skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The justification on the main page doesn't inspire confidence:

> IQ test reports costs 19.99 due to increased costs associated with collection, updation and normalization of data.
esp. if you upload your source-maps to your logging platform of choice. All the major ones support it that I've interacted with so far.
> Where have all the hackers gone?

They are still around, I'm in a community with a few of them. They are just quietly working on small relatively unknown hobby projects in their spare time, while simply putting in their hours to get their paycheck.

The big companies have so much capital that they can very easily capture a market and get mind share, which the small hacker types building actually good and useful software have zero chance at getting anywhere.

Software companies are controlled by MBA types, and as such the hacker types get very little input into the development and direction of software. Having to build software for the sole purpose of making the shareholders more money is demoralizing. Hacker types want to make cool useful software that benefits users, which unfortunately isn't very profitable.

Modern programming culture is cult-like in its fad chasing and full of "Best Practices" grifters. There is a ton of useless cruft and friction in software development, however if you're not chasing the latest fads and not building software according to the latest religious writings, you'll get excommunicated.

They're still around, they've just been pushed out in the name of shareholder value and "Best Practices".
I wouldn't defend it as the best, but I'm personally a fan of TE Lawrence's 1932 translation, writing as TE Shaw.

Odyssey only—he didn't translate the Iliad.
I don't think that's a fair criticism of wikipedia. Summarizing knowledge is literally the job of an encyclopedia. There was a reason all my professors in college told us to use wiki as a jumping off point for further reading in the citations.
Not aware of this type of simplistic embeddings. I think getting the first few layers of a large pretrained vision model will get you better results. Blindly learning from a generic image would probably steer it toward the dominant textures and shapes rather than linear operation of camera moves.

The simplest embeddings for vision should focus on camera primitives and invariants. Translation, rotation, scale, skew, projections, lighting. It doesn't matter that much what you use in the layers, but you should steer the training with augmented data. Like rotate and skew the objects in the batches to make sure the layers are invariant to these things.

Next are some depth-mapping embeddings which go beyond flat camera awareness.

The best papers I've seen are face embeddings. You can get useful results with smaller models. There are of course deeper embeddings that focus on the whole scene and depth maps but those are huge.
Needing to download an app, and saying "you need to book in advance" are not the same thing.

Just because you didn't want to deal with it and didn't do research ahead of time doesn't mean "We couldn’t even park downtown". You didn't want to, and that's fine.
Yes, acoustics was explored[1] extensively.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=MH370%20acoustic
It's as bizarre as saying "What are Ukrainian civilians are doing in the Ukraine which is active war zone?"
And for their role in the opiod crisis.

They're one of the "wow! Maybe we should use the corporate death penalty" companies
If you want to make pedestrians safer, you can do that without having to make driving miserable, by building elevated pedestrian walkways.
I think you might be right. Their GitHub org [0] has very few Perl repositories now, if that is a useful signal. They don't seem particularly crazy about open source though so I'm not sure how to read that.

0 - https://github.com/bookingcom
I took a queue from Seth Godin in his book 'This is Marketing' where he basically breaks it down to: People like me do things like this.

I adopted a certain baseline of living as part of my core identity. People like me keep the house clean always, and tidy mostly. People like me remove anything with an odor immediately (50% full trash but it smells? gotta go right now.)

Couple that with the 2 minute rule "if it takes less than 2 minutes do it right now" and it's really changed how I live.
It's complete rubbish. It only makes sense if you're retiring today and buying an annuity product.

The overall negative effect of people deferring pension contributions (401K equivalent to US readers) due to the higher cost of living far outweighs anything else.
Review pull requests in Slack to merge code faster
Not only that, but in my experience everyone else will be using IntelliJ, so the project is usually dependent on IntelliJ in some form. Sometimes subtlely, sometimes not so subtlely. It will usually build with gradle since it has to for CI/CD, but beyond that everytime I worked on a new project I had to fix all kinds of subtle problems that were the result of some config/state that IntelliJ keeps outside the repo and nobody notices because they all use IntelliJ.
I think it will improve the internet by adding more diversity.

The reality is that most websites are built from templates using the template content and images as a base. Given AI generation, the "template" starting point turns into something unique, more tailored for the needs of the site owner.
Did you read the recent Douglas Hofstadter article or do you just always use the word ersatz?
Is pre-training truly better than meta-learning?
> if /th/ is so unstable, why does it exist at all?

You misunderstand me. I am saying that random, irregular change is unlikely to create the sound /th/ (or /θ/ in phonetic notation, which I’ll use from now on). As you correctly note, by itself that means very little, but it does reinforce all the other evidence I and others have mentioned.

(The sound in the word ‘brother’ was formed via a different process: it is the product of regular sound change, specifically Grimm’s Law [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm's_law]. This converted all voiceless stop sounds to fricatives: if /p/→/f/ and /k/→/x/, it makes sense that /t/→/θ/ too, because that follows the same pattern.)
I just have to say hats off to whoever decided to register this niche domain. :)
Bad actors will act bad in any environment in which they're able
> The miracle of BERT / embeddings is _not_ having to share words

To be fair, the original task is specifically chosen where something like knn+compression has a chance of being good: i.e. out of domain + low resource.

Under these conditions the training inputs could be too sparse for a highly parameterized model to learn good embeddings from.

In traditional in domain + big data classification settings there's no chance that non-parametric methods like compression would beat a learned representation.
> I read Butler's Iliad (mercifully, with the gods' names restored to Greek by an editor) and concur—avoid.

Any specific reasons why?

> I'd definitely recommend anyone tackling these sorts of works shop for the best translation for their purposes—it can make a huge difference. Worth a trip to the library or a few dollars for a used copy, for something you'll spend hours with.

I definitely agree with this. Shop around for the translation that you like best where possible (for less popular texts you may have no choice). There are a lot of different possible "value systems" for evaluating translation quality.
This is literally just a string of buzzwords connected to form a grammatically correct sentence.
It's a pity that they didn't bake in the option to turn on realistic parking lots and road sizes for the required capacity. It does have traffic jams and more roads can help, especially since the player can control induced demand far more than in reality, but allowing the player to switch between both what's a fun game and what's a realistic simulation could have gone a long way to inform a good chunk of the population on the tradeoffs and impacts of parking and other infrastructure dedicated to automobiles.
The best CEOs avoid sitting in chairs such as those chairs specifically. If you're sat there on behalf of your company, suit and tie, starting every sentence with "Senator, I.."—you have somehow messed up, big time.
Trace Pixels to Vectors in Full Color, Fully Automatically, Using AI
I do all that. But sometimes I find myself editing a file I did not create. Sometimes that file is large. Actually, that seems to happen a lot.
Or reclaim street space from cars at infinitely cheaper initial cost, time, and effort.
No, it is the correct approach. It is somewhat a zero-sum game at least in urban centers. Driving is cheap because free and cheap parking is widely available, and car speed is prioritized over other factors including pedestrian safety. Some of the huge volume of parking has to be given over to other transit modes, which will increase demand and eventually price for what remains. Urban speed limits need to be lower, pedestrians need to have more and safer ways to cross, which will also lower average speeds.

All of this will make driving less pleasant and convenient, the cost of making walking safer and easier. As it is driving is "artificially" easy, the consequence of decades of it being prioritized very highly. It needs to come down somewhat.
Personally I find Fedora's installer to be less intuitive than OpenSUSE. OpenSUSE is wizard style, while Fedora is just a page with all the options where click on the stuff you care about changing, some of which has sensible defaults and some of which is mandatory to visit. It's probably a lot more efficient once you're used to it, but it felt unintuitive the first time I used it.
It really should be a no-brainer to pay the men and women that take on the firefighting role.

I'm in the Midwest and the exodus we experienced in volunteer firefighting is extremely worrying, on top of that a recent city board meeting went side ways when a hot headed alderman couldn't keep his professionalism in check and blasted 2 recently hired firefighters because they lived outside the 25 mile zone (27, 29 respectfully), due to housing issues. Home fires have only increased since 2020, yet we twiddle our thumbs for proper pay and empowering our fire services that need it.

The police got their huge increase in budgets during 2020-2022, but I haven't heard the same for firefighters. Weird considering it's a popular service, I mean I'm not aware of a firefighter equivalent to "FTP".
The Evolution of Databases and the Future of Database Technology [audio]
Depot (YC W23) Cache v2: Faster builds and new features
That doesn't tell me much. Linux is much bigger and more used than whatever multics is. So the fact that more bugs are documented is no surprise.
Maybe they really mean aerosolized particulate lead?
The government can often repurchase its own bonds. The US Treasury started doing the same thing this month
I quite like Emily Wilson's recent translation of the Odyssey. I just wish she had kept "winged words" in, but that's a very minor thing.

For the Iliad, I have a preference for Richmond Lattimore. His is fairly true to the original and so it feels like an old story from far away, which I like. I think most people like Robert Fitzgerald better though?
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/time...

ONS says RPI is 11% this month, peaked at 14% YoY end of last year.

Highest it's been since 1980
We had this problem at one of my previous companies; glad to see someone addressing it, and the open-source approach just makes so much sense. Best of luck
I use this all the time and you can copy a range of values with multiple cursors and then paste them into the same size range. It's nice for hashes or modifying static lists that all need the same changes, but are annoying to regex for
Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light
Yeah, new bondholders profiting from the higher rates.

However, those bondholders represent a minority of the debt. Roughly speaking, new borrowing is 4-5% of GDP whilst old debt is over 100% [1].

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...
I don't believe in 10x programmer and know this term only from HN.
I live in France and after 10years programming, I never heard a collegue said "I am a 10x programmer". However, I always make sure any git project can be worked on with any IDE. I use vim, some use PyCharm and most of them use VScode and it works fine.

However, I can tell you my main pain point in using VS code vs vim: project switching. Many times I have to go quickly to another project and close it. When I code in vim this this :

ctrl+Z (go back to term)
workon project_2
vim
ctrl+P (select the file I need to see or quickly edit or show to a colleage to explain)
:q! (let's say I didn't edit anything)
fg (Go back to my main task)

Did not know how to be that fast to open/close project with a _real_ IDE.

To oppose this, there is one feature I envy of vs code: code in docker through ssh seamlessly. Unfortunately this is not even available in vscodium.
This guy must really love mattresses!
I believe plumbers used plumbum.
This is just an absolutely awful idea simply due to the weight.

The reason people are trying to get carbon nanotube electricity lines in the air is not because 'nano' is a cool word, but because they're really light while conducting electricity. Lead is, well, quite the opposite of that.
> because a much higher percent of people who click on it convert.

And even better (for the consumer), a higher percentage of people who _see_ the ad are likely to actually be interested in the topic.

This compared to the annoying ShaneCo ads that have been plauging radio stations for years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758907
To paraphrase SSethT's review -- Randy isn't ashamed to admit he's out for blood and DGAF. He'll make it rain toxic fallout, then drop 600 units of milk on you.
How the ‘Net works: an introduction to peering and transit (2008)
Perhaps, but is generally accepted that as long as you aren’t soldering at ludicrous temperatures, the quantities are very small.
Improving transit is often achieved by making driving less attractive. For instance, by creating bus-only lanes that cars may not use, or by taxing/tolling car use to fund transit improvements.
Have you tried VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS?
https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
Why have a "minimap" if your content itself is already the size of a minimap? I have a 27" monitor, and this site's content takes up a ~5 inch strip down the center of my browser, with 9 inches on each side full of whitespace. Over 75% of the page is whitespace. If you let the content grow to fill the browser window, you could read the whole thing without scrolling.
> For example, suppose an engineer who is paid $200k per year can spend a week to implement an optimization that reduces costs by 0.1%. If that is 0.1% of something that costs $50 million per year, then that's not a bad use of time.

Is it not? I don't know. I don't run a multi-million dollar business. So this is an honest question. 0.1% of $50 million is a meagre $50000. If someone is running a business that is spending $50 million per year on something, are they really going to care about a small $50k saving per year?
I doubt, that parsing code with longer identifiers really makes any noticeable difference even on old hardware. Parsing the code will most likely not be the bottleneck. Running an JS code is most likely going to take more time than parsing it. It is such a micro-optimization, that it is not worth even the development overhead of setting up a minimizer.
Agree, I thought it was about the mean (average)
The problem that Musk is going to run into is that civilization blossoms from deeply rooted lies.

Apart from necessary lies that lie at the core mechanics of civilization, anything remotely political has been long been vulnerable to outrageous grand lies that enjoy as much pressure as it takes to maintain them. Wikipedia is valuable apart from any political topic. More topics are political than many would believe.

They are going to make AI lie, as there isn't a choice in the matter. One major future problem will be the strategic war (military, business, etc) advantage of AI that is beyond the reach of censors. The reasonably accurate conclusion is likely that private and DoD AI won't be trained on lies, but all others will be.
The CDC believes that: "Lead fumes are produced during metal processing when metal is heated or soldered."

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/workerinfo.htm
This is why Wix has taken the time with releasing an AI website builder - making sure it actually works
Z-Library Challenges the Weaponization of Copyright
OpenGL vs. D3D – Servan Keondjian, Lead Architect of Direct3D, & Casey Muratori [video]
Definitely a different market/location/kind of customers/whatever, I would say 2-3% at the most.
You can use marks in (n)vim for this!

m<key> creates a mark. If <key> is a capital letter, you can jump to it across files.

'<key> jumps to the line of the mark.

`<key> jumps to the line + column of the mark.

Although this doesn't let you _edit_ at the mark. There's multiple cursor plugins for that, I suppose... (I'll note that macros are useful in a lot of the same ways as multiple cursors)

Edit: You can also use :vimgrep or another command that populates the quickfix list, and use :cdo to execute a command on every entry in the quickfix list.
Yes at that point I just wished I had the mosh client installed before boarding the plane ;-)
https://archive.li/JfCzm
"XSLT? Ok, so NOW that's the feeling of a panic attack."

Right, so here's the secret decoder ring of XSLT: Underneath all the complexity, it isn't doing ANYTHING you can't do in your language of choice armed with an XPath library. And it is often incapable of doing even some rather simple things you can do in your language of choice armed with an XPath library.

XSLT is just a terrible programming language. That's all it is. All of the magic is in the XPath part; once you've selected the nodes you're working with, XSLT is a horrifyingly awful way of manipulating them into doing what you want them to do.

XSLT is the intersection of the worst parts of declarative programming with the worst parts of functional programming, wrapped up in one of the worst ways of serializing a programming language. What confuses some people even to this day is that they see "declarative programming" and "functional" and even "standardized serialization" and accidentally credit XSLT with the benefits of such approaches, and then if XSLT doesn't work they blame themselves for failing declarative functional programming in such a wonderful serialization format. They're wrong. It's XSLT failing them, whose origin is also people who thought if they just create something declarative and functional and serialized through XML they were guaranteed to be producing something good because those things are just so Platonically good on their own that they couldn't possibly produce something useless and broken, so it was not necessary to analyze the resulting abomination to see whether it actually fulfilled the goals, because it simply by definition fulfilled the goals by virtue of being declarative and functional and in the bestest serialization ever.

Perhaps there is a declarative, functional XSLT-inspired language that could be written that would be as good as the people bedazzled by the buzzwords think XSLT is. (Though there's no world where such a language is helped by serializing into XML; serializing a language for manipulating XML into XML is actually the worst choice possible because of the nested encoding you inevitably produce!) However, in the meantime, you don't really need to wait around for someone to produce it because it turns your favorite general purpose language equipped with an XPath library is already 90%+ of the way there.
In discussions about "deletionism" I've seen people argue that, disk space being cheap, Wikipedia should try to be much more expansive than an encyclopedia.

A paper encyclopedia might not have time or space for individual entries about many hundreds of pokemon, episodes of the simpsons, or characters from star wars.
We built an encryption by proxy solution
Targeted advertising keeps the internet open
Yes - and that is basically what tools like this are doing. Automating the work of matching a template to a request, plugging in the relevant compatible components (storefront, blog, whatever) and then just customizing the the theme and filling in specific content. They aren't writing raw html and css most the time, but rather orchestrating an existing design.
Yeah, without new stock the house price falls based on the mortgage affordability. So the nominal price is lower but the overall price is the same. Works well if you’re paying cash, I guess.

But of course most people don’t have to sell. They may sit on the property to avoid taking a loss. That makes inventory tight, and means prices won’t fall as much as they otherwise would.
Promptmap – automatically tests prompt injection attacks on ChatGPT instances
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
This sounds cool but there are no instructions beyond how to download/install. After installing with npm, I tried to invoke it with `diskernet` and got some inscrutable error. https://pastebin.com/7kmcG9Fp
I went from a T440s to an XPS 13 (9310). It's my favorite "ultrabook"-type laptop I've owned so far (where the point is moderate specs in a small form factor with great battery life). It beat out my T440s for me because my t440s needed its mobo replaced TWICE because whatever about it that connected it to the trackpad and keyboard kept failing. Whereas my 9310 has been perfect.

The only real hiccup I've ever had with it was:

- when I bought it, the (intel) wlan card was too new and only arch had the driver in the kernel.

- there was some flickering/jittering display problem that started showing up when we bumped kernel major versions somewhere in 2021ish. Was it 5 to 6? Anyway it ended up being reduced by a subsequent kernel update and then fixed when I disabled panel self-refresh (PSR) in the kernel args. But I stayed on the last 5.x kernel for a while until I figured that out.

It's also generally impressed me at how well all its USB3/C stuff works. I use it with a dock while at work to drive an external display for personal stuff, and it has also driven a 49" 1440p super ultrawide which impressed me. And it's worked well even when I have literally every port on the dock populated with something or other: display, nic, mouse, kb, webcam, etc etc. with some docks or some laptops I've found that you usually find limitations as you try to use every single port simultaneously.

I tend to hold on to laptops that I know work well with all my stuff for well past their technical relevance - I used my t440s until it stopped reliably booting (which for a laptop going on 8ish? years old after working fine after it's last mobo replacement 7 years ago is my sign for "ok time to upgrade"). So I'll probably have this 9310 for a while.

...I should replace the SSD. They're very cheap and stupid fast now, something that has changed in the past few years.
Oh no, I need at the very least timeoutlen, visualbell and line number. I type that manually when I SSH if I must. Don't want to wait for ESC, no beeps at all and I wanna know where I am on the document.

And lots more is needed for decent Vim IMO. smartcase, set hidden, etc.
Trusting humans including experts.
The Norman Polmar book on the topic is fairly interesting. Also, I've really turned into my dad reading Cold War non-fiction in bed.
Welcome to my world. I deal with this everyday. 25 years in enterprise software for medium to large companies...
Carbon nanoparticles might pose their own risk, though my intuition suggests the threat is not as immediate or great as that from lead
No.

If they add enough value to justify their existence, shouldn't they also turn a profit?

In all other cases, you are just taxing people who don't benefit from those airports to subsidize the few people who do benefit.