skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original paper [0] envisages a much wider scope. Vrandecic literally quotes "a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of
all knowledge".

It also makes the task of the editor much, much more difficult than it is now.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04733.pdf
I was with a boss who refused to listen, that's for sure. Not the whole company, just him. This ended in me burned out and him gotten fired (I think I have been the one too many).

Retrspectively, the guy created the conditions of a failing project and I was too unexperimented/weak to say "no" (it's pretty hard to say "we can't do it" when everythign around you ask for "we can do it"). Big lesson learned: have the courage to say no.

Fortunately, the company noticed and dropped in some additional management and the projcet went on. But it was too late for my health :-(

So, yeah, you can say it's nothing to do with company's core values but nevertheless, I got that feeling. And eventhough I may not be a great PM, I trust my feelings pretty much.
Option 1: Confront your mental blocks and shitty life with depression.

Option 2: Confront your mental blocks and shitty life with less depression (due to pharmacology).

Option 3: Confront your mental blocks and shitty life with a guide and less depression (due to pharmacology and therapist).

Option 4: Wait for the law of averages. https://youtu.be/3s_BqdZrUbE

I'm taking option 3 all day, every day.* (e.g. I agree with you. They should always be done in tandem / there is no silver bullet).

*It's very important that your therapist shares your zeitgeist or directly counters it as a devils advocate. The drugs... not so much.
very accurate. I would humbly add:

* handling the sheer amount of times that somebody says something is going to happen and then the complete opposite happens, because they lied/they didn't have information/they were projecting their desire/they are out of touch with reality
There's no way to make it work with the old ABI. Because sizeof(PyObject) is fixed in the old ABI, there's simply no way to attach additional information (e.g. the new cross-thread ref count) to every Python object. The Python ABI (even the "limited" stable ABI) exposes too many implementation details, it's not really possible to make any fundamental changes to the Python interpreter without breaking that ABI.

You could have a single new ABI supporting both no-GIL and with-GIL, but it wouldn't be compatible with the existing stable ABI.
It was a business thing. Business travelers works get there company to pay for the WiFi. So it was expensive. And it wasn't a US thing. I ran into the same issue in Europe.
Prob the person writing this nonsense is getting a decent money out of it.
>If you offer the right incentives and opportunites to the wrong people,

Then you didn't offer the right incentives and opportunities. GP simplified it correctly.

Most people aren't lazy or malicious in the face of good rewards, they just realize there's no point working 5x for 1.1x the income after putting in 3x the effort fighting for that 10% raise. If you can't filter them out through hiring practices or termination, you're doing something wrong or you're experiencing the downside of supply/demand.

The only non-trivial thing here is the owners pushing the downside of that market back onto the managers to magically solve, because we all know saying "that's not possible" is going to make you the target of 'disciplinary actions' instead. Welcome to the catch-22 that is management, enjoy your stay.
Doesn't mean much. With as much SEC scrutiny as the company is currently undergoing, he'd be a fool to run afoul of insider trading laws, which strongly implies that he's not in possession of any material non-public information. Besides, there are lots of reasons to sell, but only one reason to buy. Based on that chart, I'm far more interested in what Fred Ehrsam is thinking…
Can you share a little what technologies you used? Like you use actual models or using a third party service? I mean from a privacy point of view, it's plugged to others services?
Why is it hard to make in bulk? I thought the chemicals were easy and cheap to obtain, and then you bake it at a high temp?

What makes it difficult?
Because no true ScotsCoin.
> I upvoted just because you didn't like it.

Hmm, this sounds almost "edgy"? But then again OpenTTD is a lovely game and well worth the look for anyone who's one of today's lucky 10'000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

It has low hardware requirements, runs on many platforms, has multiplayer that "just works" and a rich scene of user created content, like alternate graphics/sound/music packs and plenty of maps, some of which are inspired by real world locations! It, alongside Jagged Alliance 2, is one of my go-to games if I ever want to play something on really low end hardware (think netbook), or just look at some nice pixel graphics.

For anyone with better hardware, I think that Transport Fever is a lovely 3D game, probably well worth it on a sale: https://store.steampowered.com/app/446800/Transport_Fever/ and the 2nd game in the series has perhaps the best UI in any game like this, period (OpenTTD one kind of sucks): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066780/Transport_Fever_2...

Some might also enjoy the 3D but grid driven approach of Mashinky, although that is in early access (no planes yet, but development seems active): https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/

And also there's a city builder game with industries and transportation called Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, where you build the city instead of letting it grow organically like in other games (placing infrastructure in the middle of an existing city was annoying in OpenTTD): https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources...

Hopefully that adds to the discussion a little bit, thankfully it doesn't seem like this genre is lacking in games! But when you don't want to invest any money into it, OpenTTD is well worth a play, or to just serve as a nice entry point into the genre. There's also a Wiki with tutorials and such: https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Manual/Tutorial/
Show HN: A Notion-like platform for building interactive models
Hey HN. I wanted to share an update to our previous thread, “Notion with problem solving capabilities”.

The Decipad public beta is now live. You can try it for free here. https://www.decipad.com/

We started building Decipad to make numbers more expressive and playful. It’s a notebook environment where you can combine text, numbers, data and calculations into a story.

Our goal is to help people communicate with numbers more effectively and collaborate across diverse backgrounds. It’s feels a bit like Notion, but it’s for building interactive models and reports.

A few things we’ve been addressing building Decipad…

- A friendly modelling experience: You can express variables and calculations with quasi-natural language and connect them with tables, charts, pivot tables and other widgets.

- Unit expression: we built Decipad on a powerful unit system. You can assign labels and units to your data, like, `Cost = $5 per month per seat.`

- Dimensional Categories: Expressing relationships between variables and categories, making a model easy to adapt. We wrote about it here: https://www.decipad.com/blog/breaking-the-grid-overcoming-di...

- Connecting Data: Ability to connect data sources directly to your notebook. Right now, it’s intended for technical users. You can use JS and SQL to run a query.

We’re still exploring several areas like support for large data sets and building more UX interactions on top of our language to make modeling even more approachable and collaborative.

We would love to get feedback or any thoughts on our approach.
It sounds like the court considers facebook a publisher. Which is true in the everyday sense, of course.
Could this be the new 4 minute mile? Will [humanity] evacuate on ourselves?

Whatever this may be, it’s exciting.
> Every time I’ve predicted a return to normality for Twitter, it’s been predicated on the simple fact that Mr Musk is not just playing with his own money, but money from a variety of investors.

This is your brain on the efficient market hypothesis. Back in the real world, well, look at what Softbank invests in. I wouldn't depend on large investors to impose order; it can certainly happen but it's not guaranteed (particularly, you'd think, with investors who might be inclined to invest in weird Elon-y projects in the first place; there's a selection bias here).

More generally, the piece seems to be essentially a long-winded version of the 4d chess thing; he's rich, so there _must_ be a sensible plan... Right? Right?
Then everything is a security, because you can exchange anything for money while saying words.
If he went on the date with them you’d think he might already know their name. If not it probably wasn’t a good date.
That seems a bit dubious, can you point to any research which backs up this statement? Intuitively it seems to me like you would need to be switching input devices extremely often to avoid RSI (as in, once every few MINUTES rather than every few months).

Personally, the only real solution to fix RSI has been strength training & regular breaks during work.
The language part is the least of the problem. I would gladly develop in Turbo Pascal if it had the libraries I need. People use Python because of the ecosystem. PyTorch, Scikit learn, numpy, pandas, and many many other libraries built on top of those libraries.
We have the space already we just have to move the and build infrastructure. The nonsense is all commercial based. There is no need to know anything about visitors to a site unless you want to make money.
Now I know why you should never use your real email and/or phone number when signing up for a service.
Update your AMD hosts now to mitigate the Zenbleed exploit
Curl Command Line Variables
Why is it news that Meta has to answer to a subpoena issued by a court in a country they operate in legally?

I was under the impression that this is routine.
>housing prices, across all houses, not the cherry picked most expensive subset you picked, when adjusted correctly, have been pretty flat. Care to address that?

>median home prices since 1950, inflation adjusted, have not even doubled since 1950

"Not even doubled" = basically flat.

Sure buddy. The single biggest purchase most people will ever make, let's call an 80% increase a rounding error.

>No wonder you believe the highest component of house cost is land. You have not presented actual numbers, only picked the subsets that you like.

If you're going to put all this effort into finding stats then you should first work on your reading comprehension. Here's what I actually said:

>the vast majority of the *increase* of property values is _land_.
> It's also difficult to synthesize in bulk

Is there any hard limitation that prevents synthesizing in bulk? If not, I would not worry about this at the moment and if it proves to be a material with desirable properties just leave it up to the engineers who will hopefully find a suitable production process.
15 years later.
Most bridges should just work, some require messing around a bit, also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36939480, I haven't debugged this yet.

You can find some bridge documentation here: https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/blob/next/APPSERVICES.m...
The Zenbleed exploit was announced about a week ago, however the Register wrongly and dangerously claims that it doesn't affect QEMU or "any form of emulation".

We were able to run the exploit inside of a Firecracker VM with KVM, and of course Docker, K8s etc has the same set of issues.

Short story - if you're running an AMD CPU, check the exploit (it's very quick) and update your OS.
For the most part, ML doesn't control high-risk things with a human in the loop. The worst cases for ML so far have been stock market crashes from algo trading.

Its entirely possible that an update to self-driving car's algorithms cause a day of chaos as the self-driving cars lose control and crash. Worst case scenario.

I agree that the secondary effects of the ML systems are going to be far worse than the primary. We can only see how it goes.
There is a mixup here between different flavours of polymorphism.

_Generic does ad-hoc polymorphism via type-based dispatch in order to implement function overloading.

Macros are more like a limited form of parametric polymorphism, in that they are polymorphic up to what is allowed by the operations they apply to their arguments. In C that typically means relying on implicit or explicit coercions, or C’s mildly overloaded operators.
This looks so useful! I've worked with so many legacy tools that have awful UX and only some random graybeard knows how to use, I'd love to add a copilot to some of those tools so that I (and my non-technical coworkers) don't have to figure out how to use them.

I'm thinking about random ERP tools, internal dashboards, etc.
And "proportioned" (as opposed to "proportional") is not about a mathematical relationship at all, but about the proportions of somebody or something, as in the shape: a perfectly-proportioned body, a badly-proportioned room, a generously-proportioned seat; an accompanying adverb is usually (always?) required.
There's no such thing as Scottish pounds or English pounds, the UK uses pound sterling (internationally abbreviated to GBP).

There are English banknotes and Scottish banknotes, but they're the same currency.
I'm having trouble seeing this being a major thing in a decade or two. To me it looks more like we're running towards more control in the name of stopping hate. ID verification to access internet and social media seem more likely. Sell it as a way to stop pedophiles on social media, kids from accessing violent/nude content, and people from posting hate. We don't have anything to hide, right?

Even if a platform wanted, the laws will prohibit it by requiring user knowledge.
I think I was overwhelmed with pressure. Actually, the team was also overwhelmed (a few people went away).

In the beginning of the project, I tried reorganize things, etc. And it went well for a month then pressure from the customer mounted again. And although I explained that things would be more expensive than planned, nobody wanted to listen. And ultimately, nobody stepped up to say "it won't work as expected", all the eyeballs were looking at me to say it. Which was difficult for me.

I should have realized that my boss was wrong and that I had to reach for help to someone else. I think I was too inexperienced to understand that soon enough.
Time for a fork written in rust, right?
Reminds me of the time when mobile data was still expensive and I did not have it.
If I needed to chat with somebody and I was not home I would sit in the street waiting to get a few seconds of WiFi from busses would drive past. Worked quite well for sending and receiving messages.
The plaintiff is not anonymous.
No. "trust me that I will do something great with your money and eventually return it to you, I promise" is not part of the deal when you buy a token.

1: Some of the deals are "Someone built this thing which is now out of their control. But this thing can be used with these tokes. Want some?".

2: Some of the deals are "I built this thing which is now out of my control. But this thing can be used with these tokes. Want some?".

3: Some of the deals are "I built this thing which is now kinda out of my control. I might be able to change it later, but only if the community stays behind me. Anyhow, this thing can be used with these tokes. Want some?".

The SEC argues that many tokens fall into category 3 and that 3 is close enough to a security that the SEC should have a say in this.
Where are you pulling this from? The article does not discuss the nature of the messages in any way.
Goes to show how much better bad news travels, and/or how it sticks in the mind. I could have sworn that the DevShare thing was more recent than from 2013 to 2016, and until looking it up just now I was unaware SF had officially ended the practise (with the change if ownership in 2016).
True, but not enough:

> The court's ruling mandates Meta to disclose key identifying information, including the username, email address, telephone number, and the IP address used during registration and logins.
> Overpass is not just "mining OSM data", overpass is quite an extremely efficient language and system plugged to a GIS database, that can be used to find a lot of things.

I think I’m lost here because what you are describing is exactly the meaning of mining openstreet map data. That’s the GIS database they use.
> currently you can't do it at all

Is not true. First of all, Python threads are mapped to OS threads. So, you can do "something". Now, in CPython C API there are tools for releasing and acquiring the global lock. They aren't complicated, and I used them in my own extensions. Not sure how popular across other extensions is this practice, but, at least some do use it. Some Python native functions release and acquire this lock while running in non-main thread. For the most part, it's the functions that perform blocking I/O.

To sum this up and to make it easier to conceptualize, I describe this as Python can sleep concurrently, but can do no work concurrently.

As to "obscure multithreading cases"... well, ironically, some Python libraries use Python threads unironically... I believe Paramico uses them, but this is from memory, so please don't blame me if that's not the case. It's not very popular, but some have actually used threads. Typically it gives you no benefits when using Python, but on an odd day... There's also a thing about when Python threads can switch, which makes certain code impossible to race, but also makes some particular edge cases of errors harder to reproduce.

So, developers working on libraries that don't use any multithreading will probably not notice, but, these cases are rare because Python is on the path of dependency bloat. Which means that in a large enough project, you are bound to get a library that uses threads. And then you will be impacted by the bugs in multithreading even though you, personally, had nothing to do with it.
"Did you write tests?" "No, but I'm confident. Let's put this in production!!!" is not exactly the change the world needs.
I thought it's the opposite.
I don't see any connection to the topic at hand.
To the degree they bother enforcing it. I still see lots of vanity accounts people create for their dogs and cats, for example.
My point is that there’s no point in complaining that a JSON API doesn’t have any particular semantics like the ones you want. If an API says that the format it returns is “JSON”, then what it actually means is that it’s some ad hoc format cooked up on the spot that uses JSON syntax. The problem is not that JSON doesn’t include semantics – that’s out of scope for JSON – the problem is that the API in question half-assed its format design.

> standardization of @id and @type special attributes by JSON-LD sound like a good step forward

But those were standardised. In the JSON-LD spec.

If you want a format that has specified semantics, use a format that has specified semantics. Like JSON-LD. JSON only solves the syntax part of the problem, by design. It’s not there to define semantics, that’s what formats built on top of JSON do.
Thank you, this was a nice find.
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2017)
Resource intensity of gdp in developed economies has been decreasing over time. That’s because wealth is not a zero sum game that necessarily requires an exterior to take the negative side of the equation. Rather wealth is created when better options are made available- when actors within the system have superior choices to what they had before. That’s why you see some entertainment media produce outsize returns while others end up failing; it’s not a matter of how much resources are consumed but rather how they’re put together to make a better story (better from the consumer perspective versus their alternatives).
Places that take terrorism threats seriously have multiple checkpoints spread out everywhere for that reason.

Not only large queues are an ideal spot to bomb if the goal is to make a lot of victims, but not having a well defined location for security checks makes it more difficult for terrorists to plan around.
> The SEC said its enforcement division did not make formal requests for “companies to delist crypto assets”.

> “In the course of an investigation, the staff may share its own view as to what conduct may raise questions for the commission under the securities laws,” it added.

That’s insane.

The lesson here is that if you get any communication from the SEC, document it and reply back asking if that’s an official communication of the SEC or just the meaningless “view” of a staff member.
I support the idea of anonymous accounts, but they should not be available easily to everyone. Perhaps they should start out in a sandbox, and of course, monitored more actively for signs of abuse.

Other account types should really have a verified identity imo. It would drastically limit the amount of abuse.
I translated a survey about LK-99 papers to English

https://hackmd.io/DMjYGOJFRheZw5XZU8kqKg
There's a feature where you can post to groups anonymously, still using your real account, rather than creating a new account with fake data to make you appear anonymous.
PRC kneecapping softtech so hard tech like semi get first dibs on talent, hence hard tech jobs and wages up. They figured it's probably bad use of resources to waste talent refining DiDi delivery by +5 seconds or pervasive Edtech making child rearing onerous. Plenty of movement in LLM AI space, people are conflating unfinished regulations with broad AI kneecapping which isn't actually happening. FDI is basically drop in the bucket to domestic investment and has been for a while. Investment as % of GDP in PRC is ~40% vs EU/US/OECD 20-30%. It's stupid high. West overinflate importance of their low single digit percentage / non substantive investment in PRC.

On semi, you're comparing building things that US should already be able to build, advanced fabs that they have entire tech supply access to VS PRC trying to replicate / close gap to tech they don't have, i.e. it's an innovation not construction problem. Where it's a construction issue, i.e. large nodes, PRC is building like crazy and mostly on schedule. Significant delays are in 28nm and smaller fabs due to escalating export controls by US who has to literally roadblock PRC from being on schedule. US systematically self-sabatoges so she has to also sabatoge PRC to ensure gap doesn't close.

On PRC shifting from big fund, that's due to US sanctions/export controls forcing PRC semi to actually focus on indigenous tech. Big fund was wasteful carrot trying to get PRC semi to indigenize, but no one wanted to when access to mature western tech was available. Now it's not, so incentive structure different, as stated in article itself. See major companies in PRC semi have explosive growth in last couple years... without big fund tier subsidy because sanctions have made them viable. US sticks works better than PRC carrots. No one's fucking around trying buying US/western equipment anymore and doubling down on actually developing and integrating indigenous semi supply chain since unlike bigfund era when situation wasn't existential and bigfund basically opportunity to graft.

PRC is behind only in the sense that US has to actively keep PRC down (which is US right), US CHIPS has no reason to be behind other than lack of human capita and inability to build. BTW there's a reason TSMC/Samsung expanded to PRC before US, and US had to sanction/export control their way to prevent PRC from leading gaining advanced nodes, not just indigenous efforts like Fujian Jinhua, but other established semi players as well. The Taiwanese and Koreans know PRC (just like TW/SKR) has no issue building or staffing and economically operating advanced fabs, meanwhile they were reluctant to expand to US even with CHIPS subsidy.
Show HN: GPT for Data Visualization