skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using Jetbrains products for a number of years and like them overall but the development over time has been really disappointing. The improvements tend to be very minor each year and usually come with new problems. Many of the changes are just UI reshuffles for no good reason which is annoying, and they haven't been very good about supporting new technologies.

It feels like a company that started off great but then began coasting on their lead and has largely lost focus. The products are still very good for the most part, but most updates end up being a waste of time.
A few months ago there was an HN thread calling for personal blogs, and it accumulated almost 2,000 comments. Plenty of blogs to be found, if you like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081
General compression algorithms like zstd will do way, way better on previously encoded data. Sorting, RLE, etc, are all going to lead to a smaller resulting binary after going through the generalized algorithm.

You're also going to be relying on heuristics that may fail. Zstd has no idea that your UUIDs are going to repeat, it doesn't know to dictionary encode them or to create frequency mappings. What it ends up doing is unlikely to be as effective as doing the work ahead of time, then allowing zstd to find the interesting and complex patterns that arise out of your encoded format.
Char can be the same size as short or int. You can't assume it is one byte.
Ask HN: When do you think the singularity will hit?
TCO is available in Python if you want it. Multiline lambdas can be had by abusing the walrus operator, but in a language that supports nested functions it's a bit pointless. Assuming you meant fluents, you can write most languages in that style if you want to, including Python.
I admit I would have an opinion that aligns closer to yours if I lived in Europe vs the US.
I think this severely overestimates the sophistication of bots. You don’t need to give coherent, thoughtful replies. You just need keyword detection and link spamming.
First of all, they aren't serious about the scientific method or they'd fund Hume's Guillotine (see github). Moreover, they aren't even serious about reforming sociology -- which is what is needed for them to make strong claims about their "beliefs" aka social theory. That "ivory tower" publication Nature is leading them to but a step or two from a new scientific revolution based on technology, but they refuse to drink. Over 200 ecologists were supplied with the same set of data and asked to make predictions. This was "the first study of its kind" according to Nature, but this is exactly the purpose of Hume's Guillotine with regard to social theories, such as theirs. Why blather endlessly about their "beliefs" about the scientific method as providing the keys to techne kingdom and ignore the opportunity to not only nuke the social pseudosciences, but perform what, in other initiatives with which they are familiar, would be called "due diligence" regarding their own social theory?

Second, if they aren't going to be serious about their own social theory, what business do they have thinking of themselves as "apex" anything?
Solutions by Families, for Families. By United States Digital Service
> I showed up to my job and did what I was required to do, but I didn't show initiative to push myself beyond that

That’s just becoming an office drone. A few people go above and beyond and most people don’t. Welcome to the rest of your life I guess? You’ll probably lose your job a couple times due to economic factors out of your control but huge corps like when people just show up to work and do what they are required.
Looks like PBS tried to get in on the story, but frankly, they didn't do a very good job of it:

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-transcontinental-burrito-hyper...
Dude, nobody expects a random cop to spend a month trying to track down a $200 bicycle. That's not their job.

Your views are extremely myopic. Low-income neighborhoods around me are asking for MORE police because of how things have gotten. It's literally only suburban people who are insulated from crime that are saying dumb things like "defund the police"
dereferencing null is a great debug technique
> it could be the 500-1000lb bombs the IAF is dropping everywhere in Gaza

Sure. But those are precision munitions. I don't think there's an Occam's razor solution through this bit of the fog of war. (Yes, I know I'm deflecting from the horrors on the ground by thinking about the rocket mechanics. I'm going to try to observe my plane crash rule of ignoring attribution hypotheses for at least one week after.)
It is mind-boggling how far behind the US is in taxes and retail banking. News like this always amaze me.
Seems like a lot of people agree, but also some people don't care about endings at all. The real world doesn't normally have endings and it has 0 diminishing effect on what I enjoy about those types of books, some people actively like the lack of an ending. I don't particularly want a reveal, or some big moral point, or even closure. Make me feel something and then have it just end suddenly and leave me wondering wtf I just experienced.
No, I write as if I have some experience in this area.
They’re going to enable purchases directly off of the platform and probably a user to user payments platform because that got Musk rich in the past and why wouldn’t he run it back?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37922973
I'm mid 40s and will say that this productivity/recharge cycle has been in my life for as long as I can remember.

I think it's natural and speaks to the reality that we cannot operate at an all-out 100% continuously.

Use the downtime as an opportunity for self care, physical health, and low mental output tasks so that when the peak comes again you're not distracted by trivial things.
Anti-ageing molecule boosts fertility in ageing mice
> So yes, video sharing services need to be financed.

I'm entirely unconvinced that even this is true. Today's platforms and software are built around control and centralization, which is indeed expensive. But there's an obvious alternate path. Instead of preventing users from downloading media, embrace it. Build ipfs into browsers. Link to videos on ipfs. Add a "pin" menu item right on the browser UI for videos/images so that users can easily save copies of what they like and help serve it. Make it so you can subscribe to a channel by pinning an ipns name so you automatically download and seed new videos you're interested in. Let people pin to their (paid) cloud storage too.

There's a huge design space here. Expensive centralization is a tiny fraction of what's possible.
https://joelvelasco.net/teaching/2890/brownlisthumanuniversa...
fun trivia: in WebAssembly it's valid to read/write to memory address 0.
I have my home/property loan through a coop (a FCS institution) and so I get dividends every year on my shares. It amounts to about 1.5x my monthly payment. Because of this I have F-income to declare and so most free offerings are off the table for me.

I used the FileFreeUSA and TurboTax Federal Free in the past and it worked well. I just use TT's paid offering now for the F-income declarations.
It can be portable and still want to expose native information. SDL2 is probably something we can all agree is portable, but this still exists: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_SysWMmsg
You must live a sheltered life to think this. Viewing an entire group of people as evil or inherently bad. People like you are the reason why progress in the area is so hard. You don't understand the reality of the job.
Also, “trusted,” but there is no mention of “trustworthy.”

Those are terms of art. Given the author of the blog post, I think they actually mean they are building regulatory infrastructure to get (coerce) people to trust stuff based on external / top-down policy, regardless of whether the stuff you have to trust is secure.

This is a great feature for state actors, regulatory compliance shops and Google shareholders, but it’s an anti-feature for end users and businesses that actually care about security.
Everything we're building today is the next generation's pneumatic tubes
Reading Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Thrilling, and all of $4 to purchase on Unbound.
No, none of us are okay. The "push harder" comments are either from workaholics or younger folks with more hope for the world.

I'm 37, never figured out an exit plan from a dead-end tech career (QA & test automation), and may be facing homelessness in the near future.
That was truly a thing of glory
I tend to agree. Society was healthier prior to massive, wide-spectrum (my term) social networking.
Has ChatGPT so thoroughly defeated https://xkcd.com/810/ that we are now suspicious of constructive comments?

What a world...
Maybe the top end of the distribution is doing that. That’s an entire criminal operation which no doubt does happen of course. But not all spammers put in the same amount of effort. Cutting down spam is about sealing off the big leaks first.
I recommend reading Dr. Gabor Mate’s “Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39899253
One could call liberal democracy a utopia, when compared to feudalism that preceded it. There will always be problems to solve, what the OP is describing is not the absence of problems, but the evolution of social and economic relations in the same way capitalism was the evolution of social and economic relations from feudalism.
> Maybe there’s something neurologically wrong from the beginning that manifests as ADHD and later turns into dementia?

I can’t speak to the dementia portion, but it would not surprise me. As for the adhd being the result of something ‘neurologically wrong’… I feel like we should replace ‘wrong’ with something less charged, maybe ‘sub-optimal’ or ‘problematic’, but you intuited your way into something I’ve spent years in therapy and reading books to finally grok.

Two specific books that come to mind:
The Myth of Normal
and
What Happened to you
A Survey on Video Diffusion Models
Funny, I have a similar observation but the opposite opinion: I realized that my favorite major platform these days is Youtube because there's a ton of great content there that is harder to find elsewhere. Unfortunately, a lot of that content would be much better in written form.

As an example, I recently watched a video about the best weapons in Tears of the Kingdom that was over 40 minutes long, but all that information could have been a ~3000-word blog post. Yes, some of the information is best conveyed in video form (demonstrating certain effects with in-game footage), but a lot of the content was essentially just the creator explaining out loud why certain combinations work well. For the bits of information that work better as video, the author could embed a short video into the article.

It probably would've been a lot less effort for the creator to make a listicle or blog post with a section for each of the weapons shown, and it would certainly save the viewers a lot of time. But then such a blog post would probably make way less money than the Youtube video. Youtube does a better-than-average job of paying creators for popular content, and they've fostered a network effect where audiences go to Youtube when looking for certain types of information. All this means that the incentives push people to create video content even when another medium would suit the content better.
Would you offer this benefit to your employees? a conditional secondary
You allow your employees to forward sell a small portion of their stock compensation to an existing investor or whoever. Employee can only sell a small amount; at least 80% of their stock comp is vesting normally.

The cash proceeds don’t immediately go to the employee. If they’re loyal to the very end (and if the startup runs aground), they get this cash.

If they resign at any point, cash goes to the employer.

Basically you give employees an option to choose what incentivizes them. Loyalty and retention is rewarded with a small cash cushion in the worst case scenario.
The DALL-E images are surprisingly good, especially compared with my own experiments. Is this due to curation on your part, or some other technique?
i'd get into the logistics of axe throwing operations, but it's a bit of a hatchet job :P
There are multiple uses for the Pi. The mini PC is good are being computer, which Pi really isn't good at. But the mini PC can't do the other uses.

For example, the mini PC doesn't run on PoE. It won't fit in enclosure and can't put it on pole outside. But that is what I'm planning to do with Pi for ADS-B receiver.

The mini PC doesn't have PPS support or ability to install GPS receiver. That is what I need for Stratum 1 time server.

A lot of things I want to do just need USB. The question is if one PC or multiple Pis is better. I like idea of Pi per task since are independent units.
Someone should buy the domain http://twitterformerlyknownasx.com. I don’t know what I’d put there but it would be very funny.
Sure at a value level, but it's still setting a precedence and making the way. I could see small time Mastadon operators getting more traction for charging a nominal fee for running an account.

A lot of great ideas have come from companies that the idea killed (Xerox comes to mind).
Gene Wolfe. Somehow resolves or explains every seemingly random occurrence throughout the story, even if the first person narrator is extremely unreliable and doesn’t make the connection
>There is no way one can argue this is the same as entering words into a prompt with a straight face.

I have no stakes in this game but yeah, I think they are the exactly the same. I always thought of photography as a "phony" art, unlike classical canvas painters. You're using a machine that does all the work for you. In this case, the prompt is the camera positioning, lighting etc.

Not that any of this matters anyway, so don't waste energy with an uphill battle. As long as they like the actual result, people won't care.
At the very least, I'm going to contend that it's not a DIY thing. It's something that you should hire a tax pro for, so they can properly assess your situation and present your case.

> In a number of recent Tax Court cases, taxpayers have raised the
argument that they relied on Turbo Tax software as a defense to the
imposition of the accuracy-related penalty. With one notable exception, the
so-called “Turbo Tax defense” has been rejected by the Tax Court.

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
How to Start an Online Travel Agency (OTA)
100% agree. This is the same way a baseband exploit would be deployed. Would be really neat to see a proof of concept of this. And wonder what sort of filtering the telcos would introduce.
Creative works are hard. I’m sure it’s possible in theory, but it depends on the people who are interested in making it.
I worked at a place that used GitHub Actions quite recently. I thought it was quite neat and we never had a problem with it, although our CI was fairly simple.

I always thought GitHub Actions was intended as simple CI solution for small Github projects. If you need more control and functionality, wouldn't you be better off using dedicated CI system?
… he angrily types into the forum that pg wrote.
It's not a 6% higher risk, it's nearly double the risk - i.e. 7% vs 13.2%.

"Dementia occurred among 96 of 730 participants (13.2%) with adult ADHD and 7630 of 108 488 participants (7.0%) without adult ADHD."
Model F Keyboards
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Yeah, intuitively I assume that the gaps between any two UUID guesses will be sufficiently large such that you can increment a lot without overlap but... until someone shows me the math, I don't love the idea.
Another comment pointed out that there is more information or entropy in the weird version if you don't happen to be a js interpreter.

The compression algorithm knows that 165427-165427 is really 165427-same, but does not know that it's really 0 and the same as all the other things that resolve to 0.

There must be a lot of similar things like that in this particular case that relies on knowledge of the rules of js.

I guess it's tempting to think next about adding ai to a compressor so that it could know the actual rules of js and refactor it, but I just think of the tragedy that is jbig that does OCR as part of the compression, except, gets it wrong, and the original data is lost forever without a trace. And it's built right in to some scanners and happens before the compressed output even leaves the device. The user never sees anything else. There is no better reference uncompressed version anywhere if the user did not know about the problem and override some default settings.
I could see that being the case for pitch, maybe (though much further reductions than some airlines have done seems likely to cause medical issues for tall people). But width? The only place for that to come from is from the aisles and typical 3-3 or 2-4-2 layouts don't leave very big aisles (and the results would not be navigable for anyone using that extra seat width)
Nothing was "democratized," it was commodified.
It’s not staying $1 forever. You subscribe and then they boil the frog with upping it to $2, or higher
Some comments about this being valid on old-school computers, but even in more modern contexts, there are such cases. When programming SPUs on the Cell processor (okay, still a bit old), address 0 was valid memory you could use, in the 256K per-SPU local store.
Oh I read it. I just didn’t, ok. I wonder if I buy the company line anywhere?
Ho man, that’s like saying we’ll stop war by banning nuclear weapons.

1) the really problematic people won’t care

2) the ‘normal’ people will just be left defenseless and be preyed upon with fewer worries by the #1 cases.

3) which incentivizes the crazies to arm up more so they’ll have leverage.

Notably, this is exactly what happened with nuclear proliferation bans, if we’re being honest.

Assuming it’s not actually possible to control the area physically anyway. Singapore or NZ? Hey maybe. 99% of the rest of the planet? Good luck!
Man that author doesn't seem to like EVs at all.
The quality of this website does not give me a lot of confidence in whatever content lives in the narrow window I can see on mobile.

I don’t know if I have adhd… it seems like the definition of adhd is almost constantly expanding. Whatever the case, I hope dementia becomes treatable or curable in my lifetime. My grandfather suffered with it and it was awful.
Building an AI Chatbot to Help with Math Problems
Hey! I'm Aidan - a software engineer who has spent the past few months exploring the world of LLM and AI tools.

I recently wrote a blog [1] on how I used Autoblocks to convert the Vercel AI chatbot into a personal math tutor!

> Monitoring Requests

With Traces, I logged the chatbot’s interactions with the OpenAI API,
allowing me to understand exactly how it used LLMs. These traces
are readily available to view in the Autoblocks platform.

> Tracking Custom Data

The key to any good log is detail.

I could provide as much information as I wanted with each Trace,
letting me track the chatbot’s message history, completion p
arameters, and even latency of the responses.

> Testing Changes

As I developed my math tutor locally, Simulations enabled me to find
the perfect prompt. Using the Autoblocks platform made comparing
each prompt change and the resulting completion easy.

> Exploring Data

As I accumulated traces from the chatbot, I visited the Explore tab
to sort and organize them. I even made a chart to visualize the
latency of each trace, which I saved as a Dashboard for quick access
later.

> Putting It Together

I was left with a specialized chatbot capable of answering all my
math questions - even discrete ones like why √2 is irrational.

The full code is available on GitHub [2].

Links:
[1] https://www.autoblocks.ai/blog/math-chatbot-guide
[2] https://github.com/aidanjrauscher/ai-chatbot-autoblocks
15 Kilometre LoRa SSH link with RNode (2018)
And they precisely hit the target.

Speaking of fog of war, the IAF could easily release logs of sorties flown, ammo taken, ammo used, and where it was used. They could do that right now. They have not. Makes you think.
The first rule of digging a hole is stop.

But I’ll bite. You are saying that people in Europe over the last six month think that a lab leak is less likely now than they had? Hmm, hot take.
Thanks for the kind words and the 'calmify' word play idea. Hope you enjoy using the app!
There's Fediverse. No need to ditch HTTPS just to be indie.
Thanks for the heads up. We have removed this file from the platform for now while we review.
The new season is better than I expected (so far) though not anywhere near the original. I think they may actually settle into something good!
In Christchurch, New Zealand, we have a cafe that sends you your burger through a pneumatic tube system... Ton Scott did a video about it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTHZLKFblKo
The problem as ever is equity.
There was a really talented jazz artist named Austin Peralta who sadly passed away about a decade ago at a really young age from an opiate overdose who used to work alot with flying lotus and brainfeeder. I remember him calling it 'genre dissolution' back then
Except spam and bot count. Those numbers are way up.
Did I miss where the article explains how ammonia can be used in a combustion engine? I read the whole article but it didn't seem to get into the techincals.
Those bank-teller tubes are still in use in the Denver suburbs.
Absolutely, I could hold eight positions as "Ultra-low hours mambojambo developer". /s

Can you imagine the context-switching?

Folks that bill by the hour are stuck in the 90s
It sounds like you have the mentality that everybody must be a front end developer.

I work in a domain that's very much not front end development, I've participated in interview rounds for at least 100 different candidates, I don't think I've seen "side projects" ever be a factor in someone getting hired, not even once.

The one thing that did put an applicant way ahead of the pack was contributing to open source projects relevant to our domain. It didn't have to be anything super duper impressive, we just liked to see a history of submitting meaningful PRs and getting them through code review.
NPR left Twitter because Musk falsely labeled their account as "state-affiliated media."

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter...
Actually I have a Logitech mx so can spin the wheel and it keeps going round for 10s+.
> the IAF could easily release logs of sorties flown, ammo taken, ammo used, and where it was used

It's an active war zone. There are good tactical reasons for not immediately disclosing this. (You also want to make damn sure that you didn't have a trigger-happy racist go off piste.) Conducting that audit credibly takes time.

Anyone arguing bombing a hospital at this time in this way furthered either side's strategic aims is missing context. This was a fuckup. To what degree, and at what level, is largely what's being lost or obscured.
my take is that "blogging for the hell of it" is larger than ever but harder than ever to find.
Sweetgreen using robots to make salads
Was is trained to do that, or just hardwired after the training?
Guess it depends on the business? I work at a Java shop and everyone uses IntelliJ. A few people use VSCode for UI stuff but most also just use IntelliJ.
I love that Toyota is forward thinking, but where does the ammonia come from? The most common way to make it is via the Haber-Bosch process, which, as I recall, consumes 1% of global energy product as of today. I wonder what that number would look like if we manufactured fuel that way?
> Properly written software does not have the same potential for error.

To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.

As a user, how do you know that the tax software you are using was "properly written"?
I used XyWrite thru HS and College until eventually switching to Word for Windows. I think I did one paper on WordPerfect on the schools PS2.