skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed some odd things while watching the press conference. Pat Ryder had a potential Freudian slip and said that it was taken down because it "posed a threat to civili..." and he enunciated the "li" as if he were going to say "civilization," but he then paused and corrected himself to say "civilian."
Another odd thing was when Pat Ryder answered a question about why the President's decision to take down the object was necessary. Pat mentioned something like, "Presidents usually make decisions when certain threats in our airspace pose a danger to civilians on the ground."

It's extremely odd to me that they were able to identify the object by sending our own airmen to visually confirm it, but if that's the case, wouldn't they be able to definitively conclude that it wasn't a balloon? Pat kept it ambiguous and kept insisting that it was some sort of object.
I had the impression Google and Amazon use the same model as Meta. But in working in the field since the 1990s I have never encountered or worked at any company that used their model. I think their model is likely superior in terms of hiring the most people in the shortest time. With the shortcoming that it might make it easy to overhire, and it might not fill the job with the best person as often.

Lots of small to massive very successful companies don't need to use their model of hiring a pool of people and then only later figuring out which role they will fill. If you're only hiring someone when you have identified a specific role and identified the correct person for that role it might take longer to hire someone, but you won't overhire as easily and you're probably more likely to have a higher hit rate in terms of getting the right person.
Here is another programmable CAD project, Fornjot[1], also in Rust. Fornjot, too, is being actively developed.

Unfortunately it uses Rust for model description (compile times/learning curve).

That said, one could probably easily put a layer of scipting lang in-between.
E.g. Rhai[2] or Lua or whatever.

And I guess if their tech is solid enough, someone will do that eventually and open a PR or fork the project. They do not use an existing geomtry kernel but do everything from scratch which makes this a very interesting endeavour.

There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD

[1] https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot

[2] https://rhai.rs/
No argument there.
I've worked with ArcGIS, Autocad, Sketchup, Civil3D, and QGIS. Though clumsy, QGIS is the most powerful by far of these applications.
I would say the tensions seem similar, but the consequences seem different.

In the 80s, it felt like you might find yourself vaporized or living in a nuclear apocalypse hellscape at any moment, likely due to a misunderstanding or malfunction.

These days it seems like we're more likely to just be in a long-term adversarial position with likely proxy wars.

I feel like the WWII and Cold War eras were more about existence, whereas these days the aggression is more about how much more bounty do we want. Look at the Chinese land grabs around disputed islands versus Japan. They don't need them, but it would be nice to have them.

The whole thing just seems like a bunch of unnecessary, ego-driven B.S. on every side.
It’s not generating images. This looks like an LLM like GPT-3.

It’s (probably) generating text in some encoding that represents a view hierarchy along with basic layout attributes (alignment etc)

Probably fine-tuned some on human-created examples with the same format.

So the prompt provides the example format and then merges in the user’s request. LLM spits output that is then parsed and transform into css/figma etc.
idk about conspiracies, I'm not talking about that. Here is an unbiased article describing the scheme:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23073992.traffic-filters-w...

"People can drive freely around their own neighbourhood and can apply for a permit to drive through the filters, and into other neighbourhoods, for up to 100 days per year. This equates to an average of two days per week."

This is enforced with surveillance cameras.

I am saying that enforcing movement like this and adding bureaucracy to drive through certain places is a solid step in the direction of authoritarianism.
On one hand, funny. On the other, potentially useful for either teaching yourself or learning to read other people's code. Intentionally botching or skewing code and teaching yourself to deal with it/fix it.

Would use if I was even halfway decent at coding
MS will create the new Clippy AI such that it solves the paperclip problem with minimal fuss and minimal use of paper for environmental friendliness. Maybe the AI will team up with HP and Canon and be smart enough to turn off the print functionality in all your Office documents and printers so you won't need to have any paperclips
> But sure, go ahead and blame environmentalists for the destruction profit driven market capitalism caused.

The alternative economic systems are even worse on environmental grounds, and their only saving grace is their ineptness and inefficiency, which limits the amount of damage they cause.

Like, have you heard about environmental disaster of Aral Sea? About how Soviet Union explicitly pursued maximizing fossil extraction as its core economic policy? About the environmental disaster of Great Leap Forward? Check out the list of 10 most polluted places in the world, where are they? Literally the only one that got its pollution under capitalism is in Zambia, all the rest are in former Soviet Union, China and India, which started doing market economy when they were already high polluters.
Some people would say that, and in some cases they would be right. I don't particularly believe it to be true, but it is an interesting thought experiment
My daily driver is an iPhone8, running iOS 16.2. It's just fine.
Aside from all the poo-pooing, its huge that you can edit the output in Figma. That will make it very easy to tweak, which is a crucial step to AI generated stuff.
We maintain an army of charged phones to avoid fights and for long trips when the battery runs out on one of them.
Similar story, when I visited there was a school group from Northern Ireland talking about "The catholics were brutal weren't they!"
The Cold War wasn't uniform of course, there were periods of greatly increased tension and periods of relative relaxation (e.g. Détente.) What we have now is somewhere in the middle, I'd say on the peaceful/Détente side of the scale.
Stop advocating banning things that don’t fit our belief system/ethics/worldview. No more asking to ban TikTok, Twitter, Trump, Biden.

No more banning. D'you understand?! Even... and I want to make this absolutely clear... even if they do say Jehovah!
nanoGPT is a way to embed low-dimensional embeddings into high-dimensional embeddings, not self-attention.
A Fast Fourier Transform in Lisp
What's happening when an algorithm makes a mistake
Ok, I've done that now. Thanks for the explanation!
> Slower than short allocations in V8 or Go

Slower than V8, definitely possible. Slower than Go, very unlikely, since it doesn't have a generational or compacting gc.
Only the flipside, QSBS shares have some great tax advantages if you think you might have a traditional "exit" at some point.
Hey look Jimbob! The consultant says if we added obnoxious paperwork requirements, there'd be fewer broken traffic lights! I don't know how that's possible, but by-golly it worked!
I've seen many articles like that, and they conveniently never show the actual question that was asked. If I had an unexpected expense I'd probably put it on my credit card just for convenience, and then pay it off at the end of the billing cycle incurring no additional fees. But it would be silly to include me in the category of not being able to afford it.

In reality, even most people in the bottom 20% of income have more than $500 in savings: https://www.valuepenguin.com/banking/average-savings-account...
Don't be a 1337, be a goose
Wow ... how often do traffic lights break in your city?!
Funny, though tbh it seems like there are cheaper ways to cause the US to spend gobs of cash. I even hesitate to mention some ideas that immediately come to mind that would be easier/more efficient to really nail than the Pringles can idea.

Plus many of the more prominent base-personnel sightings land quite a bit far from that particular ballpark. Take a look into the Rendlesham Forest incident for example.

The problem with "summing up UFO contact" is that the variety of encounters is absolutely insane. Compare Rendlesham to Varginha, etc.

It really starts to bring out the "inter" in the more colorful inter-dimensional contact theories.
US will see more new battery capacity than natural gas generation in 2023
It's funny that there's literally no indication that Google is losing any material market share but somehow Bing with a chat bot (that just launched this week) will, for whatever reason, dominate the market (it's almost as if Microsoft has a publicist or something). A part of me hopes people will take this seriously enough to force Google stock to sell at a discount. The expectations of consumer behavior as it relates to search and chatbots are wildly optimistic given that using a thing isn't as relevant as making money from a person using a thing. So far, chatbots don't lead to more sales or more ad revenue and assumptions of "potential" behavior aren't as speculative as they are unreasonably hopeful.
> In the case of OSS libraries and open-source distributors, there's no sale happening.

True. I should have said "distribute". But the point holds.
> even Bret is willing to support the idea that "others will argue that this actually protects academic freedom since diversity statements can be little more than political litmus tests thinly disguised."

No, you're wrong. You just took his statement out of context. He did not say he supports it; he only acknowledged the existence of that view. Specifically, his full statement was:

> "Controversy there is likely to be more complex,

> with some seeing this as a political infringement on the traditional prerogative whereby departments chose their members and thus an infringement on academic freedom;

> alternately others will argue that this actually protects academic freedom since diversity statements can be little more than political litmus tests thinly disguised."

Acknowledging opposing views is one of the key things you learn in academic and argumentative writing. It is not the same thing as support.

I think it's pretty disingenuous that you decided to remove the word "alternatively" in this accusation.
Frontend frameworks developed in response to the need to develop/maintain very complex browser-based applications like Facebook across a large team of developers. AirBnB/Reddit have dramatically more complex user behavior and are much more input- and media-oriented. You cannot wait on round trips to the server for user interactions, and you cannot just do hybrid client/server the old jQuery way on big applications because you get spaghetti code.

Comparing Reddit and Wikipedia is like comparing a motorcycle to a bicycle. They are different, with specific strengths and weaknesses. Both design/engineering paradigms have a place, imo.
Calvin (Segment) and Baker (Plaid) also recently put together a nice up-to-date heat pump info page and a heat pump vs. existing HVAC calculator.

https://heatpumpshooray.com/
https://calv.info/heat-pumps
I'd say it is about the accessibility of data.

First, there is the issue of paid ads. An example is if I look up "How to learn C++", the top link is a paid ad for CodeAcademy, which claims to be free, but then has three tiers with only the basic one being free. I started looking for information on C++ and ended up in a sales room being given a payment plan. Contrast this to me typing "How to learn C++" into ChatGPT, which informs me about "variables, data types, control structures, functions, and arrays", which are a lot of nice keywords that I could jump further into.

Second, Google does not give you access to the information itself. As such, the style the information is stored in on a website is inconsistent, with each website displaying information in drastically different ways. For an example, I Googled "what is a pointer in c++".

The top link starts with "You learned from the previous chapter, that we can get the memory address of a variable by using the & operator", leads to a single example, and is about a single screen long. This would be useless to someone who has no idea what a pointer is and just heard the name of the concept.

Meanwhile the second top link starts with "In earlier chapters, variables have been explained as locations in the computer's memory which can be accessed by their identifier" and is a much more in-depth tutorial spanning over a dozen screens worth of information. This is better as it gives a lot more information, but is still assuming that I got there from following their tutorial, but instead Google just jumped me into the middle of it.

However, ChatGPT homogenizes this, so the data is already organized in an easily accessible format that does not assume you have much previous knowledge. When I tried ChatGPT with this question, it started with "A pointer is a variable in C++ that stores the memory address of another variable." That is far better than either of the websites that I tried with Google that assumed you were halfway through their personal tutorials.
> Amazon __had__ to increase its distribution/warehouse staff during the pandemic just to handle to the __huge__ increase in online purchases, regardless of how long that pattern lasted.
This is certainly what I remember from the pandemic, but it seems like it would be hard to quantify. Anecdotally, for my fairly typical family, we were probably ordering < 10% of our items online; does anyone have data on orders vs. average household?
Yet ChatGPT totally - apparently - gets 1 + 1. In fact it aces the addition table way beyond what a child or even your average adult can handle. It's only when you get to numbers in the billions that it's weaknesses become apparent. One thing it starts messing up is carry-over operations, from what I can see. Btw. the treshold used to be significanly lower, yet that doesn't convince me in the least that it's made progress in its understanding of addition. It's still just as much in the fog. And it cannot introspect and tell me what it's doing so I can point out where it's going wrong.

But I think you are right in what you are saying. Basically it not 'seeing' math as a child does, is just another way to say that it doesn't undestand math. It doesn't have a intuitive understanding of numbers. It also can't really experiment. What would experimenting mean in this context? Just more training cycles. This being math, one could have it run random sums and give it the correct answer each time. That's one way to experiment, but that wouldn't solve the issue. At some point it would reach its capacity of absorbing statistical corelations to deal with numbers large enough. It would need more neurons to progress beyond that stage.

Btw. I found this relevant article: https://bdtechtalks.com/2022/06/27/large-language-models-log...
I'm not convinced that it is... but it's not as smooth as client load-once rendering can be.

What is/was painful was, as an example, the first versions of ASP .Net Web Forms, where every client action was a full server round-trip... Server-rendered Blazor over the wire (not local or in-office server) is roughly as painful by today's standards.

I do think that it's a mix... start with basic html and enhance, or start with a component toolkit with client rendering, and inject server donut or other pre-rendering. With Cloudflare and Deno, I think the latter definitely has some traction.
While that's true, have you tried? It's a full time job.
On mobile at the moment so can’t check my .gdbinit, but a quick search turns up this page which seems relevant:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Skipping-Over-Func...
Laminar (Scala framework) hasn't been mentioned yet so dropping it here as an awesome framework that support HTML-over-the-wire. It can be used together with React, HTMX, and many other frontend frameworks -- but doesn't have to be.

https://laminar.dev/
What feature of the pro makes it worth $150 ($650 if you have the larger screen) more than the comparable iPad?
There is always stock that has to be used up before they go bad and the pilots and machines need flying time no matter what. It's not as bad as it sounds and the rockets have their warheads removed.
It's dangerous to apply heuristics in political discourse without the inclusion of the element of reputation. Otherwise, you're vulnerable to adversarial techniques that flood the zone with garbage information.

This kind of thing was everywhere in the Trump era: whether you were on the right or the left, you could easily navigate yourself into a space where all of your critics were random people who were obviously completely unhinged. They don't actually tell you that your position is all that great in any strict logical sense, but they certainly are emotionally affirming!
This underscores how important small businesses are to the health of a city.

I live a in less walkable neighborhood on this map - but about a year ago a small (tiny really, ~700sqft) corner store opened up 2 blocks from me. It sells coffee, pastry, simple sandwiches, but also pantry staples (flour, sugar, milk etc.) and has a really good beer and wine selection.

I can't do my normal grocery shopping there, but being able to walk 2 minutes to get coffee or a quick breakfast or that missing stick of butter for a recipe has been such a wonderful change to the neighborhood. (btw this store is not reflected on the map for coffeeshops or groceries.) They also host food trucks several days a week so its almost like having a restaurant in the neighborhood too.

All it took was 1 little store, owned and operated by a couple who lives in the neighborhood, to turn a 20 minute neighborhood into a 5 minute neighborhood for several thousand people.
Fair point; I doubt it's anything like a bottle rocket or whatever else. I guess it doesn't really matter either way since it's likely to be revealed what it was.
https://whatisnuclear.com is another great site with information about nuclear energy
Show HN: PySdfScad, my early work on an openscad interpretor with fillets
I've wondered if these incursions are intentional on the part of the Chinese to provoke a precedent setting response to airborne (and beyond) surveillance.

"They shoot down our surveillance balloons, giving us precedent to shoot down their high altitude drone planes or satellites in the future."
Pentagon: “High-altitude object” shot down over Alaska
they could buy western vaccine
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-events/#/?currentVideo=311.... Thanks!

Edit: I just realized there have been multiple threads about this story, so will merge them into the earliest one. Please stand by.

Edit 2: Ok, comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744757 and we'll use your URL on that one since it seems to be the most recent article.
A stable Society stands on shared principles, but those shared principles need not intrude into every aspect of life. In fact, I believe a stable Society is one which is very careful about which values it selects as universal
I had the pleasure of working with Sandra at SOE for a while on EverQuest II, and later I contracted with her and Eric to help at my startup Ohai. They are both wonderful people and it's great to see this game is still ongoing.
I mean Microsoft is betting big on OpenAI, but promoting ChatGPT to co-founder status is pretty revisionist history.
And most prime ministers and defence ministers of "allies" are resigning left and right. Something deeper is most likely that they don't want to be involved in this region conflict and be on leash of US.

EU made the mistake of following US into middle east and syria which blew up in their face with millions of refugees pouring in.

Getting involved in this RU-UKR war is the mistake to end all mistakes. There is no coming back from this. The world is polarized and EUR/USD is going to take a lot of pain.

EUR was created to offset some of the leash that US had on Europe and that's also tightening now.
I find it much less smooth having a webpage consuming constant CPU.
I’ve seen this pattern a few times in my now long career. Above average Engineer with missing (social skills/theory/cs degree) ends up only getting experience at companies with sub par developers.

Sub par developers parrot industry recommendations such as code reviews or microservices, and Above Average anti-social dude asks why and gets a dumb answer, and out-engineers all the idiots trying to mimic industry best practices.

Now Above Average engineer’s ego expands even more. Not only is he smarter than everyone else, all these best practices are dumb too.

Look at all these people needing code reviews or unit tests, they still can’t ship. Those people doing it at Meta and Amazon must be dumb too.” They think.

The thing is, their arrogance and/or disdain for (whatever) endures they only get hired at companies where this cycle repeats.

It is not a “brag” to say none of the developers you’ve ever worked with don’t understand linear algebra, it means you only work with morons. Being the king of morons isn’t a thing to be proud of…
> What say you older HNers, is this what it was like?

I'm old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis — to borrow from Dustin Hoffman's character in the movie Wag the Dog, "This? THIS is NOTH-ing!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jR4gld-nUA
I understand your frustration. I feel the same way. I think the web development landscape has become unnecessarily complex. I sometimes miss how simple it used to be to just throw some PHP files together and have a working website up and running. Granted, those “simple” websites came with their own set of issues (especially security-wise), but I still miss that simplicity.

Over the past 10-ish years alone, I’ve watched web development go through so many phases, it’s not even funny. Anyone remember gulp.js? Well, I remember a time when every conference talk mentioned it and you were weird if you didn’t use it. Backbone.js anyone?

In my experience, I’ve found that most folks can’t even tell you WHY they use React or insert JavaScript framework here.

Not too long ago, I was stepping through some “hello world” code for a trendy framework and the amount of code that was touched just to write “hello world” in the browser felt absolutely ridiculous to me.

Let me stop myself before I go on a prolonged rant . . .

Anyway, all that said, this is why I’m a fan of SvelteKit (Svelte) and Remix (React). I think they provide a decent balance of modern features while building on native web features/protocols properly.
It depends on what "senior developer" means, though. With my last 4 jobs, I was hired with the title "senior developer" -- but what it indicated was my pay grade, not my responsibilities. I was just a regular developer in them all.
Until the page gets complex and viewstate gets ugly too... Add in a dialup connection and you were in for worlds of pain. By today's standards of interactivity, I find the modern take (server rendered Blazor) as equally painfully slow to respond.
Yes, read the classic 'book' Understanding Comics, which is itself a comic/graphic novel about theories and practice behind creating graphic novels and telling stories with the medium.

As plain text it would be very dull and difficult to get the main points, but as a graphic novel it directly demonstrates how and why things work in the graphic medium.

It's really an incredible book that should be read by anyone doing creative things. https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/
there will be consequences from these war for population.