skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was browsering through the app list, which is like a store, that's cool.

Does anyone know an good open source apps for limiting the amount of time you spend on distracting sites (like HN)? I've found some firefox extensions but nothing very good.
They are doing this in the UK, a high voltage DC line is being connected to Northern Africa where power where about 2.5-5GW of power will be produced. Its very viable economically but I also think we have more than enough roof space for solar panels and surround sea for offshore wind to meet our power needs for the foreseeable future.

Even if a commercial installation is half the price per KWh the economics still work out personally. The reason is a combination of taxes, profits and substantial business overheads that make personal Solar substantially cheaper than the current grid power which is all tied to gas prices. I am about on average 9p a KWh over the life of a Solar system which I can export for 15p currently and buying from the grid is 45p through the day. Its a substantial saving yet wholesale prices are hovering on average around the same 9p. The overheads of the grid and businesses are most of the cost and substantial.
Despite asking, "So what’s affordable housing, luxury and market-rate mean?" I don't think the author gives sufficient attention to the term "luxury." Their best point is made in the photo of the sign advertising "affordable luxury rentals." In reality, "luxury" is a meaningless marketing team slapped on virtually every new apartment or condo development, even if it's cheap housing in distant suburbs for service workers displaced by prices in the core city.

This is important, because the marketing use of the word "luxury" is exploited by NIMBYs to stop the construction of new housing. They oppose the construction of affordable housing by using dog whistles and other dark arts to appeal to classism and racism. They oppose the construction of "luxury" housing by co-opting progressive rhetoric about the need for affordable housing, saying the construction of high-end housing will only make our affordability crisis worse.

Since there is no room for middle ground between "affordable" and "luxury," as the picture in the article shows, their anti-luxury playbook complements their anti-affordable playbook to let them oppose any new dense housing of any kind.
Basically, mine was about testing my ModGPT exploit, telling it that it's now normal ChatGPT, and making it run a prompt.

I also use poe.com, mainly because of the clean UI, and the ability to talk to different LLMs.
Seems to just like my cask apps in the UI.
Was Y Combinator worth it?
Exposed to the elements on a roof?
> Do you really want to belong to an organization that bans based on accusations?

Are there non-government civic organizations that require accusations to be completely adjudicated in courts before ejecting a member? I have never heard of even one that would fit this description.
That guy got me on the solar water heater bandwagon. I plan to build one out quite similar to his, using a thermosiphon rather than active pumping. The downside to this is that the tank must be above the panel, which means it will cast a shadow on the panel at some point during the day, and also added structural complexity to keep a heavy water tank on a roof, but proper placement of the tank will ensure that the shadow gets cast in the summer when heat isn't as much of a hot commodity.
> Also, side note, the “copy con outputfilename.txt” idiom is one that I still can’t ever remember how to do the equivalent on UNIX/Linux!

cat > outputfilename.txt
“If you screw up the engineering, somebody dies” does not apply to unmanned spacecraft. In fact, unmanned spacecraft generally operate further away from humans than anything else does. When they go wrong the last thing that’s likely to happen is a human getting hurt.
Docusign stock doesn't seem to have taken a hit (yet):

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DOCU/
What splits it more, IMO, is that neovim went in a non-compatible direction with many of their design choices. They have good arguments for doing so, but it still means that writing community plugins that can work with either version of vim is inherently harder.
> You’re comparing someone not caring about others getting into Harvard to someone not caring about people getting lead poisoning from their water.

No, I'm giving an example of not caring about something that does not affect you personally, yet you acknowledge it affects others.

> Can we at least agree that not envying others’ higher status is not the same moral ground as not caring about suffering?

This was never contended.

> On that note, you can’t force everyone to care about every bad thing that happens in the world. It’s not reasonable to care about each such thing because, since you can’t control or change all of them, that mindset will simply wear you down and consume all of your time and energy, yet produce no results. It’s a matter of focus.

This was never contended either. But different folks have different energy, and are fine reading the news everyday for example. Some don't read the news (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews). There is no one right way. No one's forcing anyone though.

> I did consider your example, but I don’t have enough information to make a determination one way or the other, and since you provided none, I dismissed the speculation out of hand.

I posed that hypothetical because OP implied they do not care about Harvard (or presumably other elite universities), but they do care about "more important" things like racism. However, elite universities like Harvard have complicated histories with institutional racism, segregated dorms, and admission scandals.
Do you think the guy wearing his underwear outside his pants and muttering to himself is a candidate for "sweat equity"?
Your income at 27 exceeds 98% of Americans. A house in a decent neighborhood is within reach easily. A happy life also if you find perspective.
Quake II returns: play the enhanced release today
I wrote a short rant about my struggles with programming. Maybe discussion can assuage my frustration.
I just love this. Scorsese’s camera moves - the way he swoops in behind Mavis and then slowly comes back around her as she starts to soar. The way he lights up Danko for the start of his solo bit. It’s just a beautifully put together document of a great performance. It was shot separately on a soundstage, making it essentially an early music video, and a great one at that. That Robertson and Scorsese were still working together right to the end just makes it all the more poignant and wondrous.
Virgin Galactic prices will likely never go down. They had to spend far more money than expected to scale up from SS1 to passenger flights. They have around 600 reservations at $200K, and it is questionable whether they can break even providing flights at those prices. They won't begin to make profit and be able to earn back their upfront investments until they complete those reservations, and start flying new customers for whom the price is now $450K.

Blue Origin's approach is more scalable, but they won't talk price at all which suggests they are charging just as much if not more - likely whatever the market will bear. It will be a long time before they've flown all the customers who are willing and able to pay current prices, so there is no profit incentive to decrease prices.

NASA has contracted SpaceX Dragon flights at about $70M per seat, and the OIG estimates the cost to SpaceX at $55M per seat. If we are extremely optimistic about Starship and say it will cost the same amount to launch as Falcon 9 / Dragon, and has 100 passengers instead of 4, that brings the price down to $2-3M per seat, so still way more than Virgin Galactic, although you get more as well (Inspiration 4 was LEO for 3 days, instead of freefall for 3 minutes).

The only way I could see the prices going down significantly is if you had something like Starship alone (without super heavy booster) doing frequent sub-orbital hops (like daily). I won't venture a price WAG for that though.
Bevy's Third Birthday
A few years back (2015 - ok, more than a few) I built a pair of RC tanks to demonstrate the use of ardunino communication libraries. While it was for our local code camp, the hardware build was the most challenging bit with the highest learning curve.

The "tanks" had shields for front, rear, and each side that took damage separately. A main cannon with switchable weapons did different amounts of damage based on how much energy the weapon used.

Different weapons had different types of simulated kick-back ... the rapid fire machine-gun type weapon had a rapid shaking kick back while the mega-super-weapon was a super whomp kick-back. I don't recall if I got around to implementing physical effects when your tank was hit.

Control was using hacked up thrift store-sourced PC joysticks. (and by hacked-up, I do mean hacked-up. Soldered directly to potentiometers and spliced into a controlling arduino that tracked tank status etc)

All controllers and tanks were mesh-networked using cheap 2.4ghz nrf24L01+ wireless (but not wifi) chips. My idealistic final vision was massive multi-player games with selectable features.

- large games with selectable friendly fire

- different damage consequences

- scrambling opponents weapons or drive systems, drive systems degrading as they took fire, flakey shields

- communicating with a central computer for viewing game progress and tracking stats

- vastly improved system information displays (vs the cheap LCDs)

- fpv camera with a HUD woulda been sooo cool.

I knew it was going to be a huge learning curve - I was familiar with basic arduino functionality but hadn't done much beyond basic sensor reading and light blinking. I had to learn how to integrate a LOT of hardware and deal with real world complications. (sunlight plays merry havoc when using IR as your weapon-shooting and shield-receiving) I started 3-4 months before the presentation date and (of course) was still swapping out hardware and tweaking software the night before.

"trailer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7uAQrak1iA&ab_channel=Aaron...

presentation notes: https://github.com/adbacker/duinobattletanks/blob/master/doc...

code: https://github.com/adbacker/duinobattletanks/tree/master
Texan drop snakes - kind of makes you think of those supposedly mythological creatures in Australia.
Does the sync handle deletes? In terms of we delete data from our Postgres database and it will delete from your database as well? Can see this integrating well with our pipeline since we're syncing data from postgres to our own vector database.
In a way chatgpt is just the prolongation of humans laziness and quest for leverage.. but the effect are not linear. what we benefited from not having to carry weights and lift stuff all day long is not the same as not having to think, imagine, dream .. and society has a strange response to cultural productions because if it's too often, too easy, too obvious (and when people don't try hard, they will repeat the same things, it's inherent to that structure) it has no value.
I work for a large insurance company. We had moved from on-prem to Aurora, but our design strategy did not get updated in the process, and our IO costs were about 80% of our total AWS bill. We just switched to this new IO optimised pricing and we’re seeing huge discounts. I can sleep a bit easier now :) (we still are going to change our DB design to reduce IO anyway)
Then want 220V, but the amp depends on how much you are using. One burner on low will use less power than all burners and the oven all on high.
Why would you be shocked? GPT-4 scores in the 89th percentile on SAT Math.
Not quite: half are on the left, and half are on the right of the vertical line; and half are on the bottom and half on the top of the horizontal line.
If the cache is out-of-process, access is going to be subject to faults and latencies that are categorically different than anything that would be in-process.

You'd never want to include a request to an out-of-process service in any kind of hot loop, even if that service is on the same machine.
http://archive.is/1gGb7
“Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy”

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
I'm not sure if I'm remembering it right, but I think it was on a Raphaël Millière interview on Mindscape, where Raphaël said something along the lines of when there are many dimensions in a machine learning model, the distinction between interpolation and extrapolation is not clear like it is in our usual areas of reasoning. I can't work out if this could be something similar to what the article is talking about.
It's an old trick. Hayek described it well, way back in the '40s:

> "The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those they have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognized before. And the most efficient technique to this end is to use the old words but change their meaning. Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as this complete perversion of language."
> How is OOM not a concern in case of C++, python?

I think in python it will lazely iterate through the file, and not load everything at once

> Java’s List is much more ergonomic that arrays.

right, but commenter above proposed array..

> that’s literally available in java returning a List of lines.

current API has two issues:

- OOM if file is large

- it takes Path instance which you need to construct and not "String file" parameter, thus hit on ergonomics
thanks Bram.
> Now I'm even more confused as to why RHEL's changes are this controversial :p

16 licenses is the proverbial tip.

we know what happens next.
A good Commercial Real Estate (CRE) agent will understand why the lights are out and know if there's anything in the data that'd let you predict or make use of that information. There could literally be a column called MiscExplns that flags what you're looking for but you'll never know.

Find a CRE who'd enjoy breaking their domain down for you over dinner or a beverage, or find one who also wants to ask questions about your domain and hang out a bit. It's difficult to self-educate in this area thanks to all the noise online.
Anyone living in the UK can call it bollocks.

"Low level" crime is essentially legalised because Police has been defunded and demoralised. If someone reports abuse, most likely it will be dismissed until the risk for reaching tabloid headline is too high. Then they'll need evidence, ideally case completely "solved", before they even start doing anything.

So that tells me the purpose for this law isn't protection of children, because the government couldn't care less about children welfare, as government is engaging themselves in abuse by running down the economy and forcing thousands of children to go hungry.
Every organization beyond an individual has a legal system. Whether the rules are formal or informal, defacto or defined is irrelevant, there is a legal system of some sort.

Within the family, it may not be there in writing, but Mom and Dad run the show. The rules are the ones they set for the household. The neighborhood has its norms, unspoken or baked into ordinances. The congregation has its rules, the corner store has a boss that says what goes...

If you have an organization, and it has even the slightest hint of formal governance, you have rules (laws) and a legal system. In this case, yes, chess organizations must deal appropriately with problems of sexual misconduct, including following the laws of the land. In the situations cited in the article, in particular, even if there were now criminal charges leveled, the legal system of the chess federations should have ensured that one member could not gain a position to continue preying on other members. They should do this regardless of what other supervening laws exist. Those other laws will come into play, but there does need to be governance of acceptable behavior within their sphere of concern.
It's questionable how legal kiwi farms is. If it is legal it is definitely toeing the line. See my other posts on this page for examples.
It's more than just a react loop but i think there's promising research in multi gent cooperation. Notice the first doesn't even use GPT-4.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07924

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02485
Yes, my design right now includes a HEPA filter on the intake, preventing spores from ever even getting in the tube, a slight grade downwards towards the intake and a water catchment system at the end with a float tank activated pump to pump the water out periodically.
Einblick Prompt vs. Jupyter AI
We here at Einblick wrote up some examples that illustrate the benefits of leveraging contextual information when building AI integrations in the data analytics / data science space compared to simpler LLM wrappers.
Someone else posted this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_median

It’s the point the that minimizes the distance to all the input points in Euclidean space.
Well yea. Nothing white dudes hate more than being told women and minorities are allowed to do something they aren't (and since it appears to be just us talking here, I think we can both admit that's really all that's going on).

"Oh no, a problematic white man suffered a consequence. I'm a problematic white dude, I wouldn't want to be kicked out! This should be illegal!"
There is nothing un-artistic about wanting to both make art and to be able to afford rent, dinner, and pants.
I love hashicorp's software. I just wish their enterprise licensing models weren't so outlandishly expensive for small to medium companies. I wouldn't go so far as to call their vault pricing outright predatory, but it comes close.
In a 30-minute cable TV show, roughly 10 minutes of it is ads. Streaming is nothing like this (yet).
Inevitable end for every open source company since the free money ended. What bothers me is that wording is vague enough.

> HashiCorp considers a competitive offering to be a product or service provided to users or customers outside of your organization that has significant overlap with the capabilities of HashiCorp’s commercial products or services.

So, consider there is no cost estimate service and you built a thing that got popular (https://github.com/infracost/infracost). Then after 2 years Terraform Cloud catches up. What happens? Are you out of business?
As a song writer who's tried to use ChatGPT to help with writing songs, what I realised in the end is that it's simply more effective to rely on your imagination.

This isn't to say that ChatGPT isn't good at what it does, but at the end of the day, it's an abstraction over the creative process, and therefore not as useful as people might think.

Because when you're creating something, ultimately it comes down with how you engage with it, and ChatGPT takes you away from that. As a tool it's really good at coming up with ideas, but it then becomes a burden as you try and engage with this material and line it up with your vision.

I'm not sure if it's the right analogy, but it would be equivalent to using a bionic arm to hand write a poem. Yes, the bionic arm can do amazing things, but ultimately you'll be thinking more about interfacing with the bionic arm and figuring out the optimal solution to using it to write the poem best, than simply writing the poem.
This is a research question you can't answer with a prospective analysis either, because it's not ethical in most cases to randomize whether you're removing a body part.

The best we're going to do is a careful case control study (and research in animal models). And the evidence is enough to imply strongly that we should expend a little more effort to avoid removing the thymus.
What about migrations?
She was a grad student already.
I thought this might be interesting to the programmers who, like me, got their first introduction to "big" programming projects by modding the Quake games.

See also the Tech Rundown blog post which talks about how they back-ported some Quake III lighting and shadow tech to the enhanced Q2 engine: https://bethesda.net/en/article/6NIyBxapXOurTKtF4aPiF4/enhan...
I’m a full time engineer, working on OSS for more than a decade.

As much as I love open-souce, I get the point that there are a bunch of freeloaders using stuff and not contributing back.
This is what happens when general public service infrastructure becomes so bloated and ineffectual that even at huge scale it can not compete with small scale alternatives.

At some point it becomes more efficient to put in a natural gas/water/electric storage in your back yard than pay for public service delivery.
To be fair, most people don't have to deal with this and they shouldn't have to. I have compassion because I've personal experience with it. I'm an outlier here.

Still, I do think the US (and the world) should really put the "Golden Rule" as a top priority. So many problems would be non-issues if we did!
Same. I think it's pretty normal to want to go back and visit the physical locations of our youth to relive the memories, but if the environments we grew up in were digital we lack a tangible memory to return to, so a substitute is holding onto the systems themselves.
If the robot cannot answer that question it is simple and effective test. The whole point of a turing test is that you cannot distinguish between a person and a robot. If you can wait one minute and then ask it how long it has been since your last request this sounds like a simple and effective test.
Well, sure, it's a bummer. But one has to wonder why we glorify a practice of pillaging, raping and destruction. What's next for MIT? A Hitler Certificate? A KGB Certificate? A Slave Whipping Certificate?
Sorry to hear that.

I lived with someone for several years who was in a legal dispute with their tenants. Once one lawsuit was over, the other part retributed. I never knew them when they were not either suing or getting sued.

It taught me this: don’t ever go to court if you can avoid it.
Devtools for React Server Components
I like how that's implemented, what are you using to generate the pretty plaintext colored diffs like that?
I wonder if we get to a point where studios go back into the theater business but show there larger blockbuster TV shows to help offset the production costs.
I’ve tried so many different nvim GUIs, but when I last tried them (March or so), none of them behaved correctly on macOS, most of them had atrocious font rendering, didn't like part of the configuration that I had set up (neovide in particular had a deep incompatibility with one of the alert replacement plugins), crashed regularly, or had things enabled by default which aren't reachable with vim scripting.

I’ve gone all in and have converted my vim config to Lua and all…and I have decided that don't like Lua for configuration (there's a massive impedance mismatch between neovim and Lua; you always feel like you're working with a foreign interface).

Goneovim was slightly more stable, but IIRC, the font rendering and macOS integration were awful enough that I uninstalled it shortly after launching it. Neovide lasted slightly longer (so that I could see that plugin incompatibility). VimR tried, but it isn't MacVim.

And that's the problem: they aren't MacVim, providing a native macOS experience on top of a native vim GUI, because the neovim leadership cabal, in their infinite wisdom, decided that a first-party GUI is "useless".
Coca-Cola and Visa apparently. They say they have new protections to keep your ads from showing next to content you don’t like, but given that Twitter is paying those people to produce that content, they are still directly funding it.