skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people cannot see a doctor for weeks. So after that it's uc or er.
Not my field, but my understanding is it's called the Michelson Interferometer because he designed and built the first version a few years before the famous MM experiment for the purpose of measuring the speed of light. See the diagram on page 3 of his 1881 paper "The relative motion of the Earth and of the luminiferous ether" https://zenodo.org/record/1450060 (note this is before the collab with Morley)

Edit to add: I just noticed a fun thing in the conclusion of that paper "In conclusion, I take this opportunity to thank Mr. A. Graham Bell who has provided the means for carrying out this work..."
> Yes. They were copying what they thought were a previous student's answers to the same test.

It's fucking multiple choice. If they got correct answers, then their answers would be identical to previous student's correct answers, by definition.

If doing that is cheating, then only the first students to ever get those questions on a test could pass it.

There's some sort of widespread mental illness affecting a large percentage of the population, such that apparently so many of you see this as cheating.

You get that, right? If you learn the answers to questions that end up appearing on the test prior to the test commencing, and you put those answers down on the test because you have memorized them (you know them in other words), this can't ever be cheating. That's not what "cheating" means.
> because of you-know-what Canon released a webcam driver

What is this alluding to? Bingle are not helping.
I made nodb, a RESTFful API to store and fetch JSON
Hi, I made the API which helps you with your serverless applications. There's no installation of packages, you store JSON via HTTPS.

It works like this, you go to the dashboard on dash.nodb.sh and create apps and environments. Then via API you can create your JSON models.

An API endpoint is split like this
/{appName}/{envName}/your-model/:id/you-model/:id/...?token={accessToken}
This way you can split your data between environments like "dev" or "prod". And every environment is protected by an access token which is generated by nodb when you create a new environment in the dashboard. Only apps and environments have to be created in the dashboard behind bearer token, but your JSON models are protected by access token, so you can call HTTP requests easily from your code.

I would like someone to share their thoughts on this, whether this would be useful when working on any app, web or mobile, or inside cloud functions. In the docs on docs.nodb.sh is described everything (so far) about the API.
The people who pumped out the water need to thank the official that at least he made them do with a water pump. Because if he wanted he could have ordered them to drain the whole dam using buckets, and they would have to do it.

The sheer power the administration wields in a country like India is stuff of the legends. Dictators would envy at having a fraction of this sort of power. They are largely invisible, wield nearly unlimited power. With the stroke of a pen they can bring whole bridges into existence and have them vanish. There are industrialists who have committed suicide out of sheer torture subjected to them by the bureaucracy in India [1].

That is just the power and influence they wield. The money part is another thing that would blow the minds of anybody who isn't familiar with the Indian society. These days in as little as a decade, even the least ranking bureaucrat in the hierarchy can be worth up to $100 million. Their children are known to run think tanks and policy groups all set to shape policy decisions for decades to come.

At this much power and influence, you are pretty much like a king of princely state domain in India.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._G._Siddhartha

This letter detailed the unbearable pressure he was subjected to over the years and the harassment he faced under the "previous" Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) (referred to as DG in the letter).
With the wrong doctors it's downright dangerous to see a doctor.
CUDA. And tensor cores, but mostly CUDA.
“40 of the 96 students” caught cheating. No comment on the rest of the article but damn, that is an unbelievable number. If that is a representative amount of cheating for college, then it’s completely unrecognizable academic landscape from when I experienced it.
All of these are basic requirements. Yet they're available for use only after AWS specific proficiency. Why do I need an AWS setting to permit DB access when the DB had that feature already? I don't need the extra layer of complexity AWS puts on most things.

Tangent - Their docs are abysmal. Written like a novel which I'm meant to cross reference to their SDK.
Its still a structural template system, even if the output is a string
To be clear, I'm not advocating for it. But if people couldn't use the internet/communications to plan or communicate criminal activities, crime would reduce (to some degree, meaningful or not).
Well...

- I waited ~8 hours in an ER with my mother, who had horrible gut pain that turned out to be a ruptured appendix, before they finally took her in, with an urgent emergency referral from an urgent care center we visited earlier.

- I waited 2 hours in a specialist's office waiting room, and I arrived on time. No explanation...

- We waited about an hour and a half at the vet, in a room by ourselves with our dog. Again, we were on time, but they were apologetic when the vet finally came in.

These are the more extraordinary circumstances, but definitely not the only ones (especialy at the vet).
The Invisible Hand Restricting Bitcoin and Ether Price Swings
If a an engineering firm drew up plans for a building that didn't meet even the most basic structural standards, and then PEs signed/stamped those drawings... That would be grounds for people to lose licenses, companies to be majorly fined, and in the extreme case where injury was involved, criminal charges.

A lawyer just straight making up citations of case law, even if hallucinated by an AI assist tool, should have similar repercussions re: license to practice law.

There needs to be no leniency for people misusing 'well, the AI told me...' as a crutch for actual knowledge and expertise in a professional field.
"The lack of any scorch marks"

Even the US says there was 'minimal damage'. [0]

There is no evidence to the number of Kinzhals launched and to the number of Kinzhals intercepted.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/16/politics/patriot-missile-...
Having lived there, and lived in the homes of Saudis, I'd personally dispute that the dominant version of Islam there is extremist. I'm non-religious though both my parents were raised Christian and occasionally the Bible was read at my dinner table at home in the Midwest.

By and large, the Saudis I talked with were all very opposed to political/religious/militaristic violence. There was, however, a noticeably strong bias towards homophobia, especially if the context was religious discussion. I did meet a few people with extremist religious views, but they were <1% from my experience.

Overall I've met a higher % of fellow Americans who, unprompted in casual conversations or professional settings, share extremist views with me like "We should nuke ____ and wipe out every last person in the country" or "Shia Muslims are universally the most evil people on the planet", etc. Even extremist Saudis have not expressed similar sentiments to me except occasionally against Zionist Israelites (after poking, they'll always reduce it to just the zionists, not pro-palestinian / anti-zionist Israelis), and sometimes the royal families of the GCC countries.

I was located in Dhahran / Al-Khobar / Dammam / Bahrain / Abu Dhabi / Dubai / Oman.
I'm not sure if it's truly a timeless paper, but "Attention is all you need" by Vaswani et al. has been super influential in recent years. Also "Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics" by Sohl-Dickstein et al. (about Diffusion Models) and "NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis" by Mildenhall et al. were hugely influential to me.
>with no regard to the ownership rights of those who created human knowledge over millennia

This is a side of AI issue I haven't seen discussed much here.
I was highly interested in Zed and joined the wait list for Alpha/Beta over a year ago. With that said, I've been using Linux as my only OS for 15 years. I was highly disappointed when the beta was released it was MacOS only.

Original documentation/hype around it tried to make it seem like it would be a cross-platform competitor to VSCode and a replacement to Atom from the start. Recently they even locked the platform support GitHub issue for Linux with the below comment.

> Cross platform support is still very much on our radar and we’re dedicated to support both Windows and Linux in the future. As we've previously stated, we aren't taking feedback on the roadmap for platform support and as such we've decided to lock this issue. Any update regarding this will be noted on our website.

No open roadmap, no firm platform support commitments, and a closed development stance from the get go, make this a non starter for me.

At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they plan on staying MacOS only and to start charging.

From their website:

> We’re Zed Industries, a small and passionate team on a mission to build the world’s best text editor—for you, and for your team.

What's funny, is my team of 30 people is 70% Linux 25% Windows with the remaining 5% being MacOS users who are managers who don't touch code in spend their time in Jira/ServiceNow.

I recently moved from VSCode/Neovim back to Jetbrains/Neovim and at this point I think I'm done switching.
abort(418) is just quick and easy and gets the job done… even if I wasn’t the one reviewing the code it would throw up enough confusion to get attention.

It also works perfectly in case it accidentally gets pushed to production.
> How fast can you spin up a dozen VMs? A message bus? A scalable database with read replicas? An entire redundant data center in another region? A few terabytes of storage? A redis cluster? An ElasticSearch cluster? A CDN? A few load balancers? The procurement process to get an extra server provision in a colo will by definition be slower than my deploying a CloudFormation stack.

Your examples here are just examples of situations where you basically need a cloud solution by definition. If these are your requirements, then yes obviously you should use cloud for it. That said, your points are a bit confusing. It's not an either-or. For situations like you're describing, you use cloud. For situations where you don't need to use cloud, you can consider something else like on-prem or colo or ...

You seem to have a (literally) extremist position where it's all cloud or nothing. It's not.
Surprised to see these introductory courses haven't been mentioned yet.

These courses [0] [1] are on EdX and are taught by UBC Professor Gregor Kiczales. The explanations are so lucid it made recursion click for me. You can audit these courses without paying a single dime. They are based on the book How to Design Programs [2] which has much more stuff than the courses.This book is used in UBC, UWaterloo, NorthEastern and many other places.

Along the same lines there is another book for beginners called A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing [3]. It is used in Brown for their introductory courses.

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-simple-data

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-complex-data

[2] https://htdp.org/

[3] https://dcic-world.org/
The final output is not what matters for this classification.
Show HN: Fast TypeScript Analyzer
AFAIK since 3.5 only has one model this is not displayed there. Model default means, gtp4
TLDR; Some of the folks at Irixnet [0] wish to raise
$6500 "going towards the goal of technical documentation that might someday lead to a new kernel." based on Irix 5.3 (32 bit)

I wish them luck, or for HPE to just find the source code and public-domain it, along with MPE/IX.

[0] https://irixnet.org/
That depends on whether or not your a casual DB2 enthusiast who plays with it only when it's available, or if you're a hardcore DB2 enthusiast willing to restore an AS/400 just for the fun of it, really.
You can play Tzar in the browser: https://tza.red

Not open source tho.
Unethical tip: start returning the content of this article [0] to these devices. The Chinese government will "fix" the devs for you or simply block all traffic to your site.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
In Denmark government money is pretty good, especially when taken in with the benefits, for areas like being a social worker. Working in Gov tech is not that great but it isn't bad either, the problem is every gov I have ever seen makes it difficult to fire people and gives lots of benefits to make up for the fact that they don't give money.

Why would you work a government job given that it is underpaid unless there were benefits to even it out? And don't say helping people is a benefit, that kind of thing lasts a couple years and then most people burn out on helping people.
Nope, it’s still unfunny, it should have been deleted then and there. In fact, it has.
Hey, I've made quite a few of those. They fly pretty decent if you aim at something irritating and throw it in a fit of rage.
I have a similar model of HP Probook.
I'm 100% certain I did clean install, HP does not even sell this model with 2TB SSD.
Or lipstick on a pig!
Thanks for the clarification. But regarding this case more specifically: it seems that the judge in question is interpreting this as a deliberate attempt to deceive a court; hence, the question about repercussions.
ChatGTP just takes text blocks verbatim or inserts one word. Examples easily found via Google:

"portal to a parallel universe"

"inhabited by highly intelligent [feline] beings"

"with a mere swipe of their paws"

"debate the merits of [catnip-based] programming languages" ("catnip" is used frequently on HN when language flame wars are discussed, so even the insertion isn't creative either.)

It is a better but boring Markov chain.
Great explanation of divide and conquer for any situation. Thanks!
It’s funny because for all the talk of legibility, the text cuts off on my iPad.
Part of it could be different audiences.

Not everyone is on a greenfield project with full authority to grab the freshest and latest. Some of us are effectively living in 2014-- they can't say "no, you can't use IE11" to paying customers, or committed to a platform at the wrong phase of maturity, and remain stuck around a state-of-the-art-in-2014 build process.
Craniopagus Parasiticus
Big chunks of the 5.3 kernel source was definitely leaked to a select group of developers by a very disgruntled Crayon[1] during The Occupation[2]. Kuroi-san apparently is not part of that group.

Source: I saw the contents of that tarball, and it was authentic.

[1] Cray employee's self-applied moniker
[2] Crayons' description of the period following the acquisition by SGI.
> "AI may be a catalyst for crypto in this cycle," Horsley wrote, adding that the tech would create new demand for cryptography and blockchains. "Feeling increasingly convinced that these two disparate technologies are going to have intertwined futures, and that crypto is going to become a lot more important as AI starts to proliferate."

Correct. Hence the existence of Worldcoin and NFTs. Eventually, open source AI's will proliferate in the end and almost everything digital will be faked. Hence: Don't trust, verify.

There's a reason why Worldcoin chose Ethereum and it is simple: Soulbound NFTs [0]: i.e Non-transferrable mint-only NFTs which is the so-called antidote against the possibility of AI faking almost everything and Worldcoin will be used for KYC iris-scanning on humans.

While both crypto and AI are beyond dystopian technologies, it would be a mistake for one to underestimate the importance of both of them and especially crypto being involved with aiding verification (with something like Worldcoin) on the blockchain against AI possibly ruining everything.

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-are-soulbound-tokens-the...
Attention is all you need, doctors.
And they're right to distrust Academia. Anti flat -earthers play on trust of academia.
You can buy Irix source code CDs on eBay. They are not cheap.
Pit of success

https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...
Still not caring about the suffering of millions? Okay, I'm done here.
The Sounds of Dialup Modems
It also fights an Enderman with a shovel, how smart.
At my n-2 job (2017-mid 2018), I was the dev lead when management decided to “move to the cloud”. They hired a bunch of “consultants” who were old school operations people who only knew how to do lift and shifts.

I didn’t know cloud from a whole in the wall. But the internal IT department treated AWS just like they did their Colo. I thought AWS was just a bunch of VMs and I treated it as such for a green field implementation.

I studied for the AWS Solution Architect certification just so I would know what I didn’t know and to be able to come up with some intelligent ideas for phase 2.

I ended up leaving that job and working for a startup. The CTO knew I had only theoretical knowledge of AWS. But I had good system design instincts and he liked my ideas. I was hired as a senior developer. But that rapidly morphed into a cloud architect role. I took advantage of AWS and all of its locked in goodness including moving everything to either Lambda and Fargate (serverless Docker).

I had admin rights to everything until I voluntarily gave myself the same constraints to production that everyone else had when we hired a couple of operation guys.

We scaled without any issues as the company grew and Covid happened - we worked in the healthcare industry.

Now I work for AWS. But I’ve done my share of managing servers since the mid 90s as part of my job. That’s a life I don’t ever want to go back to.
What is a good implementation to write SML on Mac M1? SML NJ didn't work IIRC
I just found this PDF that contains all 3 parts of Tiny Pascal https://albillo.hpcalc.org/publications/Easter%20Egg%20-%20T...
I think the data is all publicly available, complete with software, sample python notebooks, tutorials etc.

https://gwosc.org/ and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligo-data
>People _love_ cutting edge innovation.

Only the people who like having to rewrite everything with every breaking change that happens on cutting edge platforms. It's not all that fun for most people. I'll wait until "new shiny" isn't as new and shiny, when it finally becomes stable and dependable. Until then the current stable platform is what I'll continue building on because it still does everything I need it to do.
Relationship between Mandelbrot set and Julia set [video]
Twelve points for the perfect or ideal business
Another brilliant site is "Toys from Trash": https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys.html

A whole bunch of fun things you can make with stuff lying around.
Not to mention having to buy a Windows license too, having to link that to a Microsoft account, etc.
I actually loved IRIX for a couple of very simple reasons: it mostly got out of the way of the applications and it 'just worked', reliabily, month after month. After many years of using many IRIX boxes as workstations and as servers I realized we'd never seen a machine crash, uptimes were in the years unless we rebooted a machine on purpose. Very solid hardware, very solid software and for the times on the workstations amazing graphics. The lack of eye candy in the OS was an asset to me. I still set up my terminals the way the default terminal in IRIX looked because it feels like home to me.

Linux has some of these properties today so that's what I'm using now.
Pandemic lockdowns/ work from home
Show HN: A chat bot you can ask anything about my podcast
An LLM, chat G-P-T

Was terrible at poetry

No concept of stress

Made its scansion a mess

And it rhymed but approximately
As it spreads across the world, who owns English?
You have two options in the settings menu:

1. Share all your chat data with OpenAI

2. Disable saved chats entirely.

You want to have saved chats but don't agree with OpenAI also having access to them? Not possible.
Derek says the search strategy is "Flood Fill", but I looked and could only find that used in reference to flooding algorithms -- like for bucket fill in paint programs.

On the other hand, I thought what he describes sounds a lot like A-star. Does anyone know what algorithm is used (if, indeed, as he says, everyone's converged on using the same algorithm). Is it straight A-star, some sort of incremental A-star, or something like D-star-lite (which is apparently quite popular for path planning)?
Used to be
The link I already provided has the numbers you're asking for.
$500 for a font? Is this an ad?
https://archive.ph/x67TQ
I tend to agree. Fundamentally, we're pro-market, liberal democracies. Compare that to Russia and China, for example. Those two are heavily controlled, corrupted plutocracies or even dictatorships. For all the issues America and Europe have (and we do have issues), I think the pillars of our economies and our societies are much better.
It's the same as copy-pasting the conversation, no?
I had an SGI Indy for a while. The main thing I remember is the weight. Some of those old computers felt like they were full of lead.
What a take...

He's not saying Americans are the center of the world (I guess this is what you meant), he's saying America is a key market. It is, I'm European, but I would be damn stupid to not recognize America is almost as big as the whole EU.

Edit: And in average, richer.
How you use it matters a LOT and also which version you used. There's a reason that GPT-4 is up to 45 times more expensive than GPT-3.5 Turbo (the default). If you're serious about such a tool (It's not a bad idea), then you'd use the embeddings[0] to train the AI on your specific use cases or prompt-engineer GPT-4 properly.

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings/what-are-...
I don't remember if it was IRIX but from the SGI I worked on the one thing that left a lasting impression was the GUI. From what I remember it was a truly vector based UI where you could scale everything arbitrarily without ugly pixel artifacts. This, for me, was living in the future. I thought every system will be like that in a year or two. Also, while I did't witness it in person at that time my machine had this flashy mousepad that showed a impression of a video running in a window. That was outrageous. Admittedly the UI was a bit minimalist compared to flashy OS/2 but at least it had smooth lines compared to the 32x32 pixel icon charm.
I saw that. Sometimes things have a way of surviving those kinds of events though. It's also possible that just by getting the rights to the stuff, they can piece together portions that would otherwise be inaccessible. eg: someone held onto a source tarball somewhere but doesn't want to come forward because of potential legal retribution. People hold onto mementos even if by accident in the shuffle of life. Maybe someone has an old book in storage or something?

The article also mentions that they are unsure if they can legally reverse engineer it. Getting the rights to Irix would definitely solve that problem too.
But usually functions are used more than once.

"cascading constness change"

Which is good because invoking code may rely on function being read-only.
Doesn't seem like they've asked the lawyers "what other legal filings did you use ChatGPT for?", which seems kind of important. ;)
It used to be called culture now it's called IP. Is that too edgy to say, I feel like it might be too edgy. Maybe the difference between culture and IP is if you have physical forces like police to enforce how it's used. So maybe like wearing toga is culture but dyeing the toga purple if you aren't the emperor violates IP.
Woah, no need for such language, it’s not like he put a sticker (which was near impossible to remove) on anyone’s MacBook!!!