skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were missing the AI squirrel counter. If you had this, you could have a dashboard showing the number of squirrels visiting you each day and the time of their visit. Instead of being anxious, you could be a squirrel expert and you long conversation on squirrel behavior with your neighbors. Instead of getting a notification for each squirrel, you could instead set goals of how many squirrels you want to visit you and get notifications when you reach those goals. Then you'd have a fun game. How to get 10 or more squirrels to visit each day? Maybe put some nuts outside? Endless possibilities.
In the last 70 years alone we've added over 5 billion people. In the 1800s there were vast swaths of temperate, fertile land that were basically unclaimed. Moving around was no big deal at that scale.

Now we have people everywhere (that doesn't suck; and even some places that do). We have social programs and expensive infrastructure. The world is very different now than even 100 years ago.
Back in time was lucky enough to participate into an Inclusive Design Workshop for three days. My views on developing products and services never been the same from that point, meaning opacity into developing just for active wealthy young targeted groups.
Some people claim that they can see the chat history of other users [0]. This might be the reason why OpenAI has disabled the history.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11l2hox/chatgpt_ju...
Edit: I was going only off the headline, never opened the article. original comment below.

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Somewhat surprised we're not measuring in Angstroms yet.

18 and 20 angstroms respectively. Might not be a SI unit but it's still metric and gets rid of that pesky decimal. Especially since a silicon atom is 2 Angstroms, it seems like the right unit.
> Futures are sort of like Result types in that a Future can complete with either a value or an error.

Incidentally, for curious readers, the first version of the Future trait in Rust always returned a Result<T, E> from its poll method. The second version decided to instead return T directly, since T could be Result<T, E> too, making things a bit more general, but also leading to a tiny bit of type tetris.

Doesn't mean that I'm saying anything about whatever Dart does here, just that I also think there's a connection here :)
> rapidly internalized into your brain

I'm not sure how old you are/how long you have been working at your job, but I can tell you that over 10 years or so there are tons of things that I "internalized" for a while, then did other stuff for a while, and now only have vague memories of. This is the use case for searching your own content.
It’s more like the Blue Wall
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Well, for one, having a renderer mixed into a geometry kernel is already a red flag for me. It's like starting to write an OS by deciding what the mascot should be... A geometry kernel shouldn't be concerned with rendering at all. 75% of the documentation is about managing the camera, the lights, the materials, etc. This isn't what a kernel should do.
Keeping things cold is effectively an energy vs space tradeoff.

For example, if you wanted to keep an underground superconducting wire cold, then you would send coolant pipes along it, and wrap it in an insulator. You need to put energy into chilling the coolant, inversely proportional to the thickness of the insulation.

However, typically for most things humans want to do, the cooling cost works out higher than the energy lost to resistance in a non-superconductor, so, apart from a few specialist use cases (MRI machines, particle accelerators), superconductors have seen no use.
I've heard that back in the day conservatories would use this as part of their entrance exam. It is a great way to test if someone can recreate a specific pitch by ear.
Don't be quick to write off AI for that task

> Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03827

They find a direction in activation space that satisfies logical consistency properties, such as that a statement and its negation have opposite truth values.
OpenAI: Some people see the chat history of other users
It doesn't exacerbate it, though it doesn't cure it either per-say. For example you still feel your skin crawling while high, but it transforms the interpretation of the sensation from super-annoying to mildly amusing and completely ignore-able.
Show HN: Sample HTTP Endpoints for Testing
Author here. I’ve been using Httpbin for years and have grown to love the site. However, I noticed that the project seems to have fallen into disrepair--the GitHub repo hasn’t been updated since 2018, there are numerous outstanding Issues and PRs, and a few of the endpoints on the live site return HTTP 500 errors.

If Httpbin works for you and you want to continue using it, don’t let me stop you! I simply wanted to introduce an alternative with some endpoints (such as IPv6 support and QR Code generation) that the original does not have.

If you encounter any issues, feel free to file an issue over on GitHub: https://github.com/dmuth/fastapi-httpbin/issues

Enjoy!
What if you turn it around? "Most compiler engineers aren't Rubyists."

I don't know if that's true or not, but I imagine most compiler engineers tend to be more engrossed in languages like *ML, Rust, or Haskell. Or languages that are common in general, like C++ or Python. Ruby isn't that popular (outside of the Rails niche at least?), and it doesn't fit very well in a compiler niche either, I think.
I actually meant "grandparent" instead of "parent". So I'm actually agreeing with you. "unrestrained sexual passion" can then mean almost any kind of sexual passion, since it's 'unrestrained', which will lead to sexual practices that we, as a society, have deemed to be very destructive to the individuals on the receiving end of that 'passion'.
Further..

If the police get a warrant to search my home, they can see what I HAVE in my physical possession at that moment not what I DID have, have DONE, or SAID.

With video (or audio) data, someone could review every action, conversation, item, or facial expression my family has had within sight (or hearing) of the camera.

When someone can construct a complete record of everything that happened, it gets ripe for abuse.
> It’s just that people are terrible at understanding curves that look vaguely logarithmic, combined with small sample sizes of people with very high incomes willing to take psychology surveys.

It’s also bc people gravitate towards beliefs that protect their ego, however false they may be. If you’re not wealthy, believing that wealth doesn’t make you happy is very comforting. It’s not so different from how religion is used to cope with life’s suffering.
It's interesting to consider this genre, the "community website".
The primary functions are chat, forums, maybe a wiki or a blog.
So a "community website" is a union of all the modes people use to communicate on the web.

Therefore the solution is going to be a curated compose.yml that runs best-in-class versions of each thing with baked-in identity configuration and its own strong community around data movement between processes. Imagine a website that helps users build their own compose.yml based on their choice of components, similar to https://start.spring.io/.

However, even if you had this, the "exercise for the reader" will be substantial: get a domain name and a host, learn to admin linux and docker. Finally get the compose file and run it. And learn to troubleshoot each process, with its unique runtime and build, when things go wrong. This is a heavy investment, but probably worth it. Kind of like learning to work on your own car.
Reddit is legit garbage though.
> Generally for a server people are running some kind of services, and that's going to include third party software.

Oh so you're saying that things like ASLR, chrooting, and safe programming practices aren't useful in things like httpd, because you might run an insecure PHP app, and the only thing that helps you then is something like SELinux?

I think that's pretty wrong. Running services in a chroot with pledge gives you a lot of security. And the other security features [0] (empirically) help reduce the occurrence of remote vulns overall with far less complexity than SELinux (which also totally weirds your system).

[0]: https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
Simple as...?
> Are you just blanking out on the whole of the 1965-1980?

If you have to dig back half a century to make your point about contemporary events, you have effectively ceded the point.
Personally, I think that the beauty of current LLMs are their ability to process and present information. Although current generation LLMs might not be best suited to making new discoveries or producing new (valuable) information, their ability to summarize and process information already out in the open is undeniably valuable.
Create an Image Tagger App with React.js and AI in Just a Few Simple Steps
Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube
Angular seems like a step back to me. The MVC thing, while fine, introduces extra hiccups. Creating generic UI components is pretty tiring and using Angular material is pretty much your best option.

Upgrading to newer versions is a pain and also finding well supported third party libraries. React is much easier to work with since you don't always need to reinvent the wheel for time consuming things.

Hooks and simple state management with Jotai are also much nicer to work with than RxJs. RxJs requires a strange mental model and a lot of verbose code and functions.

Angular is kinda like Java, more code for less features. Great if you don't wanna think, meh if you want something exciting and new.
Clean Code and Dirty Data: A Tale of Dirty minds and data cleaning
One day I made a big change. I could not keep ignoring dirty dirty data, that dirty muck our best ML models were eating up. I had faith and made the radical decision to give up coding altogether and become a serious data cleaner. I am talking full-on hazmat suit, decontamination chamber serious.

I've developed some extreme methods that may sound crazy, but they work. I send trained carrier pigeons to the cloud data center to verify hashes. When the data centers go down I also have reliable analog channels like smoke signals.

it's time for us hackers to unite and verify data integrity using extreme measures. Sending birds to the cloud center? Smoke signals? Those are just simple child's play. You need to be willing to go above and beyond to ensure that your data is properly verified and validated.

Maybe that means driving cross-country to physically inspect the data center. Maybe that means hiring a team of temp workers from to manually make sure that your data hasn't been compromised. Whatever it takes.

If you really want to achieve true data cleanliness like me, you need to get intimate with your hardware. No, I don't mean holding hands with your computer (although that might help too).

I mean taking your SSD and motherboard home. it's the only way to truly connect with your hardware at high speeds and ensure that your data is clean and organized. the electric charge from my body helps to cleanse the data of any impurities.

So if you're struggling with dirty data, don't give up hope. They don’t call it a motherboard for no reason.
Heh, I know a guy who wrote a shell script to do multipart tar backups to floppy using a low-end disk duplicator, which was an external 3.5" standard PC drive, and a serial interface to tell it "load next disk."
I agree many are not willing, but I disagree that it is not "easy for the average person".

One can walk into a local supermarket on any planet(e.g., Walkmart, Sam's Club, Carrefour, Aldi, Tesco, Auchan) and likely be able to pick up a self-managed NVR with cameras.

If it was not relatively easy, I do not believe these companies would carry them.

You are right, many are not willing.
I do agree with you, though in this case I am not convinced that the difference is solely discrimination/bias. There is definitely some (from what I gathered, CS courses’ environment can be quite hostile to women as an example), but for example in the case of Scandinavian countries where much more effort has been put into diminishing these differences, the resulting demographic is still overly men, and the reverse is true in case of more social workplaces (nursing, pedagogy, etc).

It is not too far fetched of a thought that hormonal differences between sexes does have some effect on thought patterns, and may statistically speaking predispose some to different kinds of careers.

Nonetheless, any women pursuing a job in IT should be welcome and if you have any input on what can an ordinary men employee do to help the status quo, I am all ears!
My psychiatrist says in her experience lavender takes 6-8 weeks to show any effect, and it only gets you a 10-20% improvement. She prescribes it as an add-on when the existing treatment regimen is mostly working.
Even though Decentraland is a boring ghost town, it technically works pretty well through a web browser. Horizon worlds could be the same.
"- Does not work with Google Docs and Google Sheets (work in progress)"

I wonder if security issue or because the canvas/ui is special
Right. Techniques of abstract expressionism, e.g. action or drip painting, are "automatic", deriving from surrealism.
I'm currently taking applications for my upcoming invite-only social media platform, which is more successful than Instagram because there is zero search trends for how to deactivate your account on it.
Apple’s iPhones Winning over Gen Z
HN newsfeed in Mac menu bar
> Proposing "fall back to Usenet" in 2023 makes about as much sense as "folks who use Slack should just use IRC".

Hey! :-( IRC is still alive and kicking, thank you very much!
I've long wondered why something like a general computing device maintenance service hasn't become a thing. I guess cloud storage stepped in and removed the need.

When my AC unit broke I didn't need to know the finer decisions surrounding which unit to choose.

I have weekly visits from the pool guy for a pool and gardener for the landscaping. A yearly termite check and AC/furnace maintenance. And so on.
No. Not sure sure exactly where it started, but it gets attributed to Andrew Cuomo often enough, citing the 1 in 3 number. That comes from FBI statistics, which define a criminal record to include arrests.

Here is a discussion:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/18/andrew-cuo...
as easy as plug and play? not really. blueiris(windows) & securityspy(macOS) offer similar features, but it takes a bit of setup to add the cams via RTSP/ONVIF, configure storage and retention, configure monitoring schedules/alerts etc..
A bit apples and oranges, isn't it? Intel has been having trouble fabbing. AMD was having trouble designing. Keller et al designed a hell of a chip with Ryzen, then threw it to TSMC to produce. Intel probably could have done the same, but for the sake of having a competitive home grown fab, I'm glad they didn't.
It is though. This is a net 5 acres per dwelling, there are only ~300 million arable acres in the USA and there are 200 million households.
The online-only aspect of it killed it for me. I lived in an area with spotty cell service when it came out, meaning a game that would otherwise be a great time killer was unplayable due to the DRM.
I may have been lucky, but I still have had good results reading old 360 kB floppies. It was maybe 5 years ago since I tried, and maybe 10 since I made a major attempt to copy all/most of them, so perhaps they have degraded more recently. Bought a Kryoflux a few years ago and hopefully I will get around to use it on the more interesting floppies before it is too late.

But the newer 1.2 MB 5.25" floppies are a pain. Apparently they can be very difficult to read on a drive that is not similar enough to the one they were written on and with correct calibration. I have a bunch I could not read at all, and a few that I only managed to get the file lists from. Only a few could be fully read. A bit sad as several of those from ~1990 contain source code I wrote and have not found any other copies of.
https://archive.ph/3hz7v
Yeah but we got the hookup on 5.25" DSDD:

http://users.glitchwrks.com/~glitch/images/truckload.jpg
I once posted on reddit/TIL something about CD-Roms and the thread got deleted because CD-R was an unknown term or something...
>Diffusion of responsibility [1].

And it's a feature not a bug.

The government doesn't want concentrated responsibility because that concentrates accountability. Concentrated accountability reduces the power to screw people as much/often because if responsibility is concentrated then the task of holding people accountable is much more tractable.

One bad man can be removed from power with one election, one prosecution and jail sentence, one bullet. You can't get rid of an entire misbehaving department so easily and it's even harder when most of them are "just doing their jobs" most of the time and it's the sum total of their jobs that's causing harm.

Having ineffective governing bodies and government departments that harbor abuse and do their jobs sloppily is just part of the tradeoff.
They are of the same order of magnitude...

Big high voltage transmission lines lose ~200 watts per meter in resistive losses when under full load.

The electrical energy to keep something 1 meter long at liquid nitrogen temperatures is also ~200 watts, assuming 8 inches of insulation.

The resistive losses go down with the square of the power transmitted - so they fall to zero rapidly when not under full load. Cooling losses stay approximately constant.

Therefore, I suspect a liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting cable wouldn't work out financially.

Math only correct to an order of magnitude...
It's CPU limited in the sense that it's extraordinarily latency/jitter sensitive.
Some what related: Ben Eater's video series on building a VGA graphics card. In there he calculates the resistors to show colors.

https://youtu.be/l7rce6IQDWs
But you also have people that do not? My entire parents’ generation immigrated thousands of miles away to various places around the world and never went back (other than as tourists), and it was not even war torn or lacking in resources. They just happened to bet that they could provide a better life for themselves and their children elsewhere.
I'm still only really a rust dabbler, but I was very happy to see your blog, boats. I always found your writings, talks, and online meeting contributions to be very thoughtful when you were more involved. I hope the current leadership team will reach out to you from time to time, as you offered at the end of this piece.
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Test gets ready for Wi-Fi 7
I don't think countries should necessarily compete for the citizens of other countries, either, but they should have to compete for their own at the very least. People aren't the property of their government, and if another city or state or country offers them a more attractive life than their home, they should be free to take that offer.

The solution to emigration for a polity shouldn't be keeping their citizenry prisoner or forcing others to treat their residents more poorly because of some imagined 'race to the bottom', but to instead make their own land more attractive to stay and live in.
From its "Advantages of Code-CAD" page:[0]

> There are other disadvantages to Code-CAD, of course. Making a sketch and applying some constraints can be very easy with a nice GUI, while having to type it all out would be very tedious.

> For that reason, I think the ideal CAD program would use a hybrid approach: Being code-first for all the reasons presented above, but letting you edit that code through graphical tools, where it makes sense. I'm not aware of any system that works like that, at least to the extent that is possible in principle. I believe that creating such a system would be a worthwhile effort.

As for 2D CAD apps, such feature already exists since 1980s when AutoLISP created for AutoCAD (opensource apps with similar scripting: QCAD, LibreCAD).

As for 3D CAD apps, and especially opensource, FreeCAD has ability to generate shapes or sketches with script and it would be possible to edit resulted geometry manually with GUI tools.

[0] https://www.fornjot.app/blog/code-cad-advantages/
> as easy

This is a very subjective area. As I noted you can get all kinds of NVRs with notification and cameras, others have mentioned Ubiquiti, Roku is also getting into the home automation field, and of course there are open source solutions like Home Assistant.
No idea of how it works in US Police, but over here a cop would rarely raise a finger, or testify against another cop, save for exceptional cases, and evidence often isn't enough. That otherwise wonderful thing called esprit de corps went clearly too far, becoming in some circles more akin to Mafia's code of silence.
That's why might be worth leaving out other cops.
"They do give sources if you ask for them... but have a habit of inventing plausible sounding but completely fake sources."

Basically, the way you want to think about it is, no, they can not give sources. That information is not in their neural net. It can't be. There isn't anywhere to encode or represent it.

What they can do is make a guess what a source might look like, but even if they are right, it is only because they happened to guess correctly, not because they knew the source. They don't. They can't.

It isn't that "they give sources but they might be wrong", it is "they will make up plausible-sounding sources if you ask just as they'll make up plausible-sounding anything else you ask for, and there's a small chance they'll be right by luck". For more normal factual-type questions part of the reason they are useful is that there's a good chance they'll be right by what is still essentially luck, but for sources in particular there's a particularly small chance, by the nature of the thing.
Yeah, I have the same experience with SaaSHub. I moved to YJIY a week ago - no issues, but no noticeable perf gains either (unfortunately).
There is one tangential thing that I’ve thought about before—it would be nice if there was some way to encode this into the library ecosystem (ie crates.io)
I have no idea how this would be realistically possible though—it’s pretty clear that you can rely on categories that are statically verifiable like “no-std/no-alloc”.
But what mechanism could be used to allow library consumers to distinguish between things like “laser focus on high perf/low-alloc” vs “prioritizes API over perf-at-all-costs” vs “this package is an experiment/Baby’s First Crate/shitpost” ??
They’re all valid choices for different consumers or usecases.
When my daughter did a poster charting storage capacity of computer media, I got out a variety of things so that she could draw at scale the media (from memory, 5.25" floppy, 3.5" floppy, Zip disk, Compact Flash, and SD Card).

I gave her a 5.25" floppy to take in and show as part of her presentation -- her _teacher_ asked if she could keep it since she had never seen one.
Twitter bots are nothing compared with what the world is about to experience.