skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was taught to use a slide rule as a teenager when I used to help my father on weekends with his work, I'd get pocket money for my efforts.

My father, a mechanical engineer, used to bring home large plans (blueprints/diazo whiteprints) of new powerstations he was working on. The drawings were so big that the only place they could be fully opened and spread out was on the lounge room carpet. I'd lie down on my stomach spread out across the drawing with pencil, paper and slide rule in hand and cost the I-beams and RSJs against tables of steel types and prices (cost/ft).

The tool of choice back then had to be the slide rule as calculators weren't commonly available. In hindsight, for this job, the slide rule would still have been the better tool had I also had a calculator. For after checking the cost of a RSJ with a specific CSA (cross section), I did not have to move the rule's slide for every different length of same—all that was necessary was for me to look along the scale and note the cost for any given length. Pushing multiple buttons on a calculator in that circumstance would have been much more awkward.

It's a shame the slide rule has slipped from fashion because it has several significant advantages over a digital calculator, the first is that for repeated calculations where a variable changes each time, one doesn't have to enter a new value as all results are already calculated and displayed—one only has to read the result at the appropriate point on the scale.

The other is that slide rules use mostly log or exponential-type scales, they present instant graph-like visualizations of one's calculations. I've always thought that kids ought to be taught how to use slide rules for this reason.

With the demise of the slide rule I reckon we've lost that instant visualization. Electronic calculators provide much greater accuracy but lacking the visual/graphical-like representation their results are sterile (and in some situations less informative). We also see the same issue arising with the differences between analog/moving-coil and digital multimeters.

I reckon that both of these analog tools illustrate the virtue of approaching things from an analog perspective. No, I'm not resorting to Luddite mode and rejecting digital but rather we should take the best from both approaches. I think we were too eager to ditch analog technology and my view seems to be supported with the recent rekindling of interest in analog computers (as they're more appropriate in some applications due to their simplicity and that they require less power).

Incidentally, I still have my father's Faber-Castell 2/83N slide rule and my Hemmi Darmstadt that I used to do those calculations—both of which I still use.
It’s not just Outlook 2010 that uses MSO, which is a buggy and incomplete implementation of HTML 3.2; the current stable versions of Outlook (for Windows) and Windows Mail do. This might be changing in the new version supposed to be released this year, not certain. MSO has had approximately two changes in the last 25 years (one to support high-DPI displays, can’t remember the other I know of).
Contributor here. Happy to answer any questions.

An interesting bit... the syn library helps us guarantee there is only one connection pool alive on the cluster at a time and gives us callbacks to resolve the conflict if two get spun up.

https://github.com/ostinelli/syn
The NFT does not contain the asset itself, it’s just a meta-document that points to the asset. So if that pointer is a URL, the answer would probably be “a good chunk of the internet”.
Chernobyl Dogs Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Biologists Say
>Doing this in real-time with JavaScript/html/css is nice. Having a Rust compile between each step is a pain.

I'm more of a JS-lite builder. Typically I will only decorate pages with the necessary JS for interactivity. Happier using traditional SSR. Pages load with no spinner or reflow. Sometimes I inline a JSON blob for state.

For the layout tweaks you describe, I typically edit the displayed page in Chrome's developer tools. Once I am satisfied I apply those changes to the template and JS. This feels more ergonomic than refreshing the page.

I imagine the same technique would apply to the unified Rust front-end/back-end experience. Just edit the rendered page in developer tools.

I've never been an early adopter. Let's see how this shapes out for version 1.0 or if another framework overtakes it.
Meccano is dead. Long live lego. Meccano chose not to adapt, instead becoming an anachronistic thing bought by grandparents as a christmas present. Every kid hates it. I've never bled while playing with lego. Ive never not bled every time i've used meccanno or scalextric.
Most Pickett rules (once popular with secondary schools and still in abundance) are aluminum. Remove the slide, wash under warm water, lube with the nearest oil or fat, reassemble. Takes under a minute.

Usually I'd use Vaseline or a silicone lubricant, but expedient lubricants are fine if you'll wash it frequently and aren't trying to make multiple slide moves per minute.

The cursor requires a screwdriver if you really gunk it up (I'd be surprised), but it's still pretty easy. You don't need the cursor if you're just using the rule as a single-proportion lookup table, so you could take it off and put it away if it's a problem.
What do you mean? Where I'm from LPG cars are extremely popular(13.4% of all cars on the road[0]), the winters are very harsh(-20C and less isn't uncommon), and all these LPG cars drive just fine. I used to have one myself, in winter you basically had to start it on petrol but you could switch to LPG 10 seconds later and it was fine.

[0] https://motoryzacja.interia.pl/wiadomosci/ciekawostki/news-p...
His versions also generally look worse than the original.
Right....and all the people not working would get paid how exactly?

Or does this system just assume they're all homeless and jobless?

If it's the latter then I'm sure it could work...not sure it would be a huge improvement tho...
That's too one-dimensional, as the transaction would still take place later once the market price increased to offset the tax increase.
If this were the music world, Lichtenstein would be drawn and quartered by the legal system. These are nearly identical works and even a moron in a hurry would think that they were by the same person.
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I had my Dad’s set as a young teen (I think it was from the 50s) and like another commenter said they were fiddle especially to take apart. You can build some impressive stuff with it but it gets tedious after a while. Some of the sets a hilarious by today’s standards, I remember one set of instructions was to make an automatic match dispenser/striker.

Lego technic is a better toy.
From what I recall that scene was mostly adding/subtracting numbers -- which you can't do on a slide rule. So the slide rules were artistic license in the movie. This also leads into the fact that they did have plenty of computers that helped get to the moon, although slide rules were used for a lot of quick calculations and estimation by the engineers. And my favorite slide rule, the Pickett N-600, was carried on several moon missions as a backup calculation device. (Here's a picture of it on a Gemini mission: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buzz_and_his_pipe.jp...)
Italy is in a prolonged economic crisis. Things are cheap because locals can't pay for them, even at these prices.
It sounds to me like you heard this bullshit argument from someone before and they managed to convince you.

It's almost a trope in the art world, and the fact that many unoriginal artists use it has made it a usable argument by simple repetition.

It might not be "stealing", but something ok it also is not.
this was my dumb guy take when i was in math school
It does make it kind of hard to verify someone's identity.

That said I think trying to verify someone's identity through online means only became viable a few years ago when everyone had a somewhat working camera and microphone available, and with any luck the risk of deepfakes will cause an early end to the the scourge of people trying to film themselves holding a form of ID.
A society is any framework that allows humans with no direct affiliations to collaborate.
The story made me think of two things. First is my school, they had a huge shelving unit divided in ~4"x4" squares on the wall where all of the employee mail was placed.

Second was a story I read on hacker news fairly recently. There is a Latin American country (I forget which one) where the street addresses are essentially unusable and the mail carriers have to find the final location by using their own knowledge of the area.
Just speaking it off my ass here, but it could be the scale of those companies that make those teams viable. Like let’s say you have some standardized systems that can cover the use cases of 20% of your teams. If you have 1000 teams vs 10 teams, covering 200 teams might make economic sense, but 2 teams wouldn’t
You are being pedantic. You also came by with a three word troll comment. Why don't you make your argument properly and then I'll spend the effort to address it.
Opinion: ‘Air’ proves Hollywood can make you root for anyone
I can see how that might destroy many business models. But from the top of my head I can't come up with any whose loss would have a dramatic negative effect on my wellbeing. Could someone elaborate why I should be worried?
It’s must be, because it’s provably incorrect. I say this from actual experience.
The transformative nature of Roy's work was more obvious at the time, mainly because at the time comic books were bottom of the barrel products with nearly zero cultural respect. Roy presenting them as "cultural art" was flabbergasting for many, outrageous and highly controversial. It was barely a step behind pornography from many a person's view at the time - as is how repressed culture was at the time, before the "sexual revolution".
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As concerning as this is, I'm wondering if LLMs like ChatGPT can be more powerful fraud-detectors than fraud-makers.

Unlike scam detection and filtering methods based on pattern recognition or reputation, LLMs can analyze the content of a scam rather than its artifacts. By that I mean, you can ask the AI "does this make sense, or is there reason to believe it's a scam? If so, how can we verify that it's not a scam, knowing that deepfakes exist" rather than "does this fit x y z pattern that we have seen before?"

I'm hoping, and I may be wrong, that most scams rely on emotional hooks, unsuspecting victims, or desperate victims. LLMs aren't vulnerable in the same way.

Maybe.
I have an Edgar chromebook that runs Ubuntu thanks to these UEFI images. It is my sons firdt computer....

This project is beyond awesome, but keep in mind that HW support also boils down to kernel and OS support. E.g. Audio support is still a mixed bag and only started (partially) working with the latest update.
But you just said there is more capital than ever before! The people who ended up with this capital will be looking to invest it. So it should be easier than usual, maybe easier than ever before, to convince investors ...
Measuring Software Value and Trust: Let's Rave
Dracula?
Interview with Andrew Kelley (Zig Creator) (2021)
It is not the fact that the poster writes «Done.» where actually and comically it's not "done" at all in said proposal,

nor the other possible point that Statistical Large Language Models are not problem solvers, as in fact are special in Machine Learning for optimizing for goals transversal to actual "solutions" (not to mention that it is already a Sam Altman, while proud of the results («They are not laughing now, are they»), the first to jump into alarm when people drool "So it's AGI!?" on him),

but it must be noted that those scams happen because people live lightheartedly their responsibilities (among which, realizing that they are not in the XVIII century anymore) - and the post has a tint of this dangerous laid back approach.
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Why not link to the video directly?

Related:
Chicxulub Impact Event in real time
https://youtu.be/ya3w1bvaxaQ
Right. If there are a billion fauxllers worth half a billion dollars, you want the half a billion dollars attached to your own half a billion fauxllers, and not the other half.
GPT-4 for API design research
So obviously fans don’t have speakers or Alexa in them, I think.

At the time the internet was just a slow link between a few colleges and nobody had cell phones so I tend to agree.

You hear sounds from the motor/wiring?

I honestly don't know. The only induced reactions I can explain are when the truckers running powerful RF linear amps could partially illuminate the fluorescent lights at trucks stops. But I have no idea how he managed to induce not only enough signal to make noise but to also somewhat hear his voice. It was very "tinny" and raspy sounding. The more I think about it the sound was similar to what one might hear if they had two cups connected by string and someone was screaming into it.
Hi, i was running these million connections benchmarks, happy to answer if you have any questions regarding this:)
In short, that was pretty easy to do, only things we had to tweak to make it work were some elixir and linux limits
When circumstances change, people's behaviour must change. People don't like to change, some even fear change. If some people are insulated from reality, such that they don't need to change, other people will have to bare the cost. There is no economic system that can spare us from the need to adapt.
Came here to say this. It's clickbait, but a good reminder nonetheless.
The honest people aren't generating value for anyone except scammers.
If a common-sense LLM is listening to grandma's calls (privacy alarms going off but hear me out), it can stop her from wiring her life savings to an untrustworthy destination, without having seen that particular scam before.
I have previously worked for USPS and can help clear up what is happening. The mail carrier and their assigned station (Post Office) should be thought of only as the ingress/egress of the postal system. It would be wrong to say that no sorting happens there, but the type of sorting that doesn't happen there is why your mail is being postmarked at a plant (regional center) fifteen miles away.

I'll use the location that I worked at as an example. In Wilmington, NC, once your carrier returns to the station, they drop your letter into a collection bin. This collection bin is driven to Fayetteville, NC, where it is then processed via OCR. After being OCR'd it has a machine-readable bar-code, and will be sorted for delivery to a local station. The machinery involved in the OCR and sorting process is larger than any of the local stations I worked at. Additionally, almost all of the mail pieces that I delivered were intercity, not intracity. Your use case is the exception, not the rule.

There are many exceptions and corner cases to what I described, but that's what the process looks like for most mail pieces. Locating the scanning and sorting machinery at a hub rather than each individual spoke makes sense. UPS, where I currently work, has some minor differences, but the hub and spoke model is largely the same.
This looks great and very promising!
Actually, I've worked on 12 separate 7 hour art history documentaries, have a sister that is a professional fine artist, and have a legal interest in these areas via ownership of some nice art.
I disagree.

'Aesthetic' appearance in math is important in helping drive mathematical innovation and help new human beings derive pleasure from that wonderful field.

Programming is kind of an applied mathematics where efficiency does matter because it's a tool, a means to an end.

Not to say that people can't find aesthetics in programming, nor that they shouldn't, rather in math at least the pleasure of discovering a new way of doing/proving something is the end in of itself.

It's pleasure for me to see another way to do or prove something; I can only imagine the feelings this teenager got from actually making a discovery.
Why don't we have postal addresses with reasonable checksums?
Chat with your database using AI
https://insightbase.ai allows you to chat to your database and build analytics using the answers.

You can ask for anything and it will answer with a number a text or a graph.

You can build dashboards with widgets that auto-refresh at specified intervals.

This saves a lot of time and has the advantage that anyone can use it without knowing the database structure & coding.

What do you think about this?
That's an elitist mindset
How could that work? How would machines get their allowance? Why would cryptocurrency be relevant to the system?
This may be a joke, but a Dead Sea Channel would work; not only it would bring a body of water and humidity by filling the Dead Sea, but it would generate electricity in the process. As the evaporation of the Dead Sea will increase a lot (currently the saltiness reduces evaporation to some degree), it will work ongoing without building any dam.
Interesting thing, Dutch train bicycle spotted in Morocco

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/w0dep7/a_dutch_publ...
Next.js itself uses a compiler written in Rust.

https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/compiler
There was no trend without the commen. The trend is the cons.
> is important

I can see it being important to the career of the “appropriating artist” but possibly you see other important concerns as well. I’m interested in learning what these important things are.

[p.s. just occurred that possibly you have a sort of greater good equation in mind. Cultural shackles and stifling establishment and stuff like that. I’d buy that argument if the “appropriating artists” chose to work anonymously for the greater good and not make lucrative careers out of it.]
Such broad view of microeconomic.

Even the eagles must land to see what is going on.
> China has also been accused of illegally operating secret police stations in Amsterdam

I had to read that a few times because it just sounded nonsensical. What where the repercussions for Chinese govt. for that action? It there weren’t any except strong worded “we seek explanation” requests, the Chinese will just double down on attacks. Bullies see weak responses as an invitation for more bullying.
Kind of reminds me of Operation Freakout [1]. Every system of government has weak spots that can be exploited by powerful enough adversaries to intimidate and suppress. I suspect that this is only going to get worse as long as authoritarian regimes are allowed to grow unchecked.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout
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Maybe, but IMO that’s part of the problem. A human can understand someone is probably asking about a particularly controversial event without having to be prompted.
If this is your throwaway, you could say the name of your company...
From deep to long learning?
> can be more powerful _-detectors than _-makers

Surely you have witnessed (Generative) Adversarial Networks. It's called "an escalation" (attack vs defense, etc.).

More to the substantive proposal in the post: remember that incidents during surgery are dramatically reduced just by using checklists - you can already reduce incidents through deterministic regulation of action. And you do not require "fuzzy" systems like ANNs for that.
> The really nice thing is that I can move things on or off of my own plate as my workload changes.
This is the goal!

> Want to have relaxing end-of-year holidays? Don't start a B2B SaaS company in which you're going to close a huge % of your yearly revenue in the last few days of the year.

Can you tell me more about where this point comes from please?

I'm not sure if it's a US-UK cultural difference, but if ever, business tends to close around the financial year ends here (early April), not christmas. If you haven't got something signed in November, it usually doesn't happen till January and UK workers take quite long christmas breaks. Or have I not experienced what you are talking about it?
Expensive bikes = chopped for parts, then ebay.

Medium-priced bikes = ebay.

Cheap bikes = the river.

The bikes in this article seem on the lower end of the market, which is normal for amsterdam imho. The area is small and very flat, almost exclusively on hard surfaces. I dont see many of the high-performance mountain/trail/road bikes that are the norm in western north america. This would impact the black market. I doubt there is much of any market for used bike parts, negating the entire chop shop concept.
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If it is 0% most likely is doable as mobile Web, no need for hybrid headaches.
I was relating an example from oil oligopolies with the Ads market.

Social media making $$$ whereas the companies buying Ads barely breaking even is not equal to an “open efficient and free market” as the initial thread suggested.
No image support is a show stopper.
really just an arts/hobby vs job/career disagreement. and gosh, they’re teenager students: we can’t suck all the joy out of school!

but related, i wonder what a mathematics demo party would look like.
It's not enough just to be smarter than other species. Humans sacrificed physical abilities in order to obtain intellectual abilities. So they need to be smart enough to He's planning and tools to obtain resources that their bodies cannot directly obtain.
Wow, that I did not know - but totally believe
Didn't realize this feature existed in the first place.
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Fair point. I'd honestly not considered the flaws of DNSSEC and how they play with DANE.

Another day in tech, another deep sigh.
Karma farming is a thing. It’ll keep out the less determined spammer but not much else.
Did people at the time even knew that he "appropriated" the work of other artists? If Lichetenstein had done the bare minimum and cited his sources I would feel a lot better about his work.
Online verification of identity might just not suffice for some things or there might be specialized IDs for online purposes etc.
Maker beam is nice, it’s 10mm x 10mm cross-section which is much smaller than you can normally find. There’s probably a cheap knock off version by now too.
Do you have prior experience with building and signing desktop apps? If not, it is well worth using a framework that brings all of that boilerplate to the table. As an example: https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/wi...
The popularity of ChatGPT revolutionized time. For learning, for many kinds of busywork (it's redefining what is and isn't "busywork), for planning. And most important: we don't know what we have yet because it's still being built. It's a tool. It's not the "capabilities" it's what people get out of it.

You mention blogging from the standpoint of writing it all yourself, and then using a tool to tweak it. That's not the revolutionary part. It's collaborating with the tool to write the post.
If Microsoft and Walmart pay a fixed tax rate on earnings they don't have a tax incentive to become Walsoft: if their earnings are simply added their tax won't change.

Unless I completely misunderstood your point you want Microsoft to pay a higher rate because its margin 67/205 = 33% is higher and Walmart to pay a lower rate because its margin 14/573 = 2% is lower.

How much would Walsoft pay on its $81bn profit given its 10% margin?

It depends on the link between margins and tax rates. However, one may imagine that it could be less than what Microsoft alone pays on its $67bn profit given its 33% margin.
Sounds like something Apple could do.
Markdown would be a pretty good fit as a compromise between HTML and plaintext for email. I wonder why no one has thought about that yet.

Markdown syntax takes a bit of time to learn, but with images, tables, limited HTML tags, I think it would suffice for 99% of use cases and remove the need for all the sanitization that current clients do.