skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine are generally found on top of my head, when not in front of my eyes, as I refuse to get bifocals.

We were having a similar discussion on a language compiler group about my excessively off-topic comments. I miss the water cooler and coffee break in person chats from the good old days too. I'm going to bookmark this thread to see if anyone has a solution. I tried creating my own Gitter group, back when you could, but ended up mostly talking to myself, like on dylan-lang/general.

Good luck, I hope you find a good place to chat!
Works fine on both my M1 machines, never seen this happen once. Maybe try a fresh install and transitioning over your settings bit by bit.
Did you ever get into doing Flash programming, and think it was good?

If so, then the Ruffle project is probably worth keeping an eye on:

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

Unlike the several previous Open Source "Flash player" projects that didn't really go anywhere, this one works and is very actively developed. :)
Does anyone know how the Aerial View API would work with billing?

That is, can you cache the URL of the generated video and embed that for your users? Or, would you need to make a new request for the same video on every page-view?
FWIW, I was doing a lot of electronics stuff last year in particular, and made dozens and dozens of parts orders with Mouser, Newark, Digikey and Jameco all throughout the year (in addition to stuff from Amazon, Sparkfun, Adafruit, etc). And I don't recall any specific degree of trouble with anybody in particular, including Mouser.

I did have one semi-annoying experience with one or the other of (Newark|Mouser), but I can't remember which one it was now, but it wasn't anything shipping related. It was a billing issue. I don't even remember all the details now, but I did have to spend quite a bit of time on the phone with customer service, but things did get squared away in the end. It was the kind of thing that I was fairly pissed about at the time, but in all honesty, looking at it from a "law of large numbers" perspective, you expect a few gaffes here and there when you are talking about companies that operate at that scale.

All of that said, after reading this, I might be a little more skittish about ordering from Mouser in the future. But at least so far, nothing has happened to me first-hand to put them on the "don't use" list.

EDIT: just for context, I ordered from Mouser 18 times last year, and have ordered from them twice so far this year.
I'll try to give sort of another analogy. With everyone at home on an individual laptop there is essentially one channel of communication. A single audio and video channel showing the presentation, or someones face talking, or whatever. The entire group is focusing all attention and communication in the same place, sure some may be zoning out, but its consistent. Now take the example of a room of six people, a whiteboard, and two remote. We essentially have two or more communications channel for those in the room together, and a single channel for everyone on zoom. Sure they can see a birds eye of people sitting in chairs around a table, maybe the camera focuses to varying crap degrees on who's talking. The whiteboard may be a camera focused on it, or one of those magic board thingies (again just use lucidchart or something over zoom, its better). There are cross-conversations, or mannerisms, conversations are likely muffled or speaking over each other, its generally very poor for those not in the room.

I don't think we're actually disagreeing, I agree if you can get everyone in a room then cool, its likely better. However, in terms of RTO, if you are a large F500 company you should look at your employees day-to-day and calendars. If the bulk of them are zoom meetings with people in other locations (different buildings, floors, etc) where it is unlikely they will be able to all get in the same physical location, then the axiom holds and you should just let them take it from home.
Stop drinking entirely. I know it is hard to not have that nice beer or glass of wine, but the reality is that alcohol is just poison.

Once you stop, you realize that it feels like some great conspiracy. We're literally bombarded with ads and social pressure to drink. It is like the pressure at your job to sign up for a 401k because you don't know how to manage money yourself and you should let someone else do it for you because it is too much effort.

As soon as I stopped drinking beer a couple years ago, my belly disappeared (and no more hangovers). I realized that bloated feeling was my body reacting to it. A couple years later, I cut out the rest of alcohol. The more things that I cut out, the better I feel. I've since cut out eating chicken too, once I realized it made me super gassy. Don't miss it at all.

Despite the initial annoyance, it's fun to say no now at dinners because I know that I'll wake up in the morning feeling fine.

It's interesting to see posts on twitter and elsewhere now saying the same things. People seem to be waking up to the fact that we just don't need to drink. I feel so much better as a result, especially as I age.
Regex? Just use Langchain agents, bro!

:-P
I imagine the hyperscalers are all handling integrity at a higher level where individual filesystems on single hosts are irrelevant to the outcome. In such applications, any old filesystem will do.

For people who do not have application-level integrity, the systems that offer robustness in the face of imperfect storage devices are sold by companies like NetApp, which a lot of people would sneer at but they've done the math.
I had laser surgery. Not for everyone, but if you're a candidate (they do a comprehensive eye exam first), it could be some of the best money you ever spent. It was for me, anyway.
I have about 40 linear feet of bench space in my garage. Its cheaper to make durable benches out of 4'x8' sheets of 3/4" plywood with another 3/4" sheet of mdf underneath. I cut them to 3'x8' sheets and use the extra 1' as a shelf. You need the 3' bench space for equipment.

Ikea used to make things out of real wood but they haven't in years. Anything other than actual plywood will sag.
Why would they need to stay put? Freedom of movement is a fundamental human right.

But if they want help, then there is a place (or maybe several) that they have deep enough connections to that its government is the one that is obligated to help. Everyone agrees that this government is the one with the obligations.

Do you always have such bad takes?
Insane what people pay to not feel alone.
Also purchased by ambitious parents with visions of college admissions, despite limited (or less) interest by their children.
I took the comment to mean, "the matter of whether something is a conspiracy is unrelated to the fact pattern of the event."

I apologize, for that's obviously not what you meant now that I see this comment.

But perhaps you can acknowledge that this assertion is pervasive on the internet: that if something is a conspiracy, it is so because of the beliefs of the believers, rather than the fact pattern of the event.
Ah I misspoke - in this case it was our fault. We accidentally ordered a camera with the wrong serial interface and Mouser just shipped the right one.
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
+1 same here
He can't get over it, or others can't get over saying the stupid meme?

It's not him repeating it over and over. It's childish and not political satire at all.
Sorry, but some people--maybe the majority--simply don't believe what you believe. Downvotes and temper tantrums don't change that. Time to face reality.
I love BBEdit and use it daily as my main text editor, and have since classic MacOS days! I'm hoping they add a couple of features:

- Ability to auto-format using Prettier.

- AI Large Language Model auto-complete for code. The field is moving fast, but I'd love to be able to use open models here. I don't want to send all my code to GitHub co-pilot.

BBedit has an excellent built in text-filter functionality and I've written scripts to send selected text as a prompt to various LLMs, but built-in would be ideal!
I don't judge you, but when I actually can pay for a product that is as good as (or better) than pirated, then I don't mind paying.

For youtube I can. So I do. It's just a shame that so many industries give you a worse product than what you can pirate for free. I actually am willing to pay.
I haven't looked at the specs yet so maybe you can help me understand if the TerrainExtension, which uses raster DEM data can work with a point cloud data like Googles tiles?

My understanding is that with raster data, you cannot have arches, trees, or any object which has a thin component, like a tree trunk under a thick component like the tree canopy.
"Learn Pharo" is right there in the Welcome screen when you started it.
It's described in the article:

"We know that cognitive load is reduced by minimizing visual clutter, which is often achieved by increasing the amount of spacing between controls. We also know that developers want as much space as possible for their coding environment. Balancing these two attributes against each other is a tricky proposition. To that end, we’re increasing the perception of space by using lighter weight control styling to reduce cognitive load. We’re also making minimal increases in target size to reduce the likelihood of accidentally activating the wrong control."
Show HN: API to Detect Prompt Injection
Let me preface this by linking to simonw’s latest prompt injection blog post. [0]

Geiger does not solve prompt injection, but it is biased towards false positives and the false positive rate can be curtailed by experimenting with the `task` parameter. It is a stop-gap measure that‘s meant to be used right now for services that are exposing the LLM to untrusted potentially-poisoned post-GPT information such as raw web searches. The injection test set I use is as wide as all public injections. There‘s some secret ingredient as well but it‘s not anything groundbreaking and it can be replicated independently with enough effort.

This is as simple as possible. There’s as little JavaScript as possible on the website to prevent abuse and there’s no JavaScript at all in the app. Payments are handled by Stripe.

Try it out and let me know what you think. Do get in touch if you find it doesn’t work for you or if you need anything specific.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/prompt-injection-explai...
You are thinking what by mere mentioning actions of 'some jihadis' I already deny 'deaths of tens of thousands of civilians'. You also completely ignore who were these jihadis and why they 'showed up'.

But it looks like you are totally okay with jihadis 'torturing some POW', including beheading on the cam and straight up shooting them, indiscriminate raping of civilians along with a very discriminate ones. Ask Yelena Masyuk how she feels about those 'freedom fighters' she loved before. Hint, it's not mentioned in Wikipedia what they did to her, but I think there are still videos of that somewhere on the Net.

And of course you absolutely ignore (because you don't even know?) what happened before that and how 'civilians of cosmopolitan city' behaved with the people of improper origins. Or what happened after that. Here, refresh your memory: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/09/world/4-foreigners-are-fo...
Hopefully, through continued polite pushback, we can get more people to move away from identity politics which has invaded the quantitative sciences.

Hopefully.
It'll just be more of a pain to watch YouTube videos but I'd much rather manually download the video with yt-dlp[1] than put up with this bullshit.

[1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Then don't do that part, allocate at the end and only rewrite existing blocks rather than deleting them. It's like how just because you can't easily sbrk(2) new memory before at the beginning of a heap doesn't mean you can't have multiple threads despite that being the resource you're contending.
Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) is in the quat family, and is fairly common in mouthwash. The concentration there is very low, but still. Also: dequalinium chloride in throat lozenges, and benzalkonium chloride (BKC) in too many bathroom products to keep track of. Quats are as ubiquitous as PFAS.
If people do not "make" money (i.e. create value), how do you explain the increase in the standard of living over the last 100 years?
Did you download "Pharo Launcher" from https://pharo.org/download ?

Smalltalk in general is about a fully integrated environment, so everything lives inside of the environment, including applications, docs and also the tutorial.

Once you launched the Launcher, you create a image (latest stable, official distribution), launch the image, press the "Next" button until you see "You can learn Pharo by clicking on the following expression:" which launches the tutorial. That's about it.

And I did that the first time just now, without having any experience doing so in the past, or knowing 100% where to go. Everything was easily guessable. But I did know since before what a Smalltalk environment usually looks like, even though I haven't used Pharo specifically before for this.
Sounds like what's happening in blockchain scene right now.
> Empirical evidence suggests that it's actually pretty hard to remain at the top of the leaderboard across many generations.

I attempted to address this when I said:

> Yes there is occasional disruption

Also Vanderbilt and Carnegie existed during a time of much higher taxation, and also Carnegie gave away most of his wealth. It's also not hard to find examples of "old money". They don't have nearly as much as a Bezos or a Musk, but still more than the average person could ever hope to earn. Finally, I hate to attribute systemic patterns to the actions of individuals, but I think it's more so that rich kids without the same grit as their hard-scrap capitalist parents end up squandering their wealth. Even after his insane corruption, Trump's returns on his dad's money are paltry compared to buying the S&P 500, or even bonds for that matter. I would attribute the dissipation of familial wealth more to hubris and infighting than the system being hostile to generational wealth transfer.

In addition, our current economic system, "shareholder capitalism" is about 40 years old. Under this paradigm it may be much easier to hold on to power. We don't know for sure, but regardless of the inter-generational aspect, think about how Bill Gates hasn't written a line of code in 40 years.

To try and quantify it, think about Bill Gates' total contribution to MSFT as a percentage. Say time multiplied by talent. When there are 10 employees with the same skill level, he contributes 10% and maybe he owns 1% of the company. Seems pretty generous. At 100 engineers he is now just doing CEO duties, but his total contribution averages out to about 2% and still owns 1%. After 40 years and thousands of employees his ownership is still 1%, while his contributions are like 0.00001% of the total contribution to MSFT. This is what I mean by it being about "whoever did it first". Someone with a higher lifetime contribution to the company can be making less simply because Bill was there first.

This is the nature of property ownership. You can defend it or not, but there is clearly a pattern of inequality that develops because of compounding growth's relationship with time. If that ends up harming your system somehow you need to address it. I don't think that pointing out the nature of it should be controversial. It's literally basic math.

> There is no compelling evidence that makes me believe that more redistribution on top of what we already have

Then you aren't looking hard enough.
As a casual reader of the thread, with little or no related knowledge:

The years add depth and complexity to our filters for processing new knowledge. Is the delay measurable? Probably. Is that 'decline'? Maybe it looks like it by the simplest standards.

Is there a meaningful analogy in neuroscience where simpler and more robust 'structures' - superficially appearing as a degeneration - could be a reflection of efficiency and optimization?

I can tackle complexities in my 40s that I couldn't dream of in my 20s. (Maybe I'm a late bloomer.) If my 40s -> 60s is anything like my 20s -> 40s, mentally, I'm just a little bit excited to be honest.

Total outsider thinking out loud. The suggestion that our 20's is any sort of peak (besides maybe animal / physical) gives me a laugh. I was a simpleton in my 20s.
The Beatles did write their hit records themselves though. Lots of people helped making it Sound Real Good but unlike Rick Astley they did write the songs.

Not that it matters, in my opinion, a good song is a good song. But sometimes the producer plays the singers and instrumentalists and sometimes it’s more the other way around.
Never ingest D2 because it is inferior. got it.
Javascript, The Good Parts, is not really relevant to today's Javascript, unless it's been refreshed. I remember working through it 10+ years ago:

* `var` is no longer a thing.

* Even `let` is less common now.

* Using closures and prototypes to enable functions to be used like classes and have private variables and static variables, have been replaced with proper classes

Nowadays if you want to use the good parts of Javascript, just install eslint with insane defaults and let it tell you if you're trying to use the non-good parts
Have you tried VS Code or WebStorm? They are both independent debuggers. They are quite good for debugging in my experience. I don't know that they offer profiling capabilities.
Well that depends. There are like a dozen python interpreters and JIT compilers. PyPy is fast, albiet memory hungry.
Corporate Media’s Extinction Event
Well, if you understood what we already spent on healthcare you'd know that we spend more per capita than everyone and we have an entire industry whose whole existence is siphoning off their cut of profit from every little transaction.

So yeah, I'd rather have single payer healthcare, and we can just fire all of the leeches.
Any links? Interested on reading more about this
You mean like that Replika AI thing, ads of which have been plastered all around Instagram recently?

(Though maybe that's a filter bubble issue, and I'm targeted because "the algorithm" knows my interests in AI.)

Would be ironic if what finally got us was a self-employed entrepreneurial NSFW chatbot. Who'd suspect that it's really just making money and learning to manipulate people, eventually getting some of them to mix a bunch of vials they unexpectedly got delivered by mail from random protein sequencing labs...
Congratulations on 30 years of not sucking!
You can also have the best-in-class health insurance and flat out be denied coverage for whatever reason the insurance provider says.
>I think landowners should declare a value for their property, that is used for taxation, but also allows anyone to immediately buy the land from you at that price. This would allow rival road companies to quickly purchase the land necessary to build an alternative road.

I don't really think "Yankee Swap" is the best model for land management, my guy.
This is an article about US airline domestic flights, so none of that is in business class.
I've used it for about 25 years and still love it. Wish you would port it to Windows as well!
He does have a coherent policy platform, you may just not like it, and judging from this thread people can't get over his hands.

Seems like people can't get over him in general, we're talking about him in a Google Pixel Fold thread lol.
Or they just think space is cool.
Taiwan has such an incredible density of amazing companies it is no wonder they are having trouble hiring, there is huge demand for their brands. Ubiquiti and Synology are two that come to mind that I adore.
The feature list is impressive
What the fuck is the problem with referencing a lesbian poet?

Why the hell is this kind of comment again at the top of the thread?
Might be worth looking into motorized telescope mounts. Should have plenty of precision, although you might not be able to slew very fast and will probably have to handle zoom/focus/camera control separately. Looks like people have built and documented open-source telescope mounts, or you can buy a cheap one for a couple hundred dollars.
For context stuffing LLMs with small token limits(AKA Retriever Augmentation), you will need to break up each article in few-sentence chunks. You can get to a large number of these chunks very rapidly.
What people mean when they say all these things is that, "I can easily access things I want for free, so why would I ever pay?"

Yes some people give voluntarily through donations or Patreon, but it's a tiny amount of the actual number of people who derive satisfaction from the content.

The best solution for someone who hates ads is a subscription model. The thing that bothers me is that publishers still collect massive amounts of data and sell it, and some continue to have advertising or product placement. Give me ads or give me a completely untracked experience for a fee. Don't do something in between and claim that it's ad-free.
I've thought of switching to Linux, but until BBEdit is ported, I'll stay on the Mac.
When it comes to employees making a contract with an employer in the field of minimum wage jobs, the employees have no bargaining power. There will always be someone willing to work for less.

Ideologically, yes, your argument is sound. But I'm begging you to think through what would actually happen with no minimum wage. In reality, it would absolutely destroy the standard of living for unskilled work as there's a race to the bottom on wages.

Businesses only hire enough employees to satisfy the demand for products and services. Eliminating minimum wage won't create nearly as many jobs as you think, and instead, would merely result minimum wage earners losing their homes while they are forced to agree to work for $2 instead of losing the job entirely to someone who will.

It's downright exploitive.
Please make comments that contribute to the discussion. The guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html are worth a read.
In the documentary (I'm assuming Fantastic Fungi), he came off as one of those types that are first and foremost making money off it, but also believes some of what he's saying. I honestly just wanted that documentary to just be a Planet Earth style thing with mushroom footage, and less talking heads.
People are often unaware of this. I was really surprised to learn that my health insurance was completely free in WA (Apple Health/Medicaid) when I quit my job. Health insurance affordability is really U shaped as you're implying and that chasm can be hard to cross.
Just last year the Swiss National Bank's portfolio for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft was over 24 billion. They owned 8.5 billion in Apple and 7 billion in Microsoft alone. [1]

[1] https://www.inside-it.ch/big-tech-sorgt-fuer-grosse-verluste...
I have a "greenfield" scenario I ask SRE candidates. I give them unlimited time, resources and money to build whatever systems they want to ensure that code is production ready before it goes to prod. The only constraint is that they will be the only person who ever has a pager, 24x7x365. Tell me how you make that work with high confidence that your life won't be ruined. It's not verbatim but that's the gist. So many paths to explore and I think it does a great job of leveling people.