skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would take a pay cut to work in a sane language like clojure.

Honestly this is probably part of the reason Clojure jobs can pay less.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. Another in the same vein; the truth is somewhere in the middle.

As socio-political views and news sources get more extreme, both ring truer and truer every day.
can it handle a million rows? 10M?

believe it or not this is my biggest problem with Sheets, and while Excel does better it's still capped at 1M
I mean, at least OpenAI realized quickly that having their bot spew stuff like this was probably a bad idea.

How and why did Microsoft feel confident releasing this to the public in this state?
This thread is getting a little deep, but to close it out, I decided to indulge you and plan a somewhat typical commute for me from a while back. The total trip time including charging ends up being 3 hours. The same trip sans charging times is under 2 hours. That's 5 hours a week extra that I would be losing out. The trips are also short enough that I also don't need a break that sitting around waiting for charging would provide. The total distance would also use up almost a full charge, so if I start the morning with a full charge, I would still end up needing a long stop somewhere to charge up at the end of the night. I would also be unable to reliably charge at any of my destinations because of either lack of availability of facilities where I could park and leave my car for multiple hours to charge, or because the available facilities are meager (Here's a 120v 15A outlet, have fun charging much at those speeds). So yes, I will agree, ABRP does simplify things. I couldn't imagine having to deal with finding the charging stations and planning out my route without a tool like that. But all of the problems it seems to me that it solves are ones that arise from having an EV.

Here's my idea of simple: No apps needed, I pull up to the charger, any charger, I get out of the car, tap my credit card on the payment terminal, plug the charging cable into my car, stand around for 2-3 minutes while my car recharges to 100%, unplug, grab my receipt and drive off. If I'm on a long trip and starting to get low on charge, I look for the next charge station sign I see. Basically, exactly like a gas station is right now. My understand of TheLoafOfBread's comment was that they were thinking along the same lines as me.

ABRP does very little to move the needle towards this version of simple. It can't make charging times shorter than what is physically possible, it can't offer you charging stations that are as ubiquitous as gas stations, it can't enforce having the same easy to use connector at every charge station. It has a role to play, a small one, and frankly not terribly interesting one.

We are talking in circles, so perhaps it's time to finish the conversation.
> We only have their pinky promise that the new analytics are anonymous.

Isn’t Homebrew open source? One could audit the source themselves. If you’re talking about what happens on the server side yes, but I don’t see the difference with any other computer I connect with over the internet.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
Human psychological strategies for recognizing person-hood in some other have not developed any way to handle things like GPT3. We're not ready as a species for this.
For another take: I try to write a single module.css file per component in which I do zero nesting, avoiding any preprocessors (other than postcss modules, obviously). Nesting, IMHO, makes CSS a bit easier to write but much harder to read.
If you have reproducible builds and you can verify the digest of the app on your phone, difference is like night and day in open-source vs. closed-source projects.
no it should not be like that.

the whole idea of sovereign independent nations that can exist isolated from each other is something that needs to go away. there should be free movement for everyone unless they are known criminals (in which case they should be in prison). people moving for economic reasons should be stopped by removing those reason (create better living conditions where they are). and everyone else should be free to move.

my family is now spread over three continents and as many nationalities. none of us have the freedom to move around to come together where we want. it's ridiculous.

national borders need to be removed. freedom to travel needs to be established and permission to settle should only be denied if someone isn't able to sustain themselves in the new area.
The UMich article contains a quote that I think argues that there is nothing “on the other side” of black holes that could be the birth of a new universe: “If cosmological coupling is confirmed, it would mean that black holes never entirely disconnect from our universe, that they continue to exert a major influence on the evolution of the universe into the distant future” Tarlé said.

That suggests to me that popular notion that black holes are an entry point to a wormhole leading to a new place would be unfounded.
This is kinda related to an idea I've been "struggling" with.

Some numbers represent real things. Like my little kid saw a pair of oven mitts and said 'two gloves'. Like, he was seeing a literal manifestation of two-ness in front of him - which is different than the logical idea of 1+1 or the symbol 2.

So you can physically see two of something. You can see ten of something. You can see a billion of something (sand on a beach). But at some point numbers get disconnected from concepts. We can easily say "ten to the power of million" as easily as "ten to the power of two" but the former is literally more than the number of particles in the universe. You can never encounter anything and say "oh, that's one with a million zeros of something."

Basically it seems like some numbers represent physical concepts (twoness, which can be manifested by a pair of mittens) and some numbers are purely theoretical.
> USA unemployment is 7,4%

The not commonly used U-6 is, yeah, but even your link mentions that U-3 is commonly used, and why would you compare different unemployment rates between countries? Here [1] is Destatis from December 2022 with data for all EU countries and the US for comparison.

> Spain, Greece, Italy's unemployment is highly seasonal - in summer it drops to almost 0%

In June 2022, Spain had 12.6% (2021: 15.3%), Greece had 12.3% (15.0%) and Italy 8.1% (9.4%), see [2] from Eurostat.

Is this going to turn into a session of frantic googling to find numbers that support your claim that you based upon feelings and prejudices instead of facts?

[1] https://www.destatis.de/Europa/EN/Topic/Population-Labour-So...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/14675433/3-0...
If it's any consolation, everyone seems to feel the need to invent a new word for daughterboard for their own flavor of microcontroller / single board computer.
At this point, I don't even think these companies need to have layoffs, they're literally just following the fad.
Ask HN: Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest?
I use nextDNS, and I am wondering if there are any better adblockers that also protect privacy which is preferred by the HN community.
> for example "brew install" writes files into /usr/local/

I think it's /opt/homebrew on M1.

https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ#why-should-i-install-homebrew-in-th...

> permissions model means that Homebrew-managed parts of the system become a single user system, as far as I know. Multiple user accounts on the same Mac can't easily use Homebrew

The single user thing is problematic in a corp env where you may have a mgmt admin user and a non-admin dev user.

Long story short, temporarily have the dev user be an admin, install brew, drop the admin priv. That works for cli tools (which is actually great), but may not work for /Applications unless you change its ownership. Used to be OSX effectively (not literally) merged ~/Applications and /Applications, but now in MacOS the security sandboxing and entitlements don't like that.
yes, mixins. even just static sets of declarations would be a great start, e.g., wanting to apply the same set of base rules to both an entity and various classes without error-prone repetition (which you typically separate to have control over cascading and specificity).

css variables in media queries would be helpful too, but mixins to me is the next big step after :has() (oh so useful, come on firefox!) and this nested css syntax. unfortunately, it may be years for us to see it in browsers. there's no consensus yet on mixin syntax or where in the css lifecycle it would be implemented (there are potentially serious performance implications apparently).
Keep them. It might be worthwhile to look into AVIF instead of WebP, as AVIF seems to be winning the current generation image format war.
GH Hardy (1940) discusses this whole issue in a readable manner:

https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansApology-G.h.Hardy...

He discusses two relatively simple proofs, the first being Euclid's proof of the infinity of the primes, the second being Pythagoras's proof of the irrationality of the square root of two:

> "Euclid’s theorem tells us that we have a good supply of material for the construction of a coherent arithmetic of the integers. Pythagoras’s theorem and its extensions tell us that, when we have constructed this arithmetic, it will not prove sufficient for our needs, since there will be many magnitudes which obtrude themselves upon our attention and which it will be unable to measure: the diagonal of the square is merely the most obvious example. The profound importance of this discovery was recognized at once by the Greek mathematicians. They had begun by assuming (in accordance, I suppose, with the ‘natural’ dictates of ‘common sense’) that all magnitudes of the same kind are commensurable, that any two lengths, for example, are multiples of some common unit, and they had constructed a theory of proportion based on this assumption."

> "Pythagoras’s discovery exposed the unsoundness of this foundation, and led to the construction of the much more profound theory of Eudoxus which is set out in the fifth book of the Elements, and which is regarded by many modern mathematicians as the finest achievement of Greek mathematics. The theory is astonishingly modern in spirit, and may be regarded as the beginning of the modern theory of irrational number, which has revolutionized mathematical analysis and had much influence on recent philosophy."

Another good discussion is Poincare's "Science and Hypothesis" (1902) in which he asserts that one defining feature of all mathematics is the self-consistency of arguments, which is the freedom from contradiction (a view all philosophy would hopefully adopt, vs. say, the expediency of political behavior and nation-state propaganda).

https://archive.org/details/scienceandhypoth00poinuoft/page/...

> "To sum up, the mind has the faculty of creating symbols, and it is thus that it has constructed the mathematical continuum, which is only a particular system of symbols. The only limit to its power is the necessity of avoiding all contradiction; but the mind only makes use of it when experiment gives a reason for it."
Learn emacs! I wish I had done that 10 years ago… it teaches you so much about the tinker/hacker spirit. Also, it gives you an awesome community to be part of. Finally, you can have huge gains in productivity. Not just for code, but also organization, emails, taking notes, etc.
Correlation is not causation. At least I'd ask you to entertain the thought that the same factors that make a specific individual be without economic prospects also are factors that turn him violent.
All good mate! There are some specifics I don't (and don't think I can) get into, but big picture, a lot of the core best practices in configuration management and security do work, the issue is whether you are able to hire people who can actually implement and understand WHY those practices are in place and how to iterate if said practices don't work. Most organizations across the globe have barely gotten a handle of ACLs and Security Groups, but evangelizing best practices for Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, OT Security, etc will take another 10-20 years simply because of inertia and the common sentiment that IT is a cost center.

Random think tanks doing thought leadership on CNN or at Brookings will jack themselves off to the notion of "online warfare" and whatnot, but those guys can barely type, let alone write cohesive policy.

I've been on both sides of this - both in the policy making world and in the private sector tech world - and cases like Oakland keep happening in a daily basis everywhere and will keep happening forever.
Often the forseeable future is about 5 years. A study from 10 years ago is outdated.

Solar has dropped roughly half it's cost every decade for the past two decades. This means you can have twice as much as you need for the same price. Lithium battery costs are 1/7th the price they were 10 years ago per kwh. Will we still need fossil fuels? Yes, absolutely! But the scale of fossil fuel usage will drop like a rock until it's a quaint product of a bygone age used in arctic regions only.

Fossil fuels are already feeling the crunch. Coal is the first victim. Natural gas will go down as well. Mostly because they are too expensive and there are better alternatives.

I can see nuclear becoming cheap enough to replace a lot of existing steam generators in colder, darker, regions like northern Europe. But even then, geothermal is starting to sneak back as a viable technology.

I really look forward to seeing where this all goes, but it's not looking good for petroleum based fuels.
No, we cannot be sure, but this whole thread is a discussion of plausibility, not certainty. Just above, notahacker has suggested (subsequent to your post here) a way ChatGPT might be getting internal data, that seems quite plausible to me.
That would be damning if I could find a statement by telegram about how they are working with the russian government to deal with 'terrorism'.

I'm seeing quoted statements by the russian government in the article that I cannot verify elsewhere but I'm unable to see telegram making a statement from their side of working with the russian government.

I'm truly interested in getting to the bottom of this. This wired piece doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in it's trustworthiness but I'm unable to find something with more concrete sources or at least a better reputation.
This is great example of unit tests, but I don’t think it’s comparable with OP’s scenario. Math laws are ‘fixed’ and well known, you can just write fixed tests to find the discrepancy between the laws and your implentation. Where OP’s point is about ‘startup business logics’, the ‘laws’ here are constantly changing all the time, which means you will constantly throw out most of your tests along the way.
Actually, that is changing: https://github.com/BlinkDL/ChatRWKV
Thanks, appreciate the feedback! You make good points. We'll have a look at how we can improve the landing page.
Study suggests watching nature documentaries on TV is good for the planet
I've noticed Bing chat isn't good about detecting the temporal context of information. For example I asked "When is the next Wrestlemania" and it told me it would be in April 2022. If you say "but it's 2023 now" Bing will apologise and then do a new search with "2023" in its search, and give the correct answer.

Doesn't seem like an insurmoutable problem to tune it to handle these sort of queries better.
Even great, objective reporting can be sullied by a headline writer who is rewarded for doing things the news org can easily measure.

https://www.instagram.com/nyt_headlines
You can enable it with a flag in Firefox though. If only I could enable subgrid with a Blink flag though ha.
Note that this also comes with very long, 3-6-9 months of probation periods in most EU countries - during which time both parties can terminate the contract instantly and without reason. After such time passes, everybody is interested in a predictable safe separation.
I have no comparison when it comes to statehood and legislature with other EU countries, but I can definitely tell you that German federal bureaucracy as well as civil servant system is insanely complex and the absolute primary reason for absolute drag on technology adoption.

Essentially it's death by a thousand cuts (or bureaucracies) plus powerful career civil servants appointed for live and not incentivized to change at all.

The root of these systems is directly attributable to the horror of the Third Reich and seeing how the Nazis corrupted centralized power and weak bureaucracy.

By design, things like large scale technology adaption in public administration is hard in Germany.

It is 100% intentional and not driven by the economy etc. but mostly the legal setup.

I don't particularly mind it in the case of Street View or VR headsets, the world does imo not need either to function properly.

It sucks in general though of course.

It also will only ever change at a glacial pace, unfortunately.

I've thought about emigrating more than once. :D
I bring it up because Rust evangelists like to pretend that Rust code with no explicit “unsafe” in it is safe. It’s not safe, though, as long as the dependencies use it.

I enjoy coding in Rust. I don’t enjoy the shit name its community gives it.
> If you want usage statistics for packages just track how often individual packages are downloaded on the server side. A maintainer has no need to know who's installing what.

To be clear: Homebrew has no idea which users are installing what. We only store counters for package install, failure, etc. events, and everything that's stored is visible on the Homebrew website[1].

Homebrew's architecture doesn't really have a "server side" in the way your suggestion requires: the formulae and bottle components rely heavily on public services like GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages, which don't offer those kinds of analytics.

FD: Member of Homebrew.

[1]: https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/
Is that an accurate statement?
99% of what we see in the news is editorial content. We are being informed of where partisans stand on issues. The actual event is tertiary. The narrative surrounding it is secondary. The primary item is the partisan goal.

"Joe Biden fell off his bicycle", we can believe that much. The other 99% of the content is partisan posturing. Maybe if I were there, I could have further insights, "His aides should have given him platform pedals instead of cages". Thankfully I wasn't there. Even if I had been there, my observation would have still been subjective.

However, there are some narratives and editorial positions which are trivially self-refuting. We can evaluate them from first principles. "A misinformation czar is required to protect democracy" or "We need censorship to preserve a free and open society" If we trust people to vote, then we must trust people to consume and evaluate information independent of state institutions.

Ultimately these discussions revolve around our premises. Our first principles inform us. The specific event can be almost irrelevant in many cases.

There are other crank ideas like those advanced by David Icke. I cannot prove that world leaders are not lizard people, but I'm naturally skeptical. Even if I watched Biden fall, I couldn't prove it. Crank theories don't threaten me, they amuse. Hopefully this is something which isn't controversial for partisans on this site. We could substitute other news items and theories.

I'm more troubled by the users shouting down these delightful absurdities. "My truth is bigger than yours"

From my side they have my deepest sympathy for wherever the disagreement injured them. However, moving forward perhaps it would be best if they didn't identify so closely with editorialized content or specific news outlets? "9 out of 10 HN users chose Brand-X Truth and here's why..."
There is so much. Any time there's a war, the NY Times manufactures consent, Iraq war and weapons of mass destruction for example, more than half of Americans thought Saddam had nukes.

Russiagate is a recent example:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/03/reveal...

Misleading can also be what the NY Times doesn't cover. For example, the Columbia Journalism Review published a scathing report on how the media misled on Russiagate and NY Times and other MSM just tries to ignore it:

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p...

Watch this 10 minute video by Glenn Greenwald that goes over in detail how the NY Times misleads and lies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZB0jan4QSY
Just a reminder that Fortune is now a pay-to-play publication.
In the US - this should also be the case. It should fall under the 4th amendment as unreasonable search and seizure. But the NSA, and probably other agencies, has been doing it for years anyway.
This post is two blogs upstream of the original article (Business Insider -> Futurism -> Schneier on Security).

The original is here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-chatgpt-openai-warns-...

(alternatively, https://archive.is/fkU7E)
Sequoia backs Pydantic OSS to build cloud services
How do you define "liberal"? Per my understanding, the United States and liberalism are almost synonymous. The US is basically the representative of liberalism on the world stage, at least that's how most of the world tends to think of us.
Driving is the only time I’d do that but the interfaces make it hard to start a podcast I want quickly. Same problem with music
I'm not sure that's true in general.

You can go through something like OCW and see the notes and can buy the same books used in the courses. You may need to hunt down appropriate problem sets to work on but there's a ton of material out there.

That said, as commented on up thread, you'll end up doing a lot of work to get a very theoretical not-degree, without even the benefit of labs, that is probably more or less useless in actually getting you a mechanical engineering job.
The alternative is that anyone can make themselves unfirable by claiming to be making a unionization attempt. That’s a worse outcome than some optics.
More active discussion on this later submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818311
I kind of dislike cosmological / astronomical science. It's strictly non interacting. It's predicting a function of only output and not inputs. Sure, the number of outputs is large. But without any inputs, it's just a funny compression competition.

So long as we can't interact with it, I don't think there's any way to distinguish between ideas. Note that the only reason Newton managed to surpass his predecessors was because of his insight that whatever it was that's pulling the stars is also the same thing we have locally. Without having something to play with locally, we'd never get anywhere. Sure, you might realize that somehow the epicirles are actually ellipses, or find this or that correction. Still you'll get nowhere without something interactive and local.
Does anyone know where I could read about the model of a blackhole that has vacuum energy inside instead of singularity?
This is very similar to Pennies [1] but I do like your UI better.

[1]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pennies-budget-and-expenses/id...
The groups of people who work in the industry and those who believe A/B testing is psychological experimentation aren’t disjoint.
I remember this from the book IronPython in Action. The book teaches IronPython (Python for .Net) by having you build a spreadsheet application. The author worked on Resolver One.
Australia's NBN sat division loses 10% of customers in 1 year, probably Starlink
The SCD40 series is a pain to calibrate - it will drift out of calibration unless it's left outside at some points. It's not ideal for consumer electronics.
Questions:

This is a platform as a service?

How does the frontend work with the backend, it’s all backend and magic stuff to reflect it on the frontend?