skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which is required to bring them to full functionality

I think that's the wrong way to look at them. If you want vim to do everything that an IDE does, actually you want an IDE.

All I use in vim is syntax highlighting and something like "Ctrl + P". Whenever I want more (typically autocomplete), I start my favourite IDE (for me that's JetBrains' IDEs).
Robots.txt? Although I highly doubt if that would do any good..
"While I'm at it might as well"

And honestly on something that used it might be the best, taking it apart again just to replace the thing you thought you might not need to is PITA
“what have you been up to lately?”

Be a little careful with this one. I asked a similarly worded question at an event over Easter got the answer "Burying my husband."

Thankfully the lady was good natured about it and we managed to pull the conversation around, but for a minute or two I thought I'd stepped on a landmine.

I think in future I might lead with, "what do you enjoy doing?"
Around a decade ago, I stopped asking people the basic questions, like what they do, where they're from, how old they are, or their gender and pronouns when that is unclear. I find that it's irrelevant and will bias the relationship for no good reason.

I had a good friend with whom I mostly kept in touch over the phone and online for many years, and I didn't know their name until they died and I got a call from their relatives. I still don't know what their profession was.

Just connect and engage with people, and have fun. It's a lot easier to make friends when you drop these arbitrary filters of age, profession, place of origin, gender, and so on. And in some ways, in the time I've spent not trying to get those details anymore, they have become irrelevant to me.
On the other hand, Russians employed „appear strong when you're weak“ very well leading up to Ukraine war. Everybody believed the myth of the 2nd army of the world. However, they ate their own propaganda...
There's one really big and important (for me) difference - Elon Musk doesn't run Mastodon. I just don't want to use a product he's associated with.

The other one is... all the people I want to follow stopped posting on Twitter and moved to Mastodon. Network effects work.
People generally tend to work at the best job they can get, so after being "freed from the shackles of a bullshit job" they'll have to take a job that's worse, or worse paid, or both.
Everything old is new again. The MongoDB people are still convinced they "invented" NoSQL databases, but really just poorly implemented an idea that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADABAS had perfected while the MongoDB hipsters were in diapers.
Agreed. And with less drama this time around.
It's a real shame that it can't be made to work on arm systems
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This is entirely backwards.

If it's oh so difficult for Amazon to properly handle this function of a business, that is AMAZON'S fucking problem.

Neither the customer nor any other outside entity forced Amazon to construct itself as the operation it is. They very deliberately and actively did that of their lwn volition and over the sustained course of decades.

Back up and revisit just what is and is not a sane perspective here. Poor Amazon can't be expected to deal with all the scammers they created for themselves? But can still rake in the benefits of their scale and insane staff:customer ratio 100x more than any normal shop?

They absolutely CAN deal with their fraud, the same way every other business in the world before them had to, by actually having whatever number of employees it takes to service their number of customers.

They just can't do that and still have 1% of the normal overhead every other businesses has.

Incredible that anyone is even for a second considering the plight of poor Amazon in a case like this.
I don't mean to be antagonistic, but could this just be due to poor job satisfaction on your side. There is nothing wrong with not loving your job. Maybe you use it as a means to an end but I personally really enjoy talking about what I do for a job because I love my job
They could also sing a song, do a little dance and tweet a word of praise for your generosity.

At some point the dance isn't worth the peanut.
Sounds like a way to rehash words to avoid reiteration.
I don't think the training data has works of centuries-old translators.

> If you don’t know how every token of input affects the output, is engineering an accurate way to describe what you’re doing?

We in fact don't know exactly. Prompt engineering seems to be a bag of tricks that change the probabilities of outputs. But I didn't invent the term.
In the UK we do this as part of status negotiation - the second question anyone asks (after whats your name?) is what do you do?

Then we can decide whether we are above or below the other person in the status hierarchy, which is roughly as follows:

- Architect
- Artist/Designer/Creative
- Lawyer/Doctor/Teacher
- Executive/Manager
- ...
- ...
- Bar staff
- Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Waiter
- Driver
- Cleaner
Some of the rules are just virtue signaling.

"comply with local health regulations". Do you know who is responsible for making sure that we comply with local health regulations? Local health authorities. Just like you don't need to say "killing people is not allowed at our events", you also don't need to say that we need to follow local regulations. If an event doesn't follow local health regulations, call local health authorities, they can enforce it much better than The Foundation.

Carrying firearms? Even though I can't find a legit reason for bringing firearms to the event, it's still not the responsibility of foundation 5 thousand miles away from me to decide this, let my state / country, and event host decide what is allowed.

Code of conducts are also just a waste of time. If someone wants to be an a-hole, good luck stopping them with "it's in the CoC that you must not say that". I don't need the CoC to notice bad behavior and the CoC gives you nothing useful for stopping real abuse / racism at events.
The point is that people using are paying that. We dont have fuel tax credit here (Poland) so

> 7.8billion came in from fuel excise, 7.7billion went back out in fuel tax credits.

just seems like pointless excercise in bureaucracy...
> Modern militaries don't seem to enjoy the freedom to act and maneuver that a classic general enjoyed in the field (for good reasons). Modern requirements for transparency and democracy

I think modern democracies do a much better job of separating military and civilian leadership than dictatorships do. Putin seems to be too personally involved in micromanaging his war, insisting on conquests that are simply not possible (like Bakhmut and some other places). Hitler similarly interfered with his generals and hampered his war effort that way.

Zelensky is of course involved with the war, but he listens to his generals.

> "appear weak when you are strong"

That only seems useful if you want to lure the enemy into an attack in order to ambush him, but with our modern day sensibilities about the value of life, we prefer to have no attack at all. More applicable to us is "appear strong when you are weak", although such secrets never last long, so we prefer to appear strong when strong, in order to discourage any attack.

Also, Russia appeared strong while weak, and that didn't exactly work out well when Putin called his own bluff. Turns out he incorrectly believed the strong appearance of his own army. And he believed the West to be weak (or at least divided and disorganised), so he attacked.

It's not that these concerns are irrelevant, but they're a lot more complex than Sun Tzu makes them out to be, and it's possible to fall for your own disguise. Or maybe the civilian leadership can fall for the military's disguise.
I have an OpenBSD install in a VM for the reason cited by ninjin:

> Personally, a different userland and directory structure usually also beats out Linux-isms.

I just upgraded from 7.2 with sysupgrade then pkg_add -u and it worked perfectly without any intervention from me. In the past I remember it needing a bit of tweaking and finger-crossing. Bravo OpenBSD!
I see. I think this is another great and very appropriate example, this time directly addressing the initial claim. I stand thoroughly corrected. Thanks for taking the time to explain it in a way that I and anybody else unfamiliar with this field could understand it.
Atheistic thinking also came up in India and Europe 500-600 BC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_atheism
This has been reported on quite often and in detail. It appears to be a scam, no game being built. Withdrawals not being processed timely.

Bizzare CEO 'presentations'.

> The chief strategist of Earth 2, Omar Rahim, is widely known as a swindler and a liar who deceived thousands of people with the help of his company and a massive project known as EnergiMine.
Thanks for sharing your experience & insight. You’re observations are similar to our experience. We as a community could always do a better job recognising & rewarding each other.
>Maybe film will come back.

It's already been gaining popularity for years. I've read consumer[0] sales of instant film are the highest they've ever been.

Hell, digital cameras from 10-20 years ago are starting to be considered "retro", and zoomers are buying them.

[0] historically the majority of sales were apparently for professional/commercial purposes.
Very interesting use of ChatGPT and prompt engineering. For your problem, summarizing a large document, splitting the document into smaller parts is indeed the way to go.
I also had problems myself with operating on large documents. In my case, I had an insurance policy that I wanted to extract information from.

My solution: use the OpenAI API to convert the document to OpenAI's embeddings and saving those embeddings to a vector database. Then, use similarity search on the database to find chunks of the document that might be related to my query and pass only those chunks to GPT for the information extraction prompt.

I plan to create a guide on how to tackle these problems after I consolidate my findings.
Consider this: Is pcie insecure by design? Any tech could be used in a stupid way, making it insecure.
Can't explain entirely before having something in front of them.
It's true, but Eufloria looks better to the point that I'd prefer it for the style alone
> I mean the 70 year old with cancer who cannot write anymore. I mean the 35 year old disabled artist who cannot work a "normal" salaried job. I mean the artist from an underdeveloped country who became popular and now the "wealthy" countries want to translate and publish their work in their relatively wealthy markets.

You can apply all those scenarious to other jobs that don't earn effectively-perpetual income from their work. They generally have to rely on the government to keep them alive. Why should "creatives" get a better deal?

I'm all for making sure that artists (and everyone else) has enough to live so that they can make a positive contribution to society. But out of all the different possible ways to accomplish that, infringing on the basic rights of everyone to share and build on their culture has got to be one of the worst.
That was an 'example' of how:

> the language is very different from the Indo-European languages that I am familiar with.

So it's not even a caveat really, nevermind misleading or suggesting the author thinks all languages have that order.
It was on white hat conference in 2004. For 9 years nobody cared.
Hi,

You mentioned above that BigQuery reduces cost. I am surprised by that assertion, tbh. Can you point out ways in which Logflare uses it that makes it so (for ex, is it tiered-storage with a BQ front-end)?

How does Logflare's approach contrast with other entrants like axiom.co/99 who are leveraging blob stores (Cloudflare R2) for storage and serverless for querying for lower costs?

Multiple pluggable storage/query backends (like Clickhouse) is all good, but is there a default that Logflare is going to recommend / settle on?

Are there plans to go beyond just APM with Logflare (like metrics and traces, for instance)?

I guess, at some level, this product signals a move away from Postgres-for-everything stance?

Thanks.
Ancient APCs (the Bradley has been in service for over 40 years) ain't tanks though.
> Let's assume there's no God, and Dawkins is merely pointing out that fact without offering an alternative. Then he's speaking the truth, and to me that's more important than any religion.

If his views are true – then he's doing the truth a disservice by arguing for it in such a sloppy manner.

A lot of well-educated theists read Dawkins, and come away more convinced of theism – they see how incompetent Dawkins' arguments are, and they (wrongly) conclude Dawkins is the best atheism has to offer.

Atheism would be better off without his book–and the truth would be too.
Does this setup have nice visualizations of data structures? Can it show a Vec as a list of values or a HashMap as a list of (key,value)?
For those that haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/@presidentialdiscord

Presidential Discord works amazingly well because the participants are acting how they frequently do: Trump is belligerent, Obama is calm, Biden is defensive.

The "Joe Rogan AI Experience" doesn't work well because "I'm your host Joe Rogan" isn't something Joe Rogan would naturally say, and there's not a lot of examples of Joe Rogan reading something someone else has forced him to say like this.
So that prompt should fail then, right?
He's clearly earned that title. He demonstrably has the experience - and inspiring and coordinating volunteer contributions to a project of this scale is an extraordinarily difficult leadership challenge.
UWP is the proper look for win8 and unwards
Yeah, I recently bought a car (I had driving license for 15 years before that but for 14 of them I didn't drive coz I moved to the big city), and basically bought one of cheapest, had to replace dampers last year, this year one of springs broke, one of calipers have some problems and apparently one of previous owners installed lambda probe emulator to hide dead catalytic converter...

Tho a bunch of that might be because I bought "sporty car" and those rarely have easy life in the first place...
Funny thing is that thanks to rust compiler I never had a need to debug my code :-)
Fair point. Maybe we could correlate _people caring to prominently mention job in casual conversations_ with _people living in highly competitive environments_ and be done with it.

Or maybe, instead of trying to immediately show off next time one meets some new possibly interesting person, one could just listen first. And punctuate its own silences with smiles, and kind gestures.
Really curious whether this said with sarcasm or not. I think everybody has their own idiosyncrasies and it is fine to accommodate to them a little.
> obfuscate the true nature of A to pretend B can be understood in isolation, and deal with the resulting confusion later

What confusion? All the code in the body of an anonymous class is perfectly valid Java code that you can put in the body of an anonymous class today. There is no new magic here.

> I would have to first explain what classes are, what static methods are, how methods can NOT in fact live outside a class in java, and only THEN explain that "to make things less verbose, in this VERY specific case, java allows you some syntactic-sugar to hide some of that complexity under a simpler-looking syntax, that would otherwise look weird in standard java".

I don't think you would.

There is no syntactic sugar here that Java doesn't already do. The body of an anonymous main class is valid as the body of an anonymous class today -- there is no special magic or any kind of special interpretation of code here -- and the notion of "implicitly supply an unnamed instance of a programming-in-the-large concept" is something Java already does today for packages and modules.

Every method lives in a class, every class lives in a package, every package lives in a module. And yet, we don't require you to explicitly declare a package or a module. The current way we treat class declarations is the inconsistent one: it requires a class declaration even when it's not useful.

Classes are no more fundamental to how Java "really" works under the covers than modules and class loaders. And yet, Java doesn't force you to learn these concepts before learning what a variable is or what a loop is. There is simply no way to know how Java really works without understanding modules. Modules are what gives actual meaning to access modifiers. Do you teach modules before loops today?

Classes (and so static) and access modifiers really are completely meaningless before you have more than one class or more than one object, just as modules are meaningless until you have several of them. We are making Java more consistent in not an explicit invocation of a concept that is only meaningful once you add more context to it.
Microsoft's stock price from 2000 to 2014 flat-lined. I believe much of that was due to Microsoft hatred. The tactics worked well when Microsoft had no real competition, and crushed fledgling competition early.

As soon as there was an alternative, everyone piled on.

There was an army trying to passively-aggressively harm Microsoft in everything it did, and it mattered. If there was ever a gray area where Microsoft wasn't the obvious choice, people decided the opposite way.

Google is gradually becoming the next Microsoft.

It's not even dislike, so much as well-founded distrust. Each time I've done business with Google, I came out behind for it at the end, because I was treated as a statistic. Google would gladly take out my business for their convenience if it didn't impact their bottom line. It wasn't malicious, like Microsoft, but just apathetic.

At this point, it's left behind enough victims among decision-makers that GCP is permanently kneecapped in the race with AWS, Azure, etc.
I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari
Finally published my first anything on the Apple AppStore by porting the Archive.Today extension to Safari. Works on iPad, iPhone, and Mac.

I was tired of copying and pasting when I wanted to use the Archive service on HN articles, so here you go!
I have a genuine interest to know what people do for a living, I don't really care about their paycheck.

I always find interesting how people try to tell how their jobs are interesting but in the end we all know it is boring as hell.

It's amazing how we are willing to do shit stuff so we can be able to pay our bills.
PIE had a more complex morphology, but correspondingly simpler rules about word order. You'll often hear that all languages are equally complex. This may or may not be true (no one has ever come up with a way to measure the complexity of a language, so the statement is fundamentally meaningless), but it certainly seems true that languages which are more complex in some areas are less so in others.

It's possible that languages with smaller groups of speakers tend to be more complex, though, which might apply to PIE.
Yes but an echo chamber as defined by GP, of tech literate people. So I lean towards agreeing with them that tech literate people are mostly starting to see the problem with "big tech", not just Google. The chamber is not just as small as HN. Regular users care less about this because they see the free service but even they are starting to be pushed away by hostile moves like retiring even paid services and products without reasonable justification or advance notice.

But there's no single problem that's a trigger for all, not everyone is upset about the same thing and I don't agree that Reader, or the NSA, or any other single issue singlehandedly turned everyone against Google or other tech companies. It's the whole environment, and different straws broke different camels' backs.
I did a quick check, and most of the errors it reports are "unknown attribute" or "element such-and-such not allowed here". Those "errors" would be allowed anyway for forward compatibility, and aren't really a big deal.

IMO the validator's definition of "invalid HTML" is just too strict; it should only count parse errors and completely non-sensible things. And the specification is also too strict at times; on my own website I have "Element style not allowed as child of element div in this context." This is because on some pages it adds a few rules that apply only to that page and this is easiest with Jekyll. I suppose I could hack around things to "properly" insert it in the head, but this works for all browsers and has for decades and why shouldn't it, so why bother?

If the specification doesn't match reality, then maybe the specification should change...
https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu is a version of the Rust Programming language that adds exercises. It makes the learning experience interactive.
Plenty of folks saying that it likely won't get that much better with the current paradigm, and blogging about the "why".
> Why did Bezos buy it then?

When Amazon bought it 16 years ago it had a lot more visitors and Cameras and Lenses were some of their biggest sellers. As discussed [1] previously Lenses and Camera sales have dropped by 66% and 50% respectively since then and (however sad) the smaller community isn't probably producing enough sales leads to Amazon sites anymore (you have to go a long way down the best Camera & Photo Products best sellers list [2] to find any cameras that are on DPReview). If I were Amazon I can see why they would do this, it's a shame they couldn't sell the site to a third party though - I'm sure it could still survive financially.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248296

[2] https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-camera-photo/zgbs/photo/...
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> The president's authority over the military is a legal fiction

No, its not; and its kind of odd to say that during the era when not omly does the President fully exercise that power, they have for all practical purposes had it augmented by delegation (substantively on paper, and even more broadly in practice) of Congress’ power to declare war.

It’s true that most Presidents don’t micromanage the military, but they very much do command it, and a power generally used with some discretion and reserve is not the same as a legal fiction.

But the important thing about the President’s Commander-in-Chief role is not that it is a power (though it is), but that it is a constraint on the Congressional power to orgabize and set rules for the military.
Everything is "it depends".

For every truism from Sun Tzu, there is a data point providing a counter argument.

For the truism you are presenting, to whit:

> The carnage of war, the worse it is the more it avoids even more war. If you win without battle then others will keep starting more battles because why not? But if you defear your enemy well and in the most horrific way then it becomes unthinkable to willingly start a battle or war with you.

The counterpoint is WW2, which was a result of how horrifically Germany was defeated in WW1.

So, no, it's not always true.
Are you going to provide the funding? Going to court is expensive in any case, against a multibillion dollar with double digits billions of profits every quarter? Good fucking luck...
I can guarantee you that there have been times where the top military brass walked into a meeting with the president with 3 options and left with an order to come up with something better. I have no insider knowledge but at the end of the day the president has the final say. Now I don't know how frequently the president overrides his military advisers but it must happen.
Is that true? I genuinly have no experience with it.

In their example they debug Firefox which I would consider a big application. Of course there are many levels above, and maybe you are talkning about tens of GB of memory usage?
It probably saves more money by shutting down scams than it loses even on bad PR, sadly.
Money as in we're talking about recycling schemes that offer a payout.