skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These comparisons come up all the time, and the issue is the Mercator projection makes Europe looks much larger than other countries on most maps. Much of Europe lies at a more extreme latitude than to the rest of the world. Basically nothing is at the same latitude in the Southern hemisphere and the only comparisons in the Northern hemisphere are Russia, Canada and Greenland. Other than Greenland, those countries don't generally get compared because they are gigantic in their own right, despite being much smaller than the appear on normal map projections.
I'm still extremely skeptical of testing LLMs on any of type of these tests. The likelihood of the model being trained on the answers to the test is too high. For example, with the bar exam that people go on about - it seems to me that the internet is going to be absolutely chocked full of sample questions and answers for the bar exam. Anyone with any knowledge at all in AI knows that one of the worst things you can do is evaluate your AI using data in the training set. Of course it's going to do a good job! It's telling you what you told it! Why not just put down a SQL database and stick all the answers in it (I'm being facetious, but you get my point). We know from other research papers that people have managed to prompt the generative AI image generators to reproduce copyrighted pictures in a way that makes it very clear they were just very highly trained on that during training. It's the same with this, answers to standardized tests are always going to appear very commonly in your training data. The point of the standardized test works okay as a spot check for humans who have studied the course, but extremely badly for AI that hasn't studied the course but instead has just hoovered up every token in the course.
The simple solution is just setting a timer on your phone for whatever time the washing machine says it needs when starting it.
The True Size of (World Map)
MetaVoice Live Voice Conversion
This peculiar tool seems to be aimed at developers, so I don't find it surprising.
I can vouch for the entire recommendations list (Blindsight or Quantum Thief series are my go-to answer when people say "what's your favorite book"), but I wouldn't really call them "lesser knowm" - they all won prestigious awards like Locus or Hugo.
> The US has a microkernel government

Brilliant insight. Thank you.
My mom was on Ubuntu since she upgraded from MacOS 9. She even learned to run the update GUI by herself and would call me to tell she did it.

Sadly, my evil cousin upgraded her PC with Windows and I no longer know when she needs to update or clean up the disk.
Do you see proprietary datasets holding up as a moat for AI based applications?
With foundational models being easily available to teams where do you think defensibility and moats in AI based software and applications will arise? Do you see synthetic data and proprietary data will have similar impact in terms of model customization .
See related post by Nate Graham around Plasma as a product https://pointieststick.com/2023/04/12/plasma-products/
This is exactly what emergence is: a side affect.
Emergence cannot usually be planned for...
[1]: "From Earth to Jupiter...JUICE trajectory is designed by ESOC Mission Analysis team. It is the result of an optimization, iterated with
ESA project and Airbus teams, aiming at maximizing the dry mass at launch, keeping the total mass within the launcher capabilities and minimizing the transfer duration, while respecting other mission constraints, like total
radiation dose, minimum Sun distance and maximum eclipse duration..."

[1] - "JUICE interplanetary operations design drivers and challenges" - https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2018-2493

This is also an interesting Thesis on optimization required for the flybys due to the uncertainty of the Moons positions on arrival :

"Preliminary Navigation Analysis for the Flyby Tour of ESA’s JUICE Mission" - An investigation on the trajectory correction maneuvers design

https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:455ec2e9...
Show HN: Create full NPM packages with AI from a 1 sentence prompt (open-source)
And yet the total mileage driven by a huge variety of autonomous systems over research programmes dating back a decade is of the order of 20-30 million. This disparity obviously supports my point about the difficulty of establishing statistically significant evidence that a particular software update on a particular platform is less lethal than the human driver [in a given set of circumstances] based on events which are very rare on a per mile basis, particularly if the baseline performance gap isn't that large.

The fact that overall road use is so high that a sufficiently bad regression bug in sufficiently widely-deployed software could rack up a massive body count within hours obviously doesn't make the case for introducing something believed to only be a marginal improvement any stronger.
> I feel like a lot of stuff fhsg "gods against left-wing beliefs" gets silenced primarily when it's a bad-faith argument in the first place, but yeah.

"How much of the recent rise in transgenderism can be attributed to people being more accepting vs how much is peer pressure"

Such a study won't see the light of the day any time soon. Yet, I wouldn't classify it as bad faith, as kids/teens are VERY impressionable. (And then there's the whole detrans thing)

Would you classify it as bad faith?
I'm well aware of all of those levels. But they are not germane to the discussion about programming in general. They are important if you are doing some really specialist work (low latency, extreme performance, operating system design). But that wasn't the context at all.
> The reason for this is: dedicated tools are always better, faster, and more feature-rich.

Depends. Polyglot persistence has the benefit of letting you use the "best tool for the job" for each job but that benefit can fall apart if you have cross-cutting concerns. If you need to query across different storages you often end up compromising on several of the initial benefits (e.g. performance from passing data between storages or resource use and consistency from duplicating critical data).

For example, you could store your graph data in Neo4J and your document data in MongoDB but good luck doing graph queries that need to access the document data. OR you could use something like Tiger or Arango that's a graph database that can also store data other than pure edges.
How about the official Janet documentation? https://janet-lang.org/docs/index.html
Perhaps we should look at how CAD impacted draughtsmen. Their job scope basically got folded into engineers'. There are probably a lot of us who are software draughtsmen.
The ISS made a "stop" in my general vicinity earlier today by your definition of "stop".
I ditched Windows still in the XP era. By then only my laptop ran Windows and my daily driver was a big honking Mac G3.

Surprisingly enough, everything just worked on the laptop.
This would make sense, but for the US’s sake, it should be a veeery gradual process taking several generations to complete. Maybe in one or two hundred years. But who knows.
I believe we tried, actually (this was at ZEIT, before it was Vercel, back when we used k8s to also deploy all of our user docker deployments - which of course wasn't the best idea but it worked for the time being).

I regrettably don't remember the outcome though, and don't use either of them anymore to even test them readily, especially not under the same load.
Introduction to Rdist (2012)
Yes it did. The assertion was that the more people you date the higher your odds of success, when the reality is totally the opposite. People who date less have a higher success rate in marriage.
This is the most common sense take I’ve read across all comments and agree 100%, I’m happy Tik tok is riding their social media moat.
How do I know you're one of my friends and not just a replicant?
I don't know why this discussion is never ending, but I'm fed up with the Mercator projection. I hope things move along. Google maps has done their part, when you zoom out you get a globe, but others need to follow even more.
As someone who learned about the desktop only after it was already called Plasma I don't think it is that confusing at all. Maybe it is about what one is used to?

When someone says they use "KDE" as their Desktop, I still understand what they mean. After all the KDE family of applications in it's totality also represents some sort of ecosystem that one may use.
Also this: https://www.thetruesize.com/
I live in a gentrified part of Dublin, and all laptops I see are MacBooks. And the Intel ones are starting to vanish.
Tempest in a teapot. Standard trademark stuff really.
Here's a key figure [3]:

- "The mass injected into the Earth escape trajectory would be 4800 kg (without launch adapter), with a hyperbolic escape velocity of 3.15 km/s, which increases to 9.5 km/s after the last Earth swing-by"

The Voyagers were launched directly to hyperbolic excess of >10 km/s — comparable to the speed JUICE will reach on its third flyby, of Earth, in 2029.

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1016/j.actaastro.2019.06.013 ("C₃ of... 105.5 km²/s² and 102.4 km²/s² for Voyagers 1 and 2, respectively [75]")
The majority of the content and comments on HN tell about the benefits of remaining an IC and not moving into management.

Why do people need to convince each other _not_ to move into management by content like this?

To get a balanced view - what are the advantages of becoming a manager? What are the rewarding parts of managing people?
"offputing" for "offputting" is a great typo, as it might mean "computing on a platform that's not on the local host"
The lookup of a normal hash function is O(1). Why is the author saying that it's O(n)?

https://iq.opengenus.org/time-complexity-of-hash-table/#:~:t....
How does something like this work?

Don't most of these games have custom code for rendering and lighting? How is this able to fit into that custom code automatically?

Or is the automation here very limited and you just have to reverse engineer these and find the right hookpoints, while this project just provides the code that you can hook into the games?
The German Passport has field for your Residence, which is mandatory and needs to be updated when you move. It is generally the general location you live in, usually your city.

You can see the field in this official example passport (field 11): https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/normengrafiken/bgbl1_2017...
Thanks, this is super helpful! I love Bill Bryson as well :)

Yep, I totally understand what you are saying, and that is what I am working toward. It is a challenge.

Right now, I ask authors to share 5 books they love around a topic/theme/mood. So I am collecting a human grouping of books similar in some way that humans decided along with why they love it.

For example, if you like "Notes from a Small Island" or "Down Under" (two of my fav Bill Bryson books), here are books that authors have grouped with it and also loved:

https://shepherd.com/books-like/notes-from-a-small-island
https://shepherd.com/books-like/down-under

So I am using human groupings to help discover books that humans associate with his work somehow. And above each book, their list title helps you understand how their mind grouped it.

For example, "Into The Wild" is associated with it based around a human grouping books that capture the spirit of Jack Kerouac's On The Road.

What do you think?

What is next to improve this?

I'll add filters to help people hone in on why they loved the book to help pull that thread out and show books along those lines. For example, if I liked Catch 22 for its absurd humor, I want to make that the common denominator on the page. Or if I like "From a Small Island" for the humor and history, picking those to try to find books with a similar book DNA.

In about 4 to 5 weeks I'll ship the first version of this on the bookshelf pages. And in maybe 12 to 16 weeks on the books-like pages, as that needs a lot more work.

And, I am hoping next year to launch Book DNA, where I pull in reader data and help line up books that are your all time favorites with others to map this out a bit further. Slowly getting there and a lot will dependon collecting more data from readers in 2024.
What I want to know is why migrate to ARM when RISC-V is around the corner?
Toothpaste etc.: Every time you do it you get better at it, so the marginal cost drops. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
As long as virtual threads retain an entrypoint of control flow (e.g. return point from an I/O call), they will also be GC roots. They might not be very deep but they are GC roots.

When a call returns, locals and parameters back up the stack will be expected to be live. Since there's no way in general to create a reference to a stack using JVM instructions (unlike .NET), the stack of every live thread must be a GC root.
The fact is that the one is a state sponsored mouthpiece and the other is a editorially independent organization.

If you have proof that the NPR is a mouthpiece for the US government then now would be a fine time to provide it, otherwise it is just trying to throw shade in the exact same way that Elon Musk is trying to.
The article does not state that "interview questions were regularly approved by a committee". It says that this question was banned because it was leaked to the public. And that he, very reasonably, asked the hiring committee if he could use it anyway.
Isn't "scaleup unicorn" a contradiction?
>solve Drug violence

How does that figure? It's not like the US doesn't have its own drug violence, and lots of it. A lot of Mexican drug violence would probably move to the north, where the more lucrative markets will be, especially since movement would be much easier.

>solve Southern Border problem

It wont solve it in the sense of addressing the concerns behind those seeing it as a problem today: it will just declare it not a problem.

It also ignores these being two different nations, with different cultures, priorities, etc., as if the peoples in them are mere assets to be managed/merged/unify/etc for economic benefit.

I'm not so sure Mexican native "indians" for example will be very happy with their most likely treatment from WASP Americans (given how the latter treat and view their "own" minorities).
Did you learn what "gatekeeping" means from ChatGPT? Because there's no definition where my comment was gatekeeping.
Active community, maybe not, but teletext[1] and minitel[2] come to mind. Maybe also WAP[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
> The wallpaper - which is modular, there are various wallpaper services you can switch between. Different shells can handle wallpapers in a different way, with different defaults; as an example, a Plasma shell meant for e-ink devices (which, by the way, is in my to-do-before-mid-july-list) probably wants to have an always-white wallpaper, which is provided by the “org.kde.color” plugin.

And before this abstraction that 0.1% of people need we could have different wallpapers for different desktops. Now we can't.

That you need a plugin to show a solid color is simply absurd.
Such posts are examples and are instructional about the behavior of detractors and competitors of Vlang. At this point, more people can see and realize what such antics are really about.

1) The last time that HN account posted was in 2021, it's now 2023. Looks like a sleeper account to do such things.

2) The supposed review, which was really a "hit piece", was done with a throwaway account. No other language reviews, or anything else, was ever done by mawfig.

3) The apparent intent of the author, and those it appears they were working with, was to use the dishonest review to spread misinformation and dissuade others from using a programming language of a rival.

The "review", right off the bat, was about setting off drama by linking it to other past drama and smears. A smear campaign on the V language is not about getting any issues fixed or an honest assessment. Its about more drama, smearing, and attacks. Which was the apparent intent.

4) The "hit piece" was for an Alpha version of V, back in 2022. It is now 2023, and V is in Beta.

5) Anything, which kind of had any substance, from the review has already been fixed.

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14803
https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14787
https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/14786

6) If the author of the "review" was really eager to use, help, or fix the V language then he/she could have brought those issues (he/she had a GitHub account) to the V GitHub (https://github.com/vlang/v/issues).

Who is going to fix any issues that the author believes is a problem?

It is going to be the V developers. So if the author of the review wanted those things that he/she believes are a problem fixed, that's who he/she should have gone to.

7) The author of the "review" has shown no interest in working with V developers, and that's prior to publishing the review and spreading links to it.

No intent has been shown to modify the review for correctness, fairness, or language version. Detractors and sleeper accounts link and use it, regardless of how old, incorrect, and irrelevant.
How would that solve drug violence? US Army vs cartels?
> according to city transportation authorities, who collected the data from social media reports, 911 calls, and other sources, because companies aren’t required to report all the breakdowns.”

Seems like making companies report all break downs will allow to reason about progress they are making better.
Yet an AI that can always be there with the patient is a best case scenario for a lot of people - especially those who can lead somewhat independent lives.

In nursing homes, the reality is most nursing home employees are just there for a paycheck and only there for a shift - while patients are there 24x7. We need better 24x7 care for them.
Also the tenuous connection between EVs and coding. I know the ID.3 had a lot of bugs initially, but these were bugs in the infotainment system. There's no reason these wouldn't pop up in an ICE engine.

EVs aren't inherently more difficult to program.

You could make the argument for autonomous driving. But that's a different topic.
Regarding the toothpaste analogy. It's also about reducing waste and not causing more consumerism and fully utilizing a product. To not do so because you can't be bothered with effort is terrible. We should avoid waste as much as possible and reduce, reuse and recycle.
When will they offer a retina screen resolution?

My Google Nexus 10, still running strong from more than a decade ago, has a 300dpi screen.
If lab grown meat takes off there's no reason in principle for why cattle, chickens and pigs couldn't be replaced by say the blue whale, dodo and black rhino.

We might even find human meat at the supermarket. If all you need is a small cell culture to bootstrap most or all current ethical, conservation and disease concerns will go out the window.
Yep we only have books in our system that the 8,000 authors we have done these interviews with so far loved. So we are still missing a ton of books. We are adding more every week and eventually, I bet we will find someone who loves it. I am also hoping in late 2023 and early 2024 to expand and bring in the 3 favorite books that readers read that year. So that will give us a bit more data.

Ya that is harder topic, I am working on more around fraud, but here are some that might be good:
https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/fraud
https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/confidence-trick
https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/money-laundering

In about 5 weeks I'll have filters to help you hone in from those to a specific topic.

You also might like this list on money laundering from Monica, she is a world expert on the subject and did a fascinating list on the subject: https://shepherd.com/best-books/tackling-money-laundering-ri...
One of the best interviews I have had did ask me to code but gave me a few snippets of code and asked me how I would improve them. Or asked which of several approaches I prefer and what the trade-offs are. IMHO reading and explaining arbitrary code is a strong signal for a good developer. Writing code under pressure is not.
Another thing that’s interesting about Europe is that it’s approximately at the same latitude as Canada, with a climate that is substantially warmer. If it was as cold as northern North America, humanity would have taken a completely different course.
Since NAFTA, corporations can already essentially treat US and Mexico as one nation for most purposes— with the added benefit that labor cannot! Workers in Detroit are now competing with workers in Chihuahua; Ford can move jobs across that border but workers cannot similarly move to chase better wages or favorable laws.

It wouldn’t make sense for the nations to further merge; the government’s true constituents (the corporations) already have the best of both worlds.
I hope they recognise my efforts in restoring and preserving vintage computers and, in return, keep me happy, well fed, and clean my cage from time to time.
Also "for most people" implies OP thinks that GDP growth is fairly distributed.
There's an entire world between FAANG and what you described. Most places will want something like this:

"We need two or three seniors who, between them, can handle the fact that our cloud resources are split between AWS and Azure 80/20, who understand security well enough to enforce least privilege for users, can write reliable if inelegant code in bash, python, golang and - when we have embedded stuff - lua. We'd also like people to be cost aware since we aren't made of money, and to be able to take ownership of CI, observability, logging, k8s in the form of EKS, a few VMs, and some difficult to change legacy stuff. Plus, provide the devs with a sensible local environment to work in that is as prod-like as you can make it, mentor a junior or two, wrap everything into some kind of infrastructure-as-code setup, present options to architects who are sometimes operating outside their field of expertise, and run the standups a d retros when your manager is on holiday"

Or as they would call it, "devops".
or about 10 $9.99 subscriptions, less if some of them are $15.99 ones.
When it becomes that large and expensive, it makes sense for governments to do it and open up the result so everyone can benefit.
Dude, c'mon. :(
This is exactly what "trying not to discuss Ukraine" is. Without outright banning it.

When subreddits create a mandatory megathread, it is always with the purpose of kneecapping that specific topic. Putting a large topic into a single thread makes sharing information about the topic extremely difficult.

I'd like to add that there's no reason to believe that such topics that get buried into megathreads would have taken over a subreddit otherwise. The news cycle turns. For example, worldnews today would look no different if the Ukraine war topic had been allowed to breathe. At most it would have caused the minor inconvenience of going to page two for the fraction of people not interested at all in the Ukraine war at that time.
Probably doing wonders for brainless repetitive jobs.
You sound like you made a phenomenal librarian.
I hate the way so much of programming is just fiddling knobs on some old systems. It always gets to a point where I would prefer to rewrite the whole thing myself with only the functionality I need and to truly understand what is going on under the hood. I just wish these projects were built in a modular way so you can re-assemble parts of them back together easily.
None of the audience members are in the same room. They're just words on a screen. It's not as "real" in comparison.