skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learnt Dvorak in 2 weeks and got back to my hunt-and-peck QWERTY speed within a month, within 2 I was typing 60-70WPM without effort, and about 90% accuracy. I did this with no formal training and my only motivation was that at that time I couldn't afford an "ergonomic keyboard" and had heard that Dvorak was better, so I gave it a try. It's also an ANSI standard so I didn't have to install any weird software, just choose it in the operating system settings.

I no longer have shooting pains up my arms. Whether that's a result of the ergonomics of Dvorak, or simply that I can touch type, is not something I'm qualified to answer, but what I can say is that:

- Dvorak is easy to learn

- only takes mild motivation to get good at

- is more comfortable

which leads to better typing habits that are good for you physically and make you a faster typist than hunt-and-peck, with less effort than learning to touch type on QWERTY.

Would I learn Dvorak these days over another layout like Colemak or whatever is the favorite today? Yes, I would, because it's a standard. I think we're at diminishing returns (for English) so it doesn't really matter: anything is better than QWERTY, even ABCDE...
The article didn't mention the static pressure of the fan. Typically, for a "suck" type fan, you want higher static pressure and there are fans which are designed expressly for this.
This is an example of why everything, including Windows, is trying to move over to icons and just icons for everything.

Don't need to translate/localize anything when there's no text to translate/localize. Presumably that's easier.
OP did not say that climate change was not a factor. Both of these are contributing factors.

I will second the point about lack of controlled burns and logging absolutely being a problem. Look at photos of western forests from the late 1800s and you'll see that we have far more trees now than a century ago. Here's an example of Yosemite valley: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/opinion/sunda.... A century of fire suppression and climate change have proved to be a dangerous combination. One of these is easier to correct though if we could get past the idea that every tree must be saved at all costs.
There is a simple solution: use UTF-8 in the middle and push all codeset conversions to the edges. And, ideally: deprecate non-UTF-8 locales.
Other localizations of Amazon are just as hilarious. And to understand the product listings, you have to know (pretty complete) English, because the translations only make any sense if you know the English description and can reverse the translation in your head back to English.

So, you have to understand 2 languages to understand these listings.
I'd say any claim needs evidence (with some extreme exceptions), and in fact it's only the evidence that's worth reading, not the claim.

Rando claims have zero value by themselves - there is an infinite supply that say anything and everything. That's why science, law, etc. require evidence.
>Oh, really? What's your solution to producing non-polluting power when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow?

Gosh you really didnt read anything I wrote did you?
It would be silly to latch onto it, if it were the vision of some random fan, but it is the vision of the company creating the product, so no, it's not silly to consider it critically.
Bard is still not available in europe :-(
Haha, yes. I love it.
That would be a g̶i̶b̶i̶ kibizip.
wouldn't '2023-12-31' cast to '2023-12-31 00:00:00.000'? And it's the +1 ms where the cutoff begins?
Also what happens when your predecessor starts multiple tidal waves that you get to ride on to shore and take credit for.

Apple would be just as big if jobs was alive, he just didn't live long enough for mega scale to happen
Yeah this guy has rose coloured glasses.

Remember when Java and MySQL weren't owned by Oracle?

I do.
Probably because the entire population of Montana makes up just one neighborhood of NYC
For Google at least, link times are sufficiently important that the company has rewritten the linker from scratch twice--both open source. The Gnu-Gold linker which ships as part of gnu binutils and subsequently the ELF version of llvm's lld.

So although you might not encounter issues with link times (debug or otherwise), it is a multi-million dollar problem for big companies like Google and Apple. Both in resources and engineer time.
Indeed, linked in that article is this which I built yesterday and works very very well.

https://www.texairfilters.com/a-variation-on-the-box-fan-wit...

-EDIT- I should also mention that you don't need 5 filters for this (MERV 13 is expensive), you can use 4 and a piece of cardboard for the 6th side that is touching the ground.
Won't that happen whether or not these fires are controlled or uncontrolled, at this point?
Why can’t this be done like in-class pencil-and-paper exams?
Are you a pacifist then? Kill bots sound like a better alternative than soldiers with PTSD
I just let my YouTube Premium lapse, but I'll check that out the next time I pick it back up.
Isn't $100 (the stated cost to make this) the same as a proper air purifier like a Levoit Core 300?
The kids throwing soup at paintings already committed crimes attacking oil infrastructure and shutting down certain oil infrastructures (pipelines etc) that got them precisely no attention. You only know them from the soup can shit, which proves their whole point.
You don't replace the filters every hour do you? It's on e a month or once a season for our furnace filters at least.
Oooh I didn't catch that. I think that's funny. Given the limitations of FTL, etc., that'd be the equivalent of me canoeing across the Atlantic to spy on a nest of rather dull shrews. I should clearly read what he's saying.
It's constructed using a regular 3 speed box fan, so it isn't going to be significantly louder than that and possibly quieter depending on how it is shrouded and insulated.
Ask HN: How will LLMs change online forum questions?
Chatbot style LLMs like ChatGPT act as query able knowledge banks for a range of technical topics. Questions that I once would have asked on e.g S.O I now ask ChatGPT.

What are peoples predictions for the future of technical forums in a post LLM world?
took them 10 years though.

One major addition to the language every 10 years is a good rythm. Also, their addition of generics felt super natural and didn't change the general feeling of the language.

Compare that to swift that has added await async, macros, move semantics, actors, in just a few years, while keeping everything that was already there...

So now we have both gcd and actors, both macros and the hack they used for swift UI, and yet xcode integration is still awful, and there's still no decent story for cross-platform development (just compiling for android for example).

It's a mess..
Hopefully both: https://www.beelinereader.com

Some people use our tools for speed reading; others use it as an assistive technology for reading, or for helping kids learn to read.
> "the halo error (a cognitive bias whereby our perception of a person is shaped by our opinions of other traits) as applied to risk tolerance, which it proven to be vulnerable to stress and concupiscence."

so i know a lot of words but i guess i didn't know enough words at the intersection of christianity and horniness

> "concupiscence"

> "Involuntary sexual arousal is explored in the Confessions of Augustine, wherein he used the term "concupiscence" to refer to sinful lust."
It depends on how you define the “scientific community.” If your kid has a staph infection, there are people who make antibiotic creams that will make it disappear in days. They’re scientists. Their science gives them power you don’t have to “believe in,” because you can see the results.

Most people with a Ph.D. in a field with “science” in the name aren’t scientists. They work in fields that don’t have the same level of rigor as nuclear physics. (My degree is in aerospace engineering, and many real scientists would consider us bumpkins in how comparatively undisciplined our field is compared to their’s.) Those fields confer little to no power to produce tangible and undeniable results.
It is HTML. It's a canvas element, rendering WebGL (already a Web API), optionally using WebXR if on a headset (already a Web API). WebSG is just providing a standardised higher level API on top of WebGL, as fun as manually programming WebGL is.

If you want that contents to be modelled in the DOM instead, go look at A-Frame, I guess - but, trying to coerce glTF into XML so it's part of the HTML of the page would be as crazy as telling JavaScript that it's only allowed to store its state in the DOM and isn't allowed a heap any more.
Boeing sued over alleged theft of IP, counterfeiting tools used on NASA projects
Deepmind has done quite an enormous amount actually, but it's been in academia not in the commercial product sphere.
Just because something is not on a little web page available to average Joe's does not mean there isn't value in it.
For example, Deepmind's work towards estimating quantum properties of materials via density functional theory may not be the best toy for your grandma to play around with, but it certainly does move academia way further ahead of where it once was.
There’s actually stuff being done about preventing Wildfires in the US, controlled burns being of these things, creating “fuel breaks” (gaps that prevent fire from progressing) is another, and there’s a LOT more. But a lot of time that’s not enough and the reason for that is like with every other government effort - bureaucracy and endless paperwork. It can take months before a project can even start because the forest management has to compile all the necessary paperwork. But they are really passionate about doing this to prevent as many wildfires as possible.

Source: I currently work for a startup that makes software that shortens the time necessary to prepare this paperwork which potentially could cut the time it takes in half or more.
I'm not seeing any hype. They have shipped a nice new feature for their build system. I don't see any claims of it advancing the state of the art, or life-changing, just that it improves certain work flows in an easy way, and provide a convenient way to use it for their developers.
> general security reasons

Cash cow reasons*. The system is designed to be secure even against signed apps.
I no longer make my resume available in any public way. No LinkedIn, nor hosted anywhere (google docs, my own servers, anywhere) that can be accessed by random people.

Instead, I send my resume directly to companies I'm applying to, or have my recruiting agent circulate it to targeted companies.
How much current grassland is used for grazing? Works there be any potential pushback from, say, cattle ranchers who would be otherwise using the land or is there a plentiful amount of otherwise land unused for agriculture?
This is the answer I would give. We did design work, but not at the fidelity that you would want to actually implement.
> Except that the geniuses who maintain the extant Unix systems still couldn't bring themselves to at least start transitioning pathnames to utf8, [...]

As far as POSIX and Unix `open(2)` and friends go, pathnames are opaque binary with only two special byte values: NUL (0x00, because it's C strings, which are NUL-terminated) and '/' (because that's the path component separator). Any codeset and form that is compatible with that will "work" -- for some value of "work" where if the codeset isn't Unicode in UTF-8 then you'll be sad.

Nothing keeps users / sites from declaring that thou shall use UTF-8 on the filesystem, or, even better, that thou shall use UTF-8 locales only, as the latter is the only simple way to [mostly] get the former.

> At least ZFS (which also incidentally is pretty much the only non-terrible filesystem) has an utf8only flag.

Note that ZFS can't tell if the strings from user-land are in UTF-8. ZFS can only tell if they're not valid UTF-8.
Knowledge recall is part of an LLM's skills.

I test LLMs on the plot details of Japanese Visual Novels. They are popular enough to be in the training dataset somewhere, but only rarely.

For popular visual novels, GPT-4 can write an essay, 0 shot, and very accurately and eloquently.
For less popular visual novels (Like maybe 10k people ever played it in the west). It still understands the general plot outline).

Claude can also do this to an extent.

Any lesser model, and its total hallucination time, they can't even write a 2 sentence summary accurately.

You can't test this skill on say Harry Potter, because it appears in the training dataset too frequently.
> It will miss private dynamic libraries, Docker containers, potentially virtual envs.

Yes, it will. Does that make dynamic libraries a red herring, or does it mean these approaches all make the same mistake? Please think before you answer. Just because something's common doesn't mean it's wise or necessary.

> it has a huge cost in terms of maintenance and backwards compatibility

How much are those "huge costs" unique to that approach? Maintenance and backwards compatibility are still problems even with static linking or embedding into containers or any other alternative. It's disingenuous to count common problems against only one approach. The real tradeoff is between problems that are unique to each, and it's possible to disagree about which choice is best without stacking the deck for one side.
Yep, fully agree.

I live in Washington State, and I refer to that time of year as "headache season."
The "other guys" as in Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto (her husband)? You write this as if they were nothing to the song.
>It’s as-if AI is exclusively made by Mormons.

A weird mixture of degenerate unconstrained crony capitalism/VCs and purity spiraling techbros. No small irony that this timeline is the one where occupy wallstreet was distracted and destroyed by injecting any possible controversy they could into it.

Don't think about class and money, think about anything else.
It's ok to centralize technology, capital and power in the hands of a few firms on the west coast of America, as long as those trolls on the internet are thwarted

I just pray the EU doesn't fall for this garbage.
The haphazard assembly of his box fan doesn't look ideal. If you're going to do it that way at least get a 20x20 size furnace filter and use some duct tape to seal it.
Yeah I agree that work is by far the most optimistic use case here. Still though, I work remotely, and it kinda sucks, for exactly this same reason. It is certainly a huge advantage to be able to live anywhere and not be tied to any specific location to get work done, but there are huge disadvantages too. I haven't personally figured out what I think the right way to square the circle is, but I think it might be more like the trend toward 2-3 hybrid work weeks rather than total isolated remote. At least for most people.
I thought most of that smoke was coming from Canada, am I correct?
> So although you might not encounter issues with link times (debug or otherwise), it is a multi-million dollar problem for big companies like Google and Apple. Both in resources and engineer time.

I appreciate your appeal to authority, but I worked at a FANG on a project that had over 20 GB worth of static and dynamic/shared libraries.

Linking was never an issue.
We do. We tend to overcook pasta.
Curious: What does your rollout look like? Update to the latest on a small percentage of the fleet and monitor for a day / week?

Also, do you folks tend to review the freebsd code before upgrades or only after the fact (like, if there's a show-stopping bug or two)? Thanks.
I was going to complain about a GCC codegen bug open since 2007 but it looks like it finally got fixed in 2020!

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33799

Clang still has the same bug though, filed in 2012.

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12286
They’re not arguing against all fees, just a fee that makes more sense (you pay per listing).
> You really think the government is (or courts are) going to kill a technology that could save 20k people every year?

Have you heard of this miracle technology that is like 100x safer than cars, and kills zero people a year in most countries, and we've had it for 50 years? called high speed rail?

Covid is still killing more than 20K people a year, and no-one gives a damn. We have this miracle technology called ventilation, it reduces you chance of infection like 4x. You can buy air purifiers for $200 at Ikea and they work. You can install Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation, CDC has a whole page about them.

If saving 20K people would be the top priority, Nuclear power would replace coal in the 70's, air purifiers would be legally required in every office and coming into work with Covid would be a criminal offense.

> LIDAR autonomy isn't getting better nearly as fast as vision solutions are iterating.

Why do you believe this to be the case - is there a measurement or estimate I can see of how fast visual solutions are iterating?
“dnf update” runs out of memory on machines with 1G of RAM
I guess your response indicates that the DNS records are not logged.

I thought some metadata is logged, at least for security or to fight abuse, but probably for more reasons. But I’m not sure.
This is the _second_ obvious thing people go for when trying to achieve the same.
Easier to use https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Well if "no" becomes the default then I'm sure engineers would switch over to testing that path more frequently instead
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss timerol's point as nonsense.

I live in Belgium. I was doing some electrical work in my home recently. On the 29th of May, I noticed two out of three phases were close to 250V instead of the intended 230V. This is the limit where inverters of solar installations switch themselves of; it indicates more solar power was being produced than could be absorbed by the grid.

It turns out the day-ahead electricity market prices on that day were negative for 8 hours. As I noticed with my voltage meter, such price signals are trying to tell us something. Shielding market participants from those signals (e.g. by net metering) will cause real technical problems.

I already try to be part of the solution by charging my EV around solar noon, even tough I don't have solar panels. And I will switch to dynamic hourly pricing soon. But one person voluntarily acting on price signals is not going to be enough.
At this point I just want to be sedated and knocked out when I get on the plane and then you can arrange my body in whatever configuration you want
The Levoit filters are twice as expensive to replace.
Always found this a very strange question.

Sure LIDAR etc is expensive, but so maybe not that one, but in general I would have thought that many cheap & cheerful sensors is the way to go especially if you're going to be feeding it into a neural net anyway that is well suited to unscrambling that signal spaghetti
No, it's a kilozip, like kilometer (= 1024 meters). A gigazip (not gibizip) would be 1'073'741'824 zips (1024^3 = 2^30).

Also it should be Gzip, not gzip, although it's not ambiguous since the reciprocal prefix is nano-, and in general there are no 2^-X0 prefixes that start with g- like there is for Mega-/milli-.
Feminine hygiene products.

Kimberly-Clark, Proctor & Gamble, Edgewell, and Energizer comprise like 90% of the pads and tampons you'll find on the shelves in an American grocery or discount store.

The largest shareholders of all of the above are the same: Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street. Combined, they make up ~25% ownership of all of them.

Alternatively: firearms

For a while, Cerberus Capital Management owned approximately a majority of US firearms companies by production, including: Remington, Barnes Bullets, Bushmaster, DPMS, Advanced Armament, Marlin Firearms, H & R Firearms, Para USA, The Parker Gun, Dakota Arms, Tapco, and Storm Lake Barrels. All of the above were acquired by Cerberus from 2006-2009.

All of the above were folded into "Freedom Group". That was later rebranded as "Remington Outdoor Company", then sold piecemeal three years later (in 2020).
> So maybe the solution is for VC companies is to hire fewer jerks?

Why is this got to be the take?

Maybe the more effective strategy is for female lead startups to hire more attractive women to promote their business getting funding.
Early always-connected computers with no NAT led to a lot of hard lessons. At this point many of those have been learned, and there's a lot more depth to network security. Operating systems and key tools like web browsers and ssh are hard enough that strictly necessary updates like heartbleed patches are few and far between, and are hard to miss. The majority of what gets pushed out now through automatic updates for OSs and key software is exploiting the update channel to deliver crap features that increase revenues or deepen the moats for the company pushing them. They want to ensure that they can collect maximum rent with the least effort for as long as possible.

Hopefully that abuse will reach a point where the camels back breaks, and the pain of freeing yourself from vendor lock-in becomes worth it, prompting smart consumers and businesses in large numbers to use and support principled software projects through contributions of money, code and labor.
I mean that's only happening because California made it illegal to charge the real risk adjusted price for insurance. The companies weren't going to start losing money on every home in CA so they are leaving.
I agree. Kids make the best of what's available. And in some ways they are still doing so, in this more digital age. In ways we older gens couldn't. But there's no denying that the elephant in the room is the massively pervasive, universal social and information connection that is cellphones and internet. Even we older gens have been subsumed to a fair degree - we're here right now! :)
> Don't look up history

History only proves how many people made the tragic mistake of assuming their subjective and flawed moral judgements were objective reality. I can think offhand of a few people who thought specific ethnic and religious groups were a pain in the neck and the world would be better off without them. I'd rather not give that power (much less authority) to fully autonomous killing machines, thanks.

If we're to have AI like that I don't want it to be capable of disobeying orders, at least not due to having its own independent moral alignment (I think this is different from having a moral alignment imprinted onto it.) AI is a machine, after all, and regardless of how complex it is, its purpose is to be an agent of human will. So I want to be absolutely certain that there is a human being morally responsible for its actions who can be punished if need be.
but, intelligence is not new. There were astute readers at that time, too. So there must have been a spectrum, and reading people knew something about that spectrum.. from fawning sycophants of the current despot, to tellers of tall tales, to scholars, and those close to traders and travelers.
I have a few box fans filters and one cuboid fan, it's not actually the cuboid though, I used a circular hepa filter with the inline duct booster fan.

I leave the fan duct fan running on low (right at the midpoint of the speed dial so technically medium I guess) 24/7 in my kitchen out of eye site because it's so quiet.

So, in my experience, much quieter, quiet enough that people don't notice it running all the time. I have the dial in reach though so I can crank it all the way if something burns on the stove, clears the air out shockingly fast.

I got some sound proof panels and crappily bungee corded them around the fan and it didn't have a noticeable effect. I think if I put more effort into the sound baffles it would reduce the sound, but the whole setup without baffles is quiet enough I haven't bothered.