skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
borderland beat covered this and it was a combination of the students stealing a cartel bus used for smuggling and the corrupt local government asking for favors of the cartels they work for to teach a lesson. Btw there is many more terrible things surfacing from mexico these days like everyday plebs having to post identifiers on their vehicles to indicate tax was paid to some cartel then rivals posting videos of killing these same plebs saying you better not get caught paying our rivals. It's just lose/lose for anyone trying to lead a normal life in certain disputed states which is growing all the time basically 19 of 32 states now.

Much insanity happening in places like Veracruz I deleted because ppl won't believe it until the see it and these idiot thugs livestream their crimes every week.
Source code: https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/tree/master/programs/wor...
I have met many BLM Rangers at Burning Man. Nearly all were super-into the event, and many had specifically requested the assignment.
I think his videos are great, too. Of course, he did his years after Strang's, which were really one of the first of their kind. But I learned linear algebra from those Strang videos, so I have a soft spot for them.

(Watch them at 3x, and then at the end of each one, reward yourself by setting it back to 1x, and Gil Strang sounds like he's on a Robotussin bender.)
First Observation of Oxygen-28
> you can do "g" motion, but I cant seem to get my muscle memory to remember that. to me "down" should always use whats visible on the screen, not just dumbly move to the next line.

You could always add key mappings to your .vimrc file so it works this way.
I picked up a copy of Old Mr Bostons cocktail guide that was printed in the sixties. From a note written in the front, it was clear that the book was a gift to a son for high school graduation.

Times sure were different then.
Due to some disagreements in the vim community about typing blimpy not being a priority, I believe you have to download blimpyvim to get this working.
Has there ever been a shootout with American law enforcement and the Cartels?

Think about how much drugs are smuggled across the border and the seas ?

Where are the border encounters? Where are the National Guard shooting Narcos ? The Coast Guard ? Texas Rangers ? Sheriffs ? FBI ?

How many drugs are being smuggled under Abbott's nose in Texas by the Zetas and what does he do ? Drown migrants on the Rio Grande
Would it help to increase thickness? More weight and material, increased cost, to factor in the reduced trail of pollution every piece of single use plastic has?
For me, Notes tries too hard. The auto-heading of the first line of text, all the editing and markup options, the sharing, etc. are all more than I want, and they end up being distracting and getting in the way. My mind will easily wander to “what if I make all subjects this font and this color and bold etc.”, and then I lose the context of whatever I wanted to write down.

TextEdit, new .txt file, name it “{subject} notes.txt”, throw it in the “old notes” folder when it gets too unwieldy is the only notes workflow that I’ve found actually works for me.
In conjunction with the power of Magit this is going to make cranking out those pesky commit messages so much easier.
I haven’t used Word Pad in over a decade. I suspect a lot of people fall into this camp

I don’t see the point of word pad anymore. Its purpose was a lite free alternative to MS Word. With online word processors like Google Docs and even Word online, both of which have free versions that can work offline, it just makes Word Pad entirely pointless especially when there are open source word processors.

I feel that this would be a bigger deal if notepad was killed, but then there’s notepad plus.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home
Of course, which is why Discord charges much less then the several hundred dollars per year per seat that Microsoft does?

What is the complaint here, that they're offering a much cheaper service with less credibility?
Plaza Accord -> Louvre Accord.

The Japanese real estate bubble was directly caused by the former and the latter put the nail in the coffin by massively tightening the Japanese economy, bursting the huge debt bubble and robbing the BOJ of any and all tools to try contain the explosion.

US architected Japan's downfall and there was nothing Japan could do because they weren't allowed to have their own guns anymore so couldn't stand up for themselves and refuse to sign/implement aforementioned accords.
I don't carry much of interest but I feel compelled to share this one I ran across a while back that I still think of and chuckle from time to time.

Pretty sure you could take over a small nation state with this backpack. If you don't want to watch the whole thing skip to the last 5 or 10 minutes.

https://youtu.be/PvVg4RYaSuU?si=ZWOZFh9UUHUjyRFY
Last I worked with telephony (around 2010), IIRC we recieved calls over 3G network as SS7/H323 using Dialogic hardware and converted them on the fly to SIP as they entered our systems.

The whole PBX was running on SIP using Asterisk.
Lets see, unique things
* Oxygen bottle (It's come up twice, never me fortunately)
* Epipen (I have serious allergies)
* Mask rated to filter pollen (I have serious allergies)
Is that a tactical advantage? That dichotomy didn’t work out so well in the middle east.
Is it just me, or were so many books from this era just outright bad?

I spent a few years teaching at General Assembly, and in that time I learned so much about pedology, how I often learn, how others learn, and that I can't always assume the way I learn will be appropriate for others, particularly in text format.

I had Teach Yourself Game Programming in 21 Days, by Andre LaMothe when I was an early teen. I made repeated attempts at learning game programming with it, finding only failure each time. Maybe I wasn't cut out for programming? I put it away, and went to school for music instead.

Years later, no thanks to this book, I'm a pretty good programmer. I've looked over it again, and I'm aghast at what I see. It bills itself as needing no real experience. It jumps from "this is a mouse" in chapter 1, to some pretty advanced VGA screen manipulation between chapters 2 and 3. Loops, functions, OOP, data types? Nah - it just throws code at you without concepts. It is shocking if anyone learned from this. I was worse off having read it, and nearly 30 years later kinda salty about it!

I'm good at learning from books too! I taught myself Ruby after reading _why's poigiant guide, Agile Development with Ruby on Rails, the Pickaxe book, POODR, and the Ruby internals book. If a book structures information well, and I can sit and work on practice problems, I can get the concept.

Maybe we learned a lot about how to write programming books around this era? I've generally found books on O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, No Starch Press, etc to be rather good. They generally consider how to structure learning and information in a way that is progressive and don't make too many leaps. These "Learn in X days" style books in the 90's were basically info dumps, and without Google it was nearly impossible as a kid in the 90's to get help. No adults around me had any idea, and if it didn't work - it didn't work.

I'm curious what the breakthrough was, or what changed. The first decent programming book I ever read was Programming Perl by Larry Wall. I came to it much later, but the ANSI C book made a ton of sense upon first read too.

A good modern intro to game development (and Rust) can be found with Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play. It doesn't dive deep into the more difficult parts of Rust, but it also doesn't make you feel like an idiot.

For a look back at 90's games, the Game Engine Black Book: DOOM by Fabien Sanglard really helped me understand the systems and logic of Doom and other similar games.
I concur, it really is excellent. I wish I knew the total time investment it took to do and document all of this. It must have taken a very long time, not to mention the proofreading!
For an eh in the other direction: I overpaid PA state taxes in 2020 by a decent chunk. The last time I called, they said that they're still processing amended returns from 2019 (which you can verify by going to their "Where's my refund" page and looking at the year dropdown).
Agree. It is also the mindset.

If I am reading Gauss, my mind wants to process facts immediately.

If I am reading the New Yorker, my mind would like to wander a bit.

It all depends on what you are reading.

A new yorker style article explaining for loops in a programming language.
Yeah nobody wants that.
See the fictional riff at the beginning:

> “El Coyote” Head of the New Jaurez Joint Cartel, was the man who ordered the attack on the Cactus Lounge and similar massacres on US soil, he would be killed in a US airstrike in 2032. But his Lieutenant and successor, Cartel Boss, Mexican Nationalist Front commander, and Future Mexican President, Jaun Herrera would reveal in his 2054 memoirs Smuggling to Freedom: From Narco to Patriot that the US expansion of the war had been Coyote’s intent, and that the NJJC had been losing members and revenue for months before the wider war and resultant chaos in the US changed their fortunes making recruitment and smuggling operations vastly easier, even as the first American “Free Men” Militias began to fight their own war against the ATF Paramilitaries and FEMA Press-Gangs brought about by the 2030 Gun Confiscation and 2031 Conscription Acts.

and speculation later in the article:

> There’s absolutely no reason for Mexican drug war violence to stay south of the border if US military assets don’t stay North of the Border… which of course means a good chunk of the fighting would be North of the Border… And intensive fighting at that. There’s no reason the Cartel’s playbook of kidnapping the families of government officials, blackmail, and armed militias wouldn’t let them start setting up hidden bases and operations within the US… Hidden bases that would have to be retaken, operations that would have to be subjected to random unconstitutional checkpoint stops and searches to disrupt. Further diluting American civil liberties and risking an American armed backlash…
Apparently SGE is Search Generative Experience.

Also, this is missing Reddit Search.
Books and game consoles as well.
How the Mystical Poetry of Rumi Drew Me Away from Christianity
Keys, wallet, phone, pen, sunglasses. No pack needed. If it's night I probably won't have the sunglasses and might have a separate flashlight instead.
Do you know how far away stuff like this is from commercial application?
Let me make it more clear, i am not saying valve's corporate stance is an anti-ai one. I am making up a conspiracy theory that there's staffer at valve who is anti-ai on the review team, and they are using their position as a reviewer to push an anti-ai agenda under the guise of (potential) copyright infringement. My only evidence is that the pre-existing reviews of games don't put heavy emphasis on proof of copyright. Nothing should've changed whether the production of the game's assets came from ai generation, or human generation, because the reviewer should be neutral and unbiased.
Yeah, itsycal has been around a while and is fantastic.
> America has had a massive advantage in every war it’s fought in the past 100 years: America has always been fighting elsewhere .. America’s population, industry … They’ve all been safely 10,000 miles away across oceans from the enemy and pretty much untouchable

If you want to protect your population in the short-term, that's good. But if you want to win a war, that's a hindrance:

Soldiers in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. -Sun Tzu, Art of War https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9551422-throw-your-soldiers...
The dedication of this book is quite fitting: "to the continued free exchange of ideas on the net."

This was the book that opened my eyes to big projects. Until I found this it had been mostly just keying in monster basic programs.
Because Americans need a bad guy for their political system to function.
From the article:

> The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez is 103 per 100,000. One of the murder capitals of the world. The murder rate in El Paso, Texas is 4.4 per 100,000. About the US average. These are the same city geographically .. El Paso, and the US in general, are peaceful because the cartels are happy to maintain an unspoken agreement: The US Keeps its military and policing assets out of Mexico, the Cartels keep their violence in Mexico .. they try to keep things quiet or let American based gangs (who understand how to keep heat low) handle the violence north of the border because they don’t want to have to deal with drone strikes and SEAL Teams. If America starts a hot drug war intervention in Mexico that incentive is gone…
The basebands underneath still use firmware blobs like modern wifi cards. Not ideal from a Free software perspective, but better than being left vulnerable to things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301240
Or Afghanistan.
Author is an AI fear monger (see previous articles) and with regards to elitism, it’s literally called fortune magazine.
1. healthy food and exercise equipment, might as well build a cheap home gym.

2. learn sales. get into a saas sales role.

3. build income stream number 2 while employed.

4. once earnjng 2.5x of my salary on my side hustle, quit the job and double down on my biz.

5. i dont know yet, i havent planned that far yet.
The world drug trade.
>> This isn't a 3 person scam, there are 10s of thousands of people capable and it only takes a single company getting a single practice in the area to start doing ${RADICALLY_MORE_EFFECTIVE_THING}

This isnt an iOS app where 10,000 developers compete to bring prices down. This is medicine. You cant just compete, the Nephrology Board has to approve these standards of practice. Funny, they also benefit when there isnt progress.

Lets tackle it another way -- if medicine is a perfect competition, how is are hospital bills one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in the US? Shouldnt programmers have made it all efficient and made everything free like in software?
It wouldn’t be the first time: https://www.cnet.com/culture/microsoft-introduces-starter-ve...
> Hidden bases that would have to be retaken,

This is such a dumb take

It's the Chinese government that actually has secret police stations all over the US right NOW
Yeah most of the time the subways and busses are the way to go! Taxis are great for late at night when only the late trains are running, or when you’re in a hurry and in an inconvenient spot to catch a train.

Hope you enjoyed your time in the city!
Sorry, can you explain this?

> Not all files can be committed to GitHub ... very long lines ... VCS directories

Wait so github will reject a push if one of the commits contains a file with very long lines in it?
The complaint here is that Discord is too popular among a generation of young business owners that put their livelihoods on the line in such an unreliable service, business-wise.

Discord's marketing is too powerful for these business owners to consider safer, more reliable alternatives. Same story with Stripe, and similar services that cut lifelines with no recourse other than outcry in public forums like HN and Reddit.

If they have to learn the hard way, so be it.
I think I understand your logic, but ChatGPT+GPT-4 gave me the correct answer for "What is 897*394?"

https://chat.openai.com/share/00f94e43-c353-400a-858a-50c10c...

(GPT-3 gave the wrong numeric answer though)
I couldn't be more happy with jellyfin to organise my movies and tv shows.

It might not be perfect, but it's incomparably better than anything else I've used.

I use findroid on android instead of the official jellyfin app for compatibility reasons though.
>> Free markets have their flaws but their big advantage is competition.

Medicine is not a "free market", it is tightly controlled. The standards of care are determined by doctors. Doctors also happen to control the supply of care and hence the price of care. Doctors also happen to rake in money doing all this.

You cannot just release a medical device or medicine like you release code into github.
doesn't even need to be "organs" plural... a single organ could probably do that - although one would no doubt include information to help others. For all the bad things going on in the world... always good to see options like these becoming possible.
Well. Okay. I personally don't believe in conspiracies when there's an alternative explanation that doesn't really seem to have significant problems with it (corporations are hypocritical all the time) and when there's no real evidence of a conspiracy. If there were like, leaked emails or something I would reconsider, but until that time I don't see why I would prefer that hypothesis.
We have already seen this. In Iran you can buy a kidney for $5000, which is around 2 years of rent in the country. So I'd argue it's substantial but not really life changing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Buffett
Meh, that's a gamble that only rarely works. Japan during WW2 spread propaganda that Americans will kill everyone, and forced even civilians to die rather than surrender.

Look how it worked out for them.
Full Title:"Hurricane Idalia Aftermath: Saltwater Exposure Causes 'Thermal Runaway' In Flooded Electric Vehicles"
No, only government can because they love us.
I think that’s the definition of ad hominem, doesn’t address the points made in the article. As someone without strong opinions on this topic I appreciate hearing the various sides.
limpy b
>In January 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a large audience in India that the country was not capable of building a ChatGPT.

No, he said that for a company with 3 engineers and $10 million it is hopeless to compete against OpenAI on providing a foundation model.

The author is twisting his words and gets triggered to the point where he tries to defend India and brings up things like CEOs of companies like Google being Indian despite the race of the CEO of an American company having very little to do with the viability of start up companies in India.
So you fired your testing team, and replaced them with your users. Do the users get paid for that work?
It's gameplay was very similar in practice to that of Grand Theft Auto, the first top down one, except it was years ahead.

There was also a money and equipment/weapons buying and upgrade system that was very cool, similar to some of the top down shooters or racing games.
I wonder whether generative AI will be thrown out with the bathwater once this issue hits critical mass the same way cryptocurrencies were. Both technologies provide real solutions to real problems faced by small sets of honest users, but they can also be abused by bad actors to assist and amplify their actions in pretty much the same way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Joh...

Note that the "Known for" section on his main page has 119 elements. But they're not all named after him.
I'm a minimalist so I don't have an EDC backpack, but when I travel I have a small manbag (tagged with an AirTag).

1. Umbrella

2. Sunglasses

3. Wipes

4. Anker battery

5. USB cables with different connectors (Micro-USB, Lightning)

6. Pen and notebook

Nothing too unusual. I stash my AirPods Pro, passport and other bulk items in it when I'm traveling, but otherwise it's very light (under 2 lbs). This makes it possible to move cover lots of ground in big cities easily without getting tired. Anything more than 3 lbs is a pain if you're walking all day (I average 23,000 steps/day when I'm out and about).
“backup / secondary wedding ring”

NikolaNovac’s primary ring is lost to freak metallurgical catastrophe

Lusty singles close in

NikolaNovic: NOT SO FAST!
In my university intro econ class, the prof had to spend two full lectures on y=mx+b. As an engineer taking econ as an elective, I was shocked.
Legacy means highly valuable and proven. Non-legacy means unreliable and highly unlikely to ever make money. Legacy software runs the world. Without it western civilisation would collapse.
Maybe it’s a protection for windows users? Windows has some arbitrary and reasonably small path limit IIRC.
Some health systems still do, but that is thankfully being phased out with the growing adoption of FHIR and / or HL7.
I really just want a 200ish dpi monitor that’s the size of a full wall whiteboard. Say something like 10 feet tall and 20 feet long. Touchscreen of course, but with alternate inputs too.
For me, it was typically:

1. Log in to TurboTax and click through a few welcome screens (1 min)

2. Enter employer and AGI - TurboTax pulls in the rest of the W2 (1 min)

3. Enter bank credentials - TurboTax pulls in interest income (1 min)

4. Enter brokerage account credentials - TurboTax pulls in dividends and capital gains (1 min)

5. Enter charitable contributions manually (2 min)

6. Click "no" to some tax situations that don't apply (2 min)

7. Click populate state return from federal, then click "no" to a few more questions (2 min)

8. Enter credit card number and e-file info (1 min)

Total: 11 minutes

I don't see how it can take you more than 10 minutes to pay for TurboTax. You just enter the credit card number on the screen where it asks you for it. And you don't need donation receipts to file your return. If you're audited, you might have to find them (mine are all in my email), but audits are rare.
While this is a touching story, the moral lesson from her grandpa fixing the restaurant table deserves some introspection.

I have been in engineering situations where it is tempting to fix the loose table leg. The problem is that unless I go in every month and fix it I might be making things worse. What we need instead is a process that solves the problem permanently.

Moreover, it is likely the sitaution is much worse than it appears on the surface. The loose leg is a symptom of deeper malaise. It is likely the kitchen is dirty as well. The leg might be the canary in the mine. In fact the whole organization might be rotten to the core.

The real solution is to buy out the restaurant, fire the management, institute better processes, and then to create a culture that values the longer-term view.

The other approach is to do nothing. Leave the table wobbly to signal to other patrons to take their business elsewhere. The restaurant is on its last legs as a viable enterprise. Best to let economic forces shut it down quickly and without ceremony. Then it can be replaced by something with more solid foundations and firmer legs.
I hate trash talking someone's hard work, but Andre's books actively set me back as a programmer and made me feel stupid. I'm glad they worked for some people, but they really shouldn't have sold themselves as for anyone, but rather for people who already knew C/C++ rather well

> This book is for anyone remotely interested in game programming, from the
arcade junkie wanting to test his programming skills to current game program- mers looking for new ways to market their games. This book uses a unique day-by-day approach to teach major concepts, industry terms, and little-known
secrets about game programming.

I said more about it in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37367507
Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN)
Is there some reason the largest space is used up by .so objects or is this just people going git add *?
That's called a dictionary attack and it's not a function of computing power.
Can you use a [C++] class in C?
This feels pretty unconvincing tbh.

Sure India could build some large model. There's no reason to think that they would do a better job than anyone else. They won't magically have access to different data sets than other people do.

Like does it even matter how out of touch silicon valley elite are? These AI models aren't made by scanning silicon valley elite's brains.