skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of comments already from people who don't appear to have experience parenting.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050263
It is definitely propaganda.
The point is that there was enough water in the desert until people decided building massive retirement communities in the desert was a good idea.
Start your AI ventures now, people. There's only 2 or 3 more years left in the hype cycle, and after that people will realize language robots are pretty stupid and the gravy train will dry up.

You gotta give it to the tech industry for constantly tricking investors into paying for junk and ignoring that they make no profit.
I used a KVM switch for a while, but my company Macbook just really doesn't work well with a lot of peripherals and accessories.

I moved my office into a bigger space and now just have a desk for my computer and a desk for work and put up with the mess.
I'm not sure if even that Nemesis system is really something completely new. You could probably get a similar emergent behaviour from older systems like goal-oriented action planning, and I wouldn't be surprised if games like Dwarf Fortress already had something similar.
Can confirm. I am getting above average number of recruiter messages.

However, this last cycle of layoffs have taught me something. It is 1) the whole chase to Total compensation isn’t worth it, it matters the stability of the organization and the overall value of the work that we produce. To that end, stock compensation is really not to be relied upon at its face value. My total compensation in 2022 was less than 2020 when I was working as a new hire 2) if a company starts hiring to the point where you are taking more and more interviews every week without any real explanation behind the hiring, it’s time to GTFO.
Ask HN: With the 'Rona exploding, should RTO be canceled?
Iris software have some HR options. Their payroll systems are quite good. I know that their HR stuff has contract and training document delivery too.
There are two meanings we meant: other computers, and other programs.

In 1995 most computers had a single CPU core, running at around 100mhz. Today each core is 10-30x higher frequency (though as always you cannot compare frequency directly it is still a sign of relative speed), and almost all computers have at least 4 cores. In 1995 you were doing good to get 8 MB of RAM, now we are looking at around 8GB. One way around the inherent slowness of computers is another one on the network to run some programs.

In 1995 there were cool demonstrations where a program could plugin others for some functions. So your word processor wouldn't have a spellcheck, it would just use a third party spell check of your choice. (we sort of do that with shared libraries, but the interface is different) Some of what was done then was better than anything we have today (but see the other replies, making distributed work transparently is not easy and so if we had made it work people would probably hate how often it failed)
Endless ReCAPTCHA loop: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681>
Canada entering the chat. There is definitely poor weather.

I know people will cycle in the snow and ice, but I don’t recommend it.

I agree that bikes are great, when the infrastructure supports them, and reducing usage of petrol cars is sensible for the planet. But they still can only supplement a car for most families in most places.
Just give people money to buy food.
Another benefit of using HTML is ease of progressive enhancement. If the default behavior of the server is to render a full HTML page, anyone hitting that URL directly will get the full HTML from the server with no additional back-end work. Additionally, if JS is disabled in the browser, links still work as traditional links.
i didn't realize that; thank you for the added information

psychiatric drugs can have surprising effects, but generally the terrible interaction benzodiazepines have with alcohol is that they send people into a potentially fatal coma, rather than causing suicide attempts or psychotic episodes

the hangover, though...

withdrawal from ghb doesn't sound like a picnic either, often including delirium

that blog post is pretty appalling; the author admits to intentionally submitting his 'friend' to alcohol withdrawal. doesn't he know delirium tremens routinely causes permanent brain damage
I'm literally an anarchist. Calling anyone left of the US Democrats a "tankie" makes you sound like the person annoying helpdesk by continuously referring to anything with a cable on it as "the computer".

Heck, you could have read the first sentence of the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

> Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical.

I also literally gave you examples for "fantasy communism materializing" (of course none of them meet the strawman of "everyone is equal and peaceful" because that's not in any definition of communism outside maybe a PragerU video).
That's exactly right. The farmer is savvy. He knows that the legal mechanism for selling the water is to first spend it on plants and then export the plants.

It's a legal arbitrage. The valuable thing is the water because it can be used to make relatively expensive plants. The only permitted delivery mechanism is plants. So he follows the incentives.
This judge is out for blood.

HOLTZBLATT: I wanted to confirm that information because I don't want to make an incorrect representation to Your Honor.

THE COURT: Of course not. We have already been through that.
Well-played!

I am old enough to remember the original quote that I am almost certain you are referencing.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...
His pressure regulator is still used in the same form as him or His team invented. It was for laughing gas, but propane, CO2, O2, N2 and the rest all use that invention. Don't forget the phonograph, motion picture, the condenser microphone and the old telegraph/telephone switch either.
'Rona: coronavirus

Return to Office (RTO)
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I'm from the UK. I'm very split on this.

On one hand I hate that people use their mobiles while driving, not because I particularly care if the driver wants to take that risk with their own life, but because they risk the lives of their passengers and other road users.

That said, the UK does not have a good track record when to comes to applying this technology reasonably in my opinion. We have similar cameras which catch people driving in bus lanes or in low emission areas in the UK, and while I often agree in principle with bus lanes and low emission areas, I feel like they're enforced unfairly and with a complete lack of context.

For example my city recently introduced a low emission area, the rules for which are not very clear and for some reason these low emission areas seem to primarily include high trafficked sparsely populated areas. A few weeks ago I had a family member drive down to visit me and they very briefly drove in one of these areas by accident and were hit with a £120 fine.

Point is there is not adequate warning for road users and the low emission areas haven't even been implemented in areas that are reasonable – such as those that are highly populated or have high foot traffic. I'd actually argue the low emission zone in my city is just an anti-car, revenue generating move, enforced via automatic license plate recognition cameras which have no appreciation for context.

Similarly here, I wonder how these camera might be used. Admittedly there are times I will remove my seat belt in the car such as to remove a jacket at stop lights, and although I never use my phone while driving I will sometimes pick it up and check notifications on the lock screen when it's safe to glance at it such as in slow moving traffic or at stop lights. I don't think doing this is any more dangerous than say fiddling with a car radio (which is perfectly legal), and it's very different from someone texting or holding their phone to their head while driving, but these cameras and the way they're enforced typically have no appreciation for this.

So I dunno... I guess if they're preventing cases such as the one shown in the article then great, but if they're going to be fining people £120 for glancing at their notifications at stop lights I'd rather they not exist. It's just going to effectively be another tax on working people who need to drive to / for work.
So many times this feature would have come in handy for me, glad to find out about it!
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While it's true that he's currying favor with a political group that favors gas-guzzling pickup trucks over electric vehicles and is diametrically opposed to his mission of saving humanity from ecological disaster, owning the libs (his customer base) is its own $40b reward. /s
Yes, there's a decent chance. Lots of the crazier stories about the "bad" emperors are exaggerations or wholesale fabrications.
I love you. Thanks for making the web feel like the web again <3
Famously, fossil fuels require zero maintenance, being a magic energy source
The Turing Test – Can you tell a human from an AI?
Really excited to share turingtest.live, a site where you can play the Turing Test with GPT-4. You get randomly matched with either a human or an AI, and you have 5 minutes to decide which it is.

The platform is part of a research project I am carrying out on LLMs ability to interact like humans. While Turing originally developed the test as a way to measure machine intelligence, we're also interested in the extent to which models can deceive humans, and effective strategies for spotting and preventing deception.
One of the oldest debates in government imho... yes, vices are bad. Yes, they're also human nature. Yes, prohibition is problematic, yes, decriminalization also has tradeoffs. There aren't any "correct" positions on these. It's just a game of moving around the harms.
When I was working from home I had separate users with distinctively different themes on the same machine. Come "home time" I logged out of one and into the other. Maybe you don't have that option?
This is a fun semantic game. You can also tell them it uses a Von Neumann architecture and also 8 bit bytes. Or how about it uses Linux, or the latest Linux 6.5-rc6?
It really depends on the workload. I was working Sysops for a Mac-based shop during the Apple Silicon announcement, and we had a lot of broken Docker containers on ARM. When I left, your options as a Mac dev was:

- Use Apple Silicon, run Docker in QEMU and enjoy idle temps of 70-80c when building for production

OR

- Use an old Intel Mac, use "native" Docker and get slightly shorter build times and a marginally cooler system

Looking back on it, the only engineers there with quiet laptops were the ones using Linux on x86 hardware. It was simply what we deployed to, as an SaaS business.
> Do you disagree that the rebranding was a really, really stupid thing to do?

What part of it was stupid? The part where we all talked about it? or the part where engagement went up?

To get that kind of engagement and headlines with your brand you'd have to spend many many millions.
Not really the way I understand cppfront.

While Herb uses modest language when describing his project, my take is that's because it's a huge effort that might fail, but it does not indicate lack of ambition. If anything, I think this is hugely ambitious. The work in the standards committee provides the necessary infrastructure to make this feasible in the first place. On his Github he lists the changes that went into C++ over the last years that enable this prototype.

It's pretty clever really, and dare I say, it seems feasible. This essentially creates syntax bubbles inside the language where there are different defaults, and then transpiles those bubbles to regular C++ while copying the rest verbatim. See this https://godbolt.org/z/nPPMYM3Yj as an example how array accesses are transpiled to do bounds checking.
My interest on chemicals and how they affect the human endocrine systems is important, so rather than being a flippant ass - GFYS.
There are other databases today that do real time analytics (ClickHouse, Apache Druid, StarRocks along with Apache Pinot). I'd look at the ClickHouse Benchmark to see who are the competitors in that space and their relative performance.
> It could be more rational to argue that we need to stop growing humans on our most productive agricultural real estate. We can grow humans by the bushel in Montana. We can't get 12 cuttings of alfalfa per year in Montana.

You're just trading problems here. If you push everyone into Montana, now you have a resource moving problem. And the assumption "We can grow humans by the bushel in Montana" seems especially suspect. Have you been to Montana? It's the least populated state for a reason. Many of them actually.

You seem to think your thoughts are obviously right, but you ignored massive complexity. Not to mention, I don't think anyone is actually arguing to "eliminate farm land so that we can fit more humans on it." The problem is the water usage, not trying to change farmland into apartment buildings.
It’s disappointing news but the excitement and amount of replication on this paper was pretty fun to witness and experience.

To me the most interesting part was everyone talking about potential consequences, uses, the order of magnitude improvements we’d see in certain costs or areas. Pumps, MRIs, power grids, chips, etc. Great reminder what materials science can do to some underlying economics.
The article says 4+ dimension black holes can exist. Just curious about an oddball idea from complete laymen perspective - could a blackhole with a time dimension/component exist then? I'm sure someone's thought about that before me :)
These laws - as I see it - are primarily about framing.

No, they won't stop parents from buying smartphones for their kids. But just as with seat belts or smoking indoors, they will frame giving one to a kid as harmful. This will give lawfully inclined people a reason to pay attention and - through the appliance of social pressure - nudge other people into compliance.
> htmx has seen a surge in popularity

For those curious, here's some numbers for the last 6 weeks to put things into context:

- 4147 new stars

- 86 new contributors

- New contributors account for most of the commits and issues created which is a very strong sign of growth. Even in very popular projects, it is usually existing contributors that contribute most of the code.

https://devboard.gitsense.com/bigskysoftware/htmx

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The money quote (basically says why deep learning will keep on dominating): "One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even as the available computation becomes very great. The two methods that seem to scale arbitrarily in this way are search and learning."
Then they can redirect via their own domain... Why I troduce a third party?
> The addiction isnt to the smartphone, but to social media applications.

I wish this was true. Even for me a grown up, professional, responsible person, I have a hard time not wasting time on the internet altogether on my phone. It takes a lot for me not to fall back into the habit of mindlessly readying news pages, subreddits, yes, HN, etc. I would have to uninstall the browser which at some point I might try but how would you even do that on an off the shelf Android?!

Point being, I used to think having to fall back to a browser is the solution to breaking the habit, but for many of us it's not.
> 1024x768 which wasn’t typical for a 15” screen at the time.

I double-take at statements like this. I forget how much variation in experience there was. But, being in the SF Bay Area, we were able to read Computer Shopper etc. and carpool to the South Bay to get whatever we wanted. I recall trips to will-call doors at warehouses, as well as private sellers in small apartments. I guess I was spoiled for choice.

I distinctly remember having a 15" monitor that did 1024x768 around 1992, and working out the X modelines to use it with Slackware by 1994. I went higher from there as I got my hands on bigger 17" or 21" monitors. I'm pretty sure my 21" Nanao was usually running at 1600x1200 a couple years later. I always felt that image quality and keyboards were worth investing in, since I would spend so much time exposed to them.

As far as I recall, we often had to trade off lower color depth for higher resolutions, since framebuffer VRAM was usually limited. A lot of time was spent in 8-bit psuedo color palette modes with XFree86 before eventually using 15/16 bit "true color" modes. I don't think 24-bit made much sense until later with 3D accelerators that had more VRAM.
There's a lot that's wrong with farming and water use in California - alfalfa is just one of the many things. California also uses flood irrigation to grow rice, and open ditch irrigation is widespread. There are more efficient water delivery systems California could be using.
Sorry, but are you suggesting that transformers have been used by quants prior to the language application? LLM these days implies a transformer architecture.
Look up autoregressive model. There are already forecasting models that do something like this. I don't know if any use attention, it seems like a pretty obvious thing to have done. Overall this isn't a new idea.

Deep learning generally brings a lot less to tabular data because the underlying thing being modelled is much simpler compared to language models that effectively are modeling the human mind + culture so there's a lot more to fit the model to.
I'm sure there are tons of cyclist who misue these rules and are truly unsafe. Also, the Cali law isnt as cut and dry as you stated.

"A new bicycle lane change law was approved in 2022 and took effect on January 1, 2023, across all of California. Motorists approaching or overtaking a cyclist on the road must now switch lanes if another lane is available."

https://maisonlaw.com/safety-laws/bicycle-lane-change/

Also to note:

"In certain circumstances, cyclists may “take the lane” and use an entire lane, just as a car would. Riders may claim a full lane if they are passing, readying for a left turn, steering clear of an obstacle, or if they feel the lane is too narrow to share with a car"

Once a law leaves latitude for how someone was "feeling", it effectively legalizes the practice in almost every scenario.
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Inspired by the other Open Source contributors on this platform, I'm also trying to take the same path.

Currently, I'm working on creating a 100% free VSCode extension which can autocomplete your code using Local LLMs.

There are other players which already do this but they are all paid tools. Often, they offer a reduced capability one for free. I know a lot of devs (including me) who use the free version but don't buy the paid one. So, I think people will be willing to setup a local server which will increase their productivity.

I'm thinking of giving office hours/feature prioritisation as paid offering so that I can keep the lights on.

For early users, I have no way to advertise except post it on HN, Reddit and hope it gains traction. Can anyone with a successful Open Source project chime in on how this can be done?

What are your thoughts on this? Any feedback is appreciated :)
Actually it always gets me a lot of downvotes but I will keep repeating it because it is the truth. All personal responsibility is being outsourced to the state until we have no autonomy left and it's depressing.
We had access to RogueWave frameworks, so not that bad.

However things eventually moved on, when I started using GNU/Linux in production, it was either Tcl/Tk or Swing.
iPhone 15 production begins in India as Apple aims to diversify from China
There was an explicit agreement that VDC was not to trademark his brand/likeness. They just went and did it.
For more on this, checkout Abeel's Decision Transformer paper from a few years ago that helped spring up some of this research.
Not really. It's not like this is the first time they are issued a subpoena. Any decent big tech has a decent system for attending to legal requests and, probably, a technical team on call with the power to run custom queries if necessary.
These kinds of features are what breaks in new Windows releases.

For example: in windows explorer you can start typing the name of the file and it will character by character match it to a file. This got reduced to just the first character when Win11 shipped (now fixed).
The problem with SQLite is that you have binary blobs and you don't have useful text diffs. So you lose a lot easy history reviewing tools based on git and also easy merge/pull reviews.

The closest to a best of both worlds is to use something like JSON to store the data in git and then a tool like Datasette to build an SQLite-powered view on top of that repo.
No, you won't. People who gripe about spring didn't bother to do things the spring way. If you wrote your own DAL, you did it wrong. JpaRepositories and the like are the way. If you wrote your own JSON serializer/deserializer you did it wrong, Spring includes Jackson and will do it for you (YMMV). If you rolled your own authentication, you did it wrong. Spring Security can magically lock down your app with as little as a single configuration method, providing jwt/oauth/openid-connect enterprise security out of the box.

The issue with spring boot is not it's feature-set or it's robustness. It's with it's heavy handedness to force you down the "spring way". Annotation driven. Extending provided interfaces. Making it "sticky" and impossible to remove. Want to introduce gRPC? yeah, you're going to have to find a way to weave that into Netty or use a different port. It's robust enough just up unto a point where you hit a roadblock and have to dig deep deep into Spring land to understand whats going on.

It's still the best framework for standard crud web api's and such with Java. Though micronauts is quickly approaching. You can't go wrong choosing spring boot in 2023 if your intention is to ship in 2024. Whether or not that codebase is solid in 2027 is another matter.
Well I'm kinda glad I missed this whole news cycle

IMO this phenomenon seems to be kind of an artifact of modern media -- I feel like in the old days, peers would have settled it among themselves, and we would have never heard about it

The same thing happens in tech -- there is a lot of stuff that people talk about, that ends up being worth ignoring

...

I always bring up that whole news cycle in 2017 about a potential war with North Korea. How many people spent time and energy on that, and how do they feel about that now? Media is adversarial
The primary reason macs are popular for development is that they’re Unix based.

Even Docker, for example, runs natively on Linux and Macs and doesn’t on Windows (or didn’t initially at least…heck it wasn’t even available on Windows for many years until MS itself worked with Docker to bring it to Windows).

NodeJS took 2 years to come to Windows, again with MS having to work with Joyent yo achieve this, but was available on Linux and Mac from the outset.
QR Codes bring a more machine readable format and error correction. QRCode is partially scratched? It can still work.

How often will a camera mistake a l and I? Even for scanned books, OCRs make mistakes.