skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree (especially the politician part). Engineer became a status signum and people apply it to all kinds of stuff, diluting the meaning of the term. Engineering isn’t the right tool for the job in a lot of cases, and there’s no shame in that. It reminds me of “physics envy” in academia where other fields are applying methods and models that aren’t appropriate just because physics has high status.

OTOH, we already have social engineering and reverse engineering, which are now accepted terms, even though the engineering aspects are relatively weak. However, I must say I really still mind the term “data scientist”. Honestly it would be more appropriate with “alchemy”. It would also be quite hilarious. I wouldn’t mind being called a software alchemist.
China’s Ambassador to France Says Ex-Soviet States Lack Basis for Sovereignty
> It's like the world has suddenly shifted from valuing deterministic, precise, behaviors to preferring this sort of "close enough, good enough" cavalier attitude to everything.

Framing this as a tradeoff is a mistake rather than having two different tools for two different jobs. For ex: there are scenarios where can do part of Google's job or Wikipedia's job sufficiently well, but when being deterministic is what matters then obviously we still have Google and other manual knowledge bank processes.

They aren't going away or being abandoned. They are being supplemented. And since LLMs are so new it's mostly just a matter of the market figuring out where each tool fits into our lives. It's mostly a misconception/marketing that it is a replacement for stuff like search engines or human-backed processes.

But even doing 25% of what Google can do but better + another 25-50% it couldn't do before is a massive business and a huge boon for society.
> The adult females of most species have tube-like mouthparts (called a proboscis) that can pierce the skin of a host and feed on blood, which contains protein and iron needed to produce eggs. Thousands of mosquito species feed on the blood of various hosts — vertebrates, including mammals, birds [..]

> Males typically live for about 5–7 days, feeding on nectar and other sources of sugar. After obtaining a full blood meal, the female will rest for a few days while the blood is digested and eggs are developed.

I live on Earth-32453, where are you from?
I would say everything in the codebase should be auto formatted to a consistent style. This reduces whitespace noise in pull requests. No room for egotistical developers to take ownership of files in a shared codebase and waste time on petty formatting arguments. It keeps everything professional and tidy.

When someone commits changes to an existing file, they auto format before committing. If existing parts of the file already contain weird non standard formatting this creates distracting whitespace noise in the pull request that could have been prevented. It's a waste of time to not use standard formatting.
Oh, ChatGPT is terrible at actually doing things with ASM in general. It was just good at the boilerplate.

If anyone can get ChatGPT to write the ASM to reverse a string, please show me an example! I’m still having to get out a pad and paper or sit in lldb to figure out how to do much of anything in ASM, same as it has always been!
At one point I hand-wrote a simple Brainfuck interpreter in both WAT (called WAST at the time...) and asm.js. Both are extremely tedious, but it seems WAT has improved a bit ergonomically since...

https://github.com/magcius/bfasm/blob/master/bfasm.js

https://github.com/magcius/bfasm/blob/master/bfwasm.wast
and Mike Rowe, presenter of the shows Dirty Jobs and the series Somebody's Gotta Do It
“Who’s a petty boy!”
Can't you hide it at your uncle's country place that no one knows about?
Equity Compensation
The Open Guide to Equity Compensation - https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation
They're also covering water canals with solar panels, which a) makes use of otherwise wasted space, b) reduces evaporation of the water, c) reduces algal and weed growth which causes toxicity and flow problems and d) encourages cool shaded zones beneficial to local wildlife.
For some reason we had something like common core math in my elementary school in the early 2000s and I just had a traumatic flashback. Teacher forced us do EVERY sum like this:

17890 + 456 = 1 x 10000 + 7 x 1000 + 8 x 100 + 7 x 10 + 0 x 1 + 4 x 100 + 5 x 10 + 6 x 1 = 1 x 10000 + 7 x 1000 + (8 + 4) x 100 + (9 + 5) x 10 + (0 + 6) x 1 = 1 x 10000 + 7 x 1000 + 12 x 100 + 14 x 10 + 0 x 1 = 10000 + 7000 + 1200 + 140 + 6 = 10000 + 7000 + 1 x 1000 + 2 x 100 + 1 x 100 + 4 x 10 + 6 = 10000 + 7000 + 1000 + 200 + 100 + 40 + 6 = 10000 + 8000 + 300 + 40 + 6 = 18346

We had to write down everything and weren't allowed to skip ANY step, let alone write down the answer directly. Being taught sums and multiplications graphically is cool, I guess, but this was outright psychological torture.
It's impressive what you can do from beyond the grave!
most shells scripts don't rely on a website for simple primitives
When I worked for the park service, my botanist boss told me that the reason junipers and that sort of scrubby, stress-tolerant tree have twisty trunks is so that if they lose a section of roots they don't lose a sector of sunlight in the canopy. Because sunlight can be focused on one side of a tree (especially if growing on a steep slope), a twisting trunk can save a tree in the case of root damage on one side.
Brilliant. Apart from Freeling's "The Kitchen Book / The Cook Book" système D appears throughout French culture including the record "Système D" by Les Rita Mitsouko. It stands there encouraging those who get it to understand and overcome despite one's being knee-deep in sewage.
It’s great to see this project still going strong after many years. For me, Manjaro struck the perfect balance between stability and new features. The community is also one of my favorite things about it. For anyone finding Ubuntu too bloated and Arch too hard to install/maintain, Manjaro is the way to go. You’ll get the best of both worlds.
This is one of the oldest tricks in the book and was used heavily before WebSockets and similar became mainstream.
clang-format has so many useless options and yet it cannot do normal readable argument handling. At least not according to the documented options (as of a few versions back at least).

function(
arg,
arg
);

New line per argument, closing parenthesis on a new line. This is standard in most langauges, yet clang-format cannot handle it.

Then it also insists on aligning everything prettily. Most, but not all of it can be disabled though.

And lastly it doesn't do very well with tab indents. Most of it works perfectly, you just need to set both tab size and indent size, but then it decides to do its alignment thing and suddenly that line is all spaces, even the base indent.

Clang-format is honestly by far the worst formatter I've had the displeasure to fight. C/C++ still needs to be formatted manually
City ordinances apply to the whole city, not just historic districts. You're thinking of HOAs. What you're describing doesn't actually apply to historic districts. They're historic for their architectural significance and variety compared to modern construction and design practices, not an attempt to keep up on street-side appearances.

I think it would have been nice to offer to help with lawn issues, because they happen to everyone. Our lawn mower was stolen at the time.

Threatening someone with a $1,000/day punitive fine isn't being a good neighbor.

Thinking it's OK to do that is morally deprived.
That's... not normal? Like, not a huge amount normally but a faint overlay that's there if you look for it, and much more visible in low light?

What about edges, do people normally see them as having a kind of 'invisible glow'? It's hard to describe but they seem emphasized. I guess it looks a bit like ringing (in the signal processing sense, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifacts)
Why? I don’t understand the logic of what you’re theorising. If your right side is damaged, why does having your ipsilateral side help? How common would this have been from an evolutionary perspective? And if your right side is damaged, and it’s taken out your right brain, now you’ve got a right side that doesn’t work and a left side you can’t control
It can. I’ve had it ask questions without explicitly being told to do so. Combine Chain of Thought and ReAct with question being an action and it will happen regularly.
I don't just mean the dumb ones. Einstein was just as much a markov chain as GPT-2 is. The term is utterly useless in this context.
I have seen plenty of chatbots used by my IT company and 3rd party suppliers I deal with. They really just turn what used to be phone tree to something text based. Pretty basic keyword search and recipes from my experience - that I usually like to escape to a human as soon as I can. I welcome a proper conversational AI chatbot that actually gets stuff done.
Can someone apply to YC on an F-1 OPT STEM ?
Is anyone accepted to YC on an F-1 OPT STEM. What visa type did you change to to maintain your status as a technical co founder ?
Several celebrities gain posthumous blue checks
> In recent literature on the informal economy, System D is the growing share of the world's economy which makes up the underground economy...

This just seems like word salad to me. What am I missing?
"Awareness of information" describes belief. Knowledge is justified, true belief (you can believe things you don't actually know/don't have justification for, and you can be made aware of information you don't believe). If you're dismissive of philosophy and then ask epistemological questions, you'll miss out on a lot of good pondering people have done on the subject, and end up reinventing some of it without encountering the criticism of those ideas.
What does It means "massive energy interchanges"?

As in (not a facetious example) the energy i spend each time i try to kill one?
This is not scientifically well supported, on a account of "maybe we can just kill them all"[1,2] is a question surrounding whether we deploy the gene-drive bioweapon against them[3].

The counter-argument leans heavily on the vague feeling that we shouldn't do this, rather then much concrete-evidence this would really be a problem. And the communities blighted by mosquito-born pathogens (which covers a huge chunk of human civilization on the planet) I suspect are only restrained on account of the lack of money and technology to implement it themselves.

IMO the question is going to be answered for us at some point: a sufficiently virulent, mosquito born disease will emerge (or just be Zika, with mosquito carriers moving into 1st world areas on the back of climate change) and the answer will rapidly become yes.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK585176/

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35408835

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24790-6
IANAL, and as a consumer I hate DMCA but as a platform, it is your friend.

Built a system so that copyright-holders can notify you of copyrighted material.

Built a system so that you can immediately stop serving any material in question and provide a way for uploader to appeal. Next step is either manually verify the material in question or use some sort of AI/hash matching/something.

And finally don't use Stripe. Get a real merchant account where you can talk to someone in person.
That means they can refuse you service. That's all. You can use or share the output
This is fairly easily explained: Tesla actually has competition.

People wanted electric cars for years, but no major manufacturers actually made any. Tesla demonstrated that you could make electric cars that were actually good.
So people bought them, despite them being relatively premium vehicles, and for quite some time questionable construciton.
So we finally get to today, the other big manufacturers have _finally_ got electric cars to market that don't have utterly pointless range (seriously until this last year or so your options were Tesla, or cars you could not commute in).

Now Tesla is having to compete with cars that have nearly the same range, but are cheaper, come from companies with less polarizing CEOs, and who have not inextricably tied their brand image to said CEO.

To me at this point the only thing that makes Tesla superior to the competition is that they don't have any of the BS with dealers.
I'm sure there's a kinky botanist out there somewhere who would beg to differ
You can google "no till agriculture" or more broadly "permaculture".
Meh. If you're worried about landfill, I have some very bad things to tell you about San Francisco and Redwood City.
Ask HN: HTML actions that replace JavaScript/CSS?
Following on from today’s HTML redirects post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35670325 ), I was wondering what other actions exist within HTML, that many devs use JavaScript or CSS for.

The “summary” element for showing/hiding details springs to mind. What else is there?
*tetrachromatism
yeah and they actually run studies to validate the theory instead of posting it online as if it’s fact
IIRC, we don't actually know that for sure yet. I've seen some proposals for for experiments that use the relative stability and neutral charge of the exotic atoms muonium and anti-muonium to validate that anti muons don't have negative mass as well as flipped charge.
I envy people without kids sometimes. A "me day" is just not in the realm of possibly when you have kids. A "me hour" maybe, or when your kids go to daycare even a "me 3 hours", but not a day.

Eventually I hear you get some of that freedom back. But boy it's a long road.

Good for you for being able to enjoy life like that. Hello from the other side.
My English teacher in the seventh grade had us write a short story without a single pronoun and without repeating any adjective, verb, or noun. It was basically a hazing, and probably the biggest factor in my being an ok writer
Isn't p2p selling of crypto illegal now though? I thought that's why localbitcoins got shut down.
>How do we know that

Both theory and experimental validation. Their interaction with electric fields, their interaction with gravity, conservation laws, and so on.
Isn't "create endless energy" just "some infinities somewhere"?
Aren't they usually franchises of a larger national corporation?
Thanks for the link. I actually spoke with the lead developer of Cosmos browser earlier and he seemed enthusiastic about my idea of continuing their work in a way. In fact, before I rebased my app the original PoC was a fork of that app with a bunch of patches to work on newer versions of Android!
As an anecdote, my daughter learned German when she was 6 from Duolingo reinforced with YouTube, all by herself. And English before that. Check my thread history for more specifics. For that, we're greatful that we have Duolingo.

Maybe it's an age thing, that it doesn't work on older people. But for her, I can vouch for Duolingo without thinking.

Lately, she is trying to learn Chinese in the same way. It's not going well but I think she's nowhere near the necessary effort level, based on the experience with previous ones.
There has to be an allowlist of some sort of people allowed to keep blue ticks for free.

It would be terrible if someone from inside Twitter were to share it with the world. To repeat, please dont share the allowlist.
If you get matches that reply more than once, or a reasonable rate of matches at all
> Not just auto-complete, but Google removing power search capabilities (quotes, plus, etc).

when did that happen? I still use them.
Many people have been inspired by this book and it is entertaining. But in terms of history it is notoriously inaccurate, and some parts are just made up to make it more exciting.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
If you mean any kind of custom tailored algorithm, not really. Given I'm only dealing with HTML right now, Brotli has been a good solution. If I end up transmitting other binary data like images, I think well established algorithms like gzip should be okay.
The only reason to be focused on those things is if your main concern ins your resell value.
> How does a property developer know their engineer has sufficient "knowledge"?

well, they can study engineering just like anybody else; we don't need to structure society for the benefit of the stereotypical clueless pointy-haired mba, particularly if it means improvements in structural engineering slow down to medieval levels

it's perfectly okay if people who are ignorant of structural engineering are unable to found a successful railroad
I wonder how he verified his phone number? /s
https://archive.is/7c5tR
Anyone got a recommendation for fitness wearables where you can opt out of having to sign up with an account, and can export data out of it in open/standard formats?
> How is this possible?

Setting and context is really important in language learning. If you're only used to practicing in a very specific and limited setting then you're only going to be able to recall under those conditions. Some apps try to resolve this by using video conversations, allowing you to chat with other users of similar levels (extremely useful!) and canned conversations (Duolingo has this one). All these are important but you also need to practice "offline." It is also important to watch and listen to content (like you're doing), even if it is far above your level. You'll probably notice in your Japanese adventure that a big thing is that you're probably way better at parsing words and sounds (e.g. hearing differences in tones for Chinese) than when you first started. Even learning to parse words is a big step, but only unfortunately comes from exposure of longer form content, something Duolingo-like apps (not all apps) don't provide.
one way it's not done is with DNS
There's plenty of people that can read and not write.
How do you answer the "Doing things about climate change is pointless when $COUNTRY and $CORPORATION won't do anything" tort?
Long-Term Effects of Perceived Friendship with Intelligent Voice Assistants
Exactly. I'd be happy if the market cap of the entire ecosystem dropped 90% (though it would devalue my own holdings), because it would take the focus off the price. Although I'm sure it would just give more ammunition to the people who call it useless and currently criticize it based on its speculative nature.

I don't think it will drop that much anyway, maybe 60% at most from current prices

Aside: what I really want more than anything else is for bitcoin to just disappear from the whole conversation, because it's been demonstrated to be unsustainable, especially since most other blockchains can be sustained on 0.00001% as much energy.
In the richer neighborhoods of Tokyo you'll see quite a few land rovers and Teslas, which are probably the most inconvenient cars to have in Tokyo.

At that point it's about showing off more than anything.
My generative melody models have done it for over a year but that's with human curation, so it's not self-improving. It's typically easier to curate than to generate, and it's especially true for music and images. It's much simpler to recognize a good melody than to compose a new one. The same applies to writing, but to a lesser extent.
This is such an improvement over the previous corrupt system where Twitter was giving the checkmarks for free to people they liked.
Nobody understands the emergent properties of LLMs. Trying to understand how it works is science or research, whereas using it to produce something that’s useful is alchemy.

Even “tuning”, as my sibling comment suggests, is imo a stretch, because it implies some form of finite set of knobs that can be adjusted. Prompts aren’t something that you can simply map to knobs without pushing the analogy beyond reason.
It's wrong anyway. The friction force would be the opposite direction, but then the acceleration due to a force on the negative mass would flip direction again. So it would slow down like a positive mass.
By searching the App Store for “ad blocker for safari”. There are loads.
I believe that is believed to be true at least in some theories, don't remember which, but basically one mass ends up running away from the other.
The difference between time and attention
More like 'insatiable'
Maybe at a basketball court but in a public setting? No body's going to take you seriously.
I don’t think I’ve seen a shorter and more straightforward article go unread by the commenter.
here here, fellow parent-in-arms
Follow the trajectory from manually keying in machine code instructions, to punchcards with ASM, terminals with C, GUIs with Smalltalk… have we not been watching the progression towards natural language?

Formalization of requirements will always be necessary. But allowing for an errant semicolon or misspelled word seems to be the direction we’re headed. That is, explicitly cover all cases and requirements, just don’t worry about exact machine syntax or function names.
Does this include the ex-Soviet state Russia?
I fondly remember html-only iframe chats.
Market share is a bit of a confusing metric here, because the electric car market is supply-constrained not demand-constrained. Tesla's selling every car they can produce. And also of course Tesla essentially has nowhere to go but down in market share because they were the only game in town for a long while.
Bad contacts in the case, so one isn't charging as well? One got left in a hot / cold place for a while, and the battery chemistry changed? One of the cells in one of the batteries went bad?
I also don't understand this. If you know the numbers 1-10, why can you not recite them in the real world? It's simple recitation.

Perhaps OP didn't know the suffixes necessary for counting different types of objects, or didn't know when to use which of the different Japanese counting systems. But if so, none of that is clear from what was written.

Perhaps the toxic crowd with pitchforks was made up of people who couldn't understand your points, leading up to a controversial conclusion that they disagreed with.
I was surprised to learn recently that eBay doesn't have a human support organization anymore. That greatly reduces the likelihood I'll look for old computers there...
Asked how did they reach the website. Obviously the bot was spewing nonsense and humans all gave sane response.

Interesting, got people from b3ta, Twitter, TikTok and yikyak.

Minewhile the bots said they got there by clicking an ad. Immediately knew it's a bot. Only bots click ads.
> Do you have something to hide?

I imagine this is the only reason why closed-source software exists
Consumer goods are cheaper. The basics needed to participate in society are not, both individually and because there are more of them (education inflation, etc).
I’ve done consulting; you have control about how you write your contract. If they want to lock you up for a long period they should be willing to pay for it.
They still "work" in a sense but it soft ignores them and will also guess at what else you might mean, polluting your results. Some things like site: still work as expected. Been this way for years now.
The recent videos from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t have focussed on some of the endangered desert habitats and cacti around Texas. His videos are always awesome, but these most recent videos have really opened my eyes about the diversity and fragility of these ecosystems, despite being so hardy in other ways.
Almost no PV panels are using CdTe, so that's not even worth arguing about. And newly constructed PV farms certainly do not use this tech.

That's why invoking toxicity of PV panels is just pure anti-renewable propaganda.
If you have jq and not Python, what are you doing?