skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brandon Gilles Dies from Long-Covid, Electrical Engineer and Spatial AI Pioneer
You need a special stylus and perhaps to adjust the tracking force.
AI companies must prove their AI is safe, says nonprofit group
Not to defend Dell, because they don't deserve it and should have stood by their product, but it's possibly true that the monitor was used, and not their fault that it was. 'Sold by Amazon' products are AFAIK commingled with the same product from other sellers that are Fulfilled By Amazon.
A random walk down blockchain hell: Do we really need a Blockchain powered by Oracle or a PayPal stablecoin?
When it's somewhat irrelevant to focus on the hard things, which are more appealing, I find it's frustrating not being motivated to solve the more pressing, easier issues because they're not "fun"
I believe him because 1. He directed the donations and 2. He has been unable to stop himself from talking/confessing from the very beginning.

If his intentions was to shepherd favorable laws, why wouldn't he have donated to Republicans? If you disagree with the feds and don't think that influencing lawmakers was his motive, then I'd appreciate your take on what his motivation could have been.

Why wouldn't you believe he is a shallow, privileged, self-important person who cares a lot about how he is perceived, and whose thinking turns out not be all that sophisticated? There is less to him than meets the eye, to quote Tallulah Bankhead.
Thankfully we have record companies acting in good faith to recoup that gulp 400 million in potential lost revenue on behalf of those long-dead artists and their deserving kin.
I believe France has laws like this also (restrictions on what can be advertised as a "sale" at least).
Sorry about your bad experience, but what does this story have to do with misleading monitor pricing?
Java DI isn't good either. It runs a full DAG on boot.
> I think they were asking about changing heading in addition to altitude

Heading and altitude are NOT independent. When an aircraft makes a turn, it banks (it's not like a flat turn you make in your car), and inevitably loses some speed because of extra drag, and some altitude because of loss of lift.

It can be compensated by increasing the engine power, but then you really need to predict that as well.
Just a side note/addendum, I worked with entertainment lawyers A LOT in the early days of the web on copyrighted images and while they start from a rigorous position what one simply has to do is find out what the guidelines are that alleviate any issues. For example, with an image or a video clip it often only requires explicit attribution (so every image at the bottom must carry the legal/copyright line, and likewise with a video clip) to satisfy the lawyers. They almost never tell you that, though. That's a tip for YouTubers who get copystruck for movie clips. Run the copyright/legal line at the bottom of every clip while they are on screen and you are covered 99% of the time. That's why when you watch the news and they show a clip you see the line at the bottom of the clip. They know what the legal requirements are.
One problem I wasn't able to solve very satisfyingly is music -> midi. Even with solo instruments, the output data is a hot jumbled mess with all kinds of errors from pitch to rhythm to dynamics. Once anything more than one timbre is involved, or e.g. an orchestra, it seems completely impossible to solve it with current tools since the model needs to be smart enough to tell apart fundamental frequencies with multiple timbres.
Yes same. I write myself a nice typed pipe() [2], and a one-after-the-other promise queue[4] whenever I need it but that's it really. I use web streams a lot.

The most abstract I'm usually willing to get is using River [5] instead of array's map/filter/reduce.

There seems to be an absolute obsession over these libraries now though. I assume it's fueled by every frontend library pushing functional patterns. See Effect [1] for example, it's insane how much is piled on.

[1] https://effect.website

[2]
type Fun<A, B> = (a: A) => B
export const pipe = <A, B>(f: Fun<A, B>) => {
return {
to: <C>(g: Fun<B, C>) => pipe((arg: A) => g(f(arg))),
start: () => f,
};
};

[4]
class TaskQueue<U = any> {
private pending: Promise<any> = Promise.resolve();
add = <T,>(task: () => Promise<false extends true & U ? T : U>) =>
(this.pending = this.pending.then(task).catch(task));
}

[5]
https://GitHub.com/wiselibs/river
https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/basta/about/

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/basta/tree/basta.sh
GPL breakers wouldn't be breaking GPL if they kept their own work. They break it when they distribute a compiled work that's only partly theirs, and mainly somebody else's, without sharing the source code for it.

You're more than welcome to build on GPL code and keep your own work. Just don't distribute it.
FWIW, it could be an Amazons fault. Someone bought the monitor, used it, decided they didn't want it and returned it. The seller looked at it, decided it looked good enough, and put it back in his inventory at Amazon as new.

You'd have no way of knowing. People used to (maybe still do?) buy expensive graphic cards, take them out and put back a cheap one with a flashed ROM. Then shrink-wrap the box again and return it.

You wouldn't blame the manufacturer in that case. I never buy expensive things from Amazon because you can never trust what you're going to get, especially with inventory comingling.

If you bought directly from the Dell website, I'd share more of your anger. I also dislike Dell in general though, so I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway.
The whole scheme strikes me as … unsophisticated, especially for two math geniuses.
Thanks for saving me 10 minutes.
What about your divorce attorney? My divorce attorney asked me last week if she could borrow money 650 USD, and pay it back in about 3 months. Also, my divorce is not yet final. Talk about awkward. I said no.
Pop Land Cows/Herd Sheep
ie 5.1M 7Mha 7.4M 2.5M 5.9M
MT 1.1M 38Mha 2.2M 1.3M 200k
without calves^

The intuition most people have is that CO2 is a people scale problem and Ireland has 5x Montana’s population, even though Montana is 5x more spacious. The cows are significant — methane is awful.

[edit: my Irish cow number was out by a factor of 3x, and I’ve separated cows-inc-calves from the adult herd.]

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverv...

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-clsjp/cro...
Ha yeah we used to have to sneak in Postgres apps back in day. Some banks were indeed cooler than others.
> I bet it was originally 20kg not 20 tons.

I think you're right. Oof, that's a lot of trees. Still worth doing IMO.

Keep in mind we can divide by 10 since each tree would absorb approximately 250 kg of CO2 over that period of time. That brings us to about 78,000 square miles or 20M hectares, which seems a lot more feasible.
I should be able to find it. It was an aggregate post from 2014 titled something like “stuff I wrote this year” which is how I found the year for the post in question.
Hasn’t even OpenAI themselves turned off the feature/API which would try and tell the likelihood that a given text was AI generated, since it was too low accuracy?

If even OpenAI thinks such a thing is too low accuracy, how can a third party service like TurnItIn think they can do a better job at it?
Wow. I forgot all about the days when 0-day meant new releases of warez not an exploit in the wild. Good times.

Also fun to see these tied together... "The Zero Day Warez Girl was a Trojan"
If they have proved unable at smoothing the small fluctuations, how can they do better with the large ones? And they didn't - the Great Depression.
Just to point out: this amounts to a little over $1200 (US) per sold monitor. And Dell was ordered to provide affected customers full or partial reimbursement on top of this.

So definitely a costly affair.
In reality when you really think long and hard many jobs are kind of useless.

I could argue that in the grand scheme of things our existence might be completely useless and irrelevant. Yet we spend our short existence doing things which have almost no meaning, some of us try to impress our friends and neighbors. Put up some accomplishments on our useless CV before we turn into dust. Others will raise their offspring to continue this until our planet can no longer sustain life.

Humans are weird man.
Wait til they hear about the purpose of life.
ChatGPT Isn't as Good at Coding as We Thought
Well, that $100m didn't go towards obtaining immunity, it was contributed to campaign funds for the purpose of lobbying. He wanted legislation favorable to FTX.
Overproduction of elites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction
Yeah, this is common Amazon behavior.
you are wrong, and you don't "know". the waves interfere with themselves unless they are measured. then the plate measures interfered waves in the form of singular photons, not waves. look it up.

silly downvoters.
If you've played SC competitively, it's pretty obvious the game wasn't initially designed for esports. Initially. The Zerg build tree is dependent on you mastering things like: "start building, reducing your population count, build a new builder, cancel building, exceeding population cap by one".

The way splash damage (using aoe attacks) is used to detect invisible units is another.

It's a game with wonderful complexity and lots of possible permutations. Most Blizzard games are built with this complexity from the start, and blatant exploits are patched. Their approach is to enable creativity and tweak things.
People are taking this comment literally and ignoring the spirit of it e.g. “for 1.5x I would but not 1.1x”… okay fine, what about 1.2x? The number doesn’t matter… the point is that SWEs care about code quality more than PMs and other non-devs ever will.
AsyncFlow
> We successfully created a class in C++ that we can now use in C!

It's substantially easier to bind FFI to it if it's usable from C.

If it's usable from C, it's usable from umpteen other languages.

Thou shalt not write a C++ component without a C API.
This is a pretty pity analysis that doesn't go into depth about what the banks actually do and they're placing the macroenment. Interest on cash deposits is becoming less of the business focus for some banks while managing Investments is becoming more.
Super Smash Bros and the Nintendo response to things like wave dashing (giving characters a chance to stumble in the latest game, iirc) comes to mind.

Basically, they saw a hardcore community form around their family friendly fighting game, and tried to axe it.
It's interesting because it implies that music is finite. Or possibly that commercial music is finite - there's an infinitely long tail of weird shit that we don't want to listen to, but the stuff we do want to listen to is confined to a finite segment of possible music.

If so then eventually all music will be free, because it will be repeating a previous iteration of the same tune.

This also implies that music is discovered, not invented.
I built a logistics SaaS for ecommerce and the issue of timezones almost drove me insane. Finally, I discovered the 3-step solution to preserve my sanity.

1. Store all dates/times in UTC. This way, you know at least know exactly what point in time the data represents.

2. Display in the user timezone as needed

3. Delegate handling of time manipulation to an external library (like Lumen). This way you don't have to deal with all the intricacies of understanding international law and geopolitics required to turn timestamps into actual real life event
Can you tell me a bed time story about the mean old imperial working and middle class people? I want to hear about their mega profits too.
If I had a dollar for every time a SWE was promised “resources” to address tech debt I could probably retire. If you’re “not that PM”, good on you, but any seasoned SWE hears “we’ll address the tech debt {in the future}” and either laughs or cries on the inside.
Does anyone remember killerapp.com? It had parametric search for tech products along the dimensions you actually cared about, and then a ranking of sellers by total price, including shipping and any applicable tax. Exactly what you wanted.

Compare today: we have major retailers demanding exclusive SKUs to prevent apples-to-apples comparisons, and it doesn't matter anyway because most people are Amazon Prime members and don't really bother shopping around.
I thought it was common knowledge that it's a racket? You pay exorbitant fees to get a piece of paper with a famous name attached hoping it will get you a job or contacts. They know this so they keep raising prices as long as the money keeps flowing.
Sounds like a great battle for Dell and Amazon to have. It shouldn’t be a burden to consumers regardless of whether Amazon or Dell screwed up.
I was converting a cURL invocation to a NodeJS fetch function call: https://chat.openai.com/share/784134ea-6c96-4fb7-bd3a-4f3ffa...

It saved me ~5 minutes but that amount of time can really add up.
correction:
https://GitHub.com/wiselibs/wise-river
It’s not api access but you can use Claude 2, including the 100k context model, in a chat interface via Poe and via Claude.ai.

Note: the 100k context model isn’t very good, it doesn’t remember things from the context nearly as well as it would from 8k of context.
Possibly because many of us recognize that the protections under GDPR are about reigning in dangerous corporate data usage, not about allowing people to curate their online image by scrubbing things they've previously made public.

There is a huge gap between "you shouldn't be able to use my data for things I did not consent to in order to commodify me" and, "I should be able to force people to get rid of any info about me that I don't want them to have, even if I made it public".
I've tried and failed to find out what happened to Curt in the past. I suspect they died or were otherwise incapacitated 2 years ago because they suddenly stopped posting online.
Nordstrom was famous for refunding the money for things obviously not bought at the store, for example, tires, and clearly worn out shoes. (As told to me by a former sales clerk at Nordies.)

But too many people tried to make a living out of scamming Nordstrom's patient indulgence of this, and they changed their policy.

Warranty fraud is a major problem.
Tech companies have completely zombified the customers and are winning and chain scamming the customer every step of the way!!
By structuring code appropriately - for example, in a GC-based system you can create new objects from anywhere, but in Rust it tends to make more sense to follow a RAII-style model where you take advantage of scope to simplify lifetime management.

Also, by knowing when and how to use wrappers like RC, Arc, RefCell, Box, etc., and by knowing when and how to use lifetime annotations.

As for copying, you learn when to move, when to copy, when to clone, and when to implement the relevant traits on your types.

It's really not that different from working in a language like C or C++, except that the compiler ensures that you're not making any mistakes.
I feel the games designed for esports have kinda been "meh" whereas the ones designed before esports were really a thing (and then balanced accordingly) were much better. Much more "emergent gameplay".
photons dont exist, dude, except in connection with and at the site of the detector. study some qft and then you can go talk about it on the internet with authority.

and yes direct observation exists. that's what measurement is. and that's all you can ever "observe" unless you incorporate the wavefunction, which also doesn't "exist".
Why on earth would you do that instead of using Waze on the larger, built-in screen? Especially if you are a buyer who "strongly prefers" having that in the first place? Nobody is using that kind of holder on a car with Android Auto or Carplay.
I dunno. $1T buys a lot of land - if we assume the amount of forest needed to reduce 10B tons of CO2 over 10 years is 50 million acres, $1T would pay $20,000/acre. That's way more than a lot of acreage goes for that you could put trees on.

Put in that light, spending $1T on some sort of magic engineered CO2 vacuum gizmo that has yet to be fully baked, will probably break down from time to time, and won't scale particularly well seems like a bad investment. No disrespect intended, just doing the math.
I didn't intend those sentences to be read as connected.
The economy seems far less substantial in C&C compared to StarCraft, at least from my memory. StarCraft has mining, gas, and unit caps. C&C has tiberium/money.
The small steps that lead to dystopia
I’m sure his “yes” vote was in no way influenced by his relationship with Cruise
Oh you're totally right, 20 kg, not 20 tons. My bad.

In a year, 1 tree removes the equivalent emissions of 2 gallons of gasoline.
How many wild bison/deer/elk got killed each year?
Right now it seems about 2/3 of fawns die, most of them eaten by predators: https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jwmg.21...

I wonder if that number was higher before humans reduced the number of predators.
I mean, Twitter/X is still chugging along despite all of the cries that it was going to collapse. He might not be fully wrong.
Functional Programming 1
Menstrual discs may be better for heavy periods than pads or tampons
Found this old interview with him, it's sad to see someone with so much energy taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DG2LOj8Upw

His long-covid google doc survives him, which I guess is what happens these days

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X3dNPgEuQ2j8x7w8OqLEDP7l...

(PDF) https://docs.google.com/document/export?format=pdf&id=1X3dNP...
What about apartment buildings built for rent only? Surely these can only be done by institutional investors, no single person has the capital to do a 100-200 unit apartment building?
The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
This is great! but you'd be better off picking your favorite link from this list and submitting that instead. For why, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

If you do that, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
And if they are, why can't I buy one at Wal-Mart?
Agile is universally applied, which is the failing. SOmewhere in those comments is the gem of the whole thing:

- It's good for interfaces. Specifically, ones that are ill-defined

And therefore, agile is great for moving around widgets, changing CSS / colors / fonts, adding a widget or two, improving validation on fields, maybe splitting a page into multiple. Notice how all those tasks are palpable, pretty simple, well constrained, evolutionary, and steadily improved? Perfect for Agile.

It might be good for some microservice development, but it also tends to make microservice interactions unstable and explode their numbers, and destabilize the apis.

Research, deeply difficult code, inherited codebases, large refactors, architectural migrations (monolith --> microservices, major version updates to platforms, move to cloud), are AWFUL for Agile.

Aside from that, story points, burn charts, velocity charts, fixed sprints, tend to be square peg round holes and big hammers. I can't count the number of times I simply had a "8" ticket that would cross two or three sprints before it was done, and eventually managers just accepted it when I explained what needed to be done. And really, that was still to confining for major major tasks.

Also, QA gets completely squeezed, because the agiles I've seen all assume the QA is done in the same sprint the dev occurred. Wow is that dumb. Because the dev runs long, the QA gets shrunk. Really the QA should occur in the following sprint once the dev deadline is achieved.

There has to be a middle ground. Either you are doing 6-12 month waterfalls, or doing 1-2 week sprints? Come on people. How about 1-2 month checkins?

Sometimes I wonder if software dev orgs could vastly benefit from a bunch of attached "dev assistants" that help write the documentation, track tasks, tickets, etc, and alleviate devs from having to do all that paperwork / distraction. They can function as safe sounding boards, or keep an eye on a bigger picture as the developer dives deep into the tech details.

Managers wouldn't stoop to this. SCrummasters ... kind of ... devalue managers a bit at the interface point with engineers, but not enough to get this sort of bookkeeping.

Like, if you are shelling out 200k for an engineer, wouldn't you rather they work as much as possible on the tech stuff, and leave the bookkeeping to some cheaper person?
The catch is that universities must spend on impressive new facilities, buildings, housing, and sports if they want to remain attractive to their customers (students).

Most universities are still competing for students. Many students survey a lot of universities and do campus tours to determine where they want to attend. The short campus tours don't really show them anything about the education they receive, but the state of the facilities and leaves a lasting impression.

Given the choice, undecided students tend to be drawn to universities with the nicest campus, most impressive facilities, best sports arenas, and other expensive things.

Universities know this, so they spend like it's an arms race.
The key paragraph is:

“Manufacturers have traditionally used saline or water to estimate the absorption of their products, even though menstrual blood is more viscous and includes blood cells, secretions and tissue from the shed endometrial lining, all of which affect how it is absorbed.”

See discussion on Twitter:

https://x.com/jasmineagolphin/status/1690911638851850241
C is crap, but C is clearly the more fundamental point in the embedding space here so I went with it over C++ — "professional" C++ has its own idioms/Alexandrescu-isms that barely exist in any other language.
At the moment (as far as I know), only for NETWORKING bound tasks. Not general IO. Java at the moment doesn't support asynchronous file IO, this makes some sense since async-io on Linux is a bit of a mess still in terms of stability and security (but it's getting there so fingers crossed...).

E.g. I'm building an app that does a lot of file IO and I won't be using virtual threads. They would provide nothing for this particular use case.
It says "Outlines 〰 is compatible with all models.".
But does this actually work with gpt3.5-turbo or gpt4?
I was using guidance before and you only get value when using davinci due to the constraints of chat api based models.
The CPS unions have made lots of things negotiating positions in the last few years, from school nurses and social workers to veteran teacher pay scales and disciplinary rights. Classifying their position one way or another is impossible.

If anything the CTU has been doing everything in their power to make sure the real problem, pensions, is never on the bargaining table. They are argument #1 against public employee unions if only because they are so obviously hosing their current members on behalf of their previous and soon to be previous members.

That said your broader point still stands, there is nothing strange about their compensation or outcomes when compared to peer organizations.
edit: 20 kg of CO2, not 20 tons.

This system proposes removing 30 millions tons per year.

A tree captures about 0.02 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

So this is the equivalent to 1.5 billion trees.

Trees grow at about 800 trees per acre.

This effectively matches the space of 1.875 million acres, around 2,929 square miles.

So in a way one could think of this as opening up more land for other things.
That's not what Loom is. It uses a combination of native threading and user threads to create a hybrid mode that gives the benefits of both.
Hey! Thank you for checking it out. This is a good one: hello@pitchpower.ai

Let me know what you think, thanks!