skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Mark,

One question out of academic curiosity: I'm exploring ways to use these tools for research projects in econ and am struggling to see a good angle.

For instance, suppose I have lots of PDF reports on how firms have evolved on each quarter (10,000 reports or any other number beyond what I can read).

Can LLMs be used to spit out variables based on these reports? EG: indicator variables (optimistic-vs-pesimistic), categories, etc. that I can then use as data to test economic models?

I tried simple cases with ChatGPT3.5 and got the feeling it's great for outputting narrative text, but felt mediocre for when the output was more narrowly defined into categories (which was surprising).
If the Kate one is like the one shown for ark, I hope they are consistent, there will also be a checkbox on the welcome screen to disable it being shown again.
> the busiest domestic flight air might be LV<->LA, but that doesn't mean it's a significant amount of domestic traffic.

There's apparently 352 flights between the cities each week, I would say it's pretty significant.

> People are driving to Vegas from LA because it's cheaper than flying (...) I can't see why we would expect high speed rail in the US would be cheaper than flying

That's partly a political decision. Highways get lots of public funding, there's no reason rail shouldn't get funding too, if that's what's necessary to incentivize using it over flying. That's the direction Europe is going in (in addition to taxing air travel due to the negative externalities it's causing).
Thanks for the links.

Container. Component. Context. Graph. I would think a "wonderful language" such as Rust should have no problem with such a basic conceptual setup, but apparently not. I personally am solidly in the adaptive components camp, specially for things like UI.

If you know Rust (I don't), curious if the monadic approach could work, propagating the state as a parameter.
> Do you remember ConfigureAwait(false)?

I remember it and still use it, and you should, too. It can be elided in ASP.NET Core, which is the web application framework. Outside of that, there’s no escaping that you have to know what you’re doing.
Thanks, I have edited. Even inside .NET different people work on very different things, and my niche might not be your niche.
What is the difference between html partials and scoped components?
Show HN: Bank Rider – Line Rider on crashing bank stocks
You're talking about a select few countries in Europe, if that. Notice the recent protests in France, notice how Spain is going down the neoliberal hell-hole even more, damn the protesting public health workers [1], notice how a literal peasants' party got lots of votes in very urban The Netherlands because of the political elites ignoring a great chunk of the country's electorate.

And that's just Western Europe and ignoring Britain, over here in Eastern Europe things are even more complicated, let's put it that way.

Later edit: To make it clear, I still think that the average European has got it better compared to the average US resident when it comes to basic stuff like housing and healthcare, just wanted to point out that the direction that we're all going isn't one that gives me hope.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
> But they're "further out there" than kale

I'm curious about this. I've seen kale being vaguely mentioned here and there, but I don't know its, for lack of a better word, cultural significance.

What is this all about?
That's actually a quite accurate description of my own feelings. "Why emulate parts of scala on syntax level when you can have the real thing?". But that "real thing" is the one that drives people to lose themselves in cats vs scalaz debates and the like, there's clearly something in scala that causes a very strong "if you use it to write java without semicolons you're doing it wrong" undercurrent. "java without semicolons" kotlin isn't considered good either, but the distance from there to "kotlin as intended" isn't big at all.
I have a small hole in my vision[1] because of laser exposure. Be careful with lasers, folks.

[1] https://dmd.3e.org/a-hole-in-my-eye/
Come on, golang is as expressive as java 1.1. Java is much much less verbose and more readable than go, but for some reason the latter’s proponents can’t see it..
Ten/Twelve years ago me and a colleague would build random desktop apps using WinForms and C#, they were deployed using a network share and ClickOnce. They weren't the most elegant pieces of software ever developed, but it sure was easy to slap together a small tool for the warehouse manager or someone in sales.

You can still do all that, on Windows. As I get older and have more experience, I have come to the conclusion that some people are more interested in the technology and less so in solving actual problems. While I'm pretty happy with my career, if I were to do it all over: Windows, Visual Studio, C++ and WinForms would have been the tools that I'd have picked. We're coming up on 25 years of a fairly stable, actively developed platform with pretty good backwards compatibility.
I’m European, so I’m looking at the US fascination with SUVs from the outside, and my take is that it’s a similar circular effect as in US gun ownership.

Everyone needs a car, so everyone gets one. Since the US is hyper-individualistic (by no means a uniquely American trait) you want a “safe” car, but not “safe” as in “Volvo” but “safe” as in “being able to ram another vehicle if it tries to stop you”.

So this escalates the trend of how a car is supposed to look, and when you’re forced into an infrastructure where the “default” car to European eyes looks more like an Infantry Mobility Vehicle than anything else, what are you going to buy when you need a “car”? The implication is quite objectively that if you buy anything less, you are in a sense in danger, and the same goes for gun ownership: it’s very easy to be a proponent of strict gun control in a country where almost nobody has one.

I currently don’t own a car, because I don’t need one, and I’ll likely never own a gun for the same reasons, but I’m not fooling myself: if I took the place of an SUV- and gun-owning American I probably wouldn’t get rid of them.

I guess my point is that since these are both circular problems, they’re kind of a Gordian knot. It’s not easy to start untying the reality as it is, but it’s of course possible if the political will exists.
There's was the Unix Desktop Environment.

It used to be commercial.
We live in a society that defines itself not in terms of what it is but in terms of what it's not. We are not decent and kind human beings; we are not racists or not homophobes. We can't just not care; we have to be atheists. Even with bad stuff: We are not victim blamers and choice deniers; we are anti-abortionists.

And the products marketed to us are just a reflection of what we are. Gluten-free bread. Sugar-free drinks. Non-hallucinogenic LSD. No THC weed. Low-fat milk. Etc.

Everything is becoming defined in terms of what it's not.
Agreed, this is how our team uses it. We hire React devs and teach them Next.js day 1 and essentially their React experience is helpful but Next is the main focus for the devs.
I think it's worth highlighting just how horribly toxic osmium tetroxide is -- it's used as a stain for electron microscopy as it is dense and binds irreversibly to lipid membranes. Quoting from Wikipedia:

> In the staining of the plasma membrane, osmium(VIII) oxide binds phospholipid head regions, thus creating contrast with the neighbouring protoplasm (cytoplasm). Additionally, osmium(VIII) oxide is also used for fixing biological samples in conjunction with HgCl2. Its rapid killing abilities are used to quickly kill live specimens such as protozoa. OsO4 stabilizes many proteins by transforming them into gels without destroying structural features. Tissue proteins that are stabilized by OsO4 are not coagulated by alcohols during dehydration.

> OsO4 will irreversibly stain the human cornea, which can lead to blindness. The permissible exposure limit for osmium(VIII) oxide (8 hour time-weighted average) is 2 µg/m3. Osmium(VIII) oxide can penetrate plastics and food packaging, and therefore must be stored in glass under refrigeration.
One would, but well he is James Cameron.
I got my current job through GitHub.

At least that's how the 3rd party recruiter told me he found me. It's possible he was lying and thought it would impress me (it did).

My profile is more active than most, but very far from rockstar.
Don't know about the ainu, but Okinawans are treated well, though there were decades of language repression -- this was true of Hakka and non-han indigenous population in Taiwan too.

However, gp was about foreign minorities. There have been foreign-born (Caucasian) members of the diet, for example.

I guess the one thing weird about Japan is that there is some expectation of cultural erasure -- if you immigrate and you want to fully assimilate, you have to take a Japanese name.
For a hint at how the bug works, see this https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/180526528 (more details coming soon™)

From https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1636979466860744704

Also: you [can] do a basic check with tools like exiftool - it will report "Warning: [minor] Trailer data after PNG IEND chunk" on vulnerable images.

From: https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1636981307891671041
If you think about it, the actual disposable wealth of a lot of small nations is probably less than what Cameron himself could marshal and spend if he wanted to. A nation in the best case needs to get the buy in of its people and administrators in order to spend a large sum of money on an expensive project. The budget for that project has to compete with all of the other expenses and ambitions that the nation has.
What happen in friends or seinfield is way more creative and dense than those youtube videos. Friends start with a depressed guy wishing fir a girl and a nlond in a wedding dress shows out, follow by a killer punch line.

It's not something you can replicate every day with just having a drink with your buds.
That's my issue with stars already. One repo having more stars than another doesn't mean it's better in any way. It might just mean it's been promoted more.

That's how record labels can simply decide what's going to be the next summer hit. They pick a song and promote the hell out of it. It's not the summer hit because it was somehow better, just more promoted.
CIEL is a ready-to-use collection of Lisp libraries
Little detail on how this works. I initially thought it's based on thumbnails, but the high quality of the recovered image and the damage at the beginning makes me think it's something else.
FakeCalls, the next step in Voice Phishing
Are you doing different scaling per monitor in X11? Different resolutions is fine. I ran many different monitor sizes and resolutions with X11 and i3wm. Just configured everything with xrandr and just had a few scripts that I ran depending where/if I was docked.

But per monitor scaling seemed impossible. I just gave up and ran some monitors at a lower resolution so that the DPI was similar.
tl;dr

> language and compiler capable of rewriting normal control flow into a state machine implementation of coroutines
Do you have the link to the levels?

My understanding is that it depends a lot on the type of seaweed and where it is grown.
Which leads us to the astonishing failure of OpenAI to give GPT/ChatGPT a user friendly name.

What is going to be the household name for talking to an AI/LLM that replaces Googling?
Ah, fellow greybeards, recognize the AOR master? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtdKhwhAcd4
There’s no reason an Electron (or any other web based) app needs to be distributed. Consider VSCode. There’s nothing distributed about it.
Let's put all our power lines up in the air, they said. It'll be fine, they said.

While other countries have stable and reliable power in the face of hurricanes and ice storms, our power is routinely knocked out by cars, trees, and basically any act of nature.

I love how expensive everything is for how behind we are from the entire rest of the world. Too bad the expenses keep me trapped and poor, unable to do anything about it—even just move to any other country.
People gather with others who are like them, this is expected. A more interesting question would be, if you send someone who considers themselves both smart and attractive into a room with separate groups, one attractive, one smart, which group will that person choose to join?

In other words, of the many traits a person may possess, which traits are most important when finding "similar others".
It actually does solve a lot things, in the sense that there’s a lower barrier for entry. A lot of lower-level programming skills are being abstracted away and obsoleted. My prediction may be wrong, but it’s based on the extrapolation of the trends you’re referring to.
I think the grandparent's observation is spot on.
home server for plex, nextcloud, pihole etc?
Haha, that's both entertaining and useful! :D
That’s pretty much every big company or public organization.

The conquest is done and the moat is in place, they live and work for themselves.

The few cases when their moat starts to fail, they just take it easy first then they step on the gas pedal to fix it and realize nothing happens.. then they panic and star to learn their organization is a giant mount of mediocrity incapable of anything new.

Then they just increase prices, buy some competitors and everything is fine again in the kingdom.
Async/await in C# is a leaky abstraction though. There is a great writeup on this here https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
The projects with suspicious stars were still >80% nonfake stars. That to me suggests that most of the fake stars have been classified as nonfake. There isn't much psychological value in boosting your star count by just 25%.
Curious how you feel about this product:

https://youtu.be/qaNHWf1MN3g
>All frameworks that I know for WebApps, don't rely on OO though

Sure, though they rely on a lot of things that are only bundled with a web browser like the DOM and CSS and their concepts of namespacing, encapsulation features, etc.
The issues I'm having are with the ecosystem downstream. A lot of projects are abandoning annotations in favor of attributes, for example.
The local storage is mostly a solved problem with hard links. Any modern file system (I.e. not NTFS) can have arbitrarily many file paths that refer to the same underlying file, with no more overhead than a normal file system.
He is -- bankers get a lot of hate based simply on the fact that the average person doesn't actually understand much about banking.

The big salaries you hear about aren't there because banks are greedy; they're there because bank shareholders know that banking is hard, and you need to make sure you can command the best person for the job. It doesn't always work out, but that's the goal. Shareholders don't give up dividends for fun, in any industry.

If you don't take risk, you lose market share (and really, risk is where liquidity originates from -- it's the whole reason we have banks; otherwise, we'd all just wait until we have enough cash to buy what we want). Too much risk, and you blow up. Which would be all fine and good, except not enough and too much aren't ever clearly delineated until after the fact.
I expect a 22 year old to hire someone who knows this, and I expect the board of directors to strongly recommend that a 22 year old to hire someone who knows this.
> and the best we could do is apparently flexbox.

And grid.

The contortions you have to go through to get the equivalent of early 2000 Qt's spacer items and anchors...
I am unclear why a reasonable digital ID (probably government ID card style) plus rate limits is not going to be effective.

I can see lots of reaosns people might oppose the idea but I am not sure why it's not a widely discussed option?

(asking honestly and openly - please don't shout!)
Looks like the downturn accelerated to its current more-rapid decline right after the release of the latest Windows 11 22H2 version in late 2022.

This would have been the time the true enthusiasts who were hoping for some respite from user hostility and compromised privacy could finally be giving up for good.

And it doesn't look like Windows 11 relented at all, when it comes to expanding its support for older PC hardware than it did with its original release which was so misguided in this respect. Plus more dark patterns in things like online account approach.

So now that it's even more plain to see how much faster it's getting worse, even the users who embraced Windows 10 have finally had enough.

Now my opinion is based on professional use of W11 since its initial preview.

As always, the product of some absolutely outstanding engineers at Microsoft, some of whom add wonderfully to the discussions on HN.

But somehow or another, even the most excellent code is still getting Ballmerized by a vestige of the corp that seems to still be in position to compromise "what could have been" before it gets a chance to be considered or deployed by users.

Also anecdotally I was the only one using Windows 11 when I presented at a conference a week after W11 was released back in 2021. Didn't notice a single other one this year either.
You have hopefully saved others from the same
mistake. Which is a sort of pay it forward
thing.

Expect companies to do what is in their best
interest at any moment. There is no loyalty, no friendship, and you work your
ass off one year, you got paid, the next year it probably counts for little: no effect on promotion, salary or stock options can be expected.

IMO places that make you work your ass off in software will pay poorly and are badly run. Other industries may be different e.g. finance.
They just said that they didn't.
Using Box64 and GL4ES, I launched a PC game on my VisionFive2
Which One-Click App are you using? I looked over their list, but couldn't find the Docker Registry. Thanks!
You should look into Simpson's paradox.

The fall in birthrates is caused by countries going from undeveloped to developed, but within developed countries the birthrate is higher when the economy is stronger.
That is interesting, I never thought LSD could be non-hallucinogenic, but on the surface it seems it would just be a microdose.
Interesting you should mention SQL, because a lot of non-tech business people I’ve met have rudimentary SQL skills nowadays. Database administration is a dying field.
Uncannily Overwhelmed by ChatGPT Voice
It's natural that useful tools get used. A tool that can transform your quick notes in native language into clear International English is going to have a wide audience, and it ain't a bad thing IMO. So it's not surprising that I'm now receiving a huge amount of communication from worldwide collaborators and contacts in "ChatGPT voice". But what I don't understand is how we should move past it. It's one thing to fill out a bureaucratic form with LLM. It's another to initiate a deep conversation with one. And although it may feel better than writing a messy email full of grammatical errors, my reaction after just a few days of being on the receiving end of GPT-4's spasmodic ramblings is... no! Give me your error filled notes in whatever language you think I might understand. I want humanity and originality. I may be an old guy but I too have sent thousands of prompts at the oracle and I know it's soulless ring as well as anyone.

What next? Are people going to realize that they have to spice it up and add a human element back in or risk getting ignored? If your notes were good enough for ChatGPT, maybe they are also good enough for your human collaborator? Will there be a wave of effort to rehumanize communication? What are folks going to do to stand out? Curious what y'all think.
Until one needs to integrate a non async aware library and then is Task.Run() all over the place.
tl;dr they open the original image without O_TRUNC, and write the cropped version into the same file.

This thread provides a good overview and some sample images https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/110043776803548821
This is incorrect, it’s the strength it comes out the cask. How else would you explain the the vast array of single malt whiskies that are cask strength and aged anything from 10 to 30 years (e.g., https://www.connosr.com/glenmorangie-cask-strength-10-year-o...).

Bottled at 40% is because they watered it down.
Imagine the headlines.

“Man run over by car in Lower Manhattan – autonomous vehicle mistook man for a giraffe”
You can do it already. It's a normal order for a copywriter, nobody will bat an eye when you post an offer. It costs cents/dollars per 1000 words instead of fraction of a cent, but that's not exactly outside of reach of a funded startup.
> Apple doesn’t try to make revenue from Safari because they don’t need to.

Apart from the small matter of Google paying Apple $15bn to be the default search engine in Safari.
Yeah it still does that for me most of the time.

I’ve been on Ubuntu / KDE for the last 2 years, I keep it all patched an up to date. The other week I was playing around with the task bar widgets and somehow managed to delete or hide the text menu from top of every single app window. It drove me nuts, I could alt + f to bring it back for a second but I still can’t figure out what setting it is that I’ve screwed up. I’ve got a work around in place of a little hamburger widget on each window which expands out to the full menu but it’s still annoying.
Yet David Fowler has been researching how to integrate Go and Java's approach into .NET.
ChapGPT Hallucinates
The a to Z of Economics
"That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point."
The Beer Can
Everything you listed is just a deflection. You realize the US supported and enabled iraq in the iraq iran war? So why bring it up as to imply it's the reason behind the invasion of 2003?

And yes sure, I guess russians that oppose the aggression war on ukraine are just indulging in self flagelation too.
Insights -> contributors, and number of active maintainers based on entire commit history of the project and frequency of commits. Also, network page which shows number of active forks. Also, PRs, and how are they handled.

Contributors is the most informative page for me. So many projects are 1 man show basically all the time. I don't mind that, it means passion, but it also mean it can dissaper any moment depending on circumstances.

I also look into issue details to see how maintainers communicate with community members that do due dilligence before aksing for help.
I've been interested in the cattle feed angle for a while now, as it does 2 things: produces sustainable cattle feed which reduces reliance on continued productivity of land (can keep same cows/acre without artificial nitrogen inputs), and the reduced Methane output reduces the emissions of each animal such that continued production doesn't fall afoul of regulators.

Also, here in Ireland there is such a thing as Folio rights [1], inherited rights to collect seaweed from the foreshore, much like turbary rights, the right to cut turf from a certain plot of common land. Unless you are already in possession of these, getting licensed for seaweed harvesting is likely to be a headache.

[1]: https://www.seaweed.ie/irish_seaweed_contacts/
Java has a better approach, because you can still decide which kind of thread to use, which makes FFI performance still much better than cgo.
That’s outside of scope. Google has been publishing “papers” and writing press releases about their AI tech and how good and smart they all are for the last decade.

That’s the business they are in.