skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> given that the science is still inconclusive and not fully settled then funding would likely not be forthcoming

Wouldn’t the first step be to settle the science then?

Why would you need a big network to do that instead of just a dedicated experimental site in earthquake prone area? Wouldn’t that be enough to prove if there is a signal?

My understanding is that ELF transmitters are kind of a big deal and require a lot of money to run. Am I wrong on that? Or you are planning to monitor naturally occuring ELF signals?
Don't they need an extremely accurate clock though? GPSDO or even a small atomic clock. The phase/frequency differences must be tiny.
There's something to be said for a "pre-packaged" IDE where you don't have to first install the "bare-bones" IDE and then find and install various plugins (of which there may be several with overlapping functionality, where you have to first find out which one works better for you, where you never know if there might be conflicts etc. etc.). Turns out there are even people willing to pay money for something that works "out of the box", like the JetBrains IDEs.

And VS Code is not only similar to Chrome, it is Chrome pretending to be an IDE, and that always leaves a nagging feeling of inefficiency in the back of my mind. The JetBrains IDEs, being Java-based (although they hide it really really well, installing their own OpenJDK-based runtime automatically), are also resource intensive, but still better than Electron...
The infrastructure of Asian capitals is the best in the world, that's exactly the point - 99% of the world experiences deteriorated network (see comments in this thread to that point). It's frustrating when software isn't built in ways that are resilient to that.
> Do you miss multiple cursors and the speed?

Perhaps my expectations on performance are ruined, but to me vscode feels very snappy even on old hardware.
Yeah, that's all I was saying, really. And that I can see community centers for such events being the movie theaters of tomorrow.
Ad hominem attack is different from suspecting that you or a family member are in the industry.

Characterizing contact lenses as “high risk medical device” is completely ridiculous. Pencils can cause serious permanent damage. There is no evidence that expensive yearly exams are necessary. The fact is that technology almost completely replaced the need for these people and so they built themselves into the medical system.
I've never found anything about VSCode to be better - it's janky and unpredictable, with large files you can often watch the syntax highlighting happening, and input lag is way behind Sublime. VSCode is the Internet Explorer of text editors.
What's in it for you as an individual? With electricity prices ranging 25 - 50 ¢/kWh (random number from Google, but I guess it is close enough) and a battery of 500kW (6-7 old Tesla batteries maybe?) you will get up to a whopping 125$ per day , probably much less due to delivery costs. On the other hand such an installation will require a lot of real estate and the solar panels/wind turbines will cost a small fortune.
> I bet you think of yourself as an idea guy.

What does this even mean?
I remember the time around iOS 5-6, they made some delays and probably it fired back on them and since they have delay related PTSD as an organization. I think since then they just have to push whatever it takes. I remember after iOS 7 I almost left the ecosystem it was so buggy and almost unusable. They probably measured it because after maybe iOS 9-10 they started to be very proud of fixing and stabilizing stuff even in product announcement and iOS is very stable now, not recognizing an issue for years maybe. But this had a price, they paid it, now they seem very aggressive on schedules until the next major clusterfucky year.
Anything the government does that isn't public should not be legal and have zero force.

Anything else and democracy does not work.
Waiting 5-10 minutes for a moderately sized project to be indexed until you can do anything useful is perfection? Ouch :P
This way you can send spam sms messages with little html markup and google analytics.
for me CLion was the revelation, and really I couldn't deliver my project if I didn't obtain it (sadly from my pocket, due to some strange software request process). It both sped up and improved my work, delivering thorough analysis of code through the lint.

However they already told in plain text that the Rust plugin will be stopped at this point of time, so this is another quite expensive (for me) tool to buy if you'd like to develop home projects or learn at home
The way I see it regarding the point "but meta is also releasing models" is: there was one span of time between say 2014-2019 when mostly ML was just classifiers (nothing generative). People did open source those. Then there was a period between 2019-2023 when generative AI was possible. It's true that meta is releasing models in that space now finally. But there was an excruciating 3-4 year period between 2019 and 2022 when stable diffusion was finally made and released which opened the floodgates to others doing so as well. But I'm eternally grateful for emad and stabilitai for opening the gates that had been titillatingly closed for 4 annoying years.
You would only get the top half of your code highlighted because a compiler doesnt usually continue when encountering syntax errors due to partial code
Use ublock origin. I'm certain that a) it's not a malware if you download it from the official source and b) it's very powerful.

Either your extension is indeed malicious or YouTube started playing dirty.
You know having some bugs in there is not that problematic as even if they stay in the shadows, most product bugs are catched anyway. Also these make false alerts, then instead of fixing the nonexistent bug, they fix the test suite.
If this story makes you lose respect for Newton rather than gain some,

then I'm sorry but I'm not sure your respect means a ton.

Newton was 55 already at this point, and it is but a tiny excerpt from his life.
I tried to develop some C in VSCode and failed. The configuration of the build process is far from straightforward. There is no possibility to run without debug, etc.
If the free juice they give you in the supermarket tastes bad, will you buy it?

We assume the free version to have similar quality to the paid one. It's in the vendor interest, so that we like it and become a paid customer. If they can't convince us of their quality in the free version, how are we supposed to trust the paid one?
This is almost like how it went for me, early Bitcoin "investor". Still managed to make some speculative profit though, take that, Newton!
I wonder when this started, I was under the impression that Ultimate had it all, but maybe that was either never true, or only when I last had to petition for the team to get it (10 years ago). Not even sure either Rider or CLion did exist back then.
I think Wikipedia is human data. But to say it's human knowledge (that is, that data is synonymous with knowledge in any context) is actually a pretty hardline epistemological stance to take, one that needs to be carefully examined and justified.
I won't spoil it to you, so, off the top of my head I'd recommend you watch star trek tos season 01 episode 22 "space seed" then the movie "the wrath of Khan" then Star Trek Enterprise season 4 episode 6 "the augments" then DS9 episode 16 season 5 'dr bashir I presume ?' (chronological order, switch ST Enterprise with ds9 if you want release order).

There's a kind of resume of all that in Strange new world first episode (there's also another episode regarding genetic modification but considering it didn't prevent all the other episodes from happening then I suppose it can be skipped but it shows how strong is the opinion of the federation on the subject).

I don't remember they talk much about the eugenic wars in TNG so it's most likely why it's not on your radar.

They are all on Netflix at the moment. If you want to watch only one episode I highly recommend the Star Enterprise one (and there's a nice tie-in with TNG ;).
> GoLand enables you to be much more productive because of its first-class integration with Go.

Err, what? There isn't even an argument here, "GoLand only supports Go so surely it must be better at it!".

> The only reason some people use VSCode instead of GoLand for Go coding is because its free. There's no real reason to use it otherwise.

The feature set listed on the site looks identical to that offered today by Rust-Analyzer or the existing IntelliJ-Rust plugin. Except in practice, IntelliJ-Rust is significantly weaker at understanding Rust code than Rust-Analyzer, and the strides that they have made in the last few years have largely come down to piggybacking off of it.

And that's ignoring that I find IntelliJ's text editor to be vastly less comfortable than Emacs+Evil. (Yes, I know about IdeaVim. I used it for years. It doesn't hold a candle.)
Sam Altman (Open AI Founder) on Artificial Intelligence's Future [video]
Have you worked in datacenters? This isn't pushing back on BS and waste, it's ignoring user privacy, security, server reliability (and lifespan), site reliability, vendor relationships and in a lot of cases actual laws.
> For each predicted output token, I want to know exactly which source document(s) were utilized including indices from those documents and relevant statistics.

You don't do this for any other kind of decision or tool, why do you need it for LLMs?

i think in truth you need a source that convinces you (or the regulator) that your choice is acceptable, so that you can pass off the responsibility.
If the LLM were to give you an answer backed by relevant (cited) source documents of regulations and a good explanation it would make no difference compared to a human worker doing the same. -> this is already possible
Oh, I see. It flew over my head (have autism and there's a tendency for some of us to detect sarcasm badly). Thanks for the clarification.
Also not OP but yes... like how many bytes are saved here vs just getting the whole list vs how many bytes of js-bloat have been initially loaded vs user experience.. often very much out of any reasonable proportion providing nil value.
Ha! Agree, not the first time the words "rust" and "Rover" have been used together.
This is the most impressive of this genre of SD audio so far, by a long shot. Really impressive!
But then it will lead to having less spare parts, less people learning the job of gas heater repair. You will kill the Market around Gas Heaters, you let the work force die and then you force indirectly people to move to heat pump. I have heat pump myself as long as solar energy, but I can see that even though it's true that nobody is forcing to, understanding how the market works, it is easier to see how it will be in the next years: We will just find people specialized in Heat Pump, it will be easier to install a new Heat pump than repair and maintain your older heater.
I work as a web developer, and rarely use exotic paradigms like Prolog's logic programming or OCaml's functional programming, so I do not know many alternatives, but I like the value of showing all of these to students, so I'm still ok with teaching Prolog to students, because I'm not familiar with alternatives.

If I knew alternatives that were very recent, like 4-5 years old, I'd be careful replacing the current courses, because often in technology, statistically, if something has been there for a long time, it'll be there for a long time, and many new things die young.
My collection of Intel 8080 microprocessors
At least the people who named it understood the silliness of the issue, heh.
That's [another reason] why you use stored procedures and only call them (rather than hardcoded or ORM-generated SQL queries) in your client app code.
I'm fed up with Jetbrains. I gave them money for many years and I loved intelliJ. It was the go-to IDE regardless of your code.

Then they started "simpler" IDEs like PHPStorm, but that was fine because I could supplement my IntelliJ with plugins that would basically give me PHPStorm and the like. IntelliJ remained the go-to tool for the polyglot.

The problem were the bugs. 3-4 years sometimes to fix glaring bugs well reported. Some were unheard.

They also made a big spiel about their millisecond to rendering right about the time where I switched to a 4K screen that rendered the IDE completely dead on its knees. The irony! Turns out Java wasn't so good for IDE in macOS retina displays.

You'd code in windowed mode, fine, you stretched open the IDE to fill the screen and every key stroke would then take seconds to render!!

Then one day, C-Lion.

All the sudden, we need a brand new IDE because you know, C++ is that different. OK fine. I don't plan on writing C++. Still though, felt like a cash grab. Then AppCode, then a plethora of other IDE that just feel like cheap IntelliJ-light opportunity to make money.

So I moved to VSCode, grudgingly. Had enough of unanswered bugs, poor performance and focus on everything else but the product that got them there.

VSCode is kinda great. But it's a perfect example of how much Microsoft could strap rockets to pig and make it fly. It's fast. You couldn't write a editor that fast using that technology.

But still VScode irks me with the MSFT part and the future enshitifcation that is all but inevitable.

Recently I found Zed [1]. Zed is what I wanted VSCode to be, and I highly recommended. Sadly it's still lacking in many languages like PHP but I hope one day they get there, because it's absolutely stellar.

I believe it's written in Rust and supports Rust really well. Give it a go. I can't tell if they'll be around in 5 years but I sure damn hope so.

So I'm sorry but I fell out of love with Jetbrains. And you might thing this is a cheap shot but I gave them well over a thousand dollars.

[1] https://zed.dev
Heh thanks. We are trying to avoid binary dependencies like kubectl because you can’t install the with pip.
It seems weird to me that the Iphone 15 (non-pro) models have support for only USB 2.0 speeds, but support for DisplayPort up to 4K HDR?
Is nobody going to address why copper winding wire was used for DC power and signaling?
People thought mobile phones were a mature market before the iPhone.
Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, Aspirin, Xylometazoline and sleep. Or go to a doctor and get told to get the same stuff, with some prescription-only cough syrup.

The rest of the pharmacy is for old people looking for miracle cures to being old.
This is the worst of both worlds. Not only are you back to square one, as you spent the time to build an API (client libraries), but now, if the API is limiting, the users will find ways of accessing the SQLite db directly.
Poetry is a locking package manager. That’s extremely useful for applications where you don’t want dependencies to drift. However for a library you want pinning a to be looser so the benefits of poetry aren’t as strong. Given that hatch is the official method from the PyPA it felt like a better choice.
It says:
"The echoes appear once to several times per day, from several weeks to a few days before the earthquake occurrence and do not appear on other time."
I live in Venice. I think you are right.

However, even letting a rule like this pass in the City Council was not a small feat. The hardest part is exactly this, finding a legal instrument that can allow the City of Venice to handle things in a special way.

I am in favor of a "too crowded" tax, as long as it's implemented in an easy way (e.g. being able to quickly pay by phone and/or with an app), and that the cost can rise depending on how crowded the city becomes.

I think that a tax in the order of "tens of Euros" would probably make a dent.

Venice can see peaks of more than 100,000 tourists in a single day (the city itself has less than 50,000 inhabitants, including me and my wife); the majority of them come for a quick selfie in Rialto or St.Mark's square, buy some cheap stuff from ugly shops (probably cheaply produced somewhere in Asia), and then go away. Something like 30 or 40 euros would deter at least some of them, IMHO.

They don't really enjoy what Venice can offer, and make everyone else's experience, including that of local residents, miserable at times.
"Clarity" is not a word I would use to describe the macOS logs.

The number of log entries shown in the console is overwhelming. All the background services constantly log ~100 messages per second, so the log entries you are looking for disappear immediately.

You can use the search filters to narrow down messages if you know what you are looking for, but if you don't already have a suspicion where the problem is coming from, then the macOS logs are close to useless.
FWIW, I've had the same experience with CLion at my previous job. Syntax highlight lagged 30+ seconds behind. Autocomplete was unusable, because it took almost a minute sometimes (for method names!!), or would pop up with stale/irrelevant results. Everything in the UI felt sluggish. Used an ungodly amount of RAM. Plugins would randomly stop working and require me to reinstall them to work.

The only thing going for it was that the debugger worked better than gdb (although I think it uses GDB unde the hood, but probably does something better than when I manually fiddle with gdb)

VS Code is sometimes a bit sluggish when handling input. Don't know why, and it only happens on my Macbook Air, (so might be thermal throttling?) but it happens rarely.

The nice thing about Code is that it's also easier to work across multiple languages without having to switch tools.

However, it does say it's still in preview, so it might get better?

Also, the UI looks radically different (and nicer) than what CLion looked like, so maybe they have a new UI framework that fixes some of the problems I had with CLion
There's an important difference between prediction and detection. If you're in a nontrivial earthquake, detection isn't helpful: You already know it's happening.

The challenge is prediction.

There are a couple of startups that appear to be operating in this area with similar(ish) concepts to those described in the link.

precursor-spc.com - space based monitoring of atmospheric conditions, providing space weather forecasts and, apparently, earthquake prediction.
Ionoterra - ground based monitoring of the ionosphere

I'm skeptical. If these companies were truly on to something then they would be selling their services to all the governments and would be household names.
Would there have been a way to avoid this mess?

- a browser must reject any invalid HTML in order to force the developers to fix their HTML
- a browser must try hard to make sense of messed up HTML, otherwise users will switch to a competing browser that renders the mess for them

Theoretically all browser vendors could coordinate so that everyone rejects invalid HTML, but there is probably no good way to avoid defectors. Why did this not happen for other technologies? My first thought was that there is no compilation step which allows forcing the developer to fix things without giving the end user any power through their choice of browser. But that seems not quite right, why do Bash or Python or your C++ compiler not make a best guess what your code is supposed to do? Because there is or was only one dominant implementation and therefore no competition? Because document markup is much more robust against small errors and probably remains readable while your code likely just crashes? That is probably one of the most important ones, I think. What role did browser specific features, evolving standards and incomplete implementations play?

What is the end result? Nothing for the end user, they do not care whether the browser has to deal with nice HTML or a mess. Developer writing HTML get to be more sloppy at the price of a lot of additional complexity and pain where ever code has to deal with HTML. This might actually have some negative impact on end users because of bugs or security issues stemming from the additional complexity. Maybe it made HTML somewhat more accessible to the casual user as they could get away with some mistakes. But was this worth it, could better tooling not have achieved the same with good error messages helping to fix errors?
I think the parent is making a joke about Rover cars' reputation in the 1970s.

"The [1976 Rover] SD1 went head-to-head with rivals such as the Ford Granada, Citroën CX and Opel Senator as well as premium models like the W123 Mercedes-Benz and BMW 5 Series – all of which still form the main alternatives. Unfortunately, the big Rover soon gained a reputation for poor quality, reliability issues and a propensity for alarming amounts of rust..."

https://classicsworld.co.uk/guides/rover-sd1-buyers-guide/
It could be done with "select for update" and etags+triggers checking the etag received + triggers generating a new etag on every create/update.
>I think you missed some key plot points in the Star Trek lore

Are you talking about the episodes where genetic engineering was illegal?

Or the episodes where they completely forgot about that?
Ask HN: Do you use food as a performance enhancing drug when coding?
Towards the end of the week, usually on Thursday (we work Sunday - Thurs), I am unable to focus and progress - my body and my brain just don't want to work and write any more code. I feel that I should be resting instead, but I need to work.

So I use food as a performance enhancing drug. I gobble up chicken wings, veggies, chocolate, peanut butter sandwiches, milk, fruit, Sprite Zero - lots of it - and all of a sudden I can work again.

Does anyone else feel this or go through something similar? Do you think it's healthy? Is there any alternative? It definitely screws up my diet.
I suppose you're to substitute that.

> So, if someone with Newton’s caliber can't get laid, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Which is obviously false.
The suggested replacement: StrictYAML is actually pretty excellent. I like it a lot.

Seems to solve a lot of the issues I have with regular JSON, YAML and TOML.

The only thing I wish there was a way to go directly between StrictYAML and dataclasses (or have an easy way to generate a corresponding dataclass from the schema).
Of course not. It lacks even a headphone jack.
> Having symbols delimiting blocks and indentation violates the DRY principle.

This has to be one of the worst takes I ever heard.