skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these kinds of questions have to do with feasibility, where the question asker doesn't have all the context needed to:

1) Decide: is this worth it for the business? NOW?

2) Delegate: ok, we've decided it's worth it NOW. Who is best equipped to execute?

So, that's not a "bad question."

Most of the time, saying "no" also comes with helping the requester de-scope to meet the crux of their obligations, save face on any commitments they won't be able to meet.

Saying "yes" means figuring out what the work will displace.

A significant part of my job as a staff infrastructure engineer was carrying this kind context between planning rituals with various time horizons, ranging from weekly to quarterly to annually.

Occasionally I would drop down into execution mode myself to knock out something particularly gnarly, or set up some pins for someone else to knock down (e.g. promo season).
I had the same result. This is the best photo/description I could find: https://www.hackster.io/news/sqfmi-s-franky-gets-a-blackberr... .
To your point, I wish there were diagrams "we'd" all use to illustrate any issue with complicated interwoven relationships that put the complexity into at least some degree of comparability. Ideally you'd be able to see how some relative amount of funding needs to support some physical effort required and in the context of some degree of regulatory scope.

A simple example is the two-factor, two-axis diminishing returns line graph. As cost goes up, returns decrease and we can point to a spot and discuss it.

I wish I could give you a good intuitive example of a far more complex (more factors), but if this were easy we'd all be doing it and we'd all be seeing such diagrams more frequently. So in the absence of simple and nuanced illustrations, we have lists and we necessarily fall back on language and our own biases like we do here. (Just humans being human, no judgement.)

One possibility I can imagine is a table with solutions on one axis and influencing dimensions on another. e.g., One axis is tech, funding, regulatory, etc. and the other is proposed solutions. In the table, the cross referenced cell might contain a number showing how much of some environmental dimension is needed for a given solution.

This example is crude at best because clearly we can debate what the cross-reference values assigned are, and whether or not they're correct, and even whether or not a dimension should be broken down further, but this technique's shortcomings are a compromise–the price paid for attempting to communicate the holistic understanding of an issue. One hopes that price is worth paying for greater appreciation of the issue's systemic complexities, and enabling others to see and evaluate factors they might not otherwise consider.
Pretty cool landing page, listen to the audio at the top of the page which gives a high level explanation and demonstrates the method
How to Best Organize Information?
Let's say there's three subjects A, B and C with relationships between each other: AB, BA, AC, CA, BC, CB.

Let's say the information is as follows

A feeds B

B brings joy to A

A cleans C

C annoys A

B uses C

C is used by B

I'm imagining A as a person, B as a cat, and C as the litter.

How to best organize this information for a prompt with a LLM? Would this order be better?

A feeds B

B uses C

C annoys A

A cleans C

C is used by B

B brings joy to A

Thank you,

kovek
> E-paper keeps its content without power

You're thinking of e-ink. e-paper has always been used to describe this type of low power LCD screen. I first came across the terminology with the Pebble watches.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35955089 for those who want to read it or the discussion.
Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare
How do I file an opposition? Oppositions against EU trade mark applications have to be filed in writing within a period of 3 months following the publication of the EU trade mark application in the EU Trade Marks Bulletin. For your convenience, oppositions can also be filed using the online form.

https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/opposition#:~:text=How....

Someone should really use ChatGPT to write an opposition letter and submit for the lols
Estimating the Impact of Tweets on Open Source Project Popularity (2022) [pdf]
Man, I've tried to write POSIX-compatible scripts for a long time - twice as long as I'd probably have taken using bash features (using Python I'd probably have taken 1/10th of the time and it'd be way more maintainable now).
The first version I heard went through a long diatribe on how “the US” (implying NASA) spent a long time and a million dollars creating a pen that would work in space and the punchline was “Well, the Soviets just used a pencil”.

Glad to see that this version has been losing ground to better retellings. If you check the Wiki article[1], the urban legend is mentioned

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen
Degrowth has occurred multiple times in human history so far.

Unending limitless growth has not.
You're right, I was not factoring in the effiency of the generation process. 100 W is definitely moderate or higher for most people.

This was the first time I had seen a cycle desk and I find the idea really interesting.

Having done a little more reading on the subject, my sense is that you may have a better handle on the ergonomics than the existing cycle desks on the market. It seems like most people are using cycle desks to do a pretty limited amount and type of work while doing a short workout, whereas you are using it for a long time each day, which I imagine means you can do most types of work comfortably.

If that's true, and it's true for a sizeable number of people, not just you, I think that's what I would focus on.

Are the other people for whom you've built one able to use it as much as you?
Open Source Game Engine for Turn-Based Games
Theres 2 ex pinkertons in upper management I doubt that will fly.
I bet Amazon's lobbying to neuter the USPS through statute and regulation, thus creating a market need through brute force.

Then they can just stand up a personal mail service that "values your privacy" and offers next-day mail delivery using their network of delivery trucks.
Looks like Scholar Turbo has GPT-4 and Chatpdf is still on the waitlist. But yeah, these chat-with-your-doc webapps are popping up out of the woodwork.
Money? Power? Ego? He is entirely capable of making his own decisions.
> For example, in the sentence "The cat, which is black, sat on the mat," the words "cat" and "black" would get high scores when trying to understand the word "black" because they are closely related.

So what does that actually mean in terms of looking at new text? How does it know the relationships? Does it have to be bootstrapped on labeled data for a specific language up front?

Is that something done in the training process - providing example sentences and illustrating the connections between words - or is that earlier?
Yes 5x9s is possible. No, governments and utilities services do not keep 5x9s.
A hundred years ago the mail carrier couldn’t produce a list of every person that has ever sent a piece of mail to me.
It costs you twice: Once to pay for the testing, and again for the moat that the testing provides.
Has anyone ever looked into if pinball can be used in the same way that Tetris can for PTSD? Several friends with (C)PTSD love to play pinball, so I wondered if the research supports the whole eye-movement desensitization aspect that Tetris has for trauma patients.
Sri Lankans are immigrating for money and opportunity, not for a happy social life.

People who seek happy social life tend to not immigrate to America, or often return back.
Anything electrical can cause interference. The cost of certification is proving that it doesn't. There's also other factors, like what happens if cabin pressure suddenly drops? Will its heating mechanism overheat and start a fire? Will it explode killing the pilot then the plane comes crashing down on an orphanage?
I work for IMSLP.

I am working on adding new scores, but in many cases these old things are either the only editions published or the only editions we can take.

IMSLP accepts urtext editions over 25 years old. We have a good amount of these from series for the most famous composers (e.g., Mozart, Bach...) but these are only a minority of the collection. We of course would like to add more.

Otherwise, for "original" editorial editions, as well as arrangements, etc., we take them so long as the contributors of original creative contributors died in 1971 or earlier, or, as the case may be with amateur editions, with permission (note: we actually do have a significant number of quite good editions/arrangements contributed with permission, but we have a lot of files on the site overall).

The other thing is, since we draw from many existing digitizations (such as national libraries), and most of their digitized documents are quite old.

If you have any particular requests, please add them to the wishlist: https://imslp.org/wiki/Wishlist

Anyway, we are not really like Wikipedia, since we have a great deal of those primary sources on our site (incl. many autograph mss., as well as historical editions), and we're fundamentally more a collection of sources than a synthesis of them like WP. But we are certainly not a complete collection of sources, by any means (for both practical and legal reasons).
Anti-spinward
Title inflation isn't specific to tech. Look at the banking industry, pretty much everyone is a VP or SVP of something.
Tell HN: The next generation of videogames will be great with midjourney
1. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abor...

2. https://money.com/harder-for-millennials-get-good-job/

3. I see Confederate and Blue Lives Matter flags and signs everywhere, today, in every rural community I visit. That is push-back against Black Lives Matter, which is a movement rooted in wanting black people not to be disproportionately killed by police. Luckily, the Blue Lives Matter crap is becoming less and less socially acceptable, but it's still there, still reminding vulnerable and historically oppressed people that their lives are less valuable.

4. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/17/arts/john-oliver-call... https://archive.is/m2RCb https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rig... https://archive.is/MFlGk https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-24/U-S-exploitation-of-im... https://www.womenslaw.org/about-abuse/abuse-specific-communi...

Oh hey look, facts
There's a bunch of compatibly reasons why this helps maintain portability across Unixes. But my favorite reasons for this are how much nicer it makes managing & switching between Linux images:

> The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor-supplied operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network sharing or running multiple guests on one host. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...

And indeed, with systemd one can boot a whole system from practically any unpopulated root mount with a /usr image mounted on it.

Want to OS upgrade? Swap /usr & try it. /etc and /home and the other directories might have instance specific content, but the OS image is nicely set away & swappable in /usr. And one should be able to keep the same "instance" while swapping the image. It containerizes the OS image, separate-ish from the OS instancd, whereas before the OS was somewhat amorphously sprawled across multiple top level directories. It's a huge boon to manageability.
"It is worth noting that Russia's designation of the Kinzhal as a 'hypersonic' missile is somewhat misleading, as nearly all ballistic missiles reach hypersonic speeds (i.e. above Mach 5) at some point during their flight," CSIS wrote on its website, describing the missile.
First off - this thing was designed to be a fun hacker toy, not a real product. Buyer beware!

Plan for power management is pretty simple - trim as much fat from OS startup sequence as possible to get boot-times down to ~5s, eg https://github.com/IronOxidizer/instant-pi. Then turn the Pi off as much as possible. Write to screen, turn off Pi. Set timers on rp2040 to turn Pi on periodically.

With the 2000mAh battery, if the plan works, it should run for a while.
sounds like an awesome company for its time!
I read a book called “Lost Connections” which pretty much solidified my belief that most depressions are actually a reaction to something that a person doesn’t feel right about in their life, and is not making any effort to change, because they might not even be aware.
And thank god. If Microsoft hadn't done all the work of building an easily-copied raster graphics API, we wouldn't be so lucky as to preserve them all on Linux. Want to play Diablo 2? You can't, at least on Windows anyways. It's broken by default, and getting it working entails a variety of full-screen, low-res hacks. Want to play the Fallout games without their infamous windowing issues? Not an option, even on Windows 11.

With Wine, all of these functions can be mapped to their modern counterpart. Tray icons and fullscreen behavior can be updated to work as they should in x11, Quartz and Wayland. Breakage can be worked around in the same way Microsoft does with registries, but by the community. The end result is good enough that entire portions of Microsoft's customer base could just move over to Wine without knowing what happened.

Honestly, the best thing Microsoft could do right now is turn DirectX into a useless Metal-style API, and send the game devs running back to Vulkan. Would certainly make porting to multiple consoles easier.
I read the same thing somewhere on here many years ago.

The concept of war and killing was "more normal" during those times than it is now and the alternative to war still wasn't sunshine and rainbows for most.

I think what I also read was from the side of the wives. Deaths due to war were much more normalised and were a higher occurrence, therefore there were better support networks of wives whose husbands had been killed in battle.
Ask HN: Do you use a cloud dev environment?
In the 2010s, I knew lots of start-ups that tried to create web IDEs and never got traction because developers are fanatics about their tools, but more recent efforts have been done by large companies (GitHub, Google, etc...).

- Do you think success in the space is due to the ubiquity of Monaco (Visual Studio Code)?
- Do you think these environments are best kept for fly-by contributions (e.g. loading up GitHub Codespaces on a repo and firing off a PR to a project you'll never contribute to again)?
- Do your projects have these environments to encourage first-time contributors?
- Do you personally use these environments for long term development?

This post is coming off sounding market researchy, but I promise you that I have no association with any of these products/projects. I've used a terminal-based editor (vim/neovim/helix) my entire career, so I feel detached from what others think about these technologies.
The anecdote usually isn't "a private company invested a million of their own dollars into making a 'space pen'", it's "NASA invested a million dollars into making a space pen, while the soviets just used a pencil".

And I mean, you clearly know that version isn't true. As you say, fisher only recouped $1k from NASA (I think was just the original order, I believe they're still used today), and the soviets also switched over to the pen (incidentally at the same price, $2.39/pen). You say "eventually", but the soviets only took a year to switch.

And while we're at it, NASA used pencils before the space pen just like the soviets did, which makes the "while the soviets did something else" part even less true.

> that marketing ploy may have saved the entire spacecraft - the law of unintended consequences

I'm reasonably confident that "avoiding flammable substances that tends to give off flammable flakes (graphite)" was an intended consequence, not an unintended one.
Someone who read the paper pointed out to me recently that there's an aspect to transformers/attention that uses the sin or cos function to determine which words to pay attention to or the spacing between them (I'm probably not expressing this correctly, so please correct me if I'm wrong). It seems really unintuitive that sin and/or cos would be a factor in human language - can you explain this?
Some people could die if they cant afford medical treatment because a digital fraud...
Yes, I had the same experience as you and had to not just read but play around with the MDN docs example to get it.

I still think the functional formatting is confusing. It makes sense, the pattern applies to every "A*n + B"th index (counting from the end) where n is every integer from 0..inf. But in my mind I'm just providing an offset and a step size/direction: (offset=B, step=A) or just (B A). I'd be interested to know why it's the way it is.
It's basically logical lottery scratch offs where they think somehow they'll benefit from it.

...that is when it's not a purely economic apartheid due to laws against inequality.
FYI, LilyPond hasn't been TeX-based in many years, though they still share some design principles.
You can, but that's a paper trail. It's harder to push people into doing something criminal over email and slack without being self incriminating
The federal reserve is not a regulator.
I think it's probably meant to show that they "care" about your privacy.
running it in your mind becomes quite a useful skill!
I love apps like this. There’s a world full of high quality software out there that is just waiting to be discovered.

Thanks for sharing.
If someone from the past arrived here I think this is one of the key areas they might be rightly downright horrified. Most of this world is at least somewhat orderly, blemished maybe but at least has some real point, facilitates things along. This is just a jarring & immediate bad zone, a notable sincere unpleasantness, that simply has no real reason to be so chaotic.
System wide font adjustment is "coming later this year"

> For users with low vision, Text Size is now easier to adjust across Mac apps such as Finder, Messages, Mail, Calendar, and Notes.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...
Ok, so I’d have this installed, and then Colima, and then vscode, all on my Mac. For the app I’m working on, I’d run it all in its own docker compose setup, I’d have the source code on my Mac (?), and the dev container would house all of the extensions and language servers and linters I need for this app, but in a separate container from my compose setup, and vs code would talk to it?
Discord charges more for essentially the same thing. Never understood why someone would pay for it when they still sell your data and now have your real info.
Montana becomes first state to ban TikTok after governor signs bill into law
We should also clarify that Sujay and I are part of the old old team :) The current team have been doing an awesome job since then!

(a bunch of the early MP folks work at Convex now)
If you think of Somerville as cheap, I guess it's been a while since you have been there.
For fun, I whipped a quick one using our platform at https://trypromptly.com/app/65573e71-c05b-4567-87e8-49688c82.... (Initial chunking of PDF takes a bit of time because of rate limits with my account)
Now that someone has convinced Americans that mail-in voter fraud is real, they would like to commit the actual fraud to retain power.
> The history of abuse of mail covers, as the lawmakers note, is a long one. A famous incident occurred in the 1970s, when a 15-year-old girl mistakenly wrote to the Socialist Workers Party—a communist organization strongly supportive of Cuba—while researching a school assignment involving the Socialist Labor Party. The teenager was thoroughly investigated by the FBI, which even sent an agent into her school.

Isn't information printed on mail cover (exterior of an mail) is something equivalent to meta data (in for example Email)? I bet if you write an email to people such as Edward Snowden or some other POIs, the FBI will be interested to record it, take a look and maybe even asking some questions as well. They are less likely to "thoroughly investigate" for just a single instance of course, but that's because the environment has changed, not because they have new rules say they shouldn't.

Plus, what's the worst that could happen if you didn't break any law? I often hear the story of people said something wrong online and got an FBI visit, and they ended up fine. Another example is a YouTube channel called Second Thought and one of his video costed him a DHS visit (see https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/133274617257067725...), his still rising on YouTube after the encounter. I bet the teenager was fine too after the investigation (???)
Managers? Define "managers."

We just saw multiple banks collapse with zero financial penalty for those who were in charge when it happened, even as they were collecting tens of millions in bonuses.

When your compensation is structured in such a way that you can be a monumental failure at your job and you STILL make hundreds of times more than the rank and file employee, then the system is broken.

This is an ownership class problem, not manager class. The owners and their lackeys are the ones approving and justifying these insane compensation packages even as companies lay people off.
There's a gentleman I follow on Twitter who run a bootcamp after chatgpt was unveiled https://twitter.com/mayowaoshin.

He had demo videos on how to build similar applications. From what I understand the first cohort was made up of people from all manner of professions, notably consulting, finance, academia, manufacturing etc.

I knew it was only a matter of time before we see clones offering this as a service. To put it mildly, some even went as far as copying his code verbatim and using it to launch such services without acknowledging his effort.

One major downside of releasing content and open source code is the handful of users who copy and paste for commercial use without giving credit.

All of a sudden there's a wave of "chat with pdf" youtube videos using my exact content, diagrams and images.

https://twitter.com/mayowaoshin/status/1650181657746370561
Perhaps, but as regulators step up it’s going to devalue things once people know coins from tainted chains are going to be harder to resell. That’s going to further increase the risk of using mixers since the people using them for ideological reasons are going to scale back their usage as it starts costing them money & adding risk.
If CO continues on their path, their fires will go out of control and spread to other states. If they had a way to contain their fires within their state I’d agree to let them burn it down if that’s what they want to do, but I don’t see how that isn’t a major problem for all their neighboring states. Even if their neighbors are smart and doing prescribes burns as they should, it doesn’t mean they can’t suffer massive losses from a huge out of control fire started in another state.
Also https://pdf.ai
Perhaps the word you're looking for is perseverance?
I don't have time to check either, maybe try StackOverflow
Willpower, Determinism, and the 4-minute mile of Fat Loss
Space Rooks
Mongolian warlords exclusively use NetBSD.
When you say "about managing someone's career" I can't help but feel you actually mean "someone's job". No manager is paid to care about an employee's career that I have ever seen or heard of.