skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The next step up would probably require limited access and verified qualifications.

I am half expecting someone to come up and say it goes against their freedom of speech. No, but I like StackExchange, it provides helpful information many a times. How many times have I visited HN if I wanted to know something versus how many times [...] StackExchange. There's definitely value there even for those not participating, but it takes away the back-and-forth of a discussion.

Even people who don't have the qualifications on paper but who have done sufficient research can add good content.

The problem is people disparage and speak in a condescending way under the pretext of facts, which makes it look legitimate, but there's racism and bigotry hiding underneath. I think people need to be more selective and careful with their usage of words if they want to maintain a scientific decorum, and not politicize matters.
Not too early. Around 9:30-ish in the morning, is a good time for all new startups to think about this.
The US is in a tricky position, China gets the best of both worlds, they buy in US goods when they're better and they build their own when they can. That's an asymmetric advantage China has - since the US doesn't want to buy in Chinese equipment when it's better due to national security concerns. So the US has moved to change that - they'd rather decouple than allow China to more easily reach parity. Yes in the long term this forces China into full self-dependence, but the US has to back itself - does it think it can out-innovate China? You better hope so.
If you live anywhere in the US you're probably ok. The southwest droughts are bad but the rivers were overused even before climate change. We'll build more air conditioners and more levees. Those rich enough to move to Vermont will be fine anywhere.

The billions living in already marginal places near the equator will die or leave. That's where the real humanitarian disaster will be, and it will be far beyond precedent.
I don't want my software to kill people
No, `-C -` is not a flag. It is specifying the `-C` argument with obscure special value of `-`, which causes curl to determine the offset to continue from the output file length. This might be obvious to you if you are well-versed in curl command line, but it's by no means expected or obvious like a simple flag.

> But curl is perfectly capable of resuming downloads automatically, you're just (very arrogantly) wrong on that one.

I've never claimed it doesn't. I've only demonstrated that the default options don't do it and enabling the behaviour is more difficult than it maybe should be for a simple tool. I fail to see the arrogance.
It’s a simple mass balance of course we were right.
Here's a couple articles from spending a few hours with LLMs.

You can write programs in markdown, it's a lot like literate programming that Knuth envisioned. I've been using this technique a lot for side projects lately --> https://swizec.com/blog/programming-in-markdown/

ChatGPT is able to analyze JSON dumps of dependency graphs and identify communities of files that should be modules. This sounds promising and I'm figuring out how to make it more practical for real use --> https://swizec.com/blog/finding-modules-in-a-big-ball-of-mud...

And while I haven't written about it yet, I've been able to get GPT-4 to analyze a blogpost and suggest phrases you should link to your past articles. Needs a little more tweaking with the prompt before prime-time because right now the result, while good, lacks some zhuzh. Whole thing was cobbled together using the markdown programming technique I mentioned in the beginning.

I'm at the point now where I'm so tempted to turn markdown programming into an executable script that can save me some copypasting and perhaps where I can say "Inject other markdown here" (basically functions), or "Go look up documentation at <link>" (that's been a painpoint).

So yeah there are dozens of us spending time with these things. Dozens!
Neat. Love it.

Is there a feature matrix to Venn diagram converter?

(Deep down) on my To Do list is comparing Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, etc.

Which ultimately means some kind of feature matrix, right?

With a converter, we'd get Venns for free.
Next step... get it to map the ADS-B broadcast ICAO callsign and the IATA flight number. At the airport you'll see the IATA number but in the ADS-B you'll have ICAO. In his example it says:

Flight TAP1369...
Flight TAP23NP...
Flight TAP1691...
Flight RZO134...

TAP1369 (ICAO) is TP1369 (IATA); similar for TAP1691 (ICAO) and TP1691 (IATA). But TAP23NP (ICAO) is TP1823 (IATA) and RZO134 (ICAO) is S4 134 (IATA). What's broadcast in ADS-B is very often very different from what's shown at the airport and not what someone would recognize.

Doing this mapping is a pain. The OP is using OpenSky Network who say:

callsign

This column contains the callsign that was broadcast by the aircraft. Most airlines indicate the airline and the flight number in the callsign, but there is no unified system. In our example, the callsign indicates that this state vector belongs to UPS flight 858. By looking up the flightnumber on services like flightaware.com, you’ll find out that this flight goes from Lousville to Phoenix every day.

i.e. go look this data up elsewhere.

I asked ChatGPT:

Write me some JavaScript that can map an ICAO callsign broadcast by ADS-B to an IATA flight number for the same flight.

Mapping an ICAO callsign broadcast by ADS-B to an IATA flight number is a complex task that typically requires access to a comprehensive aviation database. Such databases are often provided by aviation data providers and may not be freely available. However, I can provide you with a simplified example of how you might approach this task if you had access to the necessary data.
Stupid, or greedy?
WebAudio version
https://github.com/stoyan/deepnote

The repo has slides with helpful links for those looking for a rabbit hole. Especially nice is a podcast interview with the original engineer James Moorer which sheds a lot of light on the implementation
To me the real takeaway here isn't related to wget or curl. It's related to using the right tool for the job, whatever that is.
You seem like the kind of guy that when shown a printing press would go "who cares about reading anyway all the important things to know aren't going to be in books".

Speeding up trivial tasks like this is game changing for many things. The amount of "trivial" things I've built with chatgpt that would've just stayed as an idea in my notes is crazy already.
The attempted genocide of Ukraine, maybe? That seems to be #1 for most people right now.
Oh, we've known for much longer than 40 years.

https://youtu.be/MondapIjAAM?si=6_471s4ENLPar9G7
I wish the industry could pivot to something like 3K and 6K. For the low end we want something better than 2K or 1080P. For the higher end we have something better than 4K, higher PPI that fits the somewhat niche scenario when 4K isn't perfect.

We could even do 2K to replace 720P, and 3K at mid range to replace 2K, while 6K to replace 4K.

Instead it seems we are stuck with 2K and 4K.
> Then, when does reconciliation happen? When either party goes online?

In many existing systems, there's a split between "merchant" and "customer" cards, of which only merchant cards are allowed to accept payments. Merchants often have to go online once per day and batch-submit all of the day's payments in order to be guaranteed settlement.

Among other advantages, this allows for a "lost/stolen" card feature: If a user loses a card, that card can be denylisted on a global list synchronized to all merchant terminals daily. After another day of waiting for straggler transactions, it's possible to determine the remaining balance of the lost card from the backend, and reimburse its owner, since further funds on the card can no longer be spent anywhere in the system.

One day is essentially just an arbitrary timespan here – you could make it 14 days, or an hour. In the systems I've looked at closely, one day makes sense because these are historically transit-focused, and e.g. buses don't have continuous network connectivity, but do go to a depot in the evening, which is a good opportunity to clear and settle all of the day's payments.

Customer cards never need to be online in such a scheme.
How and to what would the modified titanium be applied? Could it be a coating for implants? Or a cleaning agent for tools and instruments? Or a desinfectant on skin or even wounds?
Read the intro section - it'll be maybe 30 minutes, and then just flip through and find recipes or topics that look interesting. It's a reference book. Check out the chili section, the weeknight chili might be a good fit. I've had the book since it came out and there's still whole sections I haven't read
One switch I've not seen mentioned here yet is the Kailh Sunset switch [0], developed in collaboration with Darryl from lowprokb.ca. It is my favourite low profile switch, and the closest in feel to my X220-and-previous-generation Thinkpad keyboards.

[0]: https://lowprokb.ca/products/sunset-tactile-choc-switches
Sorry, missed the point of the question. Finding specifically links - because of that client. As we were working on his project we slowly began to realise that cross-referencing sites, links to competitors and stuff like that might be useful for someone.
Also, with links u can go deeper into the site, and scrape links from all pages.

And maaybe we got too in love with the concept so now we're firmly stuck in it, finding reasons for our behaviour that are not "woohoo it's so fun to play with it and we have justification to spend time here - it's gonna work for us!"
This is better than code interpreter, it has access to the internet. Nice work!
Sure, but that's knowledge you pick up over years. You can't reasonably expect people to frontload all of it on the first pass with every single tool they interact with, especially when starting off.

I've read through most of the man pages of every tool I use at least once, but it has taken me years, and I've done it incrementally.
Your tone is.. disengaging. In a supercharged world where words are weaponry, I Just felt welcomed.
More of this could be great for corporate machines. Currently they are often bogged down with poorly behaving third party security software, some of which causes real problems for users, which could be lessened if some of that software could be replaced with better behaving OS capabilities.

Windows Defender (or whatever it’s called) looked like it might help similarly on Windows, but I haven’t seen it being used that way. It looks to me like the third parties keep looking for new features they can advertise, knowing that corporate InfoSec will mandate support for them quickly, and that an OS-provided solution isn’t sold in the same way, so will be deemed unsuitable.

Anyone feel more optimistic?
Agree with this, not sure why the parent of this thread thinks you'd use it to output a full business. But helping write at the functional level is game changing:

I've built entire GitHub Actions to help improve team effeciencies. Built validation rules. A bunch of Python scripts. Parsed a multi-level JSON response that would have taken a few hours, etc...

All in minutes. Imagine knocking off like 15 of these tasks before noon.
That's why I elaborated. I want(ed, it was at a previous job) a DHCP server that has a good usable API (so not the sorry excuse that isc-dhcp-server has), works reliably (isc-dhcp-server is not reliable in HA mode), allows for easy custom integrations/plugins/hooks to third-party systems (recompiling C++ projects is not it, cough Kea). Basically like CoreDNS, but for DHCP.

What we do have is isc-dhcp-server (obsolete technically, horrific "API" that is downright unusable), Kea (made from the same people, better but much heavier, and plugins are in C++ so need recompiling with lack of documentation around it; API is pretty bad too), and Windows DHCP which I'm not sure even has an API, but it doesn't matter anyways because nobody sane would run Windows just for DHCP. Am I missing anything?

The scenario was as follows: DHCP server that needs to run in HA across multiple DCs, have an API that allows for stuff such as setting reservations based on leases (necessary with isc-dhcp-server because leases aren't shared between an HA pair, really, so if the "wrong" one answers the IP can change), but also querying list of leases by MAC, etc. etc. Also, being able to easily say reliably run this script/plugin after each lease/reservation so that it can be registered in other systems such as IPAM, monitoring, inventory, etc. etc. Neither isc-dhcp-server nor it's replacement Kea really cut it.
When it backfires you're screwed, I have experienced it one using curl -L
The political climate is mostly about what people want.

Dealing with this issue will require major changes in the economy (even now fossil fuel based), and national security/foreign policy (fossil fuel based now and for the foreseeable future).

Both of these no one has any plans yet which wouldn’t require major changes in the way people live and the way the US interacts with the world which would put them at a major disadvantage with everyone else, and take a hit in creature comforts, prestige, and power. At least based on the options currently available to us.

And this isn’t a problem caused just by the US. So even if the US did this, the rest of the world would keep on trucking and making the issue worse. Unless the US went to war or something? Which would definitely cause massive burning of fossil fuels (and nukes) which would definitely make everything worse, and kill a whole lot of people rather directly. And seems rather evil too.

Until the problem is causing real, unavoidable, unambiguous issues for everyone, of course it’s going to be denied. And even then….

If you’re ever tried to take the booze from an alcoholic, it’s obvious what’s going to happen. And we’re all drunk on cheap energy in the form of fossil fuels, and have been for a very, very long time.

Don’t look up!
>surprisingly good content quality

I checked the city I live in and three more cities I know quite well, and I have to disagree.
This reads/feels like a content farm, which (if GPT wrote the content, as you seem to imply) is exactly what it is (as I have excessive Adblock I don't know if there are ads, but I don't think they are needed for the definition of a content farm).
I know this is old news by now, but Google really is becoming useless. I wonder, are they even aware internally that this is happening or are they so lost in their "Google is awesome" bubble that they have no chance of fixing it in time?
Doesn't this imply that the only way these companies could tell that employees were working from home is to physically go to desks and verify? That would put lie to the "more productive in the office" hypothesis.
The fervor around the launch of Windows 95 can not be overstated. I clearly remember at age 9 it being all over the news, local and national.

I strongly recall trying to get my dad to explain to me what it was. He tried to explain but I recall being frustrated and not understanding. Looking back I am not entirely convinced he knew exactly what it was or why people were so excited.

We had a monochrome 286 at the time of which I was the biggest user. We had Apple II’s at school I spent a lot of time with. I was pretty acquainted with computers but the idea of a GUI threw me for a loop.
Can you share the app? Maybe someone here can tell what the issue is. I'm able to distribute outside of the mac AppStore without users needing to jump through any hoops or right click etc.
My guess is it was explained as ‘pipes’ but in his head it got turned into tubes. It’s the same thing but because the argot is ‘pipes’ and not tubes he got ridiculed.
> For those that do need to use cloud, just make sure you are running your services in different failure zones.

By which time you might as well just roll out your own kit in colocation or your own datacentres.

The cloud providers are nickle and dimers, they charge you for every little tiny thing.

Cloud might look cheap at cents-per-hour, but then you find you need X "services" to deliver your Service and so you are talking about exponential cents-per-hour (X cloud services times x cents-per-hour).

And then running your services across failure zones will of course cost you more beyond the basic double-cost, because most cloud providers charge by the GB for cross-zone traffic. So if you're doing cross-zone replication, that's gonna cost you a pretty penny.

Meanwhile, in your own colo/DC, you have predictable costs. And you can get redundant connections between sites for a flat rate, not some stupid per GB fee.
OP is talked about here: https://youtu.be/PdFB7q89_3U?si=OsCBShLdsHMZRefb
How accurate were the predictions from 50 years ago though?
The political climate is just an obfuscation. The electorate perceives the change to be too costly* and the climate risks to be too remote to justify this cost. The problem with reports such as these is that they always give you the big picture but do not directly relate it back to the individual. If people's home insurance suddenly jumped up 1000% due to recalculated natural disaster risks, that would suddenly make people rethink their positions.

* I am actually not convinced either way. Some people believe it is so expensive it will necessitate degrowth, while others think that so much economic change will almost certainly spur economic growth. Either way I think that people who push the degrowth narrative are further reinforcing the view that climate action is too costly. Nonetheless it could be that they are right.
> and the massive productivity benefits you see (30x faster!) are for trivial tasks, not difficult tasks.

Okay, I'll bite. I think quite often solving difficult tasks contain lots of trivial tasks. And speeding the trivial tasks can speed the difficult task up considerably when you can outsource the trivial tasks to an LLM.

I do not know how to make a catchy short video on my last side project scratching my itch (VR environment/metaverse to build 4 dimensional objects and move around them in 4d, see https://www.brainpaingames.com if interested). It was multi-year thing to get it where it is now (not pretty yet, I admit...), and it may of course just me being dumb, but yes, I consider it was/is difficult. Especially given I have never done anything in either C# or Unity. The speed-up ChatGPT gave to this project during last half a year was absolutely not trivial. I guess I must have saved years of my limited side-project time to get this far.
Look, I agree that this kind of non-specific rant isn’t useful but that level of response is pretty harsh. I’d at least be charitable and ask whether he’s doing something uncommon which would explain why it’s so much harder than normal.
>The article can tell "Cort was informed about the new techniques from a family member back from Jamaica". How do you verify that? The only way is to redo the all work from scratch, refound all the historical references and cross-validate each of them. It's a huge work.

You start by going through the citations the author has listed and seeing if those support their reasoning. Sounds like that's what the non-expert in the linked article did. It turned out that some of what she claimed was not supported by or was in direct opposition to the sources in her citations. That's what citations are for. They're listed at the end of the paper in a standardized way so they can be easily accessed by anyone who wants to know where an author got a piece of information from.

If this wasn't possible, there would be no point to peer review. I can understand an article getting through where the author falsified experimental data. That's hard to refute unless you can find evidence of the false data or you run the experiment again yourself. A history article, though? If you're not double-checking dubious claims by see what sources the author is using to support them, you may as well not bother reviewing.
Tangent: is anyone familiar with a good app to help make a note of what shows you want to watch later? I know Letterboxd sort of does this for movies, but ( last I checked) they ignore the existence of TV. Each platform has its own short implementation of watch lists but they’re all pretty half baked. Is there good 3rd party app?
How's k3s doing these days? I'm not familiar with the area, but it was marketing itself as a simpler k8s.
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This is not a very charitable read of the agency or consultancy business model.

What you call grift is actually sales. Most business in the world are incentivised to grow and scale, so that's a given if it's done ethically.

As a buyer, I would rather work with an agency or a consultancy, given enough budget. The advantages are:

- I don't have to source, manage and pay individual contractors.
- If a team member isn't right then the agency will switch them out quickly.
- There is one throat to choke.
- There should be at least some institutional knowledge in the agency.
- The agency will provide oversight, be it from leadership or a billable PM resource.

I have built a few products for startups and my own projects over the last few years, and even with a budget as small as $50-$100k I would rather work with an "agency" with a thin layer of management even though I am very technical. It is much easier to manage and less risky than betting on 1-n individuals.
The problem is that "write it for you" implies something beyond copy-pasting, and people are complaining that this is one of the most copy-paste-y example possible.

I think if proponents would use different language, there would be less complaining (but also less hype).
I tried reading e.g. Plato and I just want to argue with him forever.

That’s the whole point of reading Plato. You’re being exposed to the Socratic method.
Thank you, I appreciate you sharing! Will give them a try.
As far as I can tell homebrew enabling is legal, which is why Nintendo hasn't C&Ded the sites permitting it, and instead kept patching out jailbreaks.
If said supplement caused people to say things like this about the cat, it would definitely warrant a skeptical take like OP's:

> Imagine envisioning Airbnb, and having its whole frontend and backend done within 1 minute. We’re not there yet, but we could be there soon.

The difference in scale between toy plane spotter and an Airbnb front end and back end is simply enormous, with a combinatorial explosion of possible states and failure modes. Our existing tech will not scale to that level by just adding more parameters and GPUs. We may or may not have a major paradigm shift in the future that enables it, but this talking cat ain't producing Airbnb in 1 minute.