skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very, very cool.

I know little about the subject matter but expected to see higher density around the equator. Unless I'm mistaken, geo-stationary satelites need to remain there(?)
Pretty sure they were doing this on purpose because art prior to the impressionists was done intentionally to convey subtler meanings.

If I recall correctly, it was noses (or maybe it was hands) that artists had difficulty drawing. Been a long time since my art history gen Ed.
And yet despite having a majority of the house and senate under Biden they've been unable to deliver almost anything except an unfair railroad contract.

So maybe, just maybe, the 2 sides are willing to shout about different things but at the end of the day are in fact the same.
> I think that's because there's nothing good there

One problem is that Google can't bear to serve you up no results, because potential delicious advertising revenue.

Rather than say there aren't any results, they'll serve up fifteen ads (barely recognisable as such) that match something vaguely similar, ignore a few words in your search term that would have excluded some profitable results, rewrite your search term into something that it feels like you should be searching for, drop the quotes around your phrases to find more pages, or some other infuriating reinterpretation.

So even if there isn't anything good there, it's hard to get a feel for whether the data are sparse or you're just being funnelled to stuff that's more profitable.
> Google needs a war-time CEO

Do you know that "war-time" is a banned phrase in Google, because it is just so f*@$ offensive? In the end, words are weapons used by Nazis. We need 1000 Gebru to do things ethically in Google /s
> I don't know how much the market really has a say in this. (...) companies are using JS-based apps not because it necessarily leads to a better user experience but because it reduces their costs.

That's quite literally the market having a say.
I recall opening a csv of user data in excel, and one particular user had a username of april0204 (can't recall the actual number but you get the idea). It took me a moment longer than I care to admit to realize what had happened as i stared at the random date in the middle of my username column
You can order food in the Uber app - there's a big tab at the top in iOS.

I think there's huge pressure to "everything app" very disparate services. I've also noticed that Amazon now lets you pull up your Whole Foods code or pull up the Whole Foods storefront from the Amazon app.
> It is not smarter than most people you know.

You and I live in a rarefied world. It's far better at writing than most people I know. and i suspect it's (sadly) better at logic/ math than many people, which, i fully admit isn't saying much.
It really would benefit most people to learn to use (Windows) Snipping Tool or (Mac) cmd-shift-4 to crop an image that is currently displayed on their screen; that would create a new image altogether (cropped screenshot). It's truly even easier to use than whatever Gsuite or Office alternatives they would otherwise use, once you know of their existence.

My significant other is outside of tech and wasn't aware of either of these. Once shown, there was no reason to go back to using anything else to crop images.

No image editors involved!
I prefer to have both. First line — a short summary of changes, further lines telling reasons and relevant comments
Interesting that it is F# only, usually .NET based products can also use C# and VB.NET. Especially VB.NET could be useful when porting VBA code.
> exploit technological asymmetry

AI technologies like this require hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to develop. If chip manufacturers refuse to work with these people, cloud computing companies refuse to work with these people, then it won't be developed. Mark of Death.

Burying your head in the sand, IMO, looks like continuing to develop dangerous technologies knowing they will likely end in disaster because "technological progress can't be stopped". Somehow the medical profession has ethical guidelines that are followed enough to not result in existential crises, but we technologists could never I guess
The EU requires immobilizers. The US didn't, probably because until Hyundai removed them every car sold had them.
Based on this argument, perhaps we should eliminate private ownership of all homes. That will bring maximum benefit to the society, no?

Wait, I think communist countries already tried that and failed.

Anyway, let's just agree to disagree and move on with our lives.
Actually, given the high investment costs for dual-use of solar and crops, it is economically better to just do each separately and commit the area fully to one or the other. That was the essence at least I got from an article about agrivoltaics in Germany.
Do they have a chat?
> most HN readers don't realise just how unusual the tools they use and what they want are with regards to the average job.

Probably because it literally doesn't matter what experience other have. The only thing that matters to me about a tool is if it's helping or hurting.

Teams does both, which I consider damning because there are other tools available that are much lighter on the "hurting" side.

But companies don't actually seem to care about things like that. They see that they are getting Teams "for free", and so that's what we're forced to use.
ruff is really nice! I'm a very happy user of it on a handful of projects: it's easily 10x faster than the PyCQA tools (flake8, etc.), and has decent (and growing) coverage for most of their checks. It also integrates nicely with GitHub Actions' annotation support, which has been a boon for pointing junior devs to correctable errors.
Then print and scan the screen shot before faxing it to authorities.
Google's CEO claimed that he's taking "full responsibility" for the massive layoffs they went through.

I have no idea what the fuck that actually means, but I would think resignation and being replaced would probably be a reasonable way to take responsibility for his reckless gambling with peoples' lives.
Never heard of Spiral but it looks really interesting, particularly compared to MKL and FFTW. It’s been possible for a long time for C and C++ compilers to use “profile guided optimisation”, but it’s not widely used in practice because it’s pretty awkward to leverage.
It’s funny because I listen to music quietly in the background while my podcasts play, so I can’t use Spotify for podcasts _because_ they’re in the same app.
> ...according to an unclassified Customs and Border Protection report obtained by Yahoo News.

Not that I'm a big fan of secrets, 3-letter agencies, etc. - but maybe it woulda been smarter to keep this secret? Plausibly the secret-selling Russian still has some family/friends/coworkers back in Russia. And would prefer to minimize the chances of Russia's own 3-letter folks tracking him down, sooner or later, to {cough} "give the dirty rat what he deserves".
Talking about computers.
I get that perspective. There aren't a lot of people who agree with my risk assessment. I'm _mostly_ not going to tell other people what they should or shouldn't do (I do wish we'd go back to universal masking in a few locations, like doctors offices and government buildings. Higher risk and more cautious people can avoid restaurants and bars, but you can't just not show up if you get summoned for jury duty, or need to get treated for cancer).

Ultimately, either I'm wrong and the opportunity cost is the extra years of quality I'm losing to continued caution, or other people are wrong and the cumulative effects of infections are going to greatly impact their quality and quantity of life. If everyone chose to take some extra precautions, like masking, better ventilation, and staying home when they were sick then I'd have to give up less, and other people might not be risking so much, but I know that's just not going to happen, and I'm going to deal with the world as it is rather than as I think it ought to be.

My guess is that, although covid isn't going away, in a few years I think things will improve. Long covid is real, and it's having a real economic impact already. It's going to have a bigger impact in the coming years, and there's going to be real incentive to do something about it when it becomes clear that it's a huge drag on productivity. Prophylactic nasal sprays, better post-exposure protocols, next generation vaccines, faster and more reliable testing (preferably something that detects covid in the air rather than relying on individual testing), improved ventilation- all of that is being worked on, and I think eventually a lot of things will be low enough risk that I'll resume some activities.

In the mean time, I'm lucky to be far enough in my career that the impact of a harder line stance on this isn't too bad. Technical collaboration has always been largely remote for me, and there are ways I'm able to maintain connections with friends and family even though we rarely see each other in person.
Don't fix it if it ain't broke. Despite Elon Musk behaving stupidly in many other aspects and areas, SpaceX is still working well. Whatever dynamic Musk and Shotwell have between them, it's obviously working out well. So don't "fix" it if it ain't broke.
Hands. See Stable Diffusion for proof.
Actually, what will happen according to the C++ standard depends on the size of int.

C++ is doing implicit integer promotion of integer variables with types smaller than int, and that promotion converts those values (of the operands of the +) to int (gross generalization yeah yeah).

So the result on g++ amd64 will be 100000 (as you would expect) if int is more than 16 bits (nowadays it is), even WITH `(uint16_t(50000) + uint16_t(50000))`.

I've also tried it in MSVC 2010 and it says the result of `std::cout << (uint16_t(50000) + uint16_t(50000)) << std::endl` is 100000 (both on win32 and on x64).

Try it on an arduino and you will get 34464 (with g++ targeting 8 bit atmel).

Think you want implicit integer promotion in a systems language? You really don't. They are an unnecessary language feature.

Also, the article is only tangentially about that--that's just an intro. The actual body makes very good points, and I think it's more than a little tongue-in-cheek :)
I think there's also a pretty big group of us who find that it is today a moderately useful tool for certain types of things but isn't really transformative in general.
Somewhat related. But the way "the average person" enters queries is not how engineers would enter it. The average person already uses somewhat natural language queries that Google answers. While I (and probably others in the tech field) would go for the keywords.

e.g, my wife and family members would enter:

* "Distance from Toronto to vancouver"
* "How old is the universe"
* "What is the capital of Belgium"

I'd enter:

* "Toronto vancouver distance"
* "Universe age"
* "Capital Belgium"

etc.. you get the point. So for those, I think the ChatGPT approach of "ask question in natural language, get natural language response" is actually quite attractive. Provided it's not outright hallucinating the answer
Hottest fintech product? Loans where it takes years to get your money
>Also comparing anything going on in the US for the last 60 years to the genocide happening in Xinjiang is ridiculous on its face.

Indeed - the fact that black people are being killed and incarcerated for their skin colour in USA is well documented, whereas the “genocide” is mostly just a propaganda tool.
Why should we retroactively require features on Hyundai/Kia cars from 2015? Why not other vehicles that also lack the same features?
Overpriced. ChatGPT has made me wonder why Copilot is worth so much.
Because the author wants to generate a continuous stream of revenue?
There are two issues I have with discussions of code performance:

1: Unsubstantiated and vague statements, e.g. X is 50% faster than Y, well, how is it measured, what are the actual numbers?

2: Measuring performance by measuring how much time a program takes, e.g. X takes 3 seconds while Y takes 6 seconds, well, is that consistent across measurements, have you measured it on different machines, have you measured that under various different conditions?

Various factors can impact the apparent performance of code, among which is memory layout. Considering on GNU/Linux (and maybe other platforms) the global environment is passed into a program by putting it above the stack (remember, stack grows down) the memory layout can differ by virtue of having different values for the environment variables USER (username), HOST (hostname), and PWD (current working directory); apparent performance is not really reliable.

I don't know of the best practices for measuring performance, but if I were responsible for measuring the performance of a program I'd do so by looking at its disassembly, assigning a cost to the different types of instructions, and adding the costs together. That probably is a terrible way to go about it, so I welcome any insight into why that isn't done.
Tech layoffs hurt Gen Z job prospects, could backfire for big tech
How about starting jvms in advance?
Nope, but they can lock after launch using data from the jet's radar or helmet cued targeting. Pretty much an "It's over there somewhere. Kill anything you can see in that location/velocity." Then the sidewinder points it's sensor where the jet tells it to and uses UV/IR to find it.

The 9x is to the original sidewinder what your smart phone is to an abacus. Shooting down balloons with it is pretty wild. Even if they don't have the proxy fuses or warheads.
This is one of the few sites I find immediately and highly readable (on mobile). Does it not wrap lines on larger displays?
The phrase "death by a thousand paper cuts" comes to mind.
No controlled trial means we don't know if it's helping or not. Nobody is saying that the legal drinking age is the sole determinant of addiction rates.
Lab-Grown Diamonds, from Your Ring to Phone
Python in 2023 is like Perl in 1996.

Given the choice I'd rather program in anything else.
They should’ve just maintained what they were doing and not follow in the footsteps of Tesla/Microsoft with their shit implementations
DevOps manages production. Everyone junior-senior asks for access, senior-senior knows better and lets the team assigned manage it. If anything goes wrong in production at 4am not having access means you will not be called
If you look at the word "proc" and "return" here [1], it looks great and extremely well balanced. There is also a problem of choosing specific examples like the word "random" which has a bad pairing with "ra". You're right though, it can be improved.

[1] https://cdn.berkeleygraphics.com/static/public-affairs/bulle...
I imagine a key benefit here is going to be performance, because a lot of Python tooling is written in Python which will be significantly slower.
https://archive.ph/3iF3g
The economies of gas stations will be interesting to watch for sure. Given that they already make only a few cents of profit per gallon sold, their main source of profit is probably all the additional things (pizza and beer at 2am or on Sundays where everything else is closed here in Germany). Couple that with the fact that EV owners will spend more time at a station due to charging times, the switch to EV might honestly drive up their profitability quite substantially. And once you can get rid of pumps you just eliminated maintenance of moving/pumping machinery, fire hazards, regular visits by fuel trucks, and probably a lot of other things I'm not even aware of.

I'm not saying I'm right on any of these, but I'm really curious to see how this plays out. There's gonna be some "wow, I didn't think that would happen" moments along the way.
Additionally, this only happens for cars built for the U.S. The other countries have electronic immobilizer requirements, so they have them.
Yes. I used Spotify for podcasts for a long time (because it was convenient and I had a music subscription), and then gave up. The only user visible changes I ever saw were ads for podcasts I didn't care about pushed into my face. I would search online for some problem I had and see that it had been reported years ago by other users and no improvement ever came.

Their service has always been very reliable, I'll give them that. But the app just doesn't improve over the course of years. What on earth are they actually working on at this point? And what kind of podcasting strategy doesn't include making the app good for podcasts?
First page of google already is like that for some searches.

I searched for a lot of non-tech topics and the top results are often totally incomprehensible text which contradict themselves in the next paragraph.
For many years I have used SnagIt for cropping photos and documents. It has excellent features for marking up the resulting images too. It is very useful for customizing something for insertion in a Powerpoint slide. I do hate the nag screen poking me to upgrade from version 8 though. Fortunately it is a two click operation that has become muscle memory to me now.
It's just unfortunately becoming clear Python is going the way of C++.
interesting.

I had always thought that the farmers left the trees on the property line because they're just so dang much trouble to cut down with nothing but manual labor and they make a good property line.
> I never thought I'd miss JIRA so much

Curious on what you [were] using? Something created in house? I am not a fan of Jira but not having it to track issues or create bug requests does indeed sound like a nightmare.
That is something that is solvable with some investment. I'm thinking niche like driving to the North Pole. there are probably a few other weird ones (and some of them will be debated as if they should be or not)
The premise of YC is that you will go full time with a co founder. However, the co founder matching doesn't stop you from finding someone to do a side project with first and in fact, that is the better way. It is like dating before marriage. Now, will you find someone on YC co-founder matching who is only interested in a side project ? You have to try and find out. Also, may be if your side projects becomes a hit, you may do it full time. Never say never.
But the whole point of these debates is a discussion about whether Bing is going to eat Google's lunch in search, which very much is about finding out about things like companies' exec teams.

The ability of an LLM to generate decent content (provided you're an attentive editor or the users of the content aren't too discerning) could be huge for Office365, but that's irrelevant to any potential threat to Google, since Docs is of very little importance to Google's revenues and strategy in a market where Office is completely dominant and has always had a more full-featured product.
first draft does set the direction
Morrowind has several different systems of fast travel, the best being the silt strider
It wasn’t the ideology behind, sure, but the end result was the same.
Not just weighing the CCP’s numbers equally, but pushing their agenda in general. There was a lengthy time period where anyone that even admitted that the lab leak theory was a real possibility became deplatformed with extreme prejudice.

They promoted many narratives that they knew were lies…such as 2 weeks to flatten the curve or that the vaccine will prevent you from getting sick with COVID. I also remember at the very beginning we were told don’t wear cloth masks, anything less than an N95 is ineffective, but once enough masks were commercially available we were literally killing grandma if we didn’t wear one everywhere.

The CDC has lost almost all of their credibility.
Article authors don't typically write the headlines that appear above their pieces.
> which I accept is crappy of me and against the guidelines

Just wanted to say I appreciate online commenters admitting when they were wrong/off-color. A welcome sight anywhere on the Internet!
Thank you! That looks like a great list, but for commercial buildings. For private accessibility\wall mount isn't going to move.
Great thread!

Designer says: my opinion is right because A. Dan shows: A is not factual. Designer says: my opinion is right because of B.

Dan notices behaviours, and then he writes compellingly about those behaviours.
The Paris demo was part of the same announcement on the same day? Both contributed to the large drop in the stock and both are evidence of a rushed response to the MS announcement.
So I didnt know what to compare for the orders of magnitude.

Like you said, by death it's more than 4 (since as far as i know no one has died yet).

But by affected area, toxicity normalized mass of spill, amount of ground water affected, etc, I don't know how they compare. And a cursory search showed it would be hard to get clean data.

But any way you slice it, you're right. Two orders of mag is not enough. Bohpal was such a tragedy :(
No way. Humans are much smarter than SD, are they saying for hundreds of years we did the (not hands) shadows wrong?
They are removing all the user generated content for big news events. What you have to do is sort by new and set duration to some short time period. You will notice the videos you see there will eventually disappear from search
it's not even a conspiracy theory... investors have outright called for RTO for that reason.
> Is there some 4chan-esque programming language that actually discourages queer people from using their language?

There isn't. I find that any organizations priding itself in employing (X) group of people is being disingenious at best, and preferential at worst.

Personal traits are irrelevant in a professional setting, let alone an online one where they are hidden away behind written communication. So to actively seek them out, or worse, place them on a pedestal, only signals that you reward personal traits over actual work ethic and ability. You're essentially taking pride in what your employees are rather than what your employees can do... Such organizations tend to go down a purity spiral of policing human interaction and speech, as well as preferential treatment of employees, to the detriment of product quality. Often implementing measures that are low in merit but high in potential for abuse, such as forcing contributors to sign vague agreements[1], or banning "offensive" numbers[2] from being used.

I wouldn't trust such an organization with my machine or data. The comments in the article do nothing but instill doubt in Rust's quality as a product and its future.

[1] https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/d0ea1d767925d53b2230e...
Expert network industry's revenues surpassed $2.1B in 2022
"It would mean that Google takes it seriously but also has the tech on a shelf in a usable form"

Even if unusable, they have the network effects and brand... just get something out there to play with that will make some sort of impression, however flawed, that can quickly be iterated on. It can be ancillary to the current experience.

Bing suffers from being so historically unpopular that from a branding perspective it's synonymous with failure. It's meme territory. It's not like MS is going to overcome that in a matter of weeks or even months.

Google has plenty of rope here.
Yep. I saw that change from Fallout 2 to Fallout 3. It was dramatic and bad. Voice acting in RPGs made for much more limited game dialog (and gameplay!) across many RPG series. They stopped being role playing games and started being movies you played through. AI voices are a welcome potential fix... though I doubt the big corporate game studios are going to go back to the old ways.