skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. This is about as meritocratic as it gets.

A person, the professor, who put in the work to learn an advanced subject with the potential to advance society, evaluated two others who also put in the effort to push the boundaries of knowledge and engineering.

Together, they wanted to bet on being able to develop something with a ton of utility. And they did.

There is an argument for insufficient social safety nets or excessive wealth/income gaps due to insufficient wealth/income/property/estate tax, but this example is not evidence of an unfair system.
+1 to connecting with other founders. Also tried coaching and it can’t quite compare to having casual conversations with others in the trenches
Open source intelligence? What’s the link, are you speculating that it might be insecure or something?
Another one I constantly wish for: search for numbers between a range
Harvey OS has been retired
Love this response. The Val Town article was balanced, but your reply to it was too. Well done.
@NoMoreNicksLeft, the other responses cvan be ignored for now.. Consolidating things into one message, I say this: I find your answers very interesting, if anything because to me they seem completely irrational. That is just to say I do not understand why you are saying what you are, nor am I even really aware of _any_ examples that would adequately back it up. That is my perspective so far (not up for debate, it is a statement of my perception).

> "We're not coming for your X!" is the lead-in

What exactly are you afraid would be that X? We are talking about restricting a quarter mile, a single downtown square block from vehicle traffic and letting people walk in the streets. Is that X possible "your car", and do you plausibly think that allowing a few sections of downtown road become pedestrian zones would then lead to your car being seized from you somehow? Serious question. Can you walk through how that would happen step by step?

> I did speak for myself. I explained why this doesn't work for me, why I have no interest in it, and how there are millions of other people who will agree with me unless you find a way to deceive them.

(A) this is a contradictory statement as you are already assuming there are millions that agree with you. (B) You stated that "literally the rest of us", which also is speaking for a lot people other than yourself.

Where my issue is really with this statement is the complete 'othering' aspect. Are you sure that everyone that disagrees with you is either stupid or has been deceived? Every single one of them? And in no case does that describe any of your points of view? (As an aside, I do often wonder what things I think about others actually do also apply to myself. I think it's a healthy exercise). As far as the hacker new commentary guidelines, we are to explore the reasons for disagreement. So far you've called anyone that has disagreed with you as simply stupid. This strikes me as both arrogant and narrow minded. Perhaps you are simply unaware of things that make other people think otherwise.

I'll end with mentioning that admins have banned this thread. I'm not the only one that thinks you're not in the spirit of hacker news. I regret a bit that I don't actually understand how you've explained the way you feel, and it is a perspective I would like to learn more about.
That's impossible, even for a computer.
> Then there are problems specific to Apple's IoT stack - like how it's impossible to set an RGB capable light to a ~specific~ white color temperature. Instead you get a shade picker and you have to guess what the color temperature is.

That's a problem with the atrociously, comically, terribly badly designed Home app, not with HomeKit itself. If it weren't for the "Controller for HomeKit" app, I would have given up on HK long ago. Controller lets you pick/assign a color temp directly.

I've been very happy with the combination of HK, Controller app, and Homebridge for integrating non-HK devices. Controller is worth it just for its ability to back up and restore your HK configuration and makes replacing devices a tolerable experience. It has tons of other features besides.

https://controllerforhomekit.com/
They look at you as a process. Paying you more is like disturbing the process. Better keep the process running without touching it. They can always offer you more if you decide to look for a job elsewhere.
A lot of these comments are like "C is hard if you don't know C and it scares you".

Not to mention kernel mode doesn't want a gigantic library package manager to pull in leftpad() from the internet. As mentioned, the kernel libraries on FreeBSD have a qsort, but they didn't in the original commit from 3 decades ago or whatever.
Nerd writer made an eloquent video that discusses this theme. It’s called “The Real Danger of ChatGPT”: https://youtu.be/AAwbvGywdOc
While I am not saying that this drug is definitely safe, I think the fact that Fen-phen turned out to be more dangerous doesn't really implicate these new drugs because while the desired outcome is the same, the class and type of drugs seem to be entirely different. My understanding is that fen-phen is a stimulant and increased blood pressure and heart rate. It also includes some other drugs that affect serotonin levels.

These new drugs are peptide analogs that affect your body's digestion and how it deals with sugar and fat production and insulin.
The majority of those risky loans are for cars much nicer than the absolute minimum. A significant percentage of the population is going to live above their means, even if making millions end up in significant debt.
I’m completely uninterested in having that debate so will cede the floor to someone more knowledgeable.

If you still think, in 2023, that humans can skate by with no consequences from relentless exposure to the by-products of fossil fuel combustion, I’d invite you to crack a book.
The power of the IA is deleting things that should not be remembered, not altering copies.
Yes, within downtown Boston you're generally better off walking than taking short subway connections. Walk from Park Street to Government Center or any of the other short connections in that general area.
This is wrong especially for programming where a program can execute a program. GPT-x will learn by itself from programming. No data training will be needed.
Glad to see this back on the market from HP. I miss my 11c and ill probably get this one. After supporting me through high-school, college, and a few jobs - my father asked to borrow mine, then proceeded to back over his briefcase with his car. :(
That's funny, I actually came here to complain about that. I find it visually distracting and there was no obvious way to dismiss it, so I had to use a content blocker.
Moving to a walkable area is life changing. Yeah, if you just sell your car and continue to live in the same spot, it’s going to make life hard. But if you live in an area that isn’t car dependant, suddenly everything is more convenient and nicer than you thought possible.

I think having everyone out of their cars and on the street walking also does wonders for feelings of safety and community. Isolation in metal boxes is just bad for people.
Rocko's Basilisk will thank you.
Interesting, thanks for that. I always liked the service (especially for DRM free titles from very small artists) but wasn’t sure how they could make money given how many artists were on the service.
I yearn of the day when I'll have time to make RPN games
My two 20+ year old 15Cs still work great, so I'll pass for the moment, but it's encouraging to read that the new licensee has fixed all known bugs from the last re-release[1] and produced an updated manual[2] that documents both changes from the original and "bug-compatible" behavior inherited from the original.

[1] https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-19886-post-172018.html...

[2] https://www.thecalculatorstore.com/WebRoot/StoreES3/Shops/eb...
Even better for AI, then, if the supreme court was divided on whether such a small change is a valid use even with similarity assumed.
Nuclear waste powered battery lasts thousands of years
'pv' is great, but you need to have the foresight to use it in your command before you run it. 'progress' seems great for those cases where you didn't realize your job was going to take so long, and you don't want to start it all over again.
I think your argument is effectively "Colin's time could be better spent". That might be true, but consider that:

1. He was already profiling the system, which is almost certainly where the bulk of his eng costs are

2. This is one piece of a larger optimization story, he has made many many changes to significantly improve performance

3. This is a trivial change

4. 500 Firecracker executions is nothing - FaaS targets 10s of thousands of executions per second

Given (1) and (3) in particular the only sensible thing Colin could do other than fix this is ignore it, which seems insane.
I heard Mounjaro is even more effective than Semaglutide.
I’ve always assumed the major browsers had all sorts of security stuff going on behind the scenes, and using a small alternative like this (or suckless surf) was just asking for trouble. But, I don’t have any real knowledge about security stuff.

How misinformed is my take? Are these kinds of browsers OK? I’d like something light, if possible.
This is a great idea. It would be interesting if Google had historical view of towns so in 50+ years I could see what it looked like when I was a kid.
I use to build my own like this with the VB web browser control. I had tons of automation built in for a lot of tasks but it becomes too much to keep up with. I've looked into headless chrome but it's not as cool as working in the Visual Studio and being able to pause and just develop on the fly.

Honestly it was incredibly cool but websites just get more and more complicated. From like 2004 to maybe 2014-2016 it was great. Somewhere after that, I'm not sure, something changed, maybe me, but it just became too much.
Guess i just don't think your comment has as much relevance as you think it does. Remove the "with ai" and nothing actually changes.

"Please try to make an original movie that meets the standard of The Godfather, without AI" and lets see how well that goes.

Is the human that fails this task also missing the "human element" ?
Maybe a muon or electron or some type of particle beam weapon may be a better idea. Although maybe the wave vs particle spookiness may rear its head and a Faraday cage may stop one of those things too.
WebKit and Webengine. And the versions of these renderers that this and similar projects like qutebrowser use are just too full of bugs to be a main browser. That’s why I don’t use them, although I would really love to.
The Amgen vs. Sanofi Decision and Bite-Sized Monopolies
Always great to hear that people enjoy it :) I believe that this API uses the same up-to-date tiles as Google Earth VR and the 3D view in Google Maps. I saw some complaints on Twitter saying that maybe the last and highest level of detail is not available in the API but I haven't verified that myself. I don't currently work at Google and have no insider information.
If you don't have any luggage or other encumbrances, it's a short walk. Follow the Google Maps directions

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Revere+Beach,+Revere,+MA+021...
on my machine TPM is checking state of machine for security reasons, so if this runs ANYWAY then why not use that for one more useful thing ... ( it runs before even machine thinks about booting anything )

you can define shutdown flag for hardware change: shutdown -rF XD,

some things are hot swappable and for that there has to be logic (in kernel) to know you have new hardware...

if you have total hardware failure that can be detected too, on next boot...
I agree in part, but the statement "Companies in Uber's cohort have just never been sustainable at all." is just not true. It's some sort of myth that Uber only ever worked by subsidizing rides with VC funding. But that's just not true from the analysis I've seen, before covid, Uber was profitable in their main markets like SF and NYC. Covid changed things but around they same time, they went public and stopped getting VC funding.

Here's their financial report plus an AI to chat with https://docalysis.com/files/5472910746
Yes, Firecracker supports snapshotting for that reason. But you still have the famous "cold start" lag. Not to mention that, for some use cases, you'll potentially want to add restarts for security reasons (Firecracker is designed to be able to execute malicious code).
Wim Wenders: cinema today ‘makes me nauseous’
Gah! I was just looking at this code last night because RTEMS borrows parts of the FreeBSD codebase for drivers and networking. The sorting happens in mi_startup, in case anyone wants to look.
Why would you trust the key if it was generated on the device? Anyone could generate a key. You would either need a centralized server to sign that key, in which case you have to trust a centralized company / government agency.
VB webbrowser control. I'm pretty sure you could do anything imaginable.
For those wondering whether this is a new browser engine, the FAQ says:

"Nyxt is web engine agnostic. We utilize a minimal API to interface to any web engine. This makes us flexible and resilient to changes in the web landscape. Currently, we support WebKit and WebEngine (experimental (Blink))."

tl;dr; no. It's just another browser UI, albeit a very different one.
There is a time slider in Street View today https://blog.google/products/maps/go-back-in-time-with-stree...

I think in Google Earth desktop there is (was?) a time slider for aerial imagery as well.
Neat! We made a synthetic patient generation prototype a few years ago: https://pau.treenotation.org/synth/

The challenge at the time was generating realistic correlations between the columns. How do you approach this?

I noticed LLMs are a huge breakthrough here with the downside that they currently rely on massive online models. I wonder if someone could train a tiny model that could fit on a local machine specifically to solve the synthetic data problem.
Thank God for tactile feedback!
The reminds me of a crypto version of the DIWhy subreddit.
So I've ranted about this in various places on the internet...

Some recent HN comments of mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541173

I am 100% down for building this, open source, if I had a team to help me see it through as it's just too much for one person.

Do you have any dev experience / interest in helping create such a thing?
I’m bought in to this approach after using Hotwire, but I’m concerned that all the competing implementations are going to undermine adoption. Maybe we should all just use htmx and call it a day.
You are aware that Berkeley isn’t the only college in the US right?

Saying a 20-something college student is among the “very few” is just silly.
There's not much to it --- made a bad life decision, had some follow-on bad luck, falling out with family, and was fortunate to have support of some friends and to land the two jobs.

As noted, dandelions are bitter in taste, and this can be mitigated by blanching them --- putting them under a heavy stone is one way to do this, or one can dip them in boiling water briefly. It also softens them a bit.
Microwave covers a huge range 300 MHz to 300 GHz and they want something that will work in the rain or fog which means minimizing absorption by water as much as possible.
Advent of Code vs. Leetcode
WTF Happened in 2007?
There might very well be! But your last sentence for me only makes sense if the mediocre person is rewarded which is honestly not a thing. Since if the mediocre developer was rewarded they wouldn't end up being like me.
Based on the report, it’s just a thin trail of small prills spread over hundreds of miles of rails
This only works because you're allowing backgrounded processes to write to the terminal (stty -tostop).

Try stty tostop

kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ stty -tostop
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null &
[1] 14604
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ kill -USR1 %1
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ 1142200+0 records in
1142200+0 records out
584806400 bytes (585 MB, 558 MiB) copied, 2.62053 s, 223 MB/s

kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ kill -USR1 %1
2054884+0 records in
2054883+0 records out
1052100096 bytes (1.1 GB, 1003 MiB) copied, 4.70066 s, 224 MB/s
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ stty tostop
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ kill -USR1 %1
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ kill -USR1 %1

[1]+ Stopped dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$ kill -USR1 %1

[1]+ Stopped dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
kaz@sun-go:~/txr$
> A: When the C programmer used a linked list or some O(n^2) algorithm because they didn't have a standard library full of easy to use well implemented data structures and algorithms.

I don't think so, regarding the linked list. In almost every case you'll end up with at least as much pointer indirection in Python. But yeah, if you have enough data that complexity starts mattering a worse algorithm will cause more problems.
One-handed clocks were once a thing. Benj. Franklin made one that rotated once every 4 hours. You probably know the time to within 4 hours, and so one hand was enough.

Anyone remember "Swatch Internet Time"?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
May 18 Replit Downtime
Things don't seem better for Assange or Snowden, unfortunately.
There is a lot more going on here.

The first issue is actually downloading the dependencies, doing this manually quickly becomes infeasible for any non-trivial project.

The second issue is keeping everything updated, and making sure that all packages are compatible with all other packages. Doing this manually is also not easy.

With C specifically, you need to wrangle different build systems, and once you have them built and "installed", you need to figure out which linker and compiler flags are needed to consume the libraries.

If you are working on a small project with maybe a few dependencies you can do this by hand, but when you get to say, 15 dependencies, it quickly becomes very difficult.

You can use the system package manager on some systems to install libraries I guess (assuming it has the packages and versions that you need), in this case manually managing things could be a lot easier, but you still should be using pkg-config for portability purposes.
You're right on the ease of porting code. It's a shame that so much has been made over the years, and well, and seems to just disappear into the ether.
everywhere else in the EU also signed it, and the corporate tax rate wasn't even the lowest in the EU already. (Bulgaria was lower, and another eurozone country was tied)
> there’s a lot of false positives when deployed in real scenarios, one trial we tried near an airport, the system we tested caught a lot of birds as drones

Those weren’t false positives.

https://birdsarentreal.com/
Love my 12c. RPN for the win.
Containers are inappropriate for many workloads, such as any workload that relies on multitenancy.
Another thing that TS does nicely is object handling in general: dot access for objects attributes, object destructuring, typed objects for function options. In most ML projects I see a bunch of functions that look like:

def my_fn(x, **kwargs):
...
return y_1, y_2, y_3

Which is a pain because kwargs could be anything really + now every call site has to expect 3 return values exactly while knowing their order; there's no way of adding an extra return value without changing everyone. In typescript the same function could look like:

function myFn(x, options = { someOption: 1 }) {
...
return { y_1, y_2, y_3 };
}

Which is so much nicer because everything is typed with all types inferred automatically! And you don't burden the call sites with values they don't need:

const { y_1 } = myFn(x, { someOption: 1 });

In Python, everyone mostly passes unbundled arguments through every function, and changing anything involves threading these untyped arguments through a bunch of untyped call sites, its not the end of the world but we can do better...
TFA says the mall has bathrooms on the second floor. The elevators are simply closer to the street.

If somebody chooses to shit in an elevator, that’s on them.
https://catonmat.net/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer

is a related tool.
If you're going to pay for AWS, might as well use Oracle's free tier. It is extremely generous. And you have to specifically change a setting to leave the free tier; So you it's not that easy to get accidentally billed for a misconfig.

Yes, yes...I know..."ORACLE"!? choking sounds But at this point, they're no worse a company than Amazon. I've been very happy with their free tier for my home use. There's a bit of learning curve...just like AWS, but they give you a ton of free stuff, including training.
I didn't realize it misspelled the solution to level 8, and so I spent a few extra hours finding a second valid attack prompt. I am only annoyed with myself for not realizing. I enjoyed the difficulty increase in level 8. I tried using the final prompt, in a new session, for levels 1 through 7 and the response was occasionally filtered. I wonder what the temperature is and what kind of sampling is happening. It seems to be based on GPT3.5, it asserted that GPT4 is not public yet.
Not really. Adding a regional ownership test de facto violates the Commerce Clause in the Constitution.
We don't just work more, we spend rest hours that we are not working think about the work. In short, we never stop working.
How is it easier? I can do Doomsday in about 5 seconds for any year AD 1800 - 2200
I use dvorak but I'm not sure I really "touch type", I can type without looking, but I don't really do the home row thing and I potentially don't even use the right(correct) hand for some keys.
Probably more aptly named 'Venture Dumping' because 'dumping' would be a bit more like the classical term but that just doesn't have the right 'ring' to it.
New addictions post bariatric surgery is fairly common. Gambling for instance [1] replaces food.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332884264_Gambling_...
Icelandic people barely work as it is. I can't imagine them on a 4 day work week. Asia is going to wipe the floor with the west if we get soft.
Bluesky User FAQ
I commented here [0] and am extremely interested in discussing BrowserBox with you. This is something I've brought up over and over, I'm an experienced web dev and generalist but simply couldn't tackle on my own.

Curious about your roadmap with dosyago and BrowserBox, where our goals converge and diverge and how we can help each other. Feel free to reach out via email, it's in my bio.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36008340
I've been thinking about using a tunnel like this to host a retro computing website. My idea was to run OpenBSD i386 on an AMD K6-III (1999) host, then use the built-in webserver httpd(8) to render and serve a static site. The machine would be tunneled via Wireguard to a VPS, and the VPS could optionally terminate the TLS (and transmit plain HTTP over WG) to free up some CPU cycles. :)
What do you mean by that? Like in the industrial / manufacturing age where people manually did the same thing over and over? Where people were physically exhausted but not mentally?
Definitely my favorite programmable HP calculator — fully loaded with development tools, it's essentially a quirky handheld Lisp machine.

While the 15C is my "daily driver", my dream HP calculator is a 50G with an OLED display, styled to resemble the 48G[X].
For years now, I've been finding Kaku's writing style (and speaking engagements) really sub par. Too, bad... because he had the potential to say and write so much more interestingly, I thought. His stuff is ... borderline ... condescending?