skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. It's almost like the word system in ecosystem is important. Haha.

Your comment makes me want to learn more about beavers. I'm interested but don't know much.
Did you have any weight gain or sleepiness/fatigue issues?
"history's biggest non-nuclear explosion"

"Sixth-largest accidental artificial non-nuclear explosion in human history" according to [1]; other explosions listed in [2].

Hardly the main point of the article of course, but seems odd they got this so wrong.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion#Yield

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear...
Button elements and other clickable elements are all detected by accessibility tools as such. If links were the only thing they could click, the modern web would be almost completely unusable, which isn't the case.
It's not too surprising that the reviewer describes the setting as "Taoist". Ursula Le Guin has even published a translation of the Tao Te Ching.

(I agree with everything in this review, and will probably grab my old and battered copy of the Quartet from my parents this weekend.)
I will admit your response gave me a little whiplash :P

When I started reading I was getting very ready to disagree vehemently ("remote work is overhyped and only works for a tiny sliver of the workforce")

But your last paragraph seems to describe far more what I've seen in reality; that it's often risk-aversion/not-wanting-to-commit-to-change/leaning-on-what-they-know/wanting-to-look-like-they're-doing-something that I've seen driving RTO in various locations. This hypothesis is supported by, as you point out, the increasing, albeit incrementally, list of companies and teams that have implemented remote successfully (my own included, obviously only speaking for myself/not for my employer).

So, to be clear, I don't think you're wrong that there's intentional focus on communication and collaboration that is _absolutely_ needed to make remote work, and that's harder for someone who doesn't know what that looks like (or for someone junior without experience working in that modality).

HOWEVER I would object to is the assertion that it's "overhyped and only works for a tiny sliver of the workforce."

Since starting to lead remote teams ~5 years back (after having been a dev on one for a few years prior) the delta between remote vs. in-person has been a _negligible_ friction point vs. much more "typical" aspects of management: Individual work habits, motivations, life externalities, team and org dynamic, "standard" disagreement or conflict, etc.

I'd be lying if I said the remote aspect was zero cost, but not only was much of it recouped in building better processes as you may have suggested above, but this enabled both hiring some amazing folks who likely wouldn't have been options if we only looked local, and supporting all of our lives with significantly increased flexibility, both in terms of personal life and in things like time-zone based coverage for outages and on-call. All-in-all, a massive benefit.
How exactly does Kagi bill you for going over your monthly limit?

Do they send you a bill at a later date, or are you meant to refill your balance before you can make more searches, or what?

I assume they don't keep your credit card on file and charge you for each individual extra search.
It’s a terrible post I agree. The other issue is how basic capitalism is constantly under attack despite the overwhelming empirical evidence of it’s remarkable success.

It’s a repeated pattern in history that always ends in darkness for humanity if it gains enough momentum to make changes.

https://iea.org.uk/publications/socialism-the-failed-idea-th...

How are we even debating private ownership of property and housing. What an incredible failure of basic education systems. It’s like denying evolution or holding some other profoundly unscientific and un-objective emotional belief.

Hopefully my comment complies with HN guidelines. It’s can be hard to comply we dealing with such absurd proposals and theories.

Unless tinker-bell is real and has fairy dust to build houses and provide basic needs.
I believe the correct spelling is pic-a-nic.
I've been using Duckdns for a few months, I cannot recommend more!
Cool project - if you include dots in the name the DNS availability checks are inaccurate.

If I search for "foo.io", it tells me that "foo.io.io" is available
I would never use an LLM for fact checking, then you'd have to check again using something else.
That’s great news re: the glasses — headaches are horrendous!
vim absolutely changed me as a developer. it showed me a whole different way of editing code.

it's weird because i don't know him, but his death absolutely hit me hard.

rest in peace <3
> What I really want is to somehow tell the browser "if the current window URL is about to change via this anchor element, call this function instead".

This is pretty doable using javascript - just register an onclick on the <a> tag and have your event handler cancel the default navigation behaviour. Your website will then continue to work great even if the user has javascript disabled. And all the built in browser behaviour (like the right click "link" menu, and ctrl+click) still works perfectly.

That said, this is a pretty obscure "trick". It would certainly be nice if the DOM API made this easier to do.
Why do you think carbon capture is a scam? It's not going to replace reduction via reducing new emissions to zero like some people seem to think, but we're also going to need to pull a lot out of the carbon cycle - net zero isn't enough.

We should be pouring a huge amount of money into nuclear fission right now, it's the most straightforward way toward a zero target, and repetition/scale with large series of identical reactors and streamlined regulatory oversight will hopefully make it cost competitive with fossil fuels.
lol concrete pad. Wow, really scraping the bottom of the barrel there aren't you? How did this affect you negatively exactly?
> the government paid for fiber through the town.

But I was told we pay really high prices in Canada because it covered the cost of coverage in low-density areas. We've been lied to!
>People should have voted for a better system, then. In Spain I've heard the same people complain about the unsustainability of the pension system while also complaining about the "Austrian backpack" approach, which is one way to address that problem.

Spain is a... pathologically left-wing country, I would say. That indicates, among other things, a profound lack of knowledge of economics, which explains what you say (and some other stuff).

>That can be solved via immigration. People may not like the solution, but it is available to them, should they choose it.

Spain's youth unemployment rate is at around 28% right now. As long as there is a single unemployed Spanish person, especially young people, we shouldn't be accepting any more immigrants.
Why have that kind of resource in a keyboard?

Some keyboards were made with 4 bit processors. I have yet to look one up and perhaps I should.

Pretty much any 8 bit CPU would be luxurious. And low latency due to the single task, respectful code density, and rapid state changes for interrupts.
I keep trying to use Jetbrains Gateway. It spins up the IDE on a remote machine and renders it locally.

I honestly can't find a use for it. My personal machines are ancient quad core setups, but I have a beefy server at my disposal.

But the benefit of faster build times isn't worth the hassle. Between the suboptimal performance of the remote interface, syncing files back to my local machine, and all of the little idiosyncrasies of setting up the remote environment, it's still faster to develop locally. I just go grab a glass of water when I start my compile.

This might make more sense if you're working on some C++ monstrosity with millions of lines of code that takes hours to build on a mainframe, but if you're in the region of minutes per build, there's just no benefit.

Or I guess if all you have is a thin client, this might be better than nothing. But then again, you can get an IDE and compiler for most languages on an android tablet. If you have a machine with a processor, it can compile your code.
The OP never said that novel combinations are "interesting"... They claimed:

> Generative models can combine existing concepts in novel ways which have never been considered before.... So as long as an answer can be expressed as a combination of primitive concepts, LLMs can generate them.

You seem to be hung up on the "never been considered before" as if artists are incapable of combining those concepts when the more charitable interpretation of what the OP meant is "doesn't appear in the training data." Obviously they aren't omniscient and can't possibly know what people have ever imagined in the totality of existence, but we can empirically compare the novelty of generated images to the training inputs.

No one said anything negative about artists or their abilities. We're talking about the AI's abilities in a positive sense and that's the mechanistic ability to combine concepts in novel ways to generate images. Any art that springs from that is from the human using the AI as a tool.
There is a guide[1] that is used for Waydroid to get the emulator certified, but it would be complicated for physical devices, as it requires a root terminal into it.

[1]: https://docs.waydro.id/faq/google-play-certification
Here here!

On the last point, the sites that hijack ctrl-f (or CMD-f) often let you through to the normal page browser search with a second attempts at it if their search UI is still on the page.

So on the sites I know do it I just double tap CMD-f and I get the normal page search.
Depending on what's being built and local code, reinforcement can be done with fibers of various types mixed into the concrete. Anything in a commercial building needing to support heavy loads is probably still steel rebar.
Interesting observation. What specific changes would you suggest us to make?
The Tesla Powerwall is (despite it's name) NOT a wall! From the sound of things, this new supercapacitor might be. I can very reasonably imagine there being many orders of magnitude more structure vs things that hang from that structure.

I also suspect there may be a slight cost difference between adding some soot to the concrete you were already planning on using vs whatever they put in a Powerwall.

I guess my point is there's probably usages for both.
No you can't. Also, this could be a slack message.

"Hey, I need you to take a look at #154, don't worry about the issues Jeff is mentioning, we just need you to fix the error in the form and write a test. If you run into any frontend issues, work with Mike, I already let him know you might be coming to him.

This is basic manager, Sr. Developer stuff.
:wq

:(
Rapidly create exact duplicates I think.
> If your conversations involve people wanting you exterminated… I think in person vs online is even more important. It’s not possible to argue that kind of stance in person unless they’re a crazy person, in which case just avoid those I guess

See in some settings I can avoid them. But transphobic sexist weirdos are not only incredibly over-represented in IT, but also I kinda don't really get to choose my coworkers.

So yeah, I'll stick with work from home, and I'll have, you know, actual friends otherwise. _Some_ of whom _may_ happen to be coworkers past or present.
"Add economic value" is the crux of the problem, don't you see?

If it increases the GDP by 5%, but the result is a massive redistribution of wealth to the infrastructure holders at the expense of millions of people losing their livelyhood is that worth it?

You don't have to answer, most of HN would say yes because we (including me) are part of the class of people that will also benefit as society's demand for technologists continues strong.

And there is also the argument that all of this has happened before with every technical revolution - from the cotton gin to the car to Excel.

So this is where the question of LLM's true capabilities becomes essential. Because if everyone approached them cautiously and adopted use cases gradually and increased individual people's productivity, before realizing that in time whole jobs would cease to be essential - no problem.

But instead - and we've already seen this happen with ML and customer service - whole industries are eager to absolutely decimate their fixed human costs - and all their flaky human problems - to replace them with LLMs, and let the chips fall where they may.

THIS is why so many people are pushing back to challenge the true utility of LLMs and not over-inflate their capabilities. Because we can see the inevitable wave that will make society and technology worse for consumers, and worse for most of the employees in the short term. It will be better for the "Economy" (as measured solely by GDP), and will make some new millionaires and double up some billionaires.

But my (and others') claim is that it will not create a better world for humanity. And it may decimate artistic creativity for a generation before we recover.

Parents already see it as terrifying to figure out how to teach children to handle all the HUMAN-generated misinformation over the last decade. It's only going to get worse when it becomes machine-generated.
Land holdings are usually inherited but they definitely have more i.r.o material possessions compared to say farm workers or the folks living in the "location" outside of town.

Farming is hard - the debt you need to take on and being beholden to the climate - reckon these days only the big Agri-Corps like Beefmaster near Kimberley is making money.
>racists commenting about IQ and 13/50 bullshit

I don’t know what you are saying. Explain?
I believe only certain individuals and companies are sanctioned, not the whole country.
It's a common convention for words that end in a "short vowel" followed by a hard /k/ (IPA) sound to be spelled with ck, e.g., "back," "block," "stick," "truc." It's not a convention always followed, though; see "book," "music."

> Is it like in Dutch or Norwegian that two consonants are enclosing short vowel while one consonant makes long vowel?

Yes, that is generally the rule. Usually, a vowel followed by a consonant followed by e (/a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e) will produce the "long" version of that vowel. To signify that it's pronounced as a short vowel, many words have doubled consonants, e.g., "plate" (long a) vs "platter" (short a). When a word ends in a short vowel and a k, a lot of words unnecessarily double it to a ck, e.g., "trick," "back," etc.

However, this is more of a guideline than a rule; there are many exceptions to it. For example, "paste" has the a, then two consonants, then e; due to the doubled consonants, it "should" have a short vowel, but it actually has a long vowel. And many words with short vowels don't have doubled consonants; for example, the a in "magic" is short rather than long, and the first a in "Japanese" is short (you would expect "Jappanese"). The e in "medical" and the i in "amicable" are both tonic, short vowels.

> I still do not know what is difference between "c" and "k" in English language.

"K" always makes a hard /k/ sound. "c" makes a hard /k/ sound before a, o, and u (e.g., car, acorn, cute), but makes a soft /s/ sound before e, i, and y (celery, peace, cinders, cylinder). With Latin and Greek words, ae and oe are both treated as e, so Caesar, and coelacanth have soft C sounds. However, there are exceptions; sometimes it makes a k sound even before an e (e.g., sceptical, Celtic, loci), and sometimes it makes a soft c sound where a hard one is expected (e.g. facade).

English spelling is very irregular. Much of this irregularity is to reflect etymology, i.e., we borrowed the word without changing the spelling, or only changed the spelling a little bit.
Okay, forgive me for this stupid question but my biology level isn’t that great.

But, if we know which cells to target and what their structure is, can’t we just extract some healthy cells, reproduce them, kill all cells which would dock to that pill, insert reproduced healthy cells?

So with that we don’t have to care if it attacks healthy cells, or is that reproduction idea not possible?
the only real threat to the status quo is solidarity, and that's why it's not popular.

real change can't be popular in the mainstream
This is a concept I often draw upon in programming. To understand or create something you must learn its true name. If you don't know what to call the thing you're creating, it's a sign to step back and take a broader view. A good name can give you the power to work with huge ideas.
Not just to be monetized, but also to lobby for massive tax credits.

Where are the tax credits for the bricklayer, plumber and electrician that creates structures and infrastructure?
I feel you are 100% spot on. The class war and the “groomer” scare are just tactical distractions to keep scared people voting against their own interest.

Frankly I don’t see what young people have to look forward to, I can see your point. I’m doing relatively OK and I’m affected by the same nihilism.
This comment is funny, because it _is_ a personal attack, meanwhile I didn't even realize you're the same person.
Loved that series. Brilliant!
This. People don’t see what’s coming. The Era of Abundance is over.
Energy in a capacitor is (1/2)CV^2 - so 12x the voltage would be 144x the energy.
>Today's AI models are missing the ability to reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?"

Doesn't matter really, even with this limitation AI models today can produce extraordinary value for businesses. AI's are useful today. I don't see how this is even contested, when it's empirically true.
Usually for asking questions about specific details, people are using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to ground the information and provide enough context for the llm to return the correct answers.
This means additional engineering plumbing and very specific context to query information from.
The absurd thing about this is that a browser is just a single kind of IP client. If you want to stop that content you have to actually stop IP connections to the host IP address(es), and to all non-compliant IP addresses (vpn / tor servers) .

It'd make more sense to have the ISP do it, as they actually could have a meaningful effect on what you can / cannot connect to.
I never said it did.

I just wanted to point out that the popular belief that white Europeans created African slavery out of thin air and hunted them down like animals to sell is false.
Yes, come up with a novel example. An original story is still possible.
So software updates and iOS upgrades are still working but no purchases ???.
There is no frame buffer. The graphics are all drawn by manipulating a few registers in the video chip.

Everything is scan lines and cycles. You get a one bit per pixel 40 pixel wide background, a couple of single color 8 bit sprites and a couple more two bit wide sprites and that is pretty much it. A lot can be done by simply changing a color register at specific times too. Reusing sprites happens regularly as well. (Sprite drawn at left of screen can be repositioned to the right to be seen again. That is the "racing the beam" part you may have heard people mention.

Most of the CPU run time available for each frame is spent generating the display a scan line at a time.

The real game happens during the vertical blanking period.

Almost everything comes from ROM, leaving ram for game state and the few objects that may need to be dynamic, and even those are in ROM when there is room for all the states.

It is an odd feeling when you run out of room. The phrase, "I used every BIT of RAM" is literal! Happened to me once. No more bits and I had to either leave out a feature, or take a speed penalty by packing multiple states into single bytes.
I don't know if they should be advocating for geoengineering now, but we should definitely start getting used to the idea that we might need it very soon. That means a huge acceleration of research to test the techniques we have, and make sure they don't have unintended consequences (like accidentally destroying the ozone layer.)

> yet the voices to do so are curiously absent

It's easy to think this if you're not paying attention: the issue is very controversial and many people oppose it But a number of scientists signed onto a letter calling for additional research into this [1], and Congress and the White House OSTP are also pushing to speed up and increase research funding [2]. Of course, this kind of research could go away in a single election.

[1] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27022023/solar-radiation-...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/06/30/cong...
>Then you initiate a rendezvous request in HSDir to request a contact with the hidden service.
>The hidden service noticed the HSDir updated, then arranges a Tor circuit (of arbitrary length) and then write back to HSDir to tell the requesters to contact via that new circuit which this information will ultimately be signed with the hidden service's private key as a proof of identity so MITM is impossible (like bootleg TLS, or a mock PKI actually)

this sounds wrong. As far as I know the HS picks some nodes as introduction points and builds long losting circuits to them abd publishes them in ita descriptor.

when a client wants to connect it fetches the list of IPs, it picks a random node as rendezvous and, via the IP, tells the HS about it which connects to it to allow communication (basically you -> rendezvous <- HS (+ a bunch of other nodes that blindly carry traffic for anonimization as is customs with tor))
As often heard in India! That and many other weird and wonderful phrases...
It will ask you if you want to upgrade your plan or to enable pay per use with customizable limits in place.

More info: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/billing.html#billing-set...
Reduce EKS, AKS, GKE cost by > 70%
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Domesticated animals are always easier to eat than wild animals.

Domesticated animals will sleep and root in shit.

Whats the difference between a factory farm and a govt's policy on homeless people rooting through trash and eating left overs from it?
> Let’s call this Joel’s Law. A lot of things follow from this premise. Why do most developers think the code they inherited is a mess and want to throw it out and start again? It’s because writing something new is cognitively less demanding than the hard work of understanding an existing codebase, at least initially. Why are many rewrites doomed to fail? Because much of what makes the code seem messy are vital little improvements that accreted over time. Without some plan for simplifying them, you will end up back where you started.

This is a somewhat flawed argument.

The old code probably is very bad and brittle and difficult to use and really does need a rewrite in order to grow. It was probably never designed for all the requirements it has accreted and the patches that were done were likely done with expediency and minimal-change in mind and are now hopelessly entangled.

It is also true that the person doing the rewrite _often_ doesn't have any appreciation for the complexity of the old code and the rewrite attempts to just simplify the problem while throwing out all kinds of requirements that it turns out were there for a reason.

However, it is also possible to do the actually hard work of understanding an old codebase that you didn't write and refactoring it into a better shape, while maintaining all the requirements and producing something that is more maintainable and extensible.
While I’m proud my country has made it to the HN frontpage, I’m ashamed that it’s always for the wrong reasons :(

Of course this law will pass, like all the authoritarian bullshit other laws that did the past few years. Remember the one about the government legally using your phone’s camera and mic? This was mere months ago.