skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that one should never change the letterspacing of the lowercase letters

But with the microtype package it is acceptable to slightly expand or contract the letters to avoid hyphenation. Typically the limit is set to around 0.025em.

Anecdotally if you are applying letterspacing to uppercase letters, 0.025em is also a good default value to use.
> > Banks and credit unions of all sizes can sign up and use this tool to instantly transfer money for their customers, any time of the day, on any day of the year.

> Whoa. Is this as awesome as it sounds? Is this akin to government-backed Venmo, or something?

No, under the hood it's a government Blockchain
> > Is this akin to government-backed Venmo, or something?

> Yes, exactly. But you have to keep in mind that this is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it's going to be convenient and probably secure. On the other hand, it's going to let the government see every transaction you make, which for some people will be a very high price to pay.

No, exactly wrong. It's a gov Blockchain
Canva Saved Millions on Data Storage
a) I don't think a Gallup poll is useful information :P

b) I thought we were talking about being onboard in landslide elections, as you quoted so many messages ago.
Yeah. People like to push that there are “legitimate reasons” to want old versions, but it usually comes down to businesses.

I would suggest instead that there are no legitimate reasons, and that businesses who are requiring old software are at best being negligent.

I’ve worked with people that refuse to modernize and update and it’s always the same stupid thing: “cost”. We really do need strong regulations on businesses that negligently refuse keep reasonably up to date.
I asked it to generate something similar for golang with a snippet of the list section, and the results look pretty similar. So I don't think it's relying too heavily on a direct example.
Good point! It works well at documentation changes.

We currently have it check the github actions, but this is definitely not enough. Thanks for bringing this up, we'll continue improving how Sweep tests code.

Currently we only support GPT4. We're really excited for open source, but GPT4 is the best at code generation.
I don't think you understand what the future holds. Everyone can have a studio scan their bodies and faces and then they can be the ones in the movies.

No more actors.
I mean it pre-dates probably every open source MQ implementation, for starters.
I agree. This is another acronym I struggle to recognise when I see it despite being reasonably familiar with the first three volumes since my high school and college days back in the 80's.
If they took infosec seriously, they wouldn't continue using Microsoft products for national security sensitive applications.
You're right the documentation is incomplete, we are actively working on the protocol and for any sections that we feel are too much "up in the air" as far as details go, we have purposefully left blank so as to not mislead implementations of the protocol.

However, the core of the protocol is stabilizing and I can answer generally as far as missing sections go. Regarding federation, instead of publishing events to the server you're connected to, you publish events to a different server. Everything else works pretty much the same.
> childhoods

20 year olds shouldn't be considered culpable for attempted murder now? Madness.

This is an important biographical detail not only because attempted murder is always relevant, but also because it is relevant to his involvement in an idea to poison Germany's food supply with radioactive strontium.

Edit for correction: it happened in 1926, he was 22 years old.
The Times review says this attempted murder is Oppenheimer's first significant act in the film.
https://archive.is/4Te0f
> DeFi/crypto went through this phase 2 years ago.

A key difference is that these things, no matter how impressive their technical merits, required people to completely reshape whatever they were doing to get the first bit of benefit.

Modern AI (and really, usually LLMs) has immediate and broad applicability across nearly every economic sector, and that's why so many of us are already building and releasing features with it. There's incredible value in this stuff. Completely world-changing? No. But enough to create new product categories and fundamentally improve large swaths of existing product capabilities? Absolutely.
Hopefully it resolves it. I don't want to live in a society where Mastercard or Visa defines if your business is "moral" enough to operate.

Then you have Obama with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point trying to circumvent the Congress and the Judiciary.
Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb is deservedly regarded as a classic, but Dark Sun doesn't live up to the same standard [1]. For people interested in the technical history of the H-bomb, Anne Fitzpatrick's PhD thesis Igniting the Light Elements: The Los Alamos Thermonuclear Weapon Project, 1942-1952 is as good a single-document source as I've ever read:

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10596

[1] Some reasons for the difference discussed here: https://old.reddit.com/r/nuclearweapons/comments/wr2pav/why_...
800 and even the 400 were mighty expensive. They arrived slightly before 1980 and this was the very start of the home computer era. The price was sky high, and it took a few years for the XL and the price wars with Commodore to make home computing truly affordable for the masses.

The Polish continued to buy 8-bit XE's when the rest of the first world was moving to 16-bit in the early 90s (68000, 286). They weren't missing out on much in my opinion; I think 16-bit for both computing and consoles didn't add much. Once the 386sx arrived it made the PC truly affordable and capable; the software system was still 16-bit DOS/Win3, and these PC's were ready and waiting for 32-bit software, which with the birth of Linux and BSD catapulted the PC into the true computing age.
Yeah for those who wish to go deeper Stumpf’s Minuteman and Titan histories are good resources as well. There is also the Effects of Nuclear Weapons.
I enabled it, entered my custom prompts successfully, then when I reloaded the page the option had disappeared entirely from my settings menu.
https://archive.is/0a6wh
It says I need Qt5 LTS to install that, is that a paid application?
This argument makes sense if you don't consider the large portion of the population for whom credit cards are unavailable.
Metaphors are a fine way to understand an idea if one accepts that their purpose is to leverage an existing understanding of something, and that they're lossy. So I guess my issue with your comment's second half is that I don't think metaphors are being used as a shortcut to a full and complete understanding of a topic. They're an aid and I think that is mostly how they're used, IME. I don't think they should be written off.
https://research.google/pubs/pub47055/
> How was wobbly windows useful?

It warmed my soul. It's the only thing I really miss since switching to i3.
Only if we can use our Yubikey to sign the document...
I'm a bit confused by your examples.

Lit templates and massively different from Angular templates, and more like React templates if anything. All Lit control flow and expressions are just JavaScript in Lit, like React, and different from Angular.

Directives in Lit are just JavaScript function calls you use in bindings. In Angular they are things that get access to the template and contents themselves.

Angular doesn't have a concept similar to Reactive Controllers that I know of. They are more similar to custom React hooks.
Yes. The person whom the alleged noxious apple was left for was his tutor. Children have tutors. Adults far more rarely.
Ditto. 99.99% of the time I would never watch such a video. It was a special case.

Recently watched a video of a guy painting a driveway with great satisfaction.

But yes, I too am astonished. A picture is worth a thousand words. Video a million. But youtube videos of this genre, they grind it down to a dozen. It's impressive.
lol use this analogy for surgeons. Every heart bypass is love letter to other surgeon.
Maybe if our democracy wasn't broken this wouldn't be an issue. The government is supposed to be ran by us, but it's been taken over by bureaucrat cosmopolitans & multi-national corps who have a distinct will to power.
I think we’re making a similar point, but I’d frame it slightly differently. For Asians, racialization is situational. Growing up, I rarely thought about race. Outside of dating and sports, physical differences never came up.

And now, Asians are racialized from both sides. And on the left, it’s this pernicious sort of racialization where we’re “people of color” when they’re trying to show how big their coalition is, but expected to “check our privilege” like white people and defer to the interests of black people and Latinos.
While he did attack two men, the blinded victim actually lost his eye prior to the incident and claimed Wahlberg didn't inflict any lasting damage. Apparently Marky Mark mistakenly believed he blinded the man. Not that I'm defending him, I don't even like him.
The lesson was that facts can and do expire. Truth relies on facts. Ergo, a past truth expires when its replacement fact is revealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
> My only complaint is that it is very expensive.

On the one hand, I guess. On the other hand, I have a pile of the WebSphere product stack in my life. The app server is ten times the cost of MQ. WPS is another ten times the cost of the app server. It looks cheap when you're buying the really expensive stuff!

Also if you're using MQ for things like guaranteed delivery and making use of clustering and security controls I suspect it's cheaper to pony up for the IBM software than it is to spend time messing about in the thickets of the free alternatives.
FedNow doesn't change anything other than transaction speed & cost. If your concern is the Fed giving people money directly, they've had the technical capability for a very long time.
YOLO - sometimes it's worth paying more money for something someone has actually sat down and designed properly.
Yes, war is bad and sad for the Sudanese but are you serious about messing with my fizzy drink?!?!
> Claim a random pixel for yourself [...] yours, and yours only, for the next 8 hours. [...] You can claim up to 4 pixels at a time.

Why not 1 at a time, and you can claim another immediately after completing the previous?

And if you have 4 pixels awaiting verification, you cannot claim another pixel unless and until one of those pixels is verified?
I think a lot of people would still prefer to write and read the Lit version of that <like-button> too: https://lit.dev/playground/#gist=25ef7a5ea9b73406b4418ba59cf...

@customElement('like-button')
class LikeButton extends LitElement {

@property()
liked = false;

render() {
return this.liked
? 'You liked this.'
: html`<button @click=${() => this.liked = true}>Like</button>`;
}
}
Hard disagree on AI being just a bubble with limited applicability.

> It won't be able to self-drive cars due to all the edge cases, it won't be able to perform surgeries because it might kill people, etc.

You literally just cherry-picked the most difficult applications of AI. The vast majority of peoples' jobs don't involve life or death, and thus are ripe for automation. And even if the life or death jobs retain a human element, they will most certainly be augmented by AI agents. For example a surgery might still be handled by a human, but it will probably become mandatory for a doctor or nurse to diagnose a patient in conjunction with an AI.

> We went through a similar bubble a few years ago with chatbots

Are you honestly comparing that to now? ChatGPT got to 100 million users in a few months and everyone and their grandma has used it. I wasn't even aware of any chatbot bubble a few years ago, it certainly wasn't that significant.

> even the most useful AI tools (Copilot, etc.) are marginally useful at best

Sure, but you're literally seeing them in their worst versions. ChatGPT has been a life-changer for me, and it doesn't even execute code yet (Code Interpreter does though, which I haven't tested yet)

By 2030 humans probably won't be typing code anymore, it'll just be prompting machines and directing AI agents. By then most peoples' jobs will also be automated.

AI isn't just some fad, it's going to change literally every industry, and way faster than people think. The cynicism here trying to dismiss the implications of AI by comparing it to the metaverse are just absurd and utterly lacking in imagination. Yes there is still a lot of work that needs to be done, specifically in the AI agent side of things, but we will get there, probably way faster than people realize, and the implications are enormous.
In many ways, I like the spirit of this post. I've tried a bit of it myself, since I'm interested in questions that aren't easily packaged for a grant (in the current era/error).

BUT:
"And second, for the first time in human history, the tools of science are cheap, and knowledge is nearly free. Your laptop can store and analyze more data than Galileo could have even imagined."

A big chunk of the problem in biology is with the data being collected. Garbage in, garbage out. If you aren't running real experiments, not just pushing bytes around, you are unlikely to find something truly novel. (I say this as a computational biologist who pushes lots of bytes around.) Good luck affording modern tools and data collection on your own dime. The bar for new discoveries is simply higher than the past.

ARPA-H (DARPA for healthcare) was recently established, which will be interesting to watch. However, I'm pessimistic that anything will significantly change until the current system crashes and burns under its own weight. Nevertheless, incremental progress is still happening in biology even if it lacks elegance and involves a lot of missteps. Some of it even makes it to the real world (e.g., current trends in cancer survival rates).
it's remarkable to me that one can write an entire essay about Piranesi without even mentioning Susanna Clarke's great novel PIRANESI, a pretty significant instance of his cultural influence!
I think a comment like the one you are replying to is much more useful than “oh wow that’s really impressive”. It provides a place for other people to explain why the thing actually makes sense.

I too never understood how is this project better than a website and thanks to the dismissive comment and the subthread it spawned I now had a chance to read some reasonable explanations.
Singapore has had extremely aggressive settlement (and availability!) requirements for a while now, and doesn't seem to have collapsed.
I am super interested in learning more about the storage subsystem! I figured they'd be using ZFS, given the people involved, but it appears they've also gone ahead and built a clustered FS (crucible) on top of it? I figured something like that would be necessary to handle fault tolerance at the gimlet level. (Losing an entire shelf / drive controller, etc.) Getting ZFS to go multi-node is surely a neat trick.

Second to that I just want to say the presentation of these docs is top notch. (I so desperately wish I was the target customer for these systems; reading these docs makes me want to do terrible things to my electrical service and play with one of these racks.)
Anonymity and Identity Online (toxic speech in economics)
The paper that used a cool reverse of unsalted SHA-1 identifiers to rock the economics world recently by highlighting the prevalence of toxic speech in elite economics centres.
Great, wake me back up when they have some real news.
I know as much story as he gave and 3 kids + spouse(who is either working and bringing in income or is stay at home and they don’t have daycare costs) doesn’t fit anywhere in the US as being leveraged to the hilt unless you are living in the lap of luxury or bad with money.

I’m assuming they work in tech and so can handle the math behind finances which really only leaves living way beyond their means. I think that’s backed up him disparaging needing to live in houses near a highway as part of why he would get divorced.
He was *22 years old, at Cambridge. He should have been expelled for it (not to mention criminally charged) but his father was wealthy so normal rules didn't apply.
I’ve only ever touched React as a “so and so needs a hand on this bug” or “we want this feature added to legacy while the React team works on the new version”, so I was already going into a codebase that had long been abandoned in all but usage.

That said, it was a nightmare. I think we had state managed by vuex, and I just needed to add a new data point to the component and display it. But the data needed to be added to state…so I think I touched 6-7 files, adding mutators and updating definitions etc.

The experience put me off of React, though I do imagine a lot of that comes down to how the code is initially structured and maintained. It’s clear that whatever they were doing was more “make it work now” and it so much worrying about the future.
I just went into beta features, enabled it and then immediately started writing my custom instruction. A few minutes later I tried to save the instruction and I received an error. I then refreshed the page, and discovered neither the beta option toggle nor the custom instructions panel were available. I live in Australia (I noticed it's not available in the EU or UK) and I wonder if we can't get it here in Australia or they have pulled the feature for now?

Also, I just noticed that my chats are following my custom instructions, even though the settings panel is no longer there.
American Prometheus (the book on which the film is primarily based) covers the event in detail.
"Every pirate wants to be an Admiral"

-- Cory Doctorow

https://nitter.net/doctorow/status/1387098297282621442
Torys are intent on policing and micromanaging citizens by violating their private lives and their values to cherrypick who to judge, shame, and prosecute as part of a greater vision of self-righteous, "moral" "conservatism" in the spirit of Iran's morality police.
From the enterprise perspective, gen AI tools are already incredibly powerful accelerators of productivity. The problem is it's unevenly distributed. Adoption at some companies is probably close to 100%, and at others maybe 1 or 2%.

In 6 months to a year we'll really start to see the outcomes of those employees that know how to use these tools and those that don't diverge, and companies are going to pour a lot of resources into providing training and access to them.
I'd just like to add that the fact the Lunar Module was flown successfully, when there was zero experience of flying it in 1/6 normal gravity, was a remarkable achievement, even more so when first time it was done there was 20 seconds of fuel left when they landed.

I know there were flying simulators which attempted to simulate 1/6G in earth gravity but I still find it an amazing feat, and a great tribute to everyone involved, particularly, those with their hands on the controls.
“ Just like I could with a photocopier, a VCR, or my own memory. That doesn’t mean we need to limit what the model can do, any more than we need to limit what a VCR can copy. ”

We absolutely limit what we can do with vcrs - they have copy protection, and their modern counterparts do too.

Your memory cant ingest millions of books and then spew them out. Nor can you regurgitate content form memory in certain circumstances. For instance you cant memorise a song and then sing it commercially without paying copyright royalties.

You cant copy books with a photoscanner at scale without getting in trouble.

Why are all these folks in favour of stealing people’s ip using such weak arguments? They all parrot the same nonsense. Are ai folks really desperate that their tech is worthless without theft and thus they want to convince everyone that giving up their work for free so they can monetise it is… good?
I wonder if it would work to have a page that summarizes and several other that focus on project specifics? Maybe with a disclaimer at the top of the project pages that says "Supplement, you do not need to read this unless you are curious or a keyword algorithm, see simplified first page" or something.
I disagree. Good code is code that is indistinguishable in style and convention from all adjacent code. I always advise juniors two things:

1) your code will be written once but read a thousand times

2) if you want to make your mark with style and convention start an OSS project of your own, otherwise make your mark through the simplicity and elegance of your logic, not the way your code contrasts from the code base.
Good, thank you.
Ellen is of course always top of mind for me.
In the UK if a financial institution didn't support FPS it would fallback to the existing system with 3-5 days clearance.

Eventually they all got on-board and now money is sent in seconds between accounts.

It didn't replace credit cards or direct debit but it's the reason why nothing like Zelle exists in the UK.

There's also some added benefits like being able to withdraw money from Paypal pretty much instantly.
Not following the deduction--the 60 in Algol 60 refers to 1960. Simula was influenced by and implemented in Algol 60.
Yep, S3 Glacier = cheap cost of storage/month
If it’s a permanent market shift why would the costs in your area stay the same?

And again you’re trying to bring up that living like the vast majority of your countrymen is unacceptable. How gated is your compound that you don’t have any leaded gas fumes in the air? If you’re in a HCOL area then you’re either on a super luxury property or by a city with airports and airplanes have leaded fuel last I checked(2010-2012)
What the China-India detente means for the West
https://archive.is/tWZHh
Will this replace ACH and/or Plaid for sending money amongst my own various accounts, as well, or is it intended more as a 'payment' than a tranfer?
I think you're right, I already asked it for some libraries that are not included in the original (fuck my life :)
https://gist.github.com/gto76/9ed16511a046d9746d38c55a14ec09...
It is impossible to guarantee any output from this system. Anyone telling you otherwise is a liar.
After giving the "Known Behavior and Limitations" a scroll here https://docs.oxide.computer/release-notes/system/1-0-0
It seems a little... half baked? Especially for a company whose specialty is the integrated management platform. Interested to see customer reviews.
Yeah, that's the only thing I (and I would bet 99.999% of everyone else) have ever understood it to mean.
Credit cards also have really good consumer protection laws around them. I have 30 days to report any fraudulent transactions and on my card and the bank MUST give me my money back.
So, almost like SEPA, but not as good, as not all banks are in it? I can type anyone's IBAN* into my banking app and transfer them money pretty much instantly. However, ours will have a delay outside banking hours, which is annoying. Sounds like FedNow is always instant, which is a definite improvement.

* Any IBAN from a SEPA country, at least.
i don't agree with this take at all.

good code solves the problem at hand.
good code is as simple as possible.
good code is testable and tested.
good code is minimal.
good code is performant.
good code is maintainable.
good code is understandable.

yes it matters somewhat that you have some consistency of the way you code. that's a secondary thing
For whatever it's worth, I think the reason the doc site was submitted to HN recently is in fact because of our recent episode on the frontend.[0] We have really enjoyed doing Oxide and Friends, and if you're an On the Metal listener, we think you'll find a lot to like!

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-fronten...
Power of Keys in Framer Motion
I'm in the US and I'm not seeing them available despite being a paid user.