skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried it like this-

Title - fakehn.com

Text - Do a test run of your hacker news submission to see how readers may respond to your post. Planning to add url support in the near future!

Top comment -
Is there a reason why we need a separate platform to test our Hacker News submissions? Can't we just post directly and see how readers respond?

A few interesting comments -

I'm not convinced that using a separate platform for testing Hacker News submissions is necessary. Why not just share drafts with a small group of trusted peers?

Has fakehn.com considered partnering with Hacker News to offer this testing service directly on their platform? It could save users the trouble of using an external website

I hope fakehn.com takes user privacy seriously and ensures that any data or submission content is secure.

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The last comment is always a flagged one with a comment by @dang.

Awesome :D
Try this. I didn’t really see how cool lisp was until I followed this

https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/

It’s one thing to read it. It’s another to try it. Download the racket app and just do these fun 10 steps and that’s it.
Because your kids get their names misspelled and have to correct whoever is writing their name?
- insert relevant XKCD comic -

[comic]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[/comic]
Social Accounts Are Never Safe, Even If You Use Great Passwords [video]
How the Wii Works
There's a difference between an idealist in a cynical world, and lying about things proven and admitted to be lies for personal gain.
Names are not arbitrary in the least. They are deeply connected to history, family, religion, and ancient tradition. They are meaningful in just about every way a thing can be meaningful.

You can consider those things unimportant, but society as a whole does not agree with you.
Except now you have to look in two different places instead of one.
I don't quite understand how this code works. Where does the `nil` come from? What operation are we performing on 3 that causes it to return `nil`?
Recently, thanks to linux gaming support, I was able to run Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (using proton). Nothing beats fun nostalgia. So happy it lives forever on open source now.
I know, I want to see an LLM hallucinated flagged comment ;)
Sounds like she's the CEO in name only and someone else is calling the shots.
Do you have any idea how much CO2 it takes to create and hang a painting or photo?
APFS (Apple filesystem) calculates free/used space in a non-intuitive way which causes users to be confused about file size.

Link from the same publication on this exact topic.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/09/where-did-all-that-free-...
Agree. On brand.
> The stakes here are zero.

For most, yes. But for software where stakes are non-zero, for software where errors could kill people or cause billions of dollars of damage, the tooling is... exactly the same. For example, the infamous "Industry 4.0" and "Industrial IoT" buzz-phrases are, in big part, about your usual garden quality open source software - mostly webshit - orchestrating the actual control systems in factories and manufacturing plants. I shudder to think what "Industry 5.0" will look like.
Manipulating Terraform states for fun, profit, and reusability
He took Saudi money.
I'm an oldish guy with older friends and have dealt with this problem several times. If you have a cherished collection of something, it's very unlikely any of your heirs will be willing to put effort into finding a good home for it unless they can get significant money for it (which is also very unlikely).

You are the best person to find a recipient for your collection. Do it while you still have your wits. Strongly consider having the transfer made while you are still alive, so it doesn't have to go through probate. Don't let your heirs maintain unrealistic expectations of how much they could get for selling the stuff.
A lot of Ubuntu hate, and I totally understand why. We all remember Mir and Upstart. And now Snap. So if this bothers you, by all means look elsewhere.

On the other hand... I've used Ubuntu desktop consistently for about 15 years now. I'm not a power user by any stretch. I just want things to work, and the "just works" factor has improved considerably.

Installation is ridiculously easy. It's fast. It never crashes. It finds all the right drivers for me. Suspend works. Audio works great, including with recording software like Reaper/Audacity.

I just don't have time to mess around with stuff anymore. Gone are my Arch Linux days. I get about half an hour of time after putting our little one to bed, and I want to spend 0% of that on configuring stuff.
I’m also having trouble parsing the logic behind that specific language.
For what it's worth, ^G is [G]et help. And ^H can be/usually is backspace. It's only one letter off alphabetically. :)
I find reviewing code on GitHub unpleasant. A lot of scrolling is required and it's difficult to find previously written comments and their responses. You can't really determine who is responding to whom if more than 2 people are involved.

None of those things are problems when reviewing code via email.
> std::vector<MyType> is a pretty good 'box' like container.

C++ has a concept of not paying for what you don't use. So if you only need one of that type then the vector isn't the right thing to use because the vector will have dynamic array-sizing information: at the very least, two size_t's one to indicate allocated size and one to indicate used size.

Then, a vector won't deep-copy a pointer. So a Vector requires the concrete most-derived type, and not a pointer to it. That's not the same as pointing to a base class to avoid needing to know the most-derived type.

No, I don't agree that a vector<type> is a good 'box' like container.
Her role appears to be fronting anything that would be too much of a humiliating climb-down for Musk, which is why she's doing all of the work on trying to assure advertisers that there will be a way for ads not to appear in the middle of Nazi content any day now.
Personally, not for the day job. I love experimenting with new stuff in my free time but when the pressure is on to deliver for the business, I want to go with what I know works.
Pricing connecting flights lower is the whole point. The model I've seen is something like this:

A has direct flights to B and C for $300. But B is a major hub while C is a random regional destination, and their network has too many staff members or individual aircraft that need to get to B. So one of the A to C flights is scheduled to connect through B, and customers who are willing to take that flight pay only $200 for their inconvenience.

"Skiplaggers", even though they're getting the same service from a user perspective, are defeating the point from a route management perspective. The discount was offered to improve the airline's logistics by reducing the demand for A->C, and if you're on a hidden-city ticket you aren't helping with that.
A big part of what makes this sort of small town corruption possible is that it's really hard to get people from outside the town to actually care. This story managed to get national attention so it's much more likely than usual to have something happen.
I guess my point is I see people all day everyday Monday-morning-quarterbacking decisions made by immensely successful people done so with zero humility nor recognition of all the home-runs these people have hit. There is seemingly no reason for these critics to feel like they can uniquely handicap the decisions these people made yet they are never remotely reluctant to do so. It just gets obnoxious seeing a random HNer think they know more about branding than the founder of Tesla and SpaceX -- to the point of accusing this founder of missing which would otherwise be obvious to the HNer. Wait a few years then opine.
I think both ideas are consistent: movements gain momentum when you seem to lack one thing because the psychology is “we have good things A B and C, why can’t we have D?”
People who don’t have anything just dream for A, so a movement promising them D isn’t effective.
Shocked to hear this news.Still shivering.RIP Kris.
That brings back memories. I did almost exactly the same thing, but I created a Postscript program to render a "Common Seal" stamp, that through some process unknown to me could be converted from the printout to an actual stamp. It was all circular, the text was rendered on a path (a circle) and automatically scaled to fit. I used a lot of paper writing that, I went a little further and moved the image to different positions on the page so I could get more than four tests on a page, but still a large amount of paper in the end. I'd forgotten about the Microsoft Word special style that made it all possible.

So when I got to use a NextStation with Preview.app, that was a huge revelation, interactive postscript.
Linked “suggested” that I got verified using CLEAR
I didn't do it, so many disclaimer and T&C to give up my privacy.

Is CLEAR the new "Do no Evil" Evil?
Google's take on measuring dev productivity
I saw some special on youtube years ago, maybe from VICE, where they reported on folks needing lymph node surgery who had substantial tattoos. The removed lymph nodes were enlarged and visibly full of ink.
Are you willing to reveal your identity to hackernews to prove you are who you say you are?
Context length in LLMs: All you need to know
1, 2, and 3 are being passed as lookups to the a hash. 3 is undefined on the hash, hence nil.
Probably not useful if you’re in a faraday cage.
right! thats pretty much his proposition: if you buy a landfill and can handle the costs of methane and leachate management, then in only 200 years it should be worth a lot of money when we run out of cheap <x> for <x> in [things we need]
Ooo great point
To what kind of insurers and where? Car insurers already get people to install spyware to observe their driving patterns, and can probably get it straight from the car company soon if not already. That's better than a one or twice removed guess.
I would expand that to any ideology, where the difference between an idea and an ideology around the idea, is whether that one idea (as good as it might be!) gets treated with sanctity over other ideas.

I.e. Anacapitalists who love capitalism so much they think it can solve virtually all of societies decision making scenarios better than alternatives, such as democratic government, justice systems, etc.

I came across a poet from a Soviet controlled country who referred to ideologists as "lunatics with a good idea". I have tried repeatedly to identify the poet since but have not been able to.
Is that still in print? That was the physics book we used my freshman year, in 1974. It was a great book. I’m still sorry I sold it.
Fluid dynamics was the most awful course I ever took. I still get nightmares of me failing my graduation because of Navier-Stocks equation
SentenceTransformers all-MiniLM-L6-v2 is still your best bet since you can generate them in batches with GPU acceleration.
Are you saying you don’t think Obama supporters generally hate republicans/trump?

I’m a foreigner so my only data is from random Americans I talk to, but all progressive Americans seem to have a strong hatred for conservatives. Same thing for Trump supporters hating progressives.
It appears they never specify any damages. They reference "all actual damages" at the end (IX. f.) but they never detail what they are or even how they might be calculated. I'm not a lawyer, but isn't proving monetary damages an essential component of a civil complaint like this?
I’ve never heard the software updates are personalized. Can you give a source? I’m not sure what it would be for.

“According to the logged in iCloud account this user likes reggae, thriller movies, and paint programs. So… don’t patch flaw X7b-9?”
It doesn't strike me as that weird.

We just don't have as much reefer-madness level of propaganda brainwashing the public into associating tattoos with motorcycle gangs that tear through town and rape your daughters.

I think the criminal association threshold has moved to facial tattoos having offensive content, suggesting incarceration.
LLM watchfogs roaming HN?
The thing is, Apple has been here before with at least 2 architecture transitions under it's belt. Motorola 68000 -> PowerPC -> Intel -> Arm -So they have lived this "how do we bundle upgrades, cross architecture" for some time.
That's a typo/autocorrect, it redirects to twitter
> […] much easier to integrate and maintain, is going to be far far preferred

Agreed. My team recently settled on Qdrant because it was fast and painless to set up and get started using.
Exactly this. In my local home energy generation group there are a lot of people thinking they are smart by getting wind generators from alibaba and then selling them because it’s really hard to get anything usable out of them.

Someone working in the field told that anything below mast height of 30m is going to a toy at best.
That's merely the mechanism to enable running Intel software. Many of the system frameworks and a few of the built-in application extensions are universal binaries, so there's quite a portion of Intel code installed on the system.

Same thing happened with the PPC transition; 10.4.5 to 10.5.8 had a lot of PowerPC code even without Rosetta installed.
Texas electricity prices soar 6k% as heat wave is expected to shatter records
Tell me you don’t visit HN often without telling me you don’t visit HN often.
I'm amused about him referring to House Centipedes as a far tougher enemy towards the end. Indeed, they are. My neighbors and I have both of these running around our basements.

Recently I was on an important video call with my boss, who must have wondered why my eyes were constantly darting to the walls as he was talking to me. It's because I was watching on crawl across the ceiling from the far corner of the room towards me... I've no idea what happened to it after the call ended.
I can't see it either, but the bit about it not being cachable would seem to lend credence to the idea. Maybe they did something weird like signing/encrypting it with a per-device key? Not that I can see why they'd do that...
TBH a 5.1 is not a big deal unless you're right on top of it. People near the epicenter might have to readjust some pictures on their walls, but it's not the most densely populated area
I've been in Python/Django for about a year now and I really miss Ruby's hash vs the dict.

`.dig(:key, :key, :etc)` is so nice to find deeply nested data without blowing up.

One thing I don't miss is knowing whether a hash's keys are strings vs symbols. While it's easily solvable, I've definitely lost time only to smack myself that I need to use a str but was always feeding a sym and swore that this should be a sym based hash.
I think he would argue that those movements effectively ended when they achieved their goals.

I don’t know the history well but I think you could look at the civil rights movement as ending due to progress, then restarting a long time those gains were made and frustration has rebuilt. I’ve heard a lot of talk from US political commentators about reparations and Black Lives Matter, but both groups seem to fit his definition of a mass movement without explicit goals.
I think that was clearly obtainable in principle, or at least asymptotically attainable.

An unattainable utopia might include anacapitalists who want to replace any kind of government or governance with an expansion of capitalism, and don't see inherent problems with that.
> Musk has recently claimed that X now has more than 540 million "monthly users." If accurate, that means more than 25 percent of accounts on the platform follow Musk.

This is an obviously bad conclusion: if X and Mashable used the same conditions to consider someone an active user (thus, counted as "monthly user" or "active"), we'd expect only around 50% of Musk's followers to be active in a given month, if that.

That puts the figure Musk followers contribute to monthly active users at 12%.

The two definitions are certainly different, and X has better access to data, but I would expect majority of the X accounts to be pretty much inactive (heck, I created one back in the early Twitter days and only ever tweeted less than 10 times: though I was not following Musk, but I can imagine a bunch of accounts like mine who did). Also, I don't see a reason to underestimate lurkers: a bunch of changes recently (eg. visibility restricted to account holders, since retracted) may have pushed some to create lurker accounts.
Do you have an example of how you've done this?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobes-co-founder-john-wa...
I watched this a while back. Or at least, I tried to watch it.

In my opinion, it was incredibly pretentious - so much so that it made it hard to listen to.

Just read the book instead...
at least fluid mechanics in the context of engineering is only 3 dimensions. QFT needs more.
The discussion here is rooted in how we understand ‘context’.

Your comments about stable sorting are well and good, but they don’t disprove what I was trying to get across with my example. Why a ‘business logic’ function uses a stable sort (or does not) is contextual.

I understand your point, but do you understand mine? This is just one example. The idea for mutually beneficial communication is this: one person strives to be charitable and understand another’s example as a way of understanding their point. This is not a skill necessarily taught or nurtured in the field of software engineering, but it should be.

Most of us have the deductive/analytical skills to use an example to prove our point. It is actually harder to take someone else’s example and see their point. It is harder empathetically and computationally; it requires some inductive steps. (I think there’s a connection between empathy and generalization/induction, but that’s for another time.)

My comments are obvious — almost tautological — if you think epistemologically. Programs and functions are designed to solve problems in context. You can’t get around this fundamental truth. Philosophy has been around longer than programming; in fact, it is one of the historical roots of mathematics and programming. Discussions of good design, which may involve parsimony, orthogonality, and more, have been discussed at length well before software existed. We’d be wise to not ignore lessons already learned.

Such is my experience, having seen and learned a lot from a lot more than software. Claiming that something is context-free is a bold claim. Pure mathematics and logic are probably the only areas than can make that argument credibly.
There's plenty of research going into very high-temperature heat pumps. It's likely that eventually that will absolutely be 'in their wheelhouse'. Sure, the COP might only ever be something like 2-3 instead of lower temperature heat pumps (under 80 or so °C) that can be > 4 COP but still should be more than 1...
Core Graphics is an implementation of the same imaging model as Postscript and is very close to PDF (and can easily be used to render PDF documents).

With Display Postscript you could type in real Postscript commands into your C/Objective-C source file and it was pre-processed into actual code.

defineps PSWGrayCircle( )
newpath
10.0 10.0 5.0 0.0 360.0 arc
closepath
0.5 setgray
fill
endps

And it could be called just like any other function, including with parameters.
I'm not suggesting that people do that today. I'm suggesting that it's likely where we're headed. But as I said, we need more research to get there. Prophylactic exposure in early childhood is already proven effective and strongly recommended for peanut.
0% chance he's doing that but it's funny to think that he is.

Obviously he really does want it to be an everything app. Musk is very transparent about his ambitions and feelings. He's not someone to bear holding a secret, he'd want to share it so he could get the validation from telling people about his plans and his followers will act like he's already succeeded.
This XKCD strip would be genius if he used actual different historical cell phones - for awhile they were getting smaller, and then they started to get larger again!

https://xkcd.com/2622/
Sometimes "Not the other Guy" has a charisma all of its own!
Except unlike horse and buggy delivery, there's still demand for test equipment. In this case, HP spun off their test equipment arm as Agilent, which spun it off again under the name KeySight. They still make scopes.
i think he can see them when they are present, as well
A judge with a secret DUI history might be a little overly sensitive about a newspaper that has info about people's secret DUI histories.
Before it was demolished, had the chance to swim in the Moskva pool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool

At 6,7m gallons (25k cubic meters) volume it was a bit larger and freshwater. The big deal about it was that it was used year round in Moscow. It was quite the experience to swim in it in the winter at -15C. -20C was the official operating limit.
We should be able to design the mixer fins and chamber such that it generates some pressure differential between the input and output ports.
Wow, I had no idea Floridians cared so much about the environment.
Have them write fizzbuzz on a blank keyboard using only their nose and their tongue. If they complete it within the hour they are very unproductive.
Exit Twitter. Enter Mastodon?
it took me 4 rounds to realize that as well
> Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet.

You can't rule out mental illness.
Space + X.
https://www.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F08%2F19%2Fbusiness%2Fbeekee...
It's not even like other developed parts of America.
Is there a term for projects that have their sources available to the public, but without a license to resell?
This is a little like a system which says "we will use all free space behind your filesystems linear maximal extent as swap" and then discovering it gobbled all your freespace and DF reports you have no space. As long as the space comes back when you need it, you don't have to care. But, time machine, and swap both have a habit of grabbing stuff at high privilege you can't always directly impact without using abstruse methods. So, in practice while you can say "it doesn't matter" it can matter, depending: it can cause dismay, and it can interfere with your otherwise normal use of the machine.

"free" space being contextualised isn't entirely nice. better to be clear how its consumed, than say its free.
https://archive.li/7EQth
> I'm guessing it's the one that says kinetic minus potential energy, but that seems arbitrary

It is arbitrary, in some sense: Lagrangians are specifications of a physical system in the same way that laws of motion are. Instead of directly describing a trajectory as the solution to some set of differential equations, the Lagrangian approach describes it as a stationary point (an extremum or a saddle point) of the action, which is the integral of the Lagrangian over time. The resulting equations of motion are then given by the Euler-Lagrange equation. L = K - V is (one formulation of) the Lagrangian for a system that obeys Newton's laws. Other systems have other Lagrangians, from which we get other laws of motion.

The other important formulation of classical mechanics is the Hamiltonian one, which very roughly speaking reparameterizes the Euler-Lagrange equation in terms of (generalized) positions and momenta, instead of just position. This turns your n-dimensional second order differential equation into a 2n-dimensional first order one, which is often more convenient to work with.

For simple "ideal billiard balls in a vacuum" situations it makes very little difference what approach you use, but Newtonian mechanics generalizes poorly. All of modern physics is based on the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approaches.