skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rich Hickey has a great talk about how Objects are data structures with unique interfaces that are unnecessary complexity. He showed and example of a web server with a web request object with request headers etc etc. Doing simple things like collecting information out of that nested object structure is bespoke and harder than it should be for no real gain. If everything is a map or list or set, it becomes completely trivial to extract and manipulate data from a structure. It's a subtle difference at first but when everything is like that it makes your system far simpler. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly where the part of this talk is.
i had a feeling i missed something.. thanks!
Obvious Quip: "What's next? You're gonna clean up your big mess." -Every Parent, Ever
Google now has a "data lake" in Paris.
It actually could be the opposite: since the OTA guest can leave a bad review, hotels may treat them better.
I don't think that stating something broadly factual can be scandalous. The language is very dated but that's what happens after 200 years.
Your video doesn’t show you changing the Siri voice though, you’re telling it your accent. There’s “Language”, which is your accent (“English (Australia)” in your case), and then “Siri Voice”, which is set to “Australian (Female)”. So of course if you tell it you have an Australian accent, but then speak with an American accent, words like “Light” will get confused, because the en_US “Light” sounds like the en_AU “Late”.

If you have an American accent but want Siri to speak with an Australian one, set “Language” to “English - USA”, but then set “Siri Voice” to Australian. Don’t set Language to something that isn’t your accent!
Lessons Learned Reproducing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper (2018)
> In 2023, Wizards of the Coast hired Pinkerton to seize products from the March of the Machine: The Aftermath card set for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering from a YouTuber who had received them in an order from a local game store[38]. The YouTuber published a video showing their contents on YouTube ahead of the release. The Pinkertons used intimidation and threats of detention, arrest, fines and jail to force compliance with their goal[38]. According to Wizards of the Coast, this was after several attempts had been made to contact the individual in private, with no response. [39]

I did not expect to see something like this in the article. What in the world?
Yeah I just say 60 hours max of “working”. Whether it’s coding, answering emails, reading docs, reviewing pr’s. At 60 hours I shut it all down to just watching videos.
Same for Google. I don't understand how it's got worse not better, given advances in machine learning.
OP is talking about modifying their hotel reservation directly, not updating a google maps listing.
I admire the author's enthusiasm.

Unlike the author, I think I waste far too much time preparing to program. I'll spend days planning, procrastinating, & agonizing over the "perfect" approach to whatever problem/project I'm working on. It's only recently that I've noticed how much it affects me, even after years of experience. If you're reading this & have overcome a similar issue, how'd you do it?
I have one computer on Windows 10 and one on Windows 11 and see no operational difference. The Windows 10 desktop runs fine and cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 so it's a bit concerning that monthly security updates will end on October 14, 2025.
Agree. This is important.
This has been a problem people have with every filfre post lately.

The Digital Antiquarian is a blog but realistically it's actually a very long book. The first entry was published in 2011. It treats the entire history of interactive gaming.

Dropping in on chapter 217, or whatever this is, is a little confusing. Maher has spent a decade establishing a detailed context for discussing the nature of interactive experiences.

Part of the story is about the sad years from about 1995-2002 when interactivity was decreasing even as rendering technology improved. Maher is in the middle of that sad story right now and people are put off by the matter-of-fact way he discusses the flaws of these iconic games and by the pace of his narrative.

It is such a sad story that people think Maher "dislikes" or "mocks" these games. He does not. It was a real nadir for the industry.

Interactivity picked up again sometime around the release of Morrowind.

I love the blog. I would strongly recommend starting at the beginning and seeing if you don't love it a few entries in.
Have you tried recently? I am getting surprisingly good results lately with GPT-4 on basic physics problems with no prompt engineering (just stating the problem). It seems to recognize when it needs to "think step by step" and just do it.
I hope so, cause the whole post seems like a justification and cry for help at the same time. "large, luxurious ~2500 sq/ft home" - yikes, buddy.
Personally I'd say that happiness is such an ill-defined state that it's not a topic that can be debated a lot. A more objective term might be satisfied.

The author is satisfied by his life and does not yearn for something else. Maybe that's as close as you can get?
When you're paying nearly zero interest that doesn't matter.

Most loans right now still haven't hit their maturity dates and are still on old, low interest rates.

Shit is gonna get absolutely wild as loans hit their maturity dates in the current interest rate environment:

https://cred-iq.com/blog/index.php/2023/04/20/mounting-matur...
Enterprise edition is only used by few people?
Mitchell Baker's salary is outrageous.
I recently became aware of a high-level language called Futhark [1] that fits well in that space. It is statically-typed and functional.

Maybe some other array languages work in the GPU as well, I don't know.

[1] https://futhark-lang.org/
One of the things you hear a lot of between accountability partners (look it up if you are unfamiliar) is the phrase "stay strong" and similar stuff like "stay solid". That really sums it up in a very nuanced way. It's not giving in, it's doing something that takes mental strength, and yes, it may take building that mental "muscle".

I also see it as being primarily about intent, which forms the metaphorical foundation of that muscle. The "skeleton".

E.g., for any smoker reading, you apparently want to quit smoking. Why? Are you sure that's why? Do you actually want that for yourself yet, or is that peer pressure? Do you actually care? Why? Why not?

It's equally about living with consequence.

E.g., if you give in, you'll feel better for a short time, but you are back at square one to getting over the problem, and all your previous efforts are all for nothing. You failed, you wasted time and energy and will need to go through feeling like crap all over again, but you could have just said "no" and held out and never need to feel this crap again.

For some people, cold turkey is the only way. For others, it needs to be gradual, but for a lot of people, they don't actually need gradual, it's kidding themselves they're quitting and doing something about the problem, and in turn kidding others. I'd say in most cases, the only way you're going to get through it is cold turkey, period, and just ride out the shitty feeling, it's got to happen at some point, may as well be now if you're serious.

The "rest days" are not uncommonly complete relapses in addiction for most people. The reward is not smoking, the reward isn't a compromise of smoking now and then or having a glass of wine instead. This is why I say intent is everything. The "skeleton" you're applying that "muscle" to will get crushed if the intent isn't solid.

It's a very interesting topic of discussion to be honest. That smoking has a physiological and sociological impact makes it fascinating in how it's solved.

To anybody who doesn't smoke but is considering it, really, don't. All fun and games until you're hooked, and you will be.
are you a professor at a tier-1 university (you say "tenured academic at a top-10 school in the physical sciences")? Is it in an expensive city? what's your h-index? How much time do you spend writing papers and going to conferences, versus doing research. Is it lab work or theory? how much money do you bring in? Do you work weekends? Do you ever have to go to a conference and it means your spouse has to do extra work around the house?
Awesome! I hope you make this public one day.
I've had this experience as well. I find the trick is the provide as much information as possible and keep the expected solution's scope to a minimum. That flux is including context about the project a user's working on will probably help more and more as the project is built out, which is cool. The second part though, keeping query scopes narrow, is up to the user I guess.

It would be interesting if circuit simulation could be used to vet out suggestions, but you'd need a vast database of components and their pinouts, GPT or something else would need to know how to arrange the circuit in order to simulate them properly, and so on. That's the only way I can think to validate outputs at the moment, though.
It's object pascal, dating to before there were any other object pascals. These days just use free pascal if you want pascal, object or otherwise.[1]

The primary historic benefit of Delphi was the vastly superior IDE and UI layout engine (the VCL in general) to most other environments of the era, coupled with apparently very good integration with oracle DBs (where it gets its name)[2]. I'm not super convinced those arguments still apply today.

[1] Delphi has a few additional bits but mostly just support for the VCL, IDE, etc - in c compilers these would be attributes, whereas Delphi uses language level keywords.

[2] There's also compile time I guess, but .NET basically got MS to the same ballpark with C# and VB.net (the latter also making "real" apps in VB possible, though I think the general dismissal of VB < VB.net isn't super fair).
Yep. The reality is that Apple cares deeply about slick marketing.

I've had great experiences with Apple hardware, personally, but the software frequently makes me shake my head.
> I hope Brave makes Firefox (and Mozilla) even more irrelevant.

I get that you hate Mozilla, but from the perspective of an end user of browsers, this is a deeply irrational position. Less competition in the browser space is uniformly bad for end users, as we've seen very clearly in the past.
"Transactional models are flexible pricing where customers only pay for what they have used during the period. In the UB subscription model, customers commit to their desired level of usage."

How does that make usage based pricing better than transactional? Is it because the commitment in UB pricing will reduce the unit price comparatively?
What's your take on survey propagation? I would think that any P=NP proof would take that into account or be similar.
This is not an answer, it's the beginning of a question. Yes sure, we know `create table` and we know it's a good idea to record the execution timestamp. What exactly do you put in the place of the three dots?
My pet theory is that they were launched by the A team, who got replaced by the B team when the A team left for greener pastures. Or maybe they got it working, but in a bid to get another promotion they kept tweaking it, making it worse in ways that matter to us but not the promotion committee.
Oh he'll stop alright.

You can do this at 27, but you won't be able to do it at 35. Time and age have a tendency to beat people like this into submission the hard way at some point.

When you're young, the amount of sheer shit you can push through using force of will is enormous. It starts going down as you age.

But hey, at least he's not pretentious. Many people spend the same amount of time watching mindless TV or doing far less productive things.
Rust marketing says it is on par with performance with C/C++, not better. So I don’t really get your point.
Thank you, I hope so!
Most of the services they listed were nowhere near the threshold, so that can't be it.
You have failed at understanding the meaning of the passage, I am not going to be replying further, as not only have you not read any of the books you are pretending to talk about, it is now apparent you are either incapable of reading or too concerned with something dangling from your forehead to make an attempt at it.
After having kids, I know I can be a better manager after thinking about someone else's needs 24/7, anticipating how to coach them, grow them into successful individuals, and having coaxed a 3 year old to get dressed and put on shoes, I'm way more confident I can help software engineers ship product ;)
I wonder if a company that didn’t outsource to save money on these sorts of chips could survive in the Europe/US markets…

“Can” is always a funny phrase in these sorts of conversations. I mean it is clearly possible to make these chips because they make them in Taiwan. We’d just need a fundamentally different economy and long term investments, including a different labor force, probably different education system to get it…
Oh dear $deity. Why does it insist on capitalizing "and" in the middle of a sentence?
Because, as you suggest, suppressing competition is a winning strategy, especially when there are barriers to entry? Because the free market prefers monopolies?
I really like the formatting of the document pages there, monospaced font with nice graphics, very legible table of contents, and links and back links with see also and back to. If I'm not using Dyalog APL, are there other tools that could generate document pages similar to this?
> My hope is that this newsletter will survive on Mailchimp/Substack servers and one day my child will see that their mother's love for writing about human rights and technology came before writing a letter to them

That's incredibly sad. By the time the child is old enough to be able to understand this, the damage will already be done. And even if they ever do understand, I would not blame them for feeling hurt by it. It is essential for a child's development for them to be the priority in their parent's lives. If you aren't ready to give that amount of love and care to a child, then the answer is to refrain from making one. Not to count on them understanding how meaningful and important it is for you to be doing other things. You don't increase the importance of other things by putting them before a child, you devalue the child.
Yeah that's what was so tragic, the music was an integral, unique part of the show. They replaced it with this bizarre elevator music.
Yes. Very expensive. h-index > 35. It varies. Both. ~$0.5-1M/year. Sure. Yes, and vice versa for my spouse as well.
I can't imagine it's changed since I used it a few years ago. But it used to be that single tap only took you to a word boundary on iOS. So for example if you were to tap in between 3 and 4 in the text "1234567890", the nearest word boundary would be between " and 1. So you couldn't tap within a word but if you wanted to ditch a word it'd be easy to tap the right side of it to get to its right boundary.
Perhaps, but who cares now?
The "hack" that a couple of the comments in this chain are referring to is only ever taking cabs _from_ a major airport into a city. Often you don't have to play the waiting-on-someone-to-show-up game, there's just a line of them right outside the airport that you can hop in immediately. In some cities there's even flat rates they have to adhere to, depending on where you're going ("$20 to midtown").

I was gleeful when Uber and Lyft came on the scene to have an alternative to cab BS, but the one place they still shine is when going from an airport into a major metro area.
This is super cool! I actually have been working on a new book recommendation site (https://braincandy.com) that has a similar-ish (but much smaller scale) visualization for book similarity. It is really interesting how certain genres tend to be much more insular than others and it can be a real challenge to break out of genre boxes when making recommendations. There's so many books out there on the edges and in-betweens that get lost when they don't fit neatly into an existing popular genre, and those indeed can be some of the most interesting.
Sure thing - but just FYI I really only care about AI tweets in my timeline, so YMMV if you want it to summarize your timeline in general. I tried a generic "summarize my timeline" approach before and it didn't work well. Filtering to within a certain topic seems to really help

https://github.com/purpleladydragons/ai-sanity
All these media websites chasing engagement metrics, chasing TV ratings is the 90s equivalent, and the Jerry Springer show is what you get.
That, as they say, is the purpose of any corporation. Their responsibility is to their shareholders.
A lot of Watch apps also get installed through the attached iPhone when you install the associated iPhone app. I think it was the default, I turned it off, to have "Automatic Downloads" on for apps. So if that's still the default (or the present setting for the watch) then if you download Strava for iPhone you'll get Strava on your Apple Watch without ever touching the Watch App Store.
That's pretty much how all small search engines work, but with varying backing indexes. Kagi's value-add is Google quality index (since they literally pay for it), no ads, their ranking algorithm, and tools to control the results that Google doesn't give you like blacklists and your own weights.

$25/mo is unfortunately a little steep because their lower priced option with 700 searches/month is comically small. On just my work browser I have 4000 Google searches last month. Doesn't count my personal laptop or phone. It's really hard to compete with $0/mo. for Google + AdBlock. I really do like Kagi better but $25/mo. is Tailscale + Notion + Spotify.
It's recommended in France for boys and girls, and there's a big push to vaccinate your kids from 11 to 14 years old. My son got his shot the other day - 65% of the cost covered by state, remainder by top-up/mutuelle insurance.
I visited my high school a few years after graduating. My secret persys.sys folder (full of games) was still there. Fun times.

That was the era of painfully slow (~10min) windows boot times. At one point, teenage me had a floppy with unetbootin to boot a flash drive with tinycore. I could get a browser running a solid 8min. before anyone else.

Regardless of the fun, there was still a dark side. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt should not be the foundation of education.
Did you read the article you cited, or dig further into the data sources it cites? You may be surprised at how poorly these support your hypothesis.

The article even acknowledges the paucity of data: "However, the exact prevalence of completed suicide among transgender persons remain undocumented".
Getting into Venezuela is easy, getting back out again is the hard part.
Can't read because paywall but I'll still weigh in.

I have 5 kids, do pro-bono consulting for small businesses around town, help friends of friends when they need a hand, and show up to every social event I'm asked to go to even if I didn't really want to. Basically saying yes to everything, only saying no when I'm about to stretch myself to thin.

Not only do I have more friends than I did in my late teens/early twenties. My close circle, the number of people I can really count on when I'm in a bind, is much larger as well. It's all about how you live your life.
Wind and solar are now beating coal in the US
>This is true if your end goal is to have a super fast program but that is very rarely the case.

This is true in some banal sense, but kind of misses the point that there are certain domains where high performance software is a given, and in other domains it may rarely be important. If you're working on games, certain types of financial systems, autonomous vehicles, operating systems, etc. then high performance is critical and something you need to think about quite literally from day one.
You have to put Tocqueville in the context of his era.

Europe was still in the era of monarchies. In fact, even though France had just beheaded their monarchs they tried to recreate various flavors of monarchies for decades. They even installed an "emperor" in Mexico.

Tocqueville was trying to figure out if other forms of governance could exist.

I find it comforting that the same flaws we see in democracy today also existed in the time of Tocqueville. That does not mean that I think other forms of government are better. I agree with Churchill that “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.”
Which is bad.

You need to cultivate that kind of personal relations in real life.
From what I briefly read about the HPV vaccine on the CDC website, it seems _pretty much safe_.
This is absolutely been a long-wait implementation of GPT.

What is the process of adding component to the list? Additional, could rule to been user defined (to minimum EMI/EMC, e.g.)?
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Given that the definition of a VLOP is >45M MAU, and the iOS store is the only one that's even remotely close to being over that, what do you object with in this characterization?

Also you left out the very next sentence, which completely reverses the interpretation you're trying to imply:

> Nonetheless, Apple intends, on an entirely voluntary basis, to align each of the existing versions of the App Store (including those that do not currently meet the VLOP designation threshold) with the existing DSA requirements for VLOPs because the goals of the DSA align with Apple’s goals to protect consumers from illegal content.
Cellular Automata Using P5.js
A blog about cellular automata, and how to build one using the P5.js library.
> Don't forget the price people have paid.

i.e. recognize that you are privileged, since others paid the price on your behalf.
Neither did goto in Pascal. Exceptions are further constrained. You can't do

10: goto 10

With exceptions.

> since we do not write imperative code nowadays

Who's 'we'? I certainly do when appropriate.
This is what we’re using. We already sync database content to a typesense DB for regular search so it wasn’t much more work to add in embeddings and now we can do semantic search.
Software that dynamically changes to fit different form factors is difficult to write and rarely comes without compromises to the UX.

I prefer it when my iPhone and iPad apps have separate bespoke UIs that take full advantage of the different sizes and shapes.
I shared the code in a comment below (https://github.com/purpleladydragons/ai-sanity) but

- scraping is relatively dumb and straightforward. I use playwright to login and just scroll my timeline for the first 100 tweets. I run the thing every 3 hours right now, but definitely could tweak the number of tweets vs frequency

- I only care about AI tweets really on my timeline, so filtering to that is pretty straightforward just passing it to GPT

- I included the prompts in the link. Definitely far from perfect, but it works well enough. It does surprisingly suck sometimes, like I've noticed that it doesn't always pick up on tweets about LangchainAI despite AI being in the name etc
So are we - literally who are you arguing with?

Read my comment slowly I’m not saying it only produces garbage.
Sorry, should have said, worked on the John Deere guidance module for auto-driving tractors. As a contractor.

There are field limits defined. But they are respected as algorithms need, to determine turn parameters at the end of a row. I could imagine easily that fiddling with that code could end up with a tractor on the other side.

What horror scenarios do you think are realistic? Remember we are considering multi-ton machines with maybe a thousand horsepower, wielding huge spinning blades and crusher mechanisms. What scenario can we consider that is not a horror show?
Yea def looking into this

We already use a multi model approach and mix of non deterministic and deterministic tooling in the pipeline to optimize for a given task

Lots of more work to be done here