skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice to imagine when you're not the one worrying about paying rent.

I work in an interesting area (bioinformatics research) and as expected the pay is pretty dire to match. You do get the warm fuzzies now and again when strangers ask about your job, but the rest of the time is spent wondering if you should move into fintech so you don't have to worry about grocery prices.
wood vs brick
The tech giants’ efforts to eliminate passwords
Twitter was politically biased to the left. Yes right wing ideas can be there now. Yes that’s part of free speech.
In Iran, moral issues are turned over to a Guardian Council of 12 members who are experts in law. The Guardian Council has the power to overturn laws approved by the Parliament. In the US, the Guardian Council, err, Supreme Court, has 9 members who are experts in law, and can overturn laws approved by the federal and state legislatures. Both bodies, moreover, interpret the law according to the moral worldview of their country’s respective elites—from which those legal experts are drawn—even when that departs from the moral worldview of the public in those countries.
Heh, I wouldn't even know which URLs to put in the doctype for XHTML. I certainly won't ever memorize it. As long as HTML is `<!DOCTYPE html>` and XHTML is `<!DOCTYPE some ridiculously long string with a bunch of URLs and crap>` I don't think I'll be using XHTML.

It's also pretty risky to let any slight syntax error or semantic error cause the whole page to refuse to load. That would turn me off from targeting XHTML for any kind of dynamic page generation, not because I want to generate incorrect HTML or XHTML or whatever, but because bugs happen.
A Midwestern Insurance Salesman Cornered the Classic Car Market
Correction, it is a region of Hyderabad which plays host to a lot of tech...
So the financial district, Gachibowli, hi tech city, madhapur and the other tech areas come under cyberabad limits.
> You think complaining about death machines is comparable to the thousands of people inside and outside of cars who have near-death experiences every day due to cars?

This is a wildly uncharitable and disingenuous reading of their comment. I stopped reading yours at that point, I'm sure you can do better.
Exercise can help a lot with this, and getting enough sleep.
It's more or less a tautology that extraction will continue until it isn't worth doing.

The thing is, abundant cheap energy will make it less and less worth doing.
As a gamedevs my explanation is it hits the following points:

1. Shiny metal, easy in video games but rare in real life. Metal is usually painted or protected in some way.

2. Large panels. Beginner artists don't know how to represent a sense of scale and often put too large details making the object feel small. Starship is giant, yet has panels which imply it is a toy to the eye.

3. Lots of reflections. Early 3d tried to impress by using lots of ray traced reflections. It helps that reflective surfaces are easier to make look realistic than complex surfaces which requires more accurate lighting. Thus early cgi relied on reflections a bunch. Hence why the famous t Rex scene in Jurassic Park took place in the rain, so they could justify making the t Rex reflective.
SLS? It not only made orbit but also got it's payload around the moon. While it used many previously proven technologies (and it even previously flown engines), those were either modified or combined in previously untried ways, enough that I'd call it a new vehicle for the purposes of a flight test.

Speaking of previously proven technologies... the Space Shuttle made it to orbit on it's first launch attempt as well... with crew.
The ffmpeg patches of a few lines of assembly that make 10-100 fold improvements on slow C amaze me
Are there any flaws in the Firefox UI which is caused by flex at the moment? If not, what's the problem?
From a financial perspective, if Elon Musk is truly asking for AI to slow down (as in it's not a fake), it's because another company is way ahead of him and he doesn't like them getting all the tech attention now. They want regulation to prevent losing their status.
Depending on how much context switching I do in a day, it can really vary how exhausted I feel at the end of a work day. I get to a point where someone might tell me to remember 3 things at the grocery store and I’ll remember only one.

I should note that depending on the level of empathy or understanding of this situation, and argument can ensue after this further piling on the stress.

So I think things like this are really important to understand, and appreciate. This is real!
Everything you are talking about exists at least as much in the suburbs and then add in the constant mowing, leaf blowing, and weed eating to it too.

> I think you're underestimating how nice it is to have space.

This isn’t a trade we need to make. You can have space and be able to walk to things if we just build right. Take the suburb you live in now. Pick 5 houses randomly and turn those into some of the things the OP mentioned. Now you have your space and walkability. Throw in an apartment and some variations of housing so young and old and people with various incomes can live there too and there you have it. Now we’ve reduce car usage so you aren’t driving 5 miles in a 2,000 lb machine to get a loaf of bread and you still get to keep your car and your space.
> Have people come back around to the idea that tables weren't so bad?

In a way, yes, I think so.

Grid has similarities to tables. These similarities are not accidental. They're a consequence of thinking about layout in terms of rows and columns. I recall back in the day the purists always decreed that tables were supposed to be semantic construct and not used for layout. Pragmatists just ignored that advice for years because there was nothing but a lot of obstacles if you went "table-less" for layout.

But yeah, tables "just worked" for layout despite what purists said. Now we have "grid" and it's part of css, so it's "OK" now for the purists.

I remember this comic strip from 2005, it captured the essence of the situation perfectly:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100125163107/http://okcancel.c...
All of above and I’d add sheer absurdity of the proposition in contrast with the video proof that it works
How is it that a low-carb diet boosts your cognition and mental stamina?
they pissed it all away recently. they joined the league of evil printer makers.
Russ Hanneman moment
History likes to repeat itself and I am sure they keep saying to themselves "this time it will work".
The timing certainly suggests parallel investigations. Chen writes:

> In late 1995, I was asked to investigate the product because it was causing Windows 95 machines to crash

Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM writes:

> In December 1995, the German computing journal c't disassembled the program and determined that it did not even attempt to do what was claimed.

citing a December 1995 c't publication.
Many suburban churches and organizations run community gardens, but it's rare to see in cities because of how much space it requires.

We have shared wood/etc shops, even in small towns. "Makerspace" is one common name for them. Major issues include: storage, tool quality/maintenance, limited hours, staffing, high cost, clashing personalities.

In either case, you'd likely need to drive to get to them. Some apartment complexes have shared gyms, but most of my landlords have been pathologically worried about insurance risks. I'm not sure they would be eager to go along with installing a communal lathe. As for gardens, I once lived somewhere that had small tin beds on the roof, but the landlord rented them out for $300/mo each...there were people who paid to use them, but I thought it was a ridiculous ask for a couple sqft of soil.
Whoever has time for this sort of thing probably has money to pay them.
That's a bit too generic I believe.. What if you don't have a sugar/junk craving in general due to diet? i.e. keto
> I'm always surprised that 3D printing isn't making faster progress.

I don't own a 3D printer, but I wonder why pellet extruders are not a standard for feeding these FDM machines. This apparent lack of interest has an effect on the price of the excessively overpriced and seemingly amateurish pellet extruders that seem to exist at the moment (of which there seem to be only two or three models?).

We are talking about a significant price difference in the cost of consumables in pellet form, humidity of the material and mixing control, and the ability to reuse material from failed prints or everyday items, among the first things that cross my mind.

it's been like this for nearly a decade as you said, and the common extruder usually doesn't even include an acceleration sensor.
The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests
> Finally, the checked arithmetic operations returning false on success

That's what got you? C functions returning error flags (with zero meaning no error) isn't exactly new.
I feel like sugar in general makes me tired and makes it difficult to concentrate. Sometimes (though rarely) I consume sugar in the evening to make me tired.

I can't help but eat candy if it's available, so I just learned not to buy it in the first place.
How To Develop GUI app With C++?
I`m trying to develop an GUI app but i don`t know which library is great
I think end up I will be making a math engine to try every combinations of binary operation in this experiment, if I really want to do this. The more I think, the more this seems doable to me.
Stackoverflow and reddit has broken login. I dont have sny sccounts on them.
It's starting to happen that high-end embedded is running at 28 nm. Mainstream microcontrollers are still at 40-90, but their next revisions may be aimed at 28.
One of the rules is the director must be anonymous. Obviously this didn't happen, and it is pretty clear the Dogme directors didn't take the manifesto that seriously.

The genius of the Dogme concept was it took the limitations of low-budget filmmaking and turned them into a virtue and a strong branding and marketing tool.
Or maybe Europe does have it figured out and an unforeseen shock to the system temporarily set back plans?
This is assuming AGI will be emergent of something that can run in a Jupyter Notebook and not a well engineered system.
Would an eero help here? The subscription has ad and threat blocking. It blocks a lot of Google search (sponsored results, images) but you’re able to manage it from your phone and it’s super hands off.

Oh the sub also comes with 1password (quite complex) and malware bytes which might stop some after the fact damage.
Here was the HN thread,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33526893 ("Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers (snake.club)", 52 comments)
From what I understood SpaceX was founded by some brilliant engineers and Elon just became the poster boy with no actual engineering credentials. Undoubtedly he is business-savvy but it seems not that surprising managers who take credit for the engineers' work might thrive there.
There isn’t a reduced payload, in part because electric semis are given a ton or two extra weight limit and also just the heroic efforts of the Tesla engineering team. The thunderft video you linked to makes the usual bad faith assumptions for his channel (cherry-picking numbers). 11 jersey barriers (using the typical value you can Google) is about 40,000 pounds, which is a full payload.

The Megawatt charging is not a huge deal as Tesla already deploys supercharging stations with dozens of 250kW chargers (they’re started to build some with over 100 chargers, so even with shared capacity, you’d be able to charge a dozen Semis at once). With 500 miles range, you can easily hit your 13 hour daily limit with the regulation-mandated rest (while charging) at mid-day or dinner time.

Neglecting the fact that not every electric truck needs to do long-haul. The short haul market alone will be plenty big enough for a while as Tesla and others ramp up.
The feral hogs story on that page is equally as wild/alarming.

World is getting weird fast.
This is my view. Why recreate human intelligence when we already have human intelligence? AGI would be cool but we can already train AI to do specific tasks better than humans, that's good enough.
Sometimes I’m fried by Thursday evening. I don’t think I’m ever “sick” from this in a physical sense but definitely all cylinders in my brain don’t seem to be firing properly.
A digital running of the bulls!
I suspect "GPT" is being used by the poster as a generic term for LLM-based AI. It's becoming a generic trademark, similar to "kleenex" and "google" (search). I've seen it used this way elsewhere.
Are any of those films even good? Or pretentiuos pseudo artsy films with obligatory porn scenes?
Visualizing Moore’s Law
Fair, but I'm also sick of hearing Facegoogs whining on this app (and Blind, and elsewhere) about how they're only barely scraping by on $250k and how could anyone ever live on $100k poverty wages. They have to do adtech to survive, don't you see?
If the Mexican army raped and bombed their way across Texas towards California, should we just shrug and point out those lands were taken under historically dubious circumstances and we should let them have the U.S. Southwest?
> “I don’t think we’ve seen anything that makes us think that there’s something there other than normal economics happening right now,”

When profits are suddenly up 700% this claim no longer holds water.

> High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700%

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/business/egg-profits-cal-main...
What? Nearly everything works, port 25 might not, depending on ISP. You can also use other stuff like SCTP if you have services using it.

Corporate networks are not the Internet.
Thank you, that's the one. Casey Muratori.
Hey thats an amazing idea! Will definitely implement that in a later version. Thank you so much :)
Someone's actual preference is stored in their memory. If you give the LLM access to a database that includes "preferences", I'm sure it will be able to retrieve that.
> but then you have to convince the compiler of the same.

In conventional parlance, this is known as "handling overflow".
AFAIK, assert() is not undefined behavior, so it can't be used for optimization. It is either implementation-defined in debug mode, or does nothing in release mode.

For example:

assert(a >= 0);
if (a < 0) printf("a is negative");

In release mode, assert() will be gone, so the if/printf() will stay. If we used "if (a < 0) unreachable();" instead of assert(), it would optimize away both lines.
Companies which have committed thought-crime against Dear Leader, one assumes.

(Nah, I've no idea what they're talking about. Companies which _compete_ with Musk's companies, possibly?)
Yes and no. I have a Prusa Mk3 that I've had for years and upgraded to the MK3s.

The machine was flawless from day one even in the hands of a complete novice like me. The upgrade was also flawless.

This times I've had bad prints? I changed filaments without understanding how it behaves. I printed things without understanding how to prepare the print, and it fell over. Attempting to print flexibles.

These issues may or may not plague you depending on your use case. I mostly print mechanical parts that I design myself. And I use limited types of filaments for prototyping. So can I get 100 out of 100 successful prints? Yes, that's quite achievable.
Sure on a single machine, perhaps. but once you have multiple machines, the JVM would have to do what the BEAM does today; copy messages between processes regardless of location. That's going to slow down throughput.
>Heating up the CPU is not considered observable behavior.

Neither is measuring delays of cached versus non-cached instructions. Yet it turns out to be very observable.
My problem is that the walk usually just fills my head with new ideas that I then frantically try to write down during the walk.
I find it strange to introduce real bools (which these macros return according to their official signatures) and then to assign them a meaning of a still-nonexistent but widely used C type. At least my C intuition stumbles upon that immediately, no matter how long I think about it.

Ah, anyway, standard C/libc is basically a lost cause. It can’t get any worse, since you have to refer to a manual at every call to not step on a landmine.
I had no clue. That's an impressive level of integration.
Sounds functionally correct. I imagine that if glutamate levels are building up in the brain, then exercise that increases blood flow to the brain while also increasing oxygenation and carbon dioxide removal via increased breathing would help flush the brain and reset the metabolite levels. This might be assited by also relaxing the cognitive functions during exercise, i.e. not thinking about much of anything.
Maybe because it’s not a transition but an ideology driven f** up?
I live near the coal plants they are firing up again. I’m all pro PV (have one), I heat my house on geothermal, I spent a ton on energy efficiency for my house.
But this entire “renewable transition”, “getting out of nuclear” and coming up with other random ideas in a industry focused economy is just bogus in execution.
People have been complaining about NASA for decades.In The decade of the apollo missions many people in the civil rights movement were against spending 20b to send someone to the moon and today those same arguments still stand and many people still voice them. Maybe your circle is to small and you haven’t been exposed to diverse opinions.
So a better way to relax from mental work (between pomodoros), might be to avoid hacker news and social media, and instead do meditation, naps or walk in nature?
Nuclear is not offering the best price per Mwh now (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source), but it will certainly in the next decades.

Solar and wind power sources requires an absurd amount of metal (sometimes rare metals) to build the generators (solar panels, wind turbines, etc). This metal is extracted today with an enourmous consumption of fossil fuels, and it will be difficult to have a greener alternative for this extraction (anything running on batteries will require even MORE metal).

The prices per Mwh of renewable energy sources are heavily linked to the prices of fossil fuels, which are quite "low" compared to what will probably happen in the next decades. Moreover, most metals are getting harder and harder to extract (it's likely that we met the peak of copper extraction already), which means that we'll have to dig deeper and deeper to get metal.

I'm not saying we should not invest in renewables, but it will be probably be 10x to 50x more expensive to maintain a renewable parc of solar panels or wind turbines without relying on fossil fuels at all, which will cause the prices per mwh to explode.

Countries that try to go 100% renewable without a healthy dose of nuclear energy will probably end up either burning fossil fuels or buying raw materials from countries that does, at a very heavy price.
0 experience. but possibly you can code your way to a solution.

- a proxy app of some sort to bundle communications w/ family (with you firmly MITM to verify).

- run a few of the scam email texts by an LLM. See if it can flag them accurately. If yes, you can ~automate the review.
Interesting. Seems like the authors main contention is with the popularization of the concept that trees might be cooperating with each other instead of hyper competing as we historicallly assume via just natural selection pressures.

I’m sympathetic to their argument that we need to be careful how far we take the cooperation argument but I think they’re also throwing out the baby with the bath water. These authors are highly focused on showing the validity of the opposite point of view and so have conducted a meta analysis of the literature that is very, I would say, biased towards the exclusion of studies that show communication and transfers of chemicals between trees using mycorrhizal networks. I still find their meta analysis interesting but would caution people to also take their cutting down of the idea of transfers between plants using mycorrhizal networks with large grains of salt. They, as researchers, are also incentivized to kind of go a bit too far the other way from what they were arguing against (transfers between plants using mycorrhizal networks)
I'm not sure it would be "the" solution, but it would certainly come a long way to make market-based economies live up to their theoretical promise.

In a way, getting rid of all rent-seeking is probably the single most important economic measure that a "free-market" country can take.
Many trails are, in fact, private. Land trusts and similar organizations often maintain the trails on private land, for private landowners, and are charged with both protecting the land and _managing access_.

A very common occurrence is for miles of trail system to be accessible by less than a dozen parking spots. This is not convenient; and that is on purpose.

Another common thing where I live are preserves that are only accessible via paddle, and only via membership in the organization (often a land trust, sometimes another kinds of nonprofit) that stewards the land, and sometimes only if you are lucky enough to "win" a reservation. (That process used to be by mail, like Grateful Dead tickets; now it is a single morning when everyone wakes up at 6 and tries to snag a reservation online.)

There is simply no way to allow mass access and maintain the circumstances that make these locations special and worth preserving. In the US, the most popular state parks (where wild landscapes are ruined, wild animals molested, and deadlocked vehicle traffic are the norm) are an example of how attempts to do so fail.
Juggling is great as well. Motor activity.
https://archive.is/n81gT
Fixed it! Thank you for letting me know :)
Sam Altman, the ChatGPT King, Is Pretty Sure It’s All Going to Be OK
and without pulling a GNOME 3
Falcon 9? SLS? STS?
Mine's a B&W samsung laser. I print a decent amount but sporadically, No issues, fast and reliable and generic replacement toner cartridges are cheap on Amazon (which was where I bought the printer for about 50 quid).
You can configure a key combination to run a pager on the last command output, color and everything. You can also configure it so that it pipes the output of a command to a pager automatically whenever it is more than a screen long.
Vim or Emacs for C++ Coding?
It's sad to see these kinds of posts from universities who were connected to the internet early on. (the blog is hosted on AS239)

This blog post itself served from HTTP/1.1 and IPv4 for me.

I guess the improving internet is handed over to the big companies who benefit them.
context switching is a nightmare
Circumvention of payment for media is indeed piracy. The idea that it is noble to do it shows that some people have never grown up. Entertainment is a service, you should pay for what you consume. Entitlement is the word that keeps popping up but it perfectly describes the sentiment that creators or the platform that enables them shouldn’t be compensated for entertaining or educating you.

Don’t want ads on YouTube? Buy Premium. Feeling righteous for doing the equivalent of sneaking in the movie theater is immature at best, bratty at worst. Be better.
Is it possible to catch, from the server side, when this happens? Or is this only a client side event?

Would be interesting to see how many will requests get downgraded or not over a long period of time.
> I have heard stories like what you describe from some people but then you have people like Astronaut Garrett Reisman, Chip Designer Jim Keller, and AI Research Andrej Karpathy all give amazing praise to Elon and his companies.

I mean, only one of these stayed more than five years; one only stayed _two_ years. And, frankly, if you're in a leadership position in a company, you say nice things when you leave after two years. It is What is Done. I don't think you can really read much into these sorts of statements either way; they're pretty much following a formula.