skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Democratic supermajority in the late 70s was nuts.

The leaders decided to push through “deep changes” without consulting the base. The result was things like the ERA.

They knew they had to placate centrists - so did things like outlaw federal funding for abortion and random deregulation nobody (especially the deregulated industries) wanted.

Which pissed off their base.

Plus the very unfortunate economic situation did not help.

The biggest results was a bunch of ex-Democrats and a very left wing judiciary.
As a former user of ISO layout keyboards, IMHO a great quality of life improvement is to switch to ANSI.

A US ANSI keyboard has all programming symbols in the right place. Yet it makes Latin/Nordic and other symbols easy to type via compose key (e.g. Right Alt), or similar.

For example, Compose a + ' = á, a + e = æ, o + / = ø, s + s = ß, s + o = §, etc.

An annoying issue is that most brands won't sell ANSI keyboards abroad. Apple is one of the few that get this right. A trick is to import from countries where ANSI is the default, such as NL.
Well you're in luck since these girls' proof is pretty simple so should be pretty pleasing for you!
heh, you should set up payments like a gym membership...
Until they get the balls to actually cut the ties properly you just keep getting paid every month.
> I've never worked with tools where I had to guess/pray every morning "Will my app compile and run today?" until I worked with React Native.

Happened to me building a Kivy Android app using Buildozer. That marked the end of my use of Kivy and Buildozer. I really want to use Python to build apps, but not as much as I want to not randomly have apps suddenly refusing to build out of the blue, and Kotlin is a damn nice language.
Student tuition is high but not a high part of the budget. 40 years ago tuition was mostly covered by the state and tuition charged to students was basically just a copay to ensure you weren't terrible. But since the end of the cold war there's basically been a one way ratchet: every time a recession hits the states cut uni funding to balance the budget, the unis raise tuition to compensate, and when the recession is over this now the new normal.
There a wonderful book that might spark his imagination--The Story of Inventions by Anna Claybourne---how almost anything you can think of was invented---an inexpensive copy can usually be found on abebooks.com
Gunships are less survivable than A-10. They only operate at night because they are so vulnerable. They are only for special circumstances.

I’m not sure we need CAS solution, bombers and fighters at medium altitude with precision munitions worked well. Light attack works well for counter insuregency. For contested airspace like Ukraine, drones might be the only option.
If that's a useful signal, it'd be nice to see labels like

* Independently Funded Media
* Tiny Donations Funded Media
* Funded by Usenet group a.b.c
* Self-Funded Media

Each label is a tag, so clicking it brings you to a list of other suchly funded media.

The idea with "tiny donations" is like, you know each person donated $5 and no one can contribute more than that. So the agenda--or whatever this label idea is supposed to suggest or prime us into thinking--is... something, I don't know.
As noted in the memo (p.9), a law school dean at the event appeared to grant permission and even to "endorse the disruption."

Students could (very reasonably) argue that they were granted explicit permission and approval at the event by attending administrators.
Without even leaving the phone:

> "I'm more comfortable doing this on my phone" https://youtu.be/TGD8zKvRxc4?t=331

was kind of blown away by that thought, having had the pleasure of using Premiere-type suites on a desktop computer just to edit a simple timelapse
You doubt there are two productive developers over 70 years of age?
how about this: Easter eggs as we've been discussing are meant to be found, albeit with a lot of effort and good luck.

Deliberate mistakes in maps are meant NOT to be found. If an infringer found them, they'd be sure to omit them from their maps.
Your point has merit, but for a stronger argument, refrain from over-generalizing and combining unrelated issues.
The results are rather superficial, not impressed, having Speedboat by Adler in my prompt resulted in getting books about boats. Needs to at least be able to distinguish fiction from non-fiction if it is to be useful, The Wreck of the S.S. Titanic is probably not what most will want to read after reading Speedboat.
The top 1% of SWEs in any FAANG are world-class engineers and are unique. I'm talking about the John Carmack's of the world who are top of their field.

The top 10% at FAANGs are game changers, and having them in any company would probably accelerate them. I've worked with some really extra ordinary, high-output engineers that were brilliant.

The rest of the 89% are very, very ordinary. I'm at a FAANG and the vast majority are exactly like every other SWE I've worked with in my career. There's nothing special about them. I'm currently working with some of the laziest, dumbest SWEs in my career despite their employment at a FAANG.

So to those that think FAANG is some badge of honor, don't believe the hype, I don't think FAANG employment is a meaningful signal at all.
I think the framing of "let natural selection do the work" is self sabotaging if you're really trying to make the argument persuasive. It makes your position sound on some level likes it's casually dismissing the loss of life when what is really being argued, to me when I read your post at least, is that we need to accept that in dealing with this kind of topic lives are going to be ruined/lost either way and that when we/governments take responsibility as distributors that at least allows us more control over the situation and from that position we might at least be able to diminish the risk/harm to addicts even if we can't actually convert them into non-addicts.

I'd add that I think more explanation around the black market angle could probably help the argument further since atm the state of legalization advocacy in the US tends to be "But think about the tax revenue!" which is fine for less problematic drugs like weed but which is going to stall fast when you get to things like heroine. Emphasizing legalization and government regulation/distribution as a way to take money out of the hands of gangs and street dealers would be compelling to a lot of people imo if framed in the right way.
Replacing individual drug doses with clean versions at the point of consumption is not “distributing drugs” in any sense except rhetorical, so I should simply reject that comparison.

But in the spirit of discussion, I will instead say: why compete when you could regulate?

This proposal would essentially introduce a tax on cutting drugs that is exactly proportionate to the amount of cutting done. Further processes could emulate other forms of regulation: if the drug dose contains enough of some adulterant that it would have been acutely lethal (for example, way too much fentanyl accidentally mixed in), you could withhold the dose or otherwise induce the user to give up the dealer to the police - not as hard of a sell as you might think, given that the pharmacist literally just saved the user from dying in the next 30 minutes - and now you have something sort of like safety and QA regulations that impose jail time penalties for improper manufacturing.
ESP32 will always be Xtensa. (They're hardly going to change CPU architecture without updating the model name!) Same as ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3.

ESP32-Cx, ESP32-Hx, ESP32-Px etc are or will be RISCV.
Donut go there
> I feel like we are headed towards a split between Electron for end user applications and TUI for portable tools

Another common hack is for a tool to serve a web UI on localhost, like Jupyter or Datasette. If you need to run the tool on a firewalled server, you can use SSH port forwarding to access the web UI.
And yet, that's the approach that has completely failed. I suggest you allow data to drive the discussion instead of silly failed moralizations. As a peer comment pointed out, Japan's drug policy is the most strict in the developed world - and it has a massive under-reported meth problem. I suspect the Emirates is similar and lower headline numbers come from lack of reporting - not lack of issues. Do you have some evidence to suggest your approach works? To my knowledge there really isn't any.

Maybe it's time to start sympathizing with the drug users if you want to get rid of shady dealers and narcos. We've tried it your way. It sucks.
Ok, after reading through it, I don't think I was speaking inaccurately. Here are some quotes from the blog post (which was very neat, by the way, thanks again)

> And it’s part of the lore of neural nets that—in some sense—so long as the setup one has is “roughly right” it’s usually possible to home in on details just by doing sufficient training, without ever really needing to “understand at an engineering level” quite how the neural net has ended up configuring itself.

> What determines this structure? Ultimately it’s presumably some “neural net encoding” of features of human language. But as of now, what those features might be is quite unknown. In effect, we’re “opening up the brain of ChatGPT” (or at least GPT-2) and discovering, yes, it’s complicated in there, and we don’t understand it—even though in the end it’s producing recognizable human language.

This is the kind of thing I'm referring to. Even though we can look at pictures of the neuron activations, we don't really know what it's doing, any more than you can look at a picture of a brain scan of a person speaking and know why they decided to say those particular words. We know at a low level how the network works, of course, because we coded it. It's the emergent behavior that we don't understand, and that's the bit that's scary because that's where the AI risk lives. It's like how we understand particle physics pretty well, and chemistry to some degree, but biology is a massively complicated jungle that we've barely scratched the surface of.

Maybe there's something we could develop analogous to using an MRI as a lie detector, for these networks. But as far as I know, this is still an unsolved problem, and apparently really hard for networks that are smarter than you are: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WwsnJQstPq91_Yh-Ch2XRL8H...
Seriously. Perhaps this article written from a multi-verse perspective, one in which the author lives in a version of the world that didn't experience one of the greatest wealth grabs of all time by C-suite and the like (their reward for repeated execution of poor and ill-timed investments, of course).

Since when is freelance "stable"? Since when is any job "stable"? It's a job, one we have to do because capitalism and healthcare. That's not stability; it's coercion.
perhaps point out that there is no actual EOF in a file in modern operating systems - i bang on about this here: https://latedev.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/all-about-eof/
Maybe the /s makes sense for people in 10000 employee companies :)
Which corporations? There were some estimates that GPT-3 cost under 5M$ to train[0].

[0] https://lambdalabs.com/blog/demystifying-gpt-3
Not seeing addicts and semi-zombies on the streets is enough.
> It will eventually be able to handle multiple types of connections: traditional TCP connections, and HTTP connections for developers who are connecting to Postgres in serverless environments using Prisma, Kysely, Drizzle, etc

Is there a specific HTTP API to target for this or something brand new that will cover the desired use cases?
I don't think anyone's argued seriously about whether or not a calorie deficit causes weight loss, mostly I've seen that CICO doesn't actually help people perform the calorie deficit part and is instead primarily used for people to be smug about the struggles fat people have about losing weight.
Do you think people make their own choices on where to work based on how comfortable they feel working in that environment?
Ah pretending. Got it. It does tend to be easier to live in a world of one's own imagination than to solve the real, hard problems we face.

You know where else doesn't have those things? Portugal.
The current Lego site says they are made from ABS still.
One idea that changed my life is stop believing that other people have changed their lives based on ideas.

The only way of change is by habit.
This varies a lot from faculty to faculty and from position to position. Some will work nonstop regardless of how many grants they have. (If you have grants, use them; if not, write them.) For pre-tenure research faculty, behaving this way is pretty much expected.

Others who are more senior and less research active may shoo their students off to internships (particularly in CS) and spend the summer doing very little. A lot of departmental committee work is paused, and people tend to know who is and is not available over the summer and will make arrangements accordingly. (I.E., don't assign Professor Tee Time to a committee that needs to function over the summer.)
What do you figure is next for you?
You can live a pretty chill life at most FAANGs too if you avoid the burnout high pressure projects and choose not to have the crazy commute by moving close to work? They pay you plenty enough if you are a single person to not have a bad commute. There is a reason why there is jokes about google employees working from 11-4.

IMO it's the small startups and certain industries that have crunch.
If something is "not impossible", then it is possible. To say otherwise is to violate LEM, which is an essential part of all of our logical systems. The vast majority of mathematical proofs, many of which form the foundation of our physical understanding, would not hold without LEM.

Stated another way, if something is "not impossible", then what is it?
Low-Protein Diet from Processed Foods Drives Overeating and Fueling Obesity
Not just inference.

AFAIK, you are able to fine-tune the models with custom data[1], which does not seem to require anything but a GPU with enough VRAM to fit the model in question.
I'm looking to get my hands on an RTX 4090 to ingest all of the repair manuals of a certain company and have a chatbot capable of guiding repairs, or at least try to do so. So far doing inference only as well.

[1] https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora
Side note: OpenNEM has some of the most beautiful data presentation I've seen in a very long time. Particularly great typography and mobile performance / responsiveness as well. Open source too https://github.com/opennem/opennem-fe
> Replacing individual drug doses with clean versions at the point of consumption is not “distributing drugs” in any sense except rhetorical, so I should simply reject that comparison

I pay a dealer for a ticket. I take it to the dispensary. They clip the ticket and give me new drugs. Now replace “ticket” with “tainted drugs.”

The street-purchase requirement is totally performative. The dispensary is selling drugs with extra steps, with the bonus of sending their revenue to the dealers.
I suspect the decline is a marketing thing in regard to easy listening music which is played on the radio and tv video shows, more emphasis seems to be on dance music. The author really failed to mention electronica instrumentals and a sub branch trance which had a good following in the 90s.

Regarding more classically sounding tracks, Philip Glass and Penguin Cafe Orchestra [1] would be the top two which come to mind first. More electronic of course Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis would be my top two picks. There are many others of course. There are of course many artists that have released some notable instrumentals but they for the most part also include vocals. Air have a couple nice instrumentals, one of which actually got a fair bit of air time here.

Present day I think the music industry (though it's various agents and promoters) tries it's best to discourage artists that would prefer to sit in their own sound lab, create great music and have no interest touring - since the music industry's need to ... um promote and claim much of profits, would not be served. I see this especially when shows revisit the past music ... completely omitting great instrumental and near instrumental (ie has vocal riffs) hits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Cafe_Orchestra
Is there an explanation of what this is, what problems it solves, etc?
This is true of all questions.
Have you actually worked at a FAANG?
No, the F-35 is one of the top 3 (depending on how you estimate the capabilities of the J-20 and the importance of sensors it could easily be #1) air superiority fighters in the world. A large part of that is simply that it's the first fighter designed since Moore's Law really got going in the 90s. Yes, the F-22 was designed after Moore, but it was an 80s design using hardened 80s computers, and its computing architecture is still reminiscent of that era. The F-35 is a 90s design using 90s computers, and our idea of computing changed significantly from the mainframe-style "upgrade one a decade" concepts dominant in the 80s to the PC "upgrade once a year" of the 90s. Combine that with American dominance in sensors and engines and even though the F-35's kinematics may not be as great as the F-22's, it's capable of killing airborne targets without needing those kinematics. The big unknown is the J-20 and whatever next-gen programs the PRC has going, but _currently_ the F-35 is likely better at killing air targets.

NGAD exists to be a fully-upgradeable air superiority counterpart to the F-35. It'll be 100% air superiority like the F-22, but will be upgradeable with relatively minor revisions like the F-35. It's designed that way because almost certainly the PRC air superiority fighters will be designed the same way. Its existence isn't a condemnation of the F-35, any more than the existence of a high-low mix isn't condemnation of the low part of the mix.
> high dimensional representation of meaning

This is word salad. I don't even know what you mean by "meaning," but an embedding is simply an array filled with a bunch of floating point numbers[1] and, importantly, these embeddings are trained, so "doctor" will have an embedding similar to "hospital" because it's seen in close proximity in the training data.

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/text/guide/word_embeddings
Kids these days are too soft. If you don’t get cut a few times while playing, what’s the point?
what would be the advantages of using dietpi on a raspberry pi over e.g. ubuntu?
Yes, and that is, specifically, the part that is not apparent. What makes it not the same other than one being light/faster and the other sound/slower?
God forbid. HN is such an echo chamber - I’d bet 99% of the code written by these gods will be dead and unmaintainable in 3 years.

In the meantime, the stuff that keeps the world spinning was written by some normie 30 years ago in RPG.
The DIY quadcopter scene is very technical and there are kits for new learners which let you pop the motors on, assemble the frame, the sort of stuff. Many are no-solder, and if he enjoyed it, he could eventually learn and do very custom builds.

My youngest (5) was able to put together a plug-n-play kit and was extremely happy with the result, though he has crashed it to death since and I'm waiting on replacement parts.

I can't find the one we went with, but this is similar: https://ca.robotshop.com/products/airbit-2-programmable-dron...

This one is arguably under-featured and over-priced, but gets the idea across!
wow. this is amazing work, and answers a question I've had for a while. Thanks for putting this out there!
How to Buy a Dinosaur
> and answers a question I've had for a while

I am curious, which?
Which also reminds me of "Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners" (https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-to...). It points to a '93 book for the original inspiration.
Food Prices Are New Inflation Threat for Governments and Central Banks
Yes. The legacy ones.

Obviously, nobody would trust Espressif if they didn't guarantee availability of parts for n years. The existing Xtensa parts are not disappearing overnight.

New parts will be RISC-V.
I wish I would have read some of this commentary 15 years sooner.

> The reason their tech is so shit is not because of lack of skills or money but because a lot of existing money depends on nobody having those skills.

Are you summarizing what you wrote earlier in your comment? Or generalizing? I’m not following and/or skeptical of this characterization.

In my experience with large organizations, the lacking quality of technology tends to result from:

- hiring outsiders (often contractors but sometimes corporate IT teams) to build things

- the outsiders have little incentive to build it well to solve long term problems

- the managers hiring the outsiders don’t really understand the technology domain well enough

Put another way:

A. the people who build software “solutions” for internal business processes may be the only ones who appreciate how complex and messed up these processes are.

B. If they are not compensated nor respected properly, and don’t stick around for future iterations, how is the next version going to be significantly better?
> Pretending GPT is just using a percent chance that some token should show up next is absurd. It's almost a hundred layers of neural pathways.

That is literally what it's doing though. "Pretending a CPU is just adding 0s and 1s is absurd. It's made out of billions and billions of transistors."
There can exist different market dynamics in different sectors?

I'm not really sure why your trying to compare oil & gas with digital ads, it doesn't make any sense. You can't extrapolate conclusions based on the market dynamics of one to the other.
> if you want to understand fusion

https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...
Have you actually tried running llama 13B on a phone? iirc mmap doesn't work as much magic as it was initially hyped to, but I've only tried it on my desktop. The initial model-load is faster, but inference is the same.
Why FDR Limited FDIC Coverage
> the subsidy increases the more you earn and the higher your taxes

What's the name of this law called that does this? Seems like quite the oversight.
Ideas and habit change are rather intertwined.

Habit change is itself just an idea until someone chooses to actually do it.
> Finally, any individual coming in and waging civil war on other departments within the organization is always bad, even if they're right in the long run.

Yes, an individual going alone against entrenched powers will feel an unpleasant burning sensation.

Still, at times an entire department is already looked at as a black sheep. A key hire can just provide “cover” for what most people in the organization already know. The new blood might not tread lightly. It can work, if the attack dog has cover and support. This has the added benefit of providing a ready to burn scapegoat if the “excision” / reorg doesn’t go well.

P.S. Need more mixed metaphors?
> that thing was bulletproof.

I remember back when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, there was a shop running VMS for (I think) some financial institution that left a skeleton crew onsite to keep things running. They had 3 sites (if I recall) across the US, but for whatever reason they needed all 3 up as long as possible, so those guys manned the generator. They were doing live blog updates, which was pretty wild at the time.

Eventually the site went offline, but the other VMS sites picked up without losing any data.

Sadly, I can't find anything about this company in a few minutes of searching, so my vague memories are all I have. But I thought it was so cool that the other sites seamlessly picked up when the New Orleans site went down.
Ask HN: Examples of software that is “done”?
We all dream of writing software that is 100% feature complete, has no outstanding bugs, and requires no ongoing maintenance.

What are the best examples of such software? Preferably, software that is still in active use.
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