skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a geographically local thing? This happens very rarely to me, although I there are some (Google) sites I use regularly that do work worse on Firefox than Chrome.
Great job replicating and fixing. So easy to accidentally create results that are statistical artifacts.
Having worked with WYSIWYG web editors dating back to Frontpage and also Wix the critiques here are similar to all editors — they’re finicky and quirky, slow to load, and hard to do truly custom things that go outside their templates or rigid systems. Wix is neither better nor worse. If you can work with it great. I advise a couple of nonprofits and i set them up with wix not because it’s super customizable or fast, but because it’s useable by laypeople and hosting is included.
What is resend and why do I need it to work with this?
It's tempting to consider "the administration" or "the government" as a single entity that you can reason about like it was an individual.

More likely, there is a bit of focused lobbying being done to suborn the few decisionmakers involved with this, so that a company that contracts firefighting services to the government can grow their contract.

I don't know exactly how it works in California. I know there is a "California Conservation Camp" program that pays inmates $2.90 to $5.12 per day while in the camps, and $1.4 per hour fighting fires, but I don't know if they work with only state prisons or if private prisons get in on that too.

Maybe the cost savings there are enough to drive this dynamic.
The tool certainly presents an appealing design, however I am unsure of the necessity of its interactive features.

It mixes several concerns that I would typically assign to separate applications, such as fzf and $EDITOR.
Man (vs. woman) is primarily symbolic. Symbols need to refer to something in order to orient. Since we live in a hyper-symbolic time, referents become overloaded and break. Men are currently attempting to navigate a sea of symbols with no referents. Many are falling back to powerful old symbols that still refer to /something/ (thus appeal of Peterson, Tate, neo-(neo?-)Christianity) in order to have /some/ orientation.
ucblogo is directly available from Ubuntu repositories. From this website there are some resources for learning LOGO as well. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html
That doesn't stop facebook to track you
I appreciate that this blog post was made.

This is like so, so many little projects that I do (even specifically showing problems in papers like this) that never see the light of day. I usually just make a small noise, and then it sits on my hard drive and that's it.

So thank you for putting this out there.
> I was struck at the time at how OO mostly just formalized and gave specific names to what good programmers were already doing informally.

I mean, that's the point of everything, isn't it? giving names and defining good practices so that everyone can benefit from them? because even today you can find a LOT of codebases which are an imperative mess
> But isn't Facebook explicitly asking for consent these days?

Consent is a difficult term in software these days, because it's almost entirely driven by UX and legislation.

With a default yes checkbox and ToS buried in a link most users would sign away a lifetime of indentured servitude.

With a per item consent over the telephone from an operator with an overseas accent, most consumers would reject life saving medicine and vaccines because of a 1 in billion risk of an exotic harm.
Can there be factual correctness from being grounded in scholarly books as such?

The amount of disagreement between researchers over time and changing consensus requires an external arbiter of individual facts at the very least.
The linked PDF has a lot more content: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/2023/07/Pea...

I'm determined to understand the full context of this claim: "FIGURE 22: The typical household needs to amass far less wealth to achieve the same standard of living in a higher-rates environment, but far more if rates drop"
I challenge the main points of this article and would say people eat less ice cream because the 'Ice cream' section of grocery stores is now full of 'Iced desserts' that mimick ice cream but do not count as full dairy ice cream and MANY people, including my own Boomer parents don't even realize they now buy 'iced desserts' instead of 'ice cream'.

It's a slow and subtle change, and one could argue that grocery stores carry what sells, but after pointing out the difference, they returned to buying the slightly more expensive 'ice cream'.

Trickery
Mm, sounds good in theory! In my experience, third party sites deliberately show less room information/a partial room description I imagine precisely to prevent successful price-match claims. Though I can't say I've ever submitted one - I just assumed the third parties kind of work with the hotels to make it hard to claim.

And yes we have much less lucrative CC rewards here. Here, Amex are partnered with Marriott (ew. not many good ones in the UK) and you only earn 6x
The real secret is how any military is able to be effective under the crushing weight of the bureaucracy it seems to build around itself.
Some of the sovereign wealth funds like the Norwegian one and the Middle Eastern ones aim for a 10% annual return. They are extremely stringent about which funds they invest with, and in most cases they go for direct investments rather than passive ones. The funds from those are literally used to fund various welfare programmes for their citizens. They also hire some of the brightest, most talented traders and not some PE-rejects.

Just sucks that Western pension funds hire mostly second-tier folks with the right connections, with a few exceptions here and there, or some stupid union bosses, at least from my experience in PE.
The economics of healthcare in most developed countries are highly distorted through government intervention. This causes shortages and queues, but it also helps to hold costs down and provide access for poor people who might otherwise not be able to afford it at all.

For comparison look at cosmetic surgery in the USA. It isn't covered by insurance so patients pay out of pocket. Only the affluent can afford it but the business is highly competitive and most procedures are available with little or no waiting and high quality.

Liability is only a minor factor. Some US states have severely limited non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases but that only brought costs down slightly.
Lessons from Keith Rabois on Startups
A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs
Exactly, on the backups. There was off-the-shelf open source PITR software that I looked at and could've configured, but I couldn't justify spending all the time to test that setup, given that (supposedly) RDS was rock-solid turn-key. There were other engineering and ops things that needed my time more.
Good information retrieval is a problem we are trying to solve for thousands of years, so even if that's all LLMs are doing then that's still a great achievement.

Of course a more explicit approach like this paper is a really good step in that direction by making it easier to trace information provenance. It might still be nontrivial to answer why the model selected this specific piece of information, and why it was composed in this specific way, but it seems trivial to say where the model got the information from. Which is really all we demand from humans too.
Some of the software is mission critical but not flight critical. If your targeting pod is down, it'll be harder to see the ground target or visually ID aircraft from afar, but there is no safety issue to the plane.
Bush planes in Alaska can use active highways. Literally merging with road vehicle traffic for takeoff and landing.
Monty Hall Problem deep dive
Here are a couple of different explanations for the solution. Some mathematically rigorous, some more intuitive. This is where to send anyone still not convinced of the answer.
The code sample still isn't equivalent. Now you have yet another pointer, which implies another allocation, another source of possible memory leaks and mistakes, and a separate memory space that will hurt the cache.

> Those are implementation details which are deliberately being hidden.

I know they're being hidden deliberately, but in C++ "private" doesn't break malloc (new), copies by value or sizeof. Or stack allocation, to add to the list.

> They are as incompatible with code inlining as public/private modifiers in C++ are. That is, LTO is your best friend here.

public/private aren't incompatible with inlining in C++. That is, you can call class functions that access private members and the compiler can inline those functions. Also, LTO is not always enabled by default, and doesn't always inline the things you want it to inline.

> Also, have you ever tried to maintain binary compatibility with several versions of a third-party C++ library that keeps adding/removing private fields to/from its classes?

I mentioned binary compatibility as one of the reasons one might want to do this. However, if you have a third party that doesn't care about API compatibility I doubt struct fields are the only thing they're going to change constantly.
Fixed (removed, deprecated). Thank you, svilen_dobrev.
If someone doesn't recognize when and how their tools limit the quality of their work, they can't be good craftsmen. There might still be good reasons to use those tools (e.g., no better alternatives, or an existing ecosystem), but if you don't realize that your programming language is fundamentally limiting in ways that other languages are not, then you'll never know how to build better software.
It's crazy how weird people get about it, but I think it's a class-shame thing. I grew up in a poor council block, and have _no_ qualms calling it out for what it is.

Also, completely-free or U.S.A.-style-nightmare are not the only two options. There's a whole rainbow in between, those are extremes! I'm now in a country that's got the balance right; everyone has healthcare, and everyone who can afford it (most) pay affordable insurance for it. The standard of care is _amazing_!
I visited metro Detroit for the first time on Saturday and the parking situation was abysmal but this is perhaps understandable in a large city. I thought my small city in Canada was bad!

We couldn’t even park downtown since it appears you need to book it in advance and the trip was somewhat spontaneous. I just ended up pulling over (by a no stopping sign ha) on a quiet side street and setting the GPS back to Windsor.
Nowadays if you’re willing to spend $300 dollars on a Hiplok D3000 or Litelok x3, you can have a lock that takes 10 minutes to cut with an angle grinder.

So that’s progress at least.
> The Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a ban on Meta carrying out behavioural advertising based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway.

I skimmed through the article, but what is behavioral advertising based on the surveillance and profiling of users defined as? Almost everything I know tracks their users and usage of products/services/apps e.g. websites, apps on your phone, your phone, laptop, car etc. Even this website has the pop up about cookie tracking etc.

Does this mean they are ok with collecting data on the users but not using it for advertising (or selling the data)? Are all companies involved with such business models affected or just one company singled out? Can a business offer a 10% off on first purchase or when you signup deal? If I visit Amazon or any shopping website, is it not ok to have the home page search results based on purchase and search history or it should be a static page/search results always? Can my book review blog have affiliate links to purchase the book? Are content recommendations based on usage history/likes on YouTube/Netflix/Spotify legal?
Can anyone explain to me how a compression algorithm can beat an LLM at anything? Isn’t that like saying horses are better than graffiti?

I’m sure the answer is in there somewhere but I’m not well versed in AI and I simply can’t figure it out.
I can't wrap my head around the Romanized gods, having grown up on the Greek names. Speaking of, this youth edition is still my favorite version; the illustration is especially great. Unfortunately it seems it was never widely translated. https://www.amazon.it/Odissea-avventure-Ulisse-Miti-oro-eboo...
What is the problem with the mail command ? Or with some msmtp ?

Except that with "standard" mail you only need a provider or self-hosted server, and not a RESEND_KEY

To me, it looks like "reinventing the wheel"... Did I miss something ?

BTW: content generation (AI, email) is not email sending, so you can still generate content with other tools and send it with a simple "mail" command
Which post? I think this is a misunderstanding.

Booking Holdings and Expedia Group are two different, publicly listed companies.
Liquid helium 3 and 4 have been a fertile substrate for this kind of exploration. I often think that the lab scale experiments will figure it out before the ultracolliders.

This 1998 article summarizes the state of the field up to that time. The rotating cryostat they used in the experiments is a masterpiece of instrument design.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.96.14.7760

"Vortices in rotating superfluid 3 He" by Lounasmaa and Thuneberg

Scroll to the end for

"Superfluid 3 He in Cosmology

The topological objects in the order parameter field of super-
fluid 3 He, such as textural point defects, quantized vortex lines,
and solitons, are in many respects similar to monopoles,
strings, and domain walls in relativistic quantum field theories
(3, 4, 23, 24). In high-energy physics these objects are still
hypothetical, whereas in the case of superfluid 3 He they can be
observed experimentally. Here we discuss just one example: an
experiment modeling developments in the early universe. The
study (67, 68) involves creation of vortices by absorption of
neutrons in rotating superfluid 3 He-B."
> People needing to move non-trivial distances for periodic tasks shapes everything. Cars, and thus car parking, come about because of this need.

This is not true. Every city in the US used to have a robust public transit system. No cars or parking lots needed. You can hitch 2 horses per car space, and 10-20 bikes in the same space.

Those pre-car public transit systems were bankrupted by artificially low fares, and because a small number of cars literally got in the way: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demis...
i am quite confused . It started saying good chess players are more careful and spent more time falsifying ideas but then he later gave startup examples which is the opposite ( not so careful with falsifying. Just jump into the water with conviction and figure things out on the way ) . Startup game is more like poker . It is very different from chess . Somehow the author drew the wrong conclusions. Very confusing
The Homeric Question [1] generally centers on whether the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by primarily one person (Unitarian) or by different people (Analytic). Butler has another theory, that the Odyssey was written by one person, a woman in Sicily, which he published in the The Authoress of the Odyssey [2]. Basically, Butler was describing the Odyssey as fan fiction, as a Mary Sue [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Question

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Authoress_of_the_Odyssey

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue
> Is there some kind of new glass?

Yes, every other year thanks to the phone market.

We also have transparent aluminium (oxynitride) now.

Not there this should be a particularly hard challenge relative to "people live in these places, do their roofs and windows survive?" (even if you have to use shutters, NDB, do that for the PV also).

There's also the option to have transmission lines and can put the panels elsewhere in the places without whatever… and they already exist and are in place: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wide_area_synchronou...
I started creating this app while I was buried in my own study notes at college. I found a way for making question-based study guides and realized how much they were helping me. I thought, wouldn't it be cool if I could get some AI help with this? Enter ChatGPT.

What started as a quick fix for my study problems turned into a fully automated system python script that did all the grunt work - scanning textbooks/hw/exams, cleaning up data, and generating custom guides. And, why stop there? I added a feature to chat with the AI about notes, homework, you name it. This wasn just making studying easier.

Seeing how much it helped me, I decided to share it with the world and it quickly became a serious side project. It's been free for the past one and a half months, and people started using it. But to keep things running smoothly, I needed some help. That's where Stripe came in. Now, I'm just trying to keep the ball rolling and cover operational costs while helping students study smarter, not harder.

Really hope you guys find it as useful as I have, and I'm all ears for any feedback or suggestions you might have!

Cheers!
The thing about vim and emacs is that both of them, out of the box, suck. BUT, what they both offer better than anything else, is the ability to gradually modify them to match what your brain needs.

I 100% agree with your hyperbolic "200 keybinds to make a view component" But that's ...that's not how it works unless that's what your brain wants.

With ALL editors you eventually encounter "ugh, this is frustrating" or "i wish i didn't have to do that" and then you have 30+ years of plugins and configs you can draw on to modify it to match your liking without any coding. VERY rarely, you'll want to tweak it in a way that there isn't a plugin / config for and you'll find communities of very helpful people who'll respond with "what about this solution..."

The fact is that _your_ brain is different from everyone else's. The less configurable an editor is the less it will be able to support the way your brain likes to work.

You _can_ accept pre-made defaults like those provided by VSCode OR you can gradually refine your editor to be a perfectly crafted tool for your particular and very individual way of thinking.

I choose the latter because i spend SO much time staring at my editor and trying to convince it to do things that are almost always better with automated assistance from it.
Seems like parking is a side effect for people's preference for larger houses and yards. Convince people to live in smaller houses and share walls with their neighbors, and the parking situation would change dramatically.
It's all hosted with AWS S3, I have no server.

In the future, I want to store the chat history in local storage with some search features.
Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley
For longer documents, especially with multiple different blocks like code or images, it seems to be actually useful. It gives a fast impression on the length of the site, where you are and where the interesting and boring landmarks might be. But this also demand that the content is centered, and hos enough free space on the side, which is not that uncommon these days.
This study almost has Illness as Metaphor vibes. Fight dementia by diligently training your mind, keeping disease at bay!

Vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and Alzheimers all seem to involve damage to brain structures. It strikes me as unlikely that you can chess your way out of this. The causality is likely reversed.
The most irritating effect is that the LLM somehow guesses what you want it to respond.
Human-in-the-loop training is imperfect.
The German intelligence services has the ship involved and found explosive residue. As far as I remember it was linked to a Ukrainian business some time back but it could have been anyone of course.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-tells-un-nord-s...

Edit: I didn't read the link posted above but I see it states the same as me. Nothing to see here.
What is this "oversupply of parking" you speak of? In every city I've ever been to, parking was very scarce and expensive.
Supported tasks: Paraphrasing, Changing the tone of a passage, Summary and Topic generation from a dailogue
Yep, cars facilitate cities of unsustainably low density. Reducing car use results in either migration to restore the density equilibrium, transit, or in situ densification. Pick at least one.
You can do dummy defines of structs with the same size as the real one if you want the struct on the stack and encapsulation.
> Isn't that literally the point of an encyclopedia? A starting point, it's the abstract on the subject if you will.

Yes, but Wikipedia is also frequently conceived and marketed as "the sum of all human knowledge," which that shows is a lie by definition.
telnet host port

ehlo mailback

mail from: myemail@somewhere.com

rcpt to: whoever@anywhere.com

data

mail from: "my name" <myemail@somewhere.com>

rcpt to: "their name" <whoever@anywhere.com>

subject: whatever

mail text goes here but don't forget an empty line between subject line and this line (as a separator of header and body)

and here

and end mail text by a single dot in a single line
like this

.

quit

for attachments or other advanced features you can use mutt, pine, or any other mail app. you can also do:

cat mail-text.txt | mail -s "subject goes here" whoever@anywhere.com
I disdain this pessimism that is all over the internet.
A DynamoDB Abstraction for Rust
> I don't know what interest rates have to do with the distribution of wealth.

Highlights from this research: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/ib-knowledge/fina...

- We found a one percentage point drop in interest rates boosted the incomes of these top earners by five per cent over two years, while the lowest earners saw only a 0.5 per cent rise.

- Lower rates have a larger impact upon the value of assets than they do upon disposable income – and the wealthier have more financial and real assets.
This is great and all, but we still run into the problem with political biases embedded in the source data [0]

Musk’s AI’s aim is to get to the truth, not eliminate biases retroactively. I think that’s a noble goal, politics aside.

I agree with him that teaching an AI to lie is a dangerous path. Currently it’s probably not exactly akin to lying, but it’s close enough to be on that path.

We should find a way to feed source material from all “biases” if you will, and have it produce what’s closest to reality. It’s obviously easier said than done, but I don’t think the AI Czar VP Harris aims to do this.

If we’re too divided or hellbent on pushing our own agenda, it’ll be a bad outcome for all.

Unfortunately the differences we have are at a very fundamental level that really is a question of how reality is perceived, and what we consider meaningful. The difference of if something by its nature has meaning, or if we give meaning to it culturally/societally.

The former is a more “conservative” (personality wise, not political) view.

The later is more of, “everything that has meaning is based off the meaning we say it has, thus we can ascribe the level of meaning to that or other things as we wish”. The idea that many things are social constructs, and we can change those as we wish to craft what we’d like to see.

I’m probably doing a poor job of wording it, but this fundamental difference in perception is going to very quickly be at the forefront of AI ethics.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedi...
For anyone looking for an awesome series of books, these will expand your backyard workshop.
Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap:
https://www.gingerybookstore.com/

You start with learning how to cast, then work on casting parts for a lathe and other projects.

edit: It looks like the site's author has some of these books! He has a page detailing building the lathe: https://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/lathe1.html