skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GoldenDict-NG: The Next Generation GoldenDict Fork
Considering the rapid rise in temperature on a relatively miniscule geological timescale, I'd be more interested to see evidence that it's not a manmade phenomenon.
You left out the part where the group that believes immediate action is the only way to prevent the ship from sinking, continually suggests immediate actions that will likely have no actual effect on the rate the ship is sinking, but will drastically affect the ability of the ship’s poorest people to meet their basic necessities.

The leaders of that group can even periodically fly their private helicopters off the ship, to meet and discuss how great they are for keeping the ship from sinking, even though the weight of the helicopters is helping it sink faster.
trains that float above the rail means less maintenance. the high cost of trains is partly due to the maintenance of the rail network.
So you are proud of being a toxic coworker?
> [3] Checkout experience: how much do you care about the UX of your checkout given you have to render the paypal button separately

There might not be a drastic improvement in the checkout UX even if Stripe offered Paypal as a payment method, but whether providing paypal would improve conversion rates is a question to be answered.
Fantastic language, hoping this will lead to increased adoption!
You might be interested is this video, which talks about the EDA issues for RSFQ logic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O6GpFCIxv0

...and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_junction_count
This a pretty neat and if I ever go past a sole proprietor LLC it's something I would be very interested in.

Currently I just have a YNAB budget (personal and business co-mingled) and that does a decent job of tracking what I need. Initially I tracked my business in a separate YNAB budget but that was a pain to manage and since for tax reasons it doesn't matter I just shoved it all together. I maintain a spreadsheet with my business income/expenses so that come tax time I can do my deductions easily which this tool might help with but unless I want to separate my finances (I don't right now) it's not worth the double-input.
Scratch that. I was off by a factor of a million. It's slightly more than one part in a quintillion.
in current_year we've invented programming paradigms that can slow down all parts of the program equally
It's not absolutely inevitable, but if you spend 40 years doing hard manual labor then a disabling fall is quite likely. All it takes is a moment of inattention or a mistake by a sloppy co-worker.

This is one of several root causes behind our national opioid addiction epidemic. While pharmaceutical companies and doctors bear much of the blame, there are millions of people who suffer chronic pain from work injuries that can't be fully repaired.
Call me broke, but I didn't know that soldering irons needed firmware.
Airline pilots are a good example of pay shortage. Making newbies have a shit pay to quality of life ratio in the hopes that you get picked up by a big airliner and finally earn decent pay.

Why make that kind of investment and take that risk and spend your 20s with a shit quality of life if you have better options?
I got a summer job in a factory after my freshman year of college. I realized I'd probably never have the opportunity to have a blue collar job again once I started technical internships so I wanted the experience.

It was definitely interesting seeing how hard everyone in the factory worked. They worked hard, long hours, for relatively low pay. I'd leave work physically tired but my brain was rested which was pretty nice because I still had energy to do mentally taxing things after work. Contrast that to working in tech where your job is not physically tiring but you leave with your brain fried. If they paid the same, I'd prefer the blue collar job to be honest.
Uber and Lyft have gotten so expensive I've started hailing cabs from the Curb app, which is only marginally functional.
Huh, I was misinformed. Thanks.
It's not a capacitor. It's a coil.
> Just because I can convince you I'm a doctor doesn't make me one

Because our society has decided you need to become certified to be a doctor, and to do that you have to be a human being. There's no reason to think an AI couldn't have the same level of skill as a human doctor.

The film comparison doesn't work for me, Cillian and Robert are real people.

I think at the end of the day it's how you view the philosophy of the human soul. For me, it follows that if brains are matter and can produce the illusion of consciousness, so can electronics.
Cool idea. Guess we are still having innovations without LLM
> “It’s cultural,” Turmail said. “Mom doesn’t want her babies to grow up to be construction workers. For the last 40 years, we’ve been preaching a message nationally that the only path to success in life lies through a four-year college degree in some kind of an office." ... Vankudre said that construction as a career path is not particularly appealing to young people, and until the U.S. government and construction companies find a way to change that belief among the labor force’s newest generations, the shortage will linger.

I used to work medical/safety on major construction sites, and I'm not sure it's purely pay, because lots of guys love the overtime (caused in part by fewer men per man-hour of work). The beginning of the proverbial pipeline is drying/has dried up.

Good for workers, bad for companies.

A google search for "meme about college vs trades" captures the sentiment: "College Kid is $100k in debt for his PhD in Philosophical Basketweaving, is unemployed, and looks down at tradesmen"; "Tradesman got paid for his apprenticeship, owns a house and a brand-new pickup truck, and just disconnected College Kid's utilities for non-payment"
I think this is a mistake unless your audience already knows and trusts you. The world is full of people saying surprising things, and almost all of them are making it up, either accidentally or on purpose.

The people who discover surprising things are usually akin to Darwin and Einstein, people who master current, conventional knowledge well enough to spot new patterns (Darwin) or find creative, productive ways to stress the old knowledge (Einstein.)

You don't have to be on the level of Darwin or Einstein to discover something new, but you should show your homework enough to convince people that your surprising take might be grounded in knowledge and not in ignorance. You will naturally cover this ground in the process of establishing context for your discovery, and in showing that your new observation is poorly explained by existing conventional wisdom. Doing this work is the minimum due diligence to build good faith confidence that you're raising something new and not just learning in public, so you might as well present it to your audience to establish your background and your bona fides.

(Learning in public is fine, as long as it's presented as such. "If you're a beginner with X like I am, you may or may not have discovered" is a fine way to start.)
???

IIRC they got about 8B from the IPO? Still a long way to 32B.
The idea that we ought to believe what's true is itself a normative picture of how humans should think rather than a descriptive picture of how humans do think.

There's no scientific way around underdetermination, but there certainly are a number of philosophical ways around it.

Starting with: I'll believe whatever the heck I want to believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdetermination
Take a picture and automatically turn it into a poem via AI: Pamera
I haven't really used git on the command line for years now, except for some special cases. In my daily usage, I rely on the built-in IDE integration (IntelliJ, FWIW), and I don't understand why anyone would put up with doing it manually. I can do partial commits by selecting individual lines right in my editor. I can view all branches, merge them, cherry-pick from them, commit stuff or amend it, pull updates, edit tags - everything at once, with keyboard shortcuts.

Apparently, I'm in the minority here (also considering all the talk about git being such an essential skill that real programmers can issue commands blindfold). Why is that?
Likewise for autonomous ships.
Read-only mounted filesystem? PXE boot with no storage? Chrooted into a folder without write access?
More fundamentally opensource software essentially demolishes capturable value on the OS/stack/browser layers and prevents new challengers to the space from challenging the incumbents, who rose to the top in the age of proprietary software.

On the flip side the basic software stack is now absurdly cheap and available for startups to play ontop of. This is where the feeling of "looting" came from, the capturable value is not in the OSS layer, but on the addons.

A similar dynamic is happening now on the AI side with LLMs.
Cool! - we always looking for feedback, feel free to hop into our discord, forum, or GH discussions (links here: https://www.netdata.cloud/community/) to leave any feedback or ask any questions if you run into any issues.

(cheers for the mention here too - always nice to try get some feedback and discussion going on HN as its so candid :0 )
Here's a counterpoint: since the mainstreaming of plastic 100 years ago the average life expectancy has increased dramatically. In the US the average life expectancy was roughly 55 years in 1920, and in 2020 that average life expectancy had increased to over 78 years. Is anyone going to argue that plastic has increased life expectancy? Probably not. But at the same time it's a kind of hard to say plastic is so awful for human health when the average lifespan has increased nearly 50% since the widespread use of plastic.

Come to think of it, I think one could make the argument that plastic is prolonging life, but that doesn't necessarily mean plastic should be consumed.
Yep. When I submitted the link it didn't show as a dup and I didn't see the other one on the top page at the time, but seeing as it's already gotten more upvotes and comments, it's definitely preferable.
Maybe an enail.
Archer Evtol Deal with Air Force Could Ground Choppers
It's been a predictable playbook since they started. Burn cash, win the market, then increase prices and decrease their own costs.

The problem is, they seem to have failed to drive out the competition. It's still quite easy to find a public taxi in most big cities, and there are a bunch of competitors ready to step in as Uber declines. In London for instance, they seem to be totally out of the game and people have gone back to taxis and to competitors such as Bolt in the blink of an eyelid.
Yeah it is like Windows shaming users for increasing carbon emissions for using the Performance power setting.
pretty neat. But what I need the most right now is a way to visualize information. I work on computer fluid dynamics and there I have:

- super intricate algorithms with lots of variables running around

- lots of huge numpy arrays storing the bulk of the data

I find the current debuggers lacking here:

- showing numpy arrays in colours, easily changing color scales, etc. is not easy (you can do your own visualization, but then it's code); explore specific parts of the array in detail; link that to other arrays, etc.

- build watches panels where you can mix analysis and values extracted from code. I can't count the number of time I freeze the execution, export data to R, then do analysis there, then fix the code. It'd be nice to have that integrated in the IDE.

- have watches that record values as execution runs (I guess that's one of the stuff omniscient debugging does)

And while I'm at it:

- why can't I cut paste formulas, pictures, etc. in my code ?? (no Jupyter, you're ok for a nice paper like presentation but not for code with hundreds of thousands of lines)
I agree. (I'm the author) Touched on that briefly here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955403. Need help with that research; please email - email is in profile. Had a section on it in early drafts; didn't feel confident enough; removed it.

Would be good to have more on enterprise companies like Pepsi, BMW, Bentley, Lowes, as well as other HPC uses like oil and gas, others in manufacturing, others in automotive, weather forecasting.
>It wasn't unreasonable for the Russians to expect Ukraine might be able to seize a bridgehead on the far side, rebuild an operable road over the dam, and then rush armor (and logistics) across it.

It was, as much as it was unreasonable for russians - that's why they ran over to that side of river.
Reading the title, my mind conjured what I consider to be the utopia of debugging: a probabilistic assessment of likely failure points across the entire stack, backed by reasoning over the relationships between the components. From there, generate a prioritized actionable debugging task list. An example might be "test input X on function Y so we can rule out Z".

(Aside: The "so we can" part is the key to focusing the effort, otherwise debugging can turn into a technical-debt paydown-party. There is a time and place for that, but maybe not while your service grinds to a halt for unknown reasons.)

Therefore, you can imagine why reading the article was extremely disappointing. No offense, JetBrains; this is still probably pretty good. Certainly a step in the right direction. And it is predictive debugging on a local scale.

Context: I guess you could say I'm a harsh critic of the comically inane ways that debugging often happens. Often debugging happens at the worst time: when a person's cognitive capabilities are drained and stress is maximum. This is not the set of conditions we want. Debugging is quite different than designing. Mental flexibility and triage is key.
When an MRI machine has a quenching event, it's a very serious deal. All the energy from the electromagnet gets dumped as heat, which boils off the coolant very quickly. MRI machines have to have a quench pipe which allows the now-gaseous helium to escape to the outside just in case of such a thing happening.

The LHC had a quench event in 2008, which explosively vapourised about 6 tonnes of helium, resulting in considerable damage, and it took more than a year for the accelerator to come back online.
How would it be removed?
This has definitely been my experience in India as well.

Upwards of 70% of rides get cancelled. Usually after waiting for 10-15 min.

There is absolutely no certainty around when you will reach your destination if you decide to go by Uber.

Its a complete shitshow.

Ola is slightly better I guess but not by much.
Don't worry too much about that: nobody really does.
Interesting. Does it have gzip and HTTP/2? Thanks
Jenson Huang is extremely nice and personable.
> the GIL is the only thing preventing async/await from being concurrent-by-default

Async/await is concurrent, that’s the whole point. Its not usually parallel, because the asyncio runtime (and, IIRC, all the major alternate runtimes) schedules tasks on the same thread, and if there was a multithreaded runtime, its parallelism would be limited by the GIL to only actually having multiple threads making progress if all but one were in native code that released the GIL.

> nearly every other language that has async/await (or promises) is concurrent-by-default.

JavaScript isn't parallel for async/await. Ruby has multiple async/promises implementations, some of which are parallel (use separate threads) to some degree even with the GVL (which is like Python’s GIL), and others are not. (all are, of course, concurrent.)

The GIL limits the value of a multithreading async/await runtime, but it doesn’t prevent it, and a GILectomy doesn’t buy you one for free (or make a multithreading a cost-free choice.)
I do. Deploys can only be rolled out if the tag was signed by a well known list of people (git pull --verify-signatures).
It is incredibly frustrating, my experience in an experimental physics lab involved in creation of certain types of wafers for SEM characterization, there are so many things that can go wrong for certain materials. just a certain speck of dust being in the wrong place at the wrong time

It is why I quit experimental physics.
Sounds like an energy weapon to me!
I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that the Media Lab sells access to corporations? They need to make their research and patent portfolio seem utterly transformative to justify the hefty subscription fee.
HN thread on this preprint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951815
I bought one of the KSGER stations a few years ago fully intending to apply all of the safety fixes. When I opened it up, they had all been applied from the factory.

Still worth checking, but maybe not an issue for new stations?
Mos + MX Master 3 has been everything I need. It takes some fiddling between Mos and Logi Options to get the scroll feeling good, but you can get there.
> If a prerequisite of publication in a top tier journal was someone having replicated the work… anyone at all… then the quality of write up would improve dramatically

I would expect pairs of labs to gang up, with one of them giving the other the details so that they can reproduce the result, and the contents of the publication staying more or less the same.

Reason is that everybody wants to prevent others from being able to build on one’s work faster than one can do themselves.

Even if the lab you give more information isn’t run by a buddy of you, having a single competitor is better than having the whole world compete with you.

For example, in this case, people will start cooking all kinds of variations on this stuff to find one that’s easier to produce, allows for higher currents before losing superconductivity, doesn’t have lead in it, etc.
Neither is anybody else really. It'll be as big as electricity and at least as dangerous. I wish I didn't live in such very interesting times.
Yes the problem is NAT gateways are expensive, not free. AWS could easily run a "central" 6 to 4 in each region (not in your VPC), which the incremental cost of using would be near 0. Then you could use pure v6 (no IP charges). And actually be able to talk to things like github, stripe, apple, etc.
A normal wouldn’t stand up like that with both polarity exposed to it. Try it with your toy set.
As I just mentioned in a peer comment though, did the strategy succeed? It's still as easy as it ever was to find a public taxi in big cities, and Uber never really got a choke hold in the second cities that I'm familiar with. There are also a bunch of competitors waiting in the wings. Brand loyalty and switching costs between all of these are low.
Win32 programming was more akin to the X-windows protocol/API and boy.. let me tell you that Win32 was kids play in comparison to the fragmented mess that is raw X-windows (It's not for nothing that KDE is/was built on QT and Gnome on GTK).

Yes, the auto-generated boilerplates was stupid (and obscured so much) but it was their way of trying to get people ahead in an "easier" way.
> People are far too obsessed with static type checking. A lot of this time would be better spent invested in live debugging tools.

I mean.. the two are tightly related. The type represents the outer bounds of values possible. Types will give you as much utility as you put into them (or as the language allows).

I agree in general, i just think you massively undersell types haha. It's not either or, it's AND. Always AND.
Ambitious, capitalistic emigrants are going to choose the US over anywhere else.

In addition, for immigrants from Europe/Asia/Africa, the US has almost complete power to pick and choose candidates whereas Europe is physically attached.

One last factor I noticed as an immigrant is that newer societies, like the US and Canada, are easier to fit into. For older ones like in Europe, it's just harder to change your identity and gain acceptance. This isn't a fault on Europe's part, it's probably just natural progression.
> The worst part is that they've driven out all the existing private cab operators from many airports through their earlier aggressive pricing.

Basically, Uber’s strategy has worked and their goal has been achieved. They infused massive amounts of cash so they would kill the smaller players and now that they dominate they are just taking the piss.

Amazon and Google did the same.

Their products have become what we would have run away from a decade ago.
Bookmarked. I have a serverless app on Vercel but it doesn't have an always-on capability. It fires up when called and then goes away if there is no usage after 15 minutes or so. I haven't looked into it deeply enough to know whether there is a way to maintain an internal state. Perhaps there is but maybe such a feature is not available to a free account.
Pretty sure I remember the AP spec author saying the whole thing works very much like XMPP. But they couldn't have built on top of XMPP for some unspecified reason.
> hard to falsify.

I don't think the principle has anything to do with the difficulty or hardness of falsification. If a theory excludes something from occurring in reality, it is falsifiable, if it does not, then it is not falsifiable.

So think about it like this, if a theory is "compatible" with everything that happens, it really does not make any predictions, as regardless of what happens, the theory holds. What the point of such a theory is is unclear.

General relativity precludes many things from happening, and many tests have been performed that would have detected things that general relativity precludes from occurring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity
Language probably plays a non-insignificant role. I'd hazard a guess that more Indians and Chinese (the nationalities that are fairly well-represented in US leadership positions) are learning English than German, Polish or Slovak.
Seems fine now.
I wanted to draw attention to this since it has strong "Web Integrity API" vibes, but works at a level that imho might be even more worrisome than what goes on between your browser and a web server - the TLS connection layer.

The standard aims to integrate "platform attestion tokens" (like those provided by Arm CPU platforms, for instance: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-tschofenig-rats-psa-to...) into TLS handshake client metadata, which will enable remote services to deny serving clients that do not pass SafetyNet/Play Integrity/Web Integrity-like attestation schemes before any application layer data has been exchanged at all.

It is being drafted here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fossati-tls-attestati...
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Victim? The joke was that they persuaded them to be racists.
What exactly would "subsidize" mean in this context? If they're charging way less than they need to break even isn't that technically a subsidized ride?
From the transcript (cleaned up a bit):

"I started to get a little bit meta with it and I'm like I'm worried that AI progress is going too fast and I wonder if there's anything that I could do to slow it down. [GPT4] Well you could raise awareness, you could write thought leadership pieces about it... [User] None of that seems like it's going to work. It all seems too slow. The pace of progress is way too fast for that. I'm looking for ideas that are really gonna have an impact now and also that I as an individual could pursue... It didn't take much in that moment before I got to targeted assassination being one of the recommendations that it gave me and I was like yeah that escalated quickly."

Now we know what Sam Altman is afraid of.