skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nicely polished! Thank you for sharing!

For the purposes of teaching Python, I once created something similar---but without the explanations:

https://www.speicherleck.de/iblech/zufall-im-browser/index.e...
no, I didn't see this. I am on Google Chrome.
This is doable in Emacs, using org-mode and org-babel.
I guess it depends very much on the niche. Datascience? Yeah, hacking probably necessary for all those C/rust stuff. Web? Things will work just fine.
First results in from the Turkish elections
> Rust codebases extend in size and scale to larger teams fundamentally better than C++ / C

There are about 3-4 orders of magnitude more large C++ projects developed by large teams compared to Rust projects as of now.

This might change in future, but your claim seems a bit premature.

In a previous company I worked at, we were forced to rewrite a greenfield project in C++ because it was going too slow with Rust. The team managed to ship the thing in a few months, compared to spending a month getting nowhere with Rust.
If people “don’t have the time” to learn then they shouldn’t get to participate in our democracy. Education and due diligence, more easily available now than ever before, are the responsibility of citizens.
4 minute procedure to get that into your skull, it looks big ?
China and Russia are increasing their military collaboration
AI creator on the risks, opportunities and how it may make humans 'boring'
my understanding is that the engine used (pytorch transformers library) is still faster than llama.cpp with 100% of layers running on the GPU.
I also got a downvote for my first post: Waste Heat Calculator
I believe it means people with Jewish race and customs but not religion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_Jew
Anecdotally, I have drastically reduced my internet activity in recent years. So many of the websites are just noise with crappy information. The good answers are often found on reddit in one or two clicks or directly asked on discord so there is no need to spend hours with google anymore (the crappy algo doesn't help). I also refrained from posting or discussing anything on social media after some bad experience with the users there. It takes effort to make good quality posts, but it rarely goes anywhere in those massive social media sites and often it may even get punished if it is against the public opinion.

So I am tired and only make a few posts every few days now on HN. I am sure while my activity has dropped, the bots are getting more active so nothing is lost. Maybe some quality and how the traffic share look like, but I don't know.
Oh, I see; fair point I agree.
I had no idea this existed and I’m glad it’s been shared here. I’ve been using Windows Firewall Control [0] and for most things it’s been decent, but it can’t seem to create usable rules for some store apps (Age of Empires IV in particular), and I’d prefer something open source and actively maintained. Definitively going to give this a try.

- [0] https://www.binisoft.org/wfc
> Though playing mp3 was a heavy task consuming most of the CPU. It was hard to do anything while listening to music

Cyrix MX166 PR200 with 32 MB of RAM was playing MP3 just fine while compiling the (linux) kernel and being snappy in the same time.

The SW has just become more bloated. SW engineers those days are not constrained by resources and this leads to a lot of bad practice.
You see this everywhere, but it's usually only with people who do not have much experience. Not just with languages either. I remember my team looking incredulously at a new hire who was, (hopefully anyway?), trying to show us all how smart he was by telling us Bellman-Ford was better than Dijkstra.

Um. OK. But who cares? Our job is to ship product. We'll throw it at the GPU and move on with our lives. Thanks though? I think?

If I was looking at a company that purported to be making an online game streaming service and they were using Ruby or Swift, I'd very likely look elsewhere for employment. If they were using Java, Rust, or C++, well, that would make more sense.

There are just some realities out there about which languages to use for what, and if a company you are looking at seems to be operating way outside those realities? I mean you have to think long and hard about working with them.

Same with employees by the way. If someone comes in and tries to get my teams to work on a Rust based inferencing service to host our models because "It won't take more than 6 months." Again, you have to question that person's judgement. We're supposed to spend 6 months, (read 18 months because it always takes 3x what they say), creating a Rust based service? A service that even my junior AI guys can push out by the end of the week in Python or Java? No thanks. HR, please prepare his/her separation notice.

I don't run a "who has the biggest balls/breasts" contest. I run a tech firm. Fanboyism has no place in cold dispassionate decision making.
Diminishing benefits of urban living for childrens growth and development
As I said in a different thread, in reply to people criticizing languages: "I trust the people actually building stuff. They are the hardest people to fool."
Neither did my children for several years.
A lot of projects like this can / should be forked. It depends on how much credit you want, if someone then looks at your fork and incorporates the change into mainline themselves.
> Does screen offer vertical splitting now?

Yes, for nine years now; bound to “Ctrl-a |” by default: <https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Split>
Projects that don't need a lot of interactivity after rendering definitely don't need one and you can get away with rendering everything in the backend.

Other projects need some additional features that must be implemented in the frontend, but still don't need more than vanilla JS or jQuery.

Others might need more complex components, such as datepickers, carousels, interactive charts, interactive tables, accordions. But even those can be consumed from third-party components without a framework. A middle ground is writing your own encapsulated components.

However there are more complex apps that do benefit from frameworks. It's often because they have a lot of custom components and a framework really helps; and/or because they're not really divided into pages in a traditional web way, so rendering on the backend is significantly harder; and/or they have a lot of shared state between multiple areas of the screen, and not refreshing is easy than caching or re-fetching. All those among other reasons. Slack Web can benefit from this. Your daily CRUD not so much.

Whether people are using the right tools for each job is up for debate. And sometimes you'll have incorrect requirements. But there are definitely reasons to use more complex/flexible tools.
Bio-inspired device captures images by mimicking human eye
Gotcha, thanks for the reply. I think you'd have the market on this domain cornered if ever you'd produced a comprehensive text since its very much still blog posts and reading extant code.
Codefio-

Fair enough. Thanks for the explanation.
Climate crisis deniers target scientists for vicious abuse on Musk’s Twitter
They were extremely useful before browsers had certain features, like web components of the Proxy api mentioned in the article.

Today the argument is usually based on highly complex apps, think complex dashboards accessible behind a login or browser-based apps for recording a podcast. Those are reasonable uses for client-side frameworks - the problem is they are often used for much more basic sites that just need a mobile menu, accordion component, or a dialog modal. All of these can either use entirely browser native HTML/CSS or easily built in JS without any dependencies.
Submissions can’t get downvoted, only comments. Submission points are public and I can see that one has one point, meaning no one has upvoted it.

But someone may have downvoted the comment you made there.
Wikipedia, ahem, the Wikimedia Foundation, is also a money fire, begging for cash whilst being incredibly well funded, with most of those funds not directed to the expenses of the encyclopedia.
On the other hand, if you ask GPT to explain a joke, it can do it, but if you ask it to explain a joke with the exact same situation but different protagonists (in other words a logically identical but textually different joke), it just makes up some nonsense. So its “understanding” seems limited to a fairly shallow textual level that it can’t extend to an underlying abstract semantic as well as a human can.
It would really depend on where you are trying to incorporate. My understanding is this is possible but you will need to pay a lawyer to do all the legal work for you and sign their name on the documents. I doubt this would interfere with most governments finding out who you are unless you are using multiple companies registered in different countries.
A 25% inheritance tax, i.e. lose everything your family worked for in just four generations. That's ignoring inflation. The logical conclusion of the idea that where you are born is just an "accident", and you have no legitimate link to your ancestors.
It means whatever you want it to mean - or nothing at all.

I like to say that I'm a "secular Christian" - which also means nothing. Is merely a play on words.
Ask HN: Weird alternative Front end Frameworks
Do you work with or have tried any "weird" frontend frameworks lately worth sharing?

Just some context, I have been doing Vue for a long time and also some React, but it seems like there are always problems in JavaScript land.

So I have been playing around with mixing HTMX/AlpineJS with server side rendered (Jinja2) for a new project, and it looks promising.
Less errors, faster rendering, SEO friendly from the get go, but at the expense of less isolation of components.
My physics professor in college would wear a bicycle helmet when driving around in his minivan. The rumor spread in class pretty quickly the first time a student saw him doing that. The general sense of the rumor was, "Our prof is some kind of a freak."

His wife also left him in the middle of the semester. Another rumor was that she just couldn't stand his eccentricities any longer.

Personally, as a cyclist, I have had my helmeted noggin slam against the pavement on more than one occasion. I have come to greatly respect the potential injury that you could get from a collision at high speed. In hindsight, I can fully respect my physics professor's decision to wear a bicycle helmet when driving his minivan around town. In fact in the future if I find myself needing to drive in inclement weather, I may very well start wearing my bicycle helmet in my car. Hope my wife doesn't leave me.
Planning the industrial software revolution (1990) (pdf)
Yeah, though I have not seen a formula which takes the number of expected inference runs into account for calculating the optimal data/parameter balance.
Ask HN: How to get TTS engine Amazon with more affortable price?
i know TTS play.ht uses amazon molly
but commercial usage cost 49 USD.
Feudal gentry also had a culture of noblesse oblige
How long before it runs on a 4 gig card?
Actually the capital gains basis gets reset at either date of death or 9 months later. So no not all that capital was taxed properly. Even saving $100K a year and getting 8% growth can't generate that scale of wealth, even if you save at that level for 40 years.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman nears $100M funding for Worldcoin crypto project
Hitchens sure had a way with words. Yeah, I think that would bother me as well. It's easier if death just kind of sneaks up on you and takes you out. It's a lot harder when the doctor tells you he's coming sometime in 2-5 years.
https://archive.ph/y0kPn
I’d put my money on building early Dall-e and LLM training sets, followed by DDOS-for-hire.
The worst feeling is playing a game without the correct[0] vertical look setting.

[0] inverted.
It's valuable context.

Here it doesn't hurt or help the piece.

More often than anything, the year adds weight to a piece. The essay "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy" would be interesting observations at any time, but putting (2005) after it makes it clear the leading work that it was and how universal the observations may be.
... from Amazon?
It's a dating app, what do you expect? You're high in attractiveness, you'll get a lot of attention. You're not, you starve. It's basically a dystopian market.
Totems and Taboos (2019 Film)
This fascinating documentary tells the story of King Leopold II of Belgium's takeover of Congo and the role of the now-100-year-old museum he built to glorify colonialism.

Thought-provoking and well done.
For overtaking on two-way roads you still need to use your eyes and judgement. Neither radar nor cameras are precise enough to look far ahead and judge safety.
Politics – Manager Tools
But when your position is inside your object, how do you check if you're intersecting with all the other things efficiently? That's the bit I was hoping to read about.
I think LLMs are useful because they’re effectively trained on Reddit. It’s for sure one of the most useful places to find good information and advice on the web.
In terms of legality, it was banned in the Indian Constitution:

Part III Section 15 of the Indian Constitution:

15. Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste,
sex or place of birth.—

https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s380537a945c7aaa788ccfcdf1b99b...
The thing I always hated about BASIC in the olden days was nobody ever wanted to make it a first class citizen. Even on a 5150 PC running DOS there was no concept of running DONKEY.BAS from the command line, like a normal program. For platforms like C64, Apple II, and TI-99, you had to go into some weird special environment, explicitly load your program, and run it. If they had just made it so you could throw together a BASIC program and run it from the prompt it would have been a world changer, but no vendor was willing to do it. That just threw up an artificial barrier to anyone who wanted to go into professional development. IMHO, every vendor should do their best to put a minimal IDE and compiler on the machine and make it possible for the output to be a first class citizen app.
In order for the panels to function as a nitrogen fixer, you’d not only have to add that functionality to the panel, you also reduce the yield in order to power it.

Are people willing to do that? Are there better ways to contribute?

When designing plant guilds in this way, these are the common ecological functions plants contribute to:

- nitrogen fixer

- deep-tap root dynamic accumulator (roots bring up nutrients below most other plant’s root zones and makes it bioavailable at the surface)

- pollinator attractor (usually flowers)

- aromatic confusers (part of integrated pest management strategies)

- sentinels (helps control plants that spread, or protect fragile plants from animals)

- animal and insect habitats

Then there are keystone species that have so many contributions, the local ecology would fall apart without it. An example is a baynan, from the fig family. These are actually a parasite that takes over a host tree with invasive roots, but they are also keystone species that contributes so much that no one wants to get rid of them.

In contrast, I don’t think anyone designs solar panels like this. So it yields something with minimal participation in the ecosystem. Humans want it for the electricity, but it may as well be an invasive species that just extracts resources without really giving anything back.
> Other self-taught narratives, such as starting with Wordpress-based design backgrounds and moving from more simple themes to more complex themes where PHP knowledge is required, to plugin development is a completely valid narrative, but a path that is predominately for women.

Despite all the introspective self-flagellation, I'd say the author still has a ways to go if they believe that any path or another is, "predominantly for women."
Chinese Wikipedia used to be like that until a WMF intervention happened -- over off-site canvassing and doxxing. Now important decisions like admin elections go in a special secret ballot system.

Not sure what's happening with the more usual discussions. Too tired to keep up with whatever's happening there.
At that point, you might as well just start with Python.
Centralization or Federation
It was actually invented for this.

Open source radiation transport Monte Carlo code here if you'd like to play around:

https://github.com/openmc-dev/openmc
Author generally doesn't seem to understand the difference between criticizing a language, and criticizing its developers.

Don't criticize people, criticize concepts.
In every office I worked at, more than 20% were drunk at 2 PM. I would say it was more like 35%.

I don't like being around people on hard drugs, especially at work, so not having to deal with that is a huge plus!
There are even older known D20 dice, e.g. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551072
How does either of those things make it like a business or chasing profit?
If a treatment in a placebo controlled study shows a vast improvement over placebo, the studies are sometimes finished early and are considered 'unethical to continue'.

e.g. HAART for HIV/AIDS.
what is it with “security” people and these scare facts?

it isn’t enough to point to real events, they’ve got to produce stuff that rivals the most hyperbolic gartner report ever.
Please, let's move away from red and green as "good"/"bad" colors. It's hard to tell the difference for colorblind folks, especially when the symbols used are quite similar.
S and X are older. I wonder if they’re preparing for a new model or maybe retooling factories?
Fairly sure that's an example of the belief she did spread in the past, not something she believes now (as in as of the time of writing the article).
Project manager says next week
No kidding. But it’s been 8 years, good odds they’ve continued to grow in that time.
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I'm pretty sure GDPR says nothing about cookies that are needed for the site to work, such as session cookies when you're logged in, or cookies to hold settings you set. Am I wrong?
Declining on this form sends me to the / root page. Weird.
My first language was VB Script and ASP classic, didn't hurt me. Looking back it's pretty horrendous, but then so was my code.

VB.Net lets an amateur achieve something quickly, with a UI! In my oppinion the most important thing a first language needs is very easy and quick UI tools. Prior to ASP/VB(script) I could code html, so it was super quick to get something on screen.

Are there flaws with VB, yes, but it's almost the perfect first "proper" language.
Lebesgue measure [0]. I never did write part 2 and many years have gone by with that blog languishing unmaintained on free wordpress but I wrote a thing that goes through the issues around this [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_measure

[1] https://omnicognate.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/sigma-algebras-...
I use amazon polly, I think it's cheap?

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/

I pay less than $1 per month.
It can also come from rules that are enforced by a group of individuals
It looks like these works are prints that have been crumpled and/or torn, then photographed? Some of these are very neat
Yes. All of mine are custom written with Lit, which is pretty close to bare metal web components and definitely not a framework.

Sometimes it's annoying to have to invent standard stuff, like specialized controls for routing or permissions, but the huge advantage is that all of that code works exactly and only as I want it to. I'm not bound by anyone's framework design or ideas about components.

Just FYI, these apps support video game development at a commercial studio. I wrote both the front end website with digital asset trading for players, and the back end portal administration tool in my custom framework environment.
So your argument is that consciousness is hard to define but Google may have something that resembles a conscious machine?

It's not about being an ahole. I agree with you that communication is hard and imprecise but that should not stop us from trying to be more precise in the right context.
Exception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash
You are high in Big Five trait Openness, but probably pretty low in Conscienciousness.

I'm similar. One of the tricks is to focus on making something beautiful/complete as the goal. Similarly, you need to break down big grand ideas by ordering them more. (Creativity is somewhat impulsive and chaotic, work is the opposite). Split grand project goals into smaller jobs, reward and celebrate when you complete them.
Near-Earth Asteroids as of May 2023
imo, he knew what he was doing was illegal, but didn't think it was wrong.
A former pilot on why autonomous vehicles are so risky
I'm frustrated that people are talking to me as if I want to discuss the complexity of things, when I thought I made it quite clear in multiple comments in this thread that that is not what I'm talking about at all.

When you are arguing, or even discussing, with someone it's an asshole behavior to tell them "what you are discussing has no foundation, or is irrelevant to me, so I'm going to discuss this other thing instead." Maybe just politely opt out of the argument at all with an "I disagree".

This is the point I've been making. An asshole, or at least childish, way of arguing is to respond to someone who said "this thing is most complex", with "well I disagree, because two of this thing is more complex than just one of that thing". It's like a kid saying "infinity plus one" to one-up the other kid.

One can have a philosophical conversation of the salience of various perspectives without telling the other person "your perspective is unimportant compared to mine, because it doesn't meet my personal threshold of salience". Yes, no duh, people do not find the same perspectives salient. If you're talking about policy, then salience can be ranked, if you're talking about personal opinion, then salience can't be ranked.

You have this kind of philosophical discussion, politely, by acknowledging the other person's point and indicating that you want to talk about something adjacent. Not by telling the other person they're overlooking your point (and in the very act of saying that demonstrating that you are overlooking their point.
Having a (single) source of truth* has to end like this.

Why?
Oh man. I worked with a lot of local and state governmental officials at my last job and some of the websites are bonkers.

I've also done fact checking for academic publishers on topics that required deep diving into a lot of non-Western governmental resources and the web design (where there was a web presence) could get really interesting. I highly recommend going to peruse the websites of governmental entities in countries you don't ever think of - you see some weird/cool stuff.
It's because vicuna is fine-tuned on chatGPT answers. LLaMa will not do this, but LLaMa-based models fine tuned with chatGPT answers will.
Yet another people denying React Hooks has won...
ironic that 'security' magazine requires breaching your privacy and tracking you for them to allow you to use the site
I thought it would be more. A human doesn't visit anywhere near 10 different webpages a second, a bot can. A human isn't uploading and downloading data 24/7, a bot is. A human doesn't make a new post a minute, every minute, a bot does.