skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’d be amazed. I remember an undergrad guitarist complaining to me about having to be able to play all scales in all keys with all possible variations of articulation for his practical.

A frikkin’ guitarist.

For those of you who don’t know, playing a scale in a different key on a guitar literally involves moving your first finger to a different fret and starting from there. There are two or three patterns you need to learn to be able to handle starting on a different string or different finger. But it’s not hard. I told him he should be ashamed of himself and to stop whining.

Playing in all keys on a sax or trumpet or whatever is a totally different kettle of fish. Still necessary to learn. Still ridiculous to be doing a music degree and not be able to just do but definitely much harder.
Why airlines keep folding in India’s booming aviation market
“Go touch grass” is used derisively, but it’s something I tell myself more and more. We overvalue the online world and all its drama. Go outside, meet people, make your own organic, locally grown drama.

These days I schedule my work around the weather. Few things bring me as much happiness as a day in the sun. I know it has been a good day when I have not touched my laptop once.
Really? In the first picture you can clearly see people sitting on the masts, what are they there for if not for setting up the sails?
The correct way to do this in most style guides is to add (sic) to the quote which means you're aware of the incorrect use but are quoting directly.
Had the same issue. On other browser I was able to browse the site. Just clear recent history and cookies.
Also, if you start piling up PIs because one won't have enough compute power and memory, you are likely to habe a lower electric footprint with a single nuc and virtualization or containers.
servo only existed as a project to write in rust to design the language. It was a huge success
I second this from a German road observation. The times I see people behind me looking down on their phones is sparingly high.

The issue is that these people believe they can text and drive while in reality you nearly always see how they need to correct course in between views. I wouldn't bother if they would only be dangerous to themselves.
Imho this is a problem which can only be solved by making it socially not accepted.
ha. mine is:

~>

although it gets progressively richer with heightened context, e.g:

username if not my account
hostname if ssh'ing
basename(pwd) (not full path) if not ~
HEAD value (ref or sha) if in git or hg
literal rebase & al for stateful git operation in progress
any of ! ≠ ± (untracked, unstaged, and staged changes)
any of literal nix venv when entering specific contexts

at some point I had it as simple as > but some situations had me wish I knew context right away so I progressively added these each time I had a "fuck, I made a mistake and I would not have if I had that bit of context"

I thought I'd go all the way to

;

plan9 rc-style which made sense because "select whole line then paste and run" just works. plus it looks like a wink.

I do have colours in a few select areas, but very limited, so that when there are colours they are very meaningful. notably the prompt segments are colour coded by meaning since they're dynamic. my vim theme looks like e-ink, merely getting fancy with a shade of gray for comments (which at some point could be reverted so thar comments get the "focus" and code is toned down, very literal programming)

oh and please: no right prompt, ever (or $COLUMNS-wide left prompt) as it gets wild when resizing; no freaking emoji in my output (e.g I still have that HOMEBRE_NO_EMOJI env var set to an expletive of sorts even though I don't use homebrew anymore)
They must already be making a killing as they don’t do much; I mean their platform is so depressingly badly written, I don’t quite understand how you can get it to that state. They want (it’s in the rules) you to stay in their chat and communication system, but it is basically unusable for anything serious, so no one does. There is the impossible invoicing more people here mentioned; my accountant keeps asking if they cannot just send 1 invoice once per month that it is clear instead of the vague warble they send once a week.

Their ‘recruiters’ are just friendly community chatters who talk a lot to people with that automatically (you get them too in the recommended list) match the skills (in their profile; there is of course no way to tell if they actually do match the skills you need; I needed an AD expert for 1 year and the recruiter introduced me to the perfect person; in a chat they admitted to me that they had worked with it once a long time ago…).

This is ready for disruption. But not by something like Toptal. Which should be mentioned, if you want to talk about greed…
Do these red pajama models work with llama.cpp?
Unless they are also free for the person renting out the place, wouldn't they simply raise the price by the cost of the travel agent?
To be fair I expected some crazy Windows related way to cheat on musical exam :P
You can always negotiate. When I did nomading I regularly only booked on or two days with booking and then asked for a deal for one or two more weeks if I liked the place.

At least the 15% or so fee from booking portals are easily waved. If you are off season and the hotel is empty anyway they often are happy to go even further.
So you're saying I may be able to get out of this contract I have with my wife.
Makes sense, but I do not completely agree.

In my 11 years of experience as a consultant, people hire me because they need a square zinc sink fixed, but as soon as they see that I know much more than that, they ask me to redo the living room wall and trim the topiary.

Being an expert gets me through the door, being a generalist keeps me around.

The problem is that the square sink expert filter is the biggest obstacle to getting a contract. Reason why with 17 years of total experience, I'm still without a job after 4 months, my longest jobless stint in my entire career (to be fair, I'm pivoting towards starting my own business rather than keep being rejected by clueless recruiters)
When you see good language use in writing it communicates its own sense of quality. This differentiates low-value sources where some people communicate without an appreciation of the minutiae of the language.

Now for forum comments or low-value writing it's not an issue, but you can argue that having someone who is experienced with using a style guide and communicating consistently adds some authoritativeness to the publications.

In the case of Wikipedia that is a valid thing to aim for.
Why does she hate colours so much?
htmx never claimed it's the solution for everything. there is no next conceptual step. it's sending snippets of html to the client.

i read most htmx threads on hn and it's clear that people are looking for alternatives from react et al. they have a quick look, maybe implement an example and they are angry that it can't do everything they want cause the js ecosystem fatigue is real.

the centerpiece of the htmx site is an actual in-production app that was converted from react and it's better because of that. again, it will not be everybody's case.

htmx will let a lot of developers go all the way without bringing node into their ruby/python/php world for certain workloads. for them it is the future. the rest should stop reading.
They are definitely using them, a lot (probably the majority of time).

(Source: I have a friend who have worked/sailed the ship multiple times)
Right now I'm trying Vicuna 13b on a MacbookAir M1, 16GB and it's extremely slow. 7b is ok.
You resort to victim blaming.

Words should have meaning, you know?

If there is no such thing as a free lunch, then you should not be allowed to offer free lunches.
Crystal has already "taken off" for me, in the sense that it does everything I need it to do. The standard library is replete with http client and server, as well as JSON, and a host of other useful bits, just have a look: https://crystal-lang.org/api/

Wrapping of C-libraries is a relatively painless experience:
https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.8/syntax_and_semantics/...

I can use any/all command-line utilities with an IO buffer (image processing, other out-of-band processing)

The stock "DB" module supports Sqlite, MySql, and PostGres out of the box.

SPEED: anyone "sticking" with RoR is not paying attention here: Crystal is a compiler and spits out a binary executable with low memory usage compared to it's interpreted cousin. This binary executable can be run by systemd as a normal system service, started with command-line options, etc.
Apples-and-Oranges comparison: I've turned a nodejs-based app that used roughly 600mb memory into an executable using 12mb. The latter has also not leaked any substantial amount of memory after running for 5 months straight now (still says 12mb) so, take that as you wish...

For me, Crystal has already arrived. I don't need group approval for this to be the case. I can happily use version 1.7.3 for the rest of eternity, so I don't see this rug being pulled from out from under me in the near future.
Perhaps use private shard repos if this is your actual concern.
The organization predates George Orwell by around 20 years... so I guess nope ;D

But I agree with the similarities of the Ministry of Truth, and what it wanted to achieve. The issues as I mentioned is that I don't think there's a universal truth to anything; and therefore eradicating wordings or forms of language that are "not good" is a very subjective perspective.
People who actually rely on Upwork care about fresh reputation and active status. Platform makes it appealing to stay active. They have a decent reputation with customers, so it's a backup for when you fire your current client. But if you are inactive they stop recommending you and after a while you are delisted making it tougher to get clients. And customers like to see people who are active.

Also, automatic billing is a big value add for those of us who hate paperwork and chasing non paying customers. Upwork does it for you.

Re crypto, it's an appealing vehicle for laundering and we don't want to be implicated. couple of clients suggested it and it's a red flag for me. (if you want to get paid in crypto I don't get why you would use Upwork at all honestly, surely you have your own great platforms with how much talent is supposedly working on that web3 stuff)
Yes, you're right.

The more you think about it the less arguments there are for "just use Crystal".
I actually thought this initially, but I also believe that given the nature of where we are going (in the 3d space at least) it makes sense to open source something that isn't commercially resellable (thinking all the people who just repackage openai APIs) and let the community iterate over it and make it better perhaps?
Tbf, the average Götheborg deckhand looks like this so it's not far off https://i.imgur.com/Dc7QN5s.png
The Star of India is set to set sail in November; perhaps it can do something similar.

https://sdmaritime.org/visit/the-ships/star-of-india/
> Just try out the power of the most advanced astronomical instrument ever developed.

Pretty sure they just mean telescopes in general ;)
Places like Pigeon Forge, TN have condos/hotels where you can cook as a mini extended stay.
Waymo also operates in SF, except during the daytime unlike Cruise.
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Meta’s Bizarre AI Infrastructure Choice Costs Them $100s Millions
In pre-home-computer days, I heard stories about writers keeping important working documents in the refrigerator. They were generally people for whom a safe would be priced out of reach.
> At least it wasn't Wasa showing up..

*Vasa
Clojure says “hold my beer”.
Fire the CEOs and the devs will actually see some money. The management at Firefox is full of people that exist to collect checks.
Essential complexity is inherent to the problem you have. The solutiom is layered between product design, technical design and implementation. What is essential complexity for a layer can be accidental for the layer above.
We had a CS undergrad intern that didn’t know what i++; means in JavaScript for loops.
Check out tensordock
your entire complaint appears based around the timeline of windows support.

you are free to use windows as a principal OS, but please inform us of your biases when totally trashing a team and product for what is essentially a technical issue of significant proportions, not a product of laziness or slowness, as you allege.
?? If you say so
Puts a dig in at teaching near the end.
Ask HN: What is the best product documentation you’ve ever seen?
What makes you go “wow” at documentation?

I’m looking for some inspiration on technical product documentation in the DevTools space (think cloud platforms, CI/CD, etc.)
VRBO has some of the same issues and we don’t see articles about them. Airbnb came long after VRBO was in business and VRBO is still striving. Hosts post to both usually. My dad has used VRBO for a number of years and tried Airbnb. Hated the Airbnb platform and has stayed exclusively on VRBO.
> If everyone can share a small fleet of self driving vehicles

They cannot.

> I don’t see how self driving cars would take up significantly more space than mass transit while on the road.

They would take up more space because they're cars. Cars can't get to similar efficiencies of space compared to buses unless you compared packed private cars with sparsely ridden buses. And then of course, there's trains.

Perhaps someday we'll have all self driving cars that can safely coordinate and pack themselves into smaller spaces on the road, but that's decades away at a minimum, since you'd first need to get rid of all manually driven cars.
I usually even prefer GPT-3.5, as it's faster and much cheaper. GPT-4 is great for the hardcore logical reasoning, but when I want something that knows to turn my lights on and turn the TV to a channel, it's overkill.
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity [pdf]
This sounds like a PR piece to deflect from issues and complaints people have been having. “Oh look, he has been struggling with those, too”. “The issues are definitely noticed by the CEO now.” And it also throws in an advertisement for some upcoming new features at the end.
How does that apply here? (I’m not being facetious)
I don't want to out myself, but the company I work for is a smallish startup (<100 people now) that has revenue, and closed a multimillion dollar round last year. Most of the people there have never met in person (I've been there for >2 years and have not met any of my coworkers, and only one is in my country, at the opposite end)

While some of the execs have met in person now, the whole thing was bootstrapped by a handful of people before they met.
I use uBlock on Firefox Android, as well as AdAway (which functions as a DNS adblocker) and I had no problem, and no ad.
Well some of it is. But i think the industrial revolution is what enabled a wide range of breakthroughs thus being more impactful than the internet, not that the internet is not significant. Hmm now that i think of it i cant make up my mind which is more impactful. Either way ai with the right approach is among the two. Ideally if not led by crypto bros rebranded as ai experts.
You can study computer science without writing a single line of code. It's no different for music. Learning all the keys by heart is like learning your text editor keybindings, useful, but ultimately has little relevance to actual music theory and composition.
Your main issue will be bandwidth.

Home broadband tends to be very asymmetric, where you may have 200-500mb down(into the house), but only 30-40mb up(out of the house).
Just because humans can generally do it without lidar and other sensors, does not mean that lidar and other sensors, would not improve human driving, if we could somehow integrate them seamlessly (and well reduce their price).

A car equipped with more sensors, will always be better at handling more situations, than the one without them, no matter how "smart" their drivers become.
A few years ago I realised I left my laptop in the car some distance away in London. I hadn't skated for maybe a decade but my roommate had a skateboard. I texted him telling him I was taking it and was going to do "so many kickflips". Next text was from the hospital with bruised / cracked after I caught a lip and supermanned the pavement.
I would say don't buy this -- but if you had $45k to spend on astronomy, you'd either be extremely passionate and know what you were doing, or you wouldn't care about that money.

Some of the fun of amateur astronomy is that you can take incredible pictures with cobbled together bits and pieces, and rigs are entirely upgradeable and modular. I don't think you can upgrade this thing at all. I don't think you can debug it, tweak it, or otherwise modify it. Hell, it has me to believe that Zicral or whatever brand name for 7075 aluminum is entirely impenetrable.

I've had a blast carefully selecting bits of equipment and incrementally upgrading my rig as I developed new skills.

Also, for $45k, I'd do a fuckload better than this thing. Holy shit would I do better than this thing. I bet I could get better space pictures with $10k than like 12 of these things stacked on top of each other. And if anyone wants to give me $10k, I will happily bet $45k that I can come up with a better picture than this thing.

If you're interested in starting with astrophotography, check out cloudynights.com, the warmest & friendly astronomy forum you could hope for. And the best part about it is -- it's not trying to rip you off!

If you're looking for the Craigslist of astro gear, check out astromart.com

And if you want to see some amazing space pictures by amateur astronomers who spent way, way, way, way less than $45k, check out astrobin.com
Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest
wondering if scanning throu >10M history entries, looking for duplicates, will introduce a noticeable ex degradation on lesser systems (rpi etc).
Sorry what is PG&E? I googled it, is this a reference to the power company in California? I don’t live in California so am not sure. I thought initially maybe it was some acronym for Privatize Gains and Externalize losses?
xFinance: How to outperform BloombergGPT without breaking the bank
Scales can get very very tricky. There are multiple modes of minor, for example, that have different notes ascending and descending. When you combine that with some requirements, like playing the scales the full length of the keyboard up and down at a consistent quick tempo, perhaps in triplets, missing just one note is extremely easy to do. Depending on the requirements of the exam, missing just one note may be enough to hurt your score.
Please play a C major scale, but for every third note instead sing “Fizz”, every fifth note sing “Buzz”, and every 15th note instead sing “FizzBuzz”
With customers being hustled for the tips, why would they even buy at the store, while you could get the same thing online? Evaluate the product in the store and then order from home. Apple has only few, most popular, configurations in the store anyway. Everything else is needed to be ordered online. The stores will become showrooms, which they already mostly are, I think.
Just use a 1 time card and reinstall the OS.
> I don’t tip at all

I'm not going to be able to change your mind here, so I'll just say that it's a very particular behavior from a particular type of person.
I wonder if they plan to test in Europe. I moved to France and one issue I struggle with as a human driver is speed limits. I live in a suburban area where most streets have 30kmh limits (19mph). Nobody respects them, not even busses. I often get honked at when driving the speed limit. What would Waymo do?
Somebody's about to become like illustrators and copywriters — mostly irrelevant unless you are the very best at what you do.
Once you electrify your heat demand seasonal variability will massively increase, driving down load factors dramatically.

Today electricity accounts for 20% of energy use, European estimates see that going up to 50% by 2050. A large chunk of that increase is heating.

Obviously other countries and climates will not see the same patterns here.
You’re right about the first part. I don’t have Fox News so I’m not sure about the second part. I’m not particularly sad about it but thank you for your concern.
Wow, I disagree.

1) a binary executable of low memory footprint that can be run as a standard systemd service vs THE JVM (gasps of terror)

2) I bet you Crystal STILL beats the pants off jRuby or actually ANYTHING run on the JVM (perf. metrics)

3) I bet you the maintenance costs of the Crystal binary are lower over the course of 5 years, by a large large factor

4) I will bet you the UPTIME of the Crystal binary is higher, by a large large factor
> By the way, can you think of a country in which taxation is so high that work is disincentivized?

Denmark, this is a very common topic here with many people like doctors saying so
>tips

So how long until this store gets closed due to the public being turned away?
“Which initiatives / organizations / companies – teams / groups of people / individuals are actually working towards impactful climate change solutions?”

Personal changes work to a point. Take for instance solar power in Aus.

“The sudden rise in solar PV installations in Australia since 2018 dramatically propelled the country from being considered a relative laggard to a strong leader by mid-2019. Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity, now at more than 1kW per capita.” €

€ <https://iea-pvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/PViA-Report-...>

That’s not enough. For humanity on Earth to survive, the Petrol/Oil/Gas Industry cartels must be destroyed and dismantled.

How? by working out who & what are exploiting the energy Industry:

“How regular taxpayers are subsidizing the ultra-wealthy's use of climate-polluting private jets” ¥

¥ <https://heated.world/p/they-pollute-you-pay-literally>
I often spend hours of writing code without ever compiling - once you are familiar with the language and how the compiler behaves, that should be the norm.

When I then compile, its okay if it takes 10 seconds or 10 minutes.
> I blow.up a car. Complexity is destroyed.

Wouldn't the blown-up car be more complex than the non-blown-up car?
It was on the Mediterranean Sea. I am also a sailor and can testify that the Mediterranean Sea is the hardest to sail because of often changing wind direction. I assume that’s why the didn’t use sails while rescuing. I wouldn’t either.
And? Your average React dev is bad at proper backend too.
A Neuro-Vector-Symbolic Architecture For Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices
Your 10yo does 70km+ bike trips???? That’s incredible! Also makes me feel less than stellar about my own bike rides :P
$ENV is for interactive shells, .profile is for login shells. Normal shells source these files according to to which of the two flags are set or not.

To make make bash behave in a compatible manner, you need to:

- Delete .bash_profile, so .profile gets sourced instead (works around bash ignoring .profile when .bash_profile exists)

- At the bottom of .profile, call $ENV (works around login bash ignoring bashrc)

- Make .bashrc call or be equal to $ENV

- At the head of $ENV, do an early exit for non-interactive shells (works around bash sourcing the bashrc when invoked non-interactively via SSH or socket, also works around the previous workaround)

In terms of startup logic, bash is the worst shell i've seen so far.
"Mobile first design" calls for designing for mobile first, then adopting for desktop second, if there's time anyway.
>Desktop interfaces don't have a pixel shortage.
Combined with designers adding more and more padding, attempting to fit 2 web sites on desktop on a 1080p monitor ends up triggering mobile design anyway.