performant enough; pyright lazily evaluates just what is needed at the point it is needed.
I read somewhere that an example of the level of disability that someone with an IQ of 50 shows is that they couldn't be taught to reliably fold a piece of paper into thirds (i.e. to fit in an envelope).
https://archive.ph/pVCWL
in other news "BASF to allow keeping home gardens" and "Ford to allow using non branded washer fluid".
(co-founder) Actually,
1. you can just search on neeva.com w/o signing up for an account
2. If/when you sign up for an account, you can choose between our "free basic" (free) product and our "premium" (paid) product. The premium product includes access to a VPN and a password manager.
All these options are ads-free and private. (To experience Neeva AI, you need an account for now.)
He wants to turn Congress into a reality TV show for clout instead of governance.
I think it just pushes these markets to switch to usdc, which is a good thing as (1) making crypto more tied to audited assets (2) make redemption subject to AML.
In California where I live it was. Skype was used by virtually no one. Teams and Jitsi were minor players. Google meet did not yet have traction. Most companies were using WebEx.
Do you feel the same way about your job?
That a pretty common thing, the last to modernize have more modern tech. Kind of like skipping levels in CIV. Interesting to think that the USA is bring back and build out nanoscale chip fabs, speculation is that we will be at this nanoscale for a long time.
In my opinion, we should not just be sitting back and debating the technical merits of this technology. Rather, we should be asking ourselves about the greater societal implications of AI and information. For example, have we considered the fact that computers might be much better at deception than humans, and that this ability for deception will be used against us by megacorps and maybe even governments?

Or what about the fact that AI may eliminate the need for having other people to talk to because it will get so good at satisfying a large portion of our intellectual needs?

I know AI is not there yet, but this is not just something amusing that can improve search. It is the start of a huge change in society that extends the advanced technological infiltration that has already occurred.

Before you look at this as another toy, just take at least an hour of your time to consider what this will lead to. Personally, I find AI disgusting.
Even when there is limited space, people find a way:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/vyulqc/top_notch_l...
You don’t have to do it personally if you don’t want to. The company should have a PR department or at least PR people who collect information from you then produce social/promotional articles of their own. They can ask you for feedback, though.
This article kind of has the: “Obesity rates are plummeting as cancer rates increase” feel to it.

Basically, a really shitty situation is driving something that you are seeing as good. Lebanon at this point is pretty close to a failed state. The solar power boom is basically the populace losing faith in the government to provide basic infrastructure.