skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's... optimistic

The absolute current value probably doesn't matter - in fact I very much doubt a hobbyist-level multimeter is even capable of accurately measuring the (fractions of?) millivolts across a fuse.

It's more important as a boolean signal - "is there current being drawn on this fuse?", and then usually even those fractions of millivolts will generally be enough to make your el-cheapo multimeter register 1mV and tell you something is drawing current, where as a fuse with no voltage drop across it at all will reliably show 0mV (just like it would if the probes were shorted) on even a cheap meter.
> I think most of the complexity stem not just from the word count, but rather that everything interacts with everything else.

That is definitely the main issue.

And you're completely correct on the needed/non-needed/subjective front. Many of the standards reference (in a recursive manner) a lot of other standards. A listed some here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524018 As an outsider it's impossible to know whether TIFF spec or ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange are relevant, an need to be studied, or are there just because they define some minor values referenced in some more higher-level spec.
Unrelated, there was some other goon who had the idea to build an isometric Sim Tower game. I don’t think it ever took off but I would still be interested in playing a game like that.
I also build cards similarly. I also follow the following rules:

https://github.com/ninja33/sm-20-rules-cn

What I didn't realize is that i can also visualize the cards in a knowledge graph. Thanks for the inspiration.
There are AI / datacenter focused GPUs (like the A100, H100 etc.). They do not have any graphics rendering circuitry.
Open-Source AI Is Game Theoretic Optimum
why open-source AI will be the only viable biz model long term
for me just now ... 'www' and 'new' are apparently identical

ad neither seems notably different from how it's looked for years
This. Also, the term "roguelike" for action-adventure games. FFS, if you play a roguelike like Slashem you will know all of these "roguelike" wannabe's have nothing to do with the genre. There are just rehased Zelda-likes with permadeath.
The first time I heard the annoying beeping of my microwave I opened it and cut off the piezo beeper. Have been living in blissful silence ever since.
For an extreme version of this, see Truman relieving Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his command during the Korean War.
Most new languages maybe.

Most new compilers are somebody’s hobby project that will never see the light of day, I have like four of them in various states of unfinishedness.
Agree.

There is no right or wrong way to srs. You have to put in mental effort, whether thats creating elaborate cards, or grinding through thousands of premades. Once you stop putting in the mental effort, it will stop working to improve your recall
I think we’re going to find that porn artists are the last ones fully replaced (though some vast number will be) as there will always be the people paying for the “hope” that there’s a human connection somewhere in there.
Early content generation before the RLHF safety tuning was a lot more interesting and nuanced. It's significantly worse now, both dumber and less diverse output. [1]

We're seeing the enshittification of early AI products in real time, presumably so they can be sold to the lowest common denominator who can't distinguish AI output from human-embodied thought and opinion, and so that companies like micro$oft can safely sell advertising space in/alongside it, or whatever their plan is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c - mentioned fairly early in the talk that the "sparks of AGI" are not reproducible with the release version of GPT4.
Clearly barely anyone here has read far enough into this article to even know what he means by "Nerd Culture". I don't really agree with it, but he makes a specific claim and does so eloquently and emotively. It would be more interesting to discuss that claim than to respond to the title, as most here are doing.

Briefly, he's saying that the explosion in information availability has resulted in a form of hyper-aestheticism he associates with "hipsters", based on an idea that individuals with particularly "good taste" could sort through it all and popularise the good stuff, followed, after that failed and hipsterism came to be seen as unoriginal and conformist, by a surrender to corporate media franchises and manufactured culture, which he associates with "nerds". He claims this too is now failing and bleakly attempts to guess what might come next.

I think it's a huge oversimplification and I don't think "nerd" is a good term to use for what he's describing, but it's entertaining and would be fun to discuss if HN were capable of that.
I don't want to go too offtopic on this one --feel free to join StackGres Slack Community [1] to discuss further.

As a one-liner, though, for completeness: StackGres is fully open source (unlike Crunchy that needs a license for production); comes with a Web Console; 150+ Postgres extensions (including Timescale, Citus and many others); and many Day 2 operations fully automated.

[1]: https://slack.stackgres.io
BLOOM has been trained on a 3M€ grant from French research agencies CNRS and GENCI.

Doesn’t have any of the constraints you’re talking about.
AI ‘Trustworthiness’ Is Focal Point of New US Government Inquiry
France paid for Bloom: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a...

It hasn’t been very impressive (undertrained I believe).
Technical Debt: The First 50 years
Is there a large barrier to entry? I thought that the costs of training, while large, were only a few million so not insurmountable, and the technology is pretty well understood. If this is true it's hard to understand what they'd need $300 million for, and also if there's no moat why they would command a "billions" valuation.
Usually, understanding the type system changes you code/thinking about business logic too. That stems from the habit of thinking about how to check your expected behaviour before implementing it.

Needing a debugger still happens once in a while, but languages/projects that are well adapted to this way of thinking really make it extremely uncommon.
Governments that think they can innovate through consortiums. That's either ignorance or pork barrel politics. Either way it's a sad waste of tax payer money.
> I guess that's a matter of opinion. I'm happy to work till retirement in a modest house if it means I don't spend any time in prison.

It's a matter of perspective.

Say you're age 38 (the age that EH was when she was convicted) with no children (she had no children at the time).

You are going to spend the clear majority of your waking time (%75+) over the next 27 years confined to working, with the remaining 25% or less actually enjoying your freedom (holiday/vacations away, social visits, recreation, etc) before finally retiring.

In effect you'll be enjoying not more than 6.75 years, awake, of freedom before retirement.

Or, you could spend 100% of your next 11 years confined, and have the next 16 years after confinement, awake, of freedom. You'll still be under 50 when released, so lots of options to enjoy that freedom.

I can see why some people will find the second option attractive.

Personally, right now it's not for me (I have children I want to enjoy while they are growing), but I feel certain that if I did NOT have children, or a close romantic relationship which I wish to maintain, I'd much prefer the second option.

The sooner I can stop working, the better my life and my voluntary contributions to humanity. I can't very well explore deep questions or meaningfully make my mark on the world if I'm stuck in a cubicle for more than 3/4 of my awake time.
This is why your usernames should always be ones that reporters would think twice or three times before using in the news.
Zp – Tool to copy contents from a file
Published my first crate today, and I'm awaiting all your suggestions.

The "zp" command is a custom command that takes one argument, which is the name of the source file. The purpose of this command is to copy the contents of the source file to the clipboard, allowing users to easily paste the contents into another file or program.

To use the "zp" command, simply open your terminal or command prompt and type "zp" followed by the name of the source file. For example:

`zp myFile.txt`

This will copy the contents of "myFile.txt" to the clipboard.

The "zp" command is particularly useful for quickly copying text or data from one file to another without having to manually select and copy the text. This can save time and effort, especially when working with large or complex files.
And the OP article is plagiarized from Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/theranos-founder-elizabeth-hol...

-- "A federal judge has denied a request to release Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes from prison while she appeals her fraud conviction" <=> "A U.S. judge on Monday denied Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' request to remain free on bail while she appeals her conviction on charges of defrauding..."

-- "Holmes was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison in November for defrauding investors..." <=> "U.S. District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Holmes to 11 years and three months in prison in November"

-- "He noted that even if Holmes won her appeal challenging the admission of evidence about Theranos’ inaccurate blood tests, it would not result in a reversal of the other convictions against her" <=> "Davila concluded that even if Holmes won her appeal to challenge the Theranos technology evidence, it wouldn't result in a reversal or a new trial of all the counts she was found guilty of"

Etc. (this is just 3 of the first 4 sentences!) The little anti-string-matching substitutions, like "to challenge" -> "challenging", show clear intent to obfuscate.
The author of the linked article mentions a couple of times to lock the doors for the car to go to sleep properly.
looks nice, will try to use it.
but for now not sure how it is differ from other similar libraries which have more stars for example
Since we have started with engineering - could the next version just accept a proper programming language as input?
Thank you, I will join.
Canonical only settled on systemd when Debian decided to adopt it, though.
> well if you dislike something you can see how it works and look to improve it.

Strange that so much of open-source is actually really bad UI-wise then.
The difference is that the R-word foundation goes above and beyond their (reasonable) interests of protecting their brand/identity. This is not about trying to fend off people impersonating as "Official Rust..." or "Rust Foundation ..." but tries to stop you from even having the _word_ "rust" or "cargo" in your domain name.
Also there is some ideology-driven nonsense which is impossible to enforce but that does not stop them from the attempt to treat their community condescendingly like that.
So over the weekend I just went through a vim reworking for myself after discovering astronvim. I replaced my config with that one and installed nvim-dap-python through the user template, was able to attach and debug like I was using pycharm in a few hours of tweaking. I really like it

I did have a couple of plugins I cant really live without (ZoomWinTab and A.vim) so Im working on porting them to lua with the help of chatgpt. Really like the experience so far. Def worth checking out astronvim / nvchad
SWA hasn't exactly "failed"
IT Doesn’t Matter (2003)
It may not be possible to come up with a "reasonable heuristic": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524018
Increasingly I think we are over-connected. I'm not sure human beings are meant to be voicing their opinions with hundreds or thousands of people constantly. But it is addictive enough to be a blatant hypocrite.
Why is the WSJ telling me what to do? You stop telling people to do stuff!

I come for news, not to be preached AT.

The news has this authoritative Father-like tone lately. It's unearned and patronizing.
I think I’ve used it so much that a sentence in I assumed it was ChatGPT. It has a certain way of speaking.
Oh, here's another one: I eat my oats with hot water, not milk ! Kids cereals I still use (cold) milk though.
Such people are narcissists of the first degree, the most terminally unhappy people alive.
So, disclaimer then, that was five years ago
Ask HN: Would more couples want kids if they were geniuses via an AI headset?
Perhaps even young children with an AI headset could be better at language, math, logic, and science than most adults.
Can you recommend a language that doesn't crash?
I don't really have a horse in this race but you're basically denying the ability of science to have anything to say outside of the hard sciences, which I disagree strongly with.

"Can't be used to make predictions"... seriously? These factors can be used to make predictions. Now whether these things are just correlates with other more fundamental factors, or causal - I thought that was where the conflict was.

https://xkcd.com/435
Even that point is ridiculous. Ferris was released from the original author as "public domain" property. It is not a "gift" or "compromise" of the foundation, they would not be able to restrict Ferris' usage, even if they wanted to (and after reviewing their document, I am 100% they would love to)
Are you saying that "You should know A is true 90% of the time." is a fallacy unless I add an explicit disclaimer about probabilistic weakening? Even if I'm not making any conclusions based on it, just suggesting people will want to use that information themselves?

If you're not saying that then I don't understand how anything you just said is relevant to the current situation. Telling people to look up a guy's writing history is probabilistic but it isn't turning that into an unjustified boolean statement.
Probably most people have some amount of annoying quirks.
Nice!! Great work, and an inspiring message for us all!
I think prompt engineering encompasses a much broader scope than a few verbal templates. For me it's more about creating detailed sequences on top of the API for these LLMs a la langchain for example.
That's not counter culture, that's idiocy. That's like setting up your balls on fire. It will hurt.
Ignoring robots.txt is the only way to be a "system of record". Otherwise you don't record what actual humans see.
When I think of nerd culture, I think of people "geeking out" over Star Trek, videogames, tabletop games, etc. Basically, I think of comic book guy from the Simpsons. During my lifetime, a lot of it was saturated with pretension, self-aware or otherwise; it was always kind of a minstrel show. I would agree that many elements of it have gone mainstream.
We've been using Forest for... 5 years? for our team, you created something special!
There is a language with massive usage in the enterprise but with very few (if any) high quality code examples on the public internet.

When given a broad task, GPT4 doesn’t just write incorrect code, it tries to do entire categories of things the language literally cannot do because of the ecosystem it runs inside.

Claude does a much better job writing usable code, but more importantly it does NOT tell you to do things in code that need to be done out-of-band. In fact, it uses natural language to identify these areas and point you in the right direction.

If you dig into my profile & LinkedIn you can probably guess what language I’m talking about.
> a shrinking human population will be good for the planet as a whole.

The main problem is not a shrinking population but an aging one. As long as TFR is below replacement the proportion of elderly increase forever. In the US right now there are 3 worker for every retired person. By 2030 it will be 2 workers per retiree. That's a 50% increase and it will continue to get worse until TFR increases.

An increasingly non-working population will have a lot of bad effects.
Same reason animals living in darkness lose their sight. There's a cost to keeping the hardware, and no rewards.
Isn't that true for any system that's been around for a few decades? Try implementing XMPP; which XEPs do you pick? It's a long list.[1] Try implementing email: there's probably more RFCs to exclude than include at this point, and what do you need and what is optional?

[1]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/
This comment gets some pretty important fundamentals wrong.

> The real bugbear here is JS though, HTML and CSS are complex but workable. JS is an ever-moving target

What you characterize as "JS" is, in reality, more HTML and CSS than JS. JS is a language. The fact that all the behavioral details of the HTML and CSS objects and related host objects have bindings available to JS programs does not make those things "JS"...

Doing a new JS engine from scratch is an order of magnitude easier than doing a browser engine. It is directly analogous to the eminently tractable "building a compiler" problem that the other commenter mentioned.
All "Infinities" are not the same, you are using the word in a colloquial sense (i.e. non-converging) while there actually are different definitions/interpretations.

See wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity "Cosmology" section; the key point being The question of being infinite is logically separate from the question of having boundaries.
Given ChatGPT isn't a poker engine...is this a surprise?
As a kid I loved hot milk on my Weet-Bix/Weetabix, but it's not something I crave as an adult!
The secret is not scraping PII in the first place (which is not really difficult, though it requires some planning)
I definitely could be wrong! I think there will always be cultural centers because people like gathering together (virtually or otherwise). Things like memes and TikTok trends create shared culture, but I don’t think we have a monoculture. The algorithms on these platforms create cultural centers but there are lots of them rather than a meta stream that everyone feeds off of. The vast difference between what I see on my TikTok feed and what my wife and her friends see on theirs is wild. They algorithms are like hipsters that into account things you like haha!

Take a tour around the popular subreddits to see if we have a fragmented culture. I’m often blown away how popular some niche subreddit that I’ve literally never heard of will be even though I’ve been on Reddit for 15+ years! The panoply of ideas and interests on there is super cool to see.
The same no-goods that already caused the "mass resign" and other ideology-driven controversy in the last 12 months.

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/about/
I meant artists in the "drawing" sense. Porn Stars are actors and like any actor they command a fanbase.
Show me ChatGPT beating Deep Blue - then we've got possible news
Like some sort of computer? Insane!
Tokyo Became an Anti-Car Paradise
If you thought software engineering wasn’t real engineering, here I introduce Prompt Engineering. Really putting the A in STEAM.
Don Quixote did that first at the Enlightenment era, but as a joke from the author, were people was less idealistic/religious like Sancho Panza.
> compared to proper Visual Studio

Debugging in proper Visual Studio is by far the most pleasant experience I have ever had. Flame graphs, call graphs, memory and CPU utilisation graphs, straightforward call stacks and variable views... FOSS debugging utilities don't even come close to the debugging productivity on VS 2022.
After talking with a bunch of designer around me, it is mostly because about the lacks of open source awareness in their community. Beside awareness is a common topic of designers from https://opensourcedesign.net/ (I met some of them at a FOSDEM).
In general, any decision in the early days has a long tail and consequences. Hire the wrong person—and start-up wastes not only a semi-annual or an annual salary (more than $30K) but also a lot of valuable time. Sometimes wrong hire could kill a start-up just by wasting all the money early.

It's good to optimize in the early days but it's also important to not be penny wise and pound-foolish. In general, today there are a lot of standard deals, documents, and lawyers who specialize in start-up deals. Properly speaking, for a law firm it is usually worth making its services inexpensive and accessible for fresh start-ups since it's the firm's investment in keeping these start-ups as clients should they grow and become big. It's not worth it for a lawyer to rip off a start-up for pennies and lose this start-up as a client when it becomes big. Not to mention losing reputation among other startups. So, for a start-up, it's worth finding the right lawyer who works mostly with start-ups and not rely on "general practices" pushed by a VC or VC's own loyal lawyer that surprisingly serves only this VC's pocket.

Taking money at the early stage is a tough game. When founders take an investor's money, the investor's business model becomes the business model of their start-up: only outlier growth and outsized returns. The longer start-ups bootstrap the better it is for founders and for business. Preferably, to bootstrap till the product-market/fit and take money only as a fuel for growth. This way a start-up has a lot of leverage in fundraising since it doesn't need money to survive—just to have more fuel to make the fire bigger.

Calculations in my post make it obvious that any pre-seed round (including Y Combinator's deal) results in founders losing a very big chunk (30%+) of their start-up by the time they close the next Seed round or priced round in YC'S deal case.

Nevertheless, if there are no other options and the only one is to take money early, then so be it. It's better like this than nothing at all.
Git is the most widely used version-controlling system among developers. It tracks the changes at the file level and allows rollback to a specific version if needed. However, we should not push every file in the project to a Git repo. For example, you should not push or allow Git to track these file types:

Credential files
Third-party libraries like node_modules
System-specific files
VSCode workspaces
The .gitignore file comes in handy to handle these situations. It allows you to exclude specific files from being tracked by Git. You can include files using their names or use regular expressions to include multiple files at once. Most importantly, it reduces the number of files pushed to Git repos while increasing the security of your application.

In this article, I will discuss three methods to generate a .gitignore file automatically to make your work easier.
You take 1000 economists and ask them for opinions on a certain problems, you will get hundreds if not thousand different solutions. If you do math say a million mathematicians/physicists, you will almost always get a few if not 1 solution to the problem. By the way, Nobel for economics isnt even part of original Nobel. It basically force fed into it and tag with Nobel label. Economics is essentially just common sense applicable at the specific time...at other times it will fail.
It’s not too much to ask.
VSCode works well, both for command line stuff via node.js or Deno, and for (remote) browser debugging:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/typescript/typescript-deb...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/nodejs/browser-debugging

The JS-to-TS mapping is handled through source map (so you're 'debugging' the TS code, even though it's JS under the hood).

(also, in case you're not aware, browsers have a builtin debugger in their devtool panel, these also have source map support, but this may require some tinkering)