skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apparently the american media is particularly pro-israel.

Is it the same media that reprinted without any checking Hamas claim that Israel bombed Al-Ahli hospital and 500 people were dead and over 600 wounded (the real situation was an Islamic Jihad rocket fell in the parking lot near the hospital, and likely about 10 to 50 people were hurt by it), and run with it for days trying to present it as if it was reliable information? Or there's some other US press which I'm not aware of? Some of this "particularly pro-Israel" press even refuses to name Hamas a terrorist organization. I don't know how much pro-Israel one can be than that.
Is your argument that roundabouts are bad for pedestrians? If so why?
I believe you're discussing 'Arc'. 'Rc' is not thread safe.
No, read the financials.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204423...

Look at page 12.
>The US would have to either cut government expenses or increase inflation to deal with the debt, both of which would hurt GDP.

Is the US so broken brained on taxation that we can't even imagine it as an option? You know that's still how we collect revenue, right?
Amazing work ethic - did IKEA ever give you a hard time?
Last time I checked it was a duopoly now. One company is Midea, the other is Galanz.

However, some companies (like Panasonic) still make their own high-end microwaves.
Yes, the other easy way I have used multiple times is, bookmarklet simply sends the text via a POST request to Google Apps Script, which simply appends it to a sheet or doc.
The same developer who worked on bundler also worked on the initial version of cargo. That’s why they’re similar.

And at that time, it was a good idea. Ruby was popular and bundler + gem ecosystem was a big reason for its popularity. No one was worried that Rust might become so popular that it might outgrow the bundler model. That was only a remote possibility to begin with.
The technology is trash and the "work" produced by these things is pathetically bad. And it's always more fun to make gobs of money by becoming a copyright troll to AI companies than it is to do it the old fashioned way. Wanna know where my proof that they've been stealing my work is gonna be? When they come at me for fucking up their models.
No, this is an embedding model, not a text completion model.
Edit: my bad, it was my mobile layout.

I mean does it need a line break as it is seen in your code?
Agree, nobody cares. But it was pointed out in response to a suggestion it's revisionist to say it was an experiment. It was correct (ie it was an experiment), albeit not understood by people who believe at face value what companies say.

I haven't been in the know for years, but I learned enough - don't look at what they say, look at where the money is. It's the same for almost every company.

Product strategy is a mess at most companies. The developer experience sucks for most products. Stripe built a multi-billion dollar business off of developer experience because the standard experience sucks so bad.
It's a rubber duck that talks back. Chat Gpt is amazing for programming. I'm not OP but I've been coding since 2009.
Pyrex still uses borosilicate glass in Europe (or so it appears).
Yes, in the same way that the junkie dies from an OD because he steals random unidentified drugs in search of a fix, only in this case, they never had a right to any of my work.

Not my fucking problem.
I am reminded of the theories that bees and migratory birds may be able to navigate due to sensitivity to quantum fields. Does this suggest a connection (or evolutionary origin?) between QM and brain / mind / consciousness?

No idea, but that was a fascinating read.
"CDM: Specifically right now, it's been very weird to see in real-time, the spread of disinformation by celebrities who would usually not weigh in the current news cycle. Are celebrities, or the media, more impactful in spreading fake news?"

"CHARLIE: Well, celebrities are part of the media, aren't they? [...] the spread of this sort weaponised nonsense, I find it really scary."

Same with elite disinformation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982876
How interesting. I assumed that a consistent codename such as Ada/Davinci refers to the lineage/DNA of the OpenAI model from which a distinct product was created. But I can see how these codenames could be "just" a revision label of A/B/C/D (Ada/Babbage/Curie/Davinci), similar to "Pro/Max/Ultra". If true, a product named "M2 Ultra" could have nothing to do with another product called "Watch Ultra".
Of course that works, but that's not exactly a task that's likely to trip me up or be a bottleneck in my coding efficiency. The things that are are typically either of sufficient complexity i don't even know how to begin describing it to ChatGPT in a useful way, or require enough domain knowledge it's not worth the effort.

Of course, it's still an issue if ChatGPT can't generate trivial rust code, but that seems unrelated to the quality of the language itself.
There's a term for your peer group. Young people who like old stuff. Do you listen to vinyl records as well? The term is "hipster". I don't know if that words is widely used anymore.
Breville combi whatever, microwave, oven, air frier. But real treat is inverter operation that's half as loud and SOFT CLOSE DOORS and ability to turn off all system sounds. Big quality of life upgrade. Not worth $500.
Your "lol" is entirely inappropriate.
Unfortunately, the StreamDeck doesn't emulate a standard USB HID device, so it needs a driver running in the background to detect button presses and do things like generate keystrokes or call Keyboard Maestro macros.

There's streamdeck-ui (https://timothycrosley.github.io/streamdeck-ui/), which is an open-source alternative, but it at first glance it seems to be only for Linux.

There are a bunch of other macro/launcher pads like the StreamDeck that DO act as standard USB HID keyboards, though, and those should work fine with Keyboard Maestro using keyboard shortcut triggers.
>This article makes it sound like traffic lights are more common than roundabouts in the US.

That's because they are.

And speaking as an American driver: I prefer traffic lights. They require no thinking beyond being remotely aware of your surroundings, you can see where you want to go, and there's no thinking involved other than making your way across the intersection when it's your turn.

Roundabouts involve far more mental load that I do not care for: I need to gauge if and when I can merge, because there's no traffic light controlling ingress and egress. I need to keep track of the exit I want that I usually can't see until the last moment. I waste my time going around again if I confuse my exit, which can't happen with traffic light intersections.

TL;DR: Traffic lights are simpler, easier, and ultimately faster as far as I'm concerned.

If the safety of crossing pedestrians is the concern, then I have a simple solution: A bridge over the intersection connecting all four pedestrian corners. Somewhat common sight in Japanese cities.
This is kind of a problem with non-paid support I think. I had an AWS account with some credits that were going to expire and decided to use them to spin up a bare metal instance. My account was immediately flagged and I got locked out. I finally managed to reach someone who made me jump through hoops changing my password and rotating my API keys. It still took a few days before I was able to log in again, and by then my credits were expired. Luckily I wasn't doing anything important in my account, but someone running a business would have been screwed.
Well don't leave the crowd in suspense.
most compilers of today don’t actually produce exactly the same code if you run them twice.

Timestamps are one of the biggest offenders, but this is also why reproducible builds are important. Nondeterministic codegen is just scary.

Second, and more importantly, many people carry a copy of a trusted compiler around, though it’s rarely mention in attacks like these: their head.

This is also why I'm against inefficient bloated software in general: the bigger a binary is, the easier it is to hide something in it.

Along the same lines, a third idea I have for defending against such attacks is better decompilers --- ideally, repeatedly decompiling and recompiling should converge to a fixed point, whereas a backdoor in a compiler should cause it to decompile into source that's noticeably divergent.
Costco is not messing around when it comes to quality.
Smart on you for getting a commercial appliance.

Residential grade appliances are quite frankly awful and really limit how well you can cook. My dream kitchen is ironically a professional one.

One of my rants are stoves. They is not get as hot as professional stoves. To overcome this, I got a Blackstone griddle that also includes a gas range. I then replaced the propane regulator with some Chinese one that lets me output ateasg 2.5x the amount of gas the stock one did.

I could probably damage it at max output but I've never tried. Instead o get up to 600* F and cooks mean steak and perfect smash burgers.
depending on the autocompleter feels like asking to code to Chatgpt to me.
San Francisco doesn't build houses because San Francisco doesn't want houses to be built.

Nothing is going to change until San Francisco (et. al) are no longer allowed to prevent houses from being built.
I think common wisdom now is don't put too much effort until you validate or test the idea. How do you not invest too much time if the traction takes too long?
I also remember our microwave as a kid had a power level knob. Now that property is hidden behind some combination of pressing 5 different beeping buttons that I never use
Mine seems to detect burning about 3 mins into pressure cooking (which stops the heat). I’m fairly certain nothing is actually burning, but even if it is, there seems to be no amount of liquid I can add to get it to stop.
Sadly I have found the flip side, too: as someone with a systems software interest/background (I wouldn't say expert), the # of jobs in the Rust ecosystem that are not glorified webdev/microservicing (or worse, crypto) is actually quite small.

So I guess I wouldn't be surprised that the applications are trending that way, too, as that is where growth is happening right now it seems.
No. “Chatting with PDFs” is (mostly) taking a users chat message, retrieve relevant content via e.g embedding search, then feed that into an LLM with a prompt that’s something along the lines of “given this information, can you answer this question”.

This tool helps with embedding part.

I’ve built a bunch of ”chat with your PDFs” bots, do reach out if you have any questions me at brian.jp.
Didn't know a database could write essays.
You don’t need to work from first principles to understand that the most powerful (by far) rocket built would obliterate whatever concrete you use without an appropriate water deluge system and/or flame trench.
Solaris descendants like SmartOS were also heavy on xml configs as I recall
I disagree, there's a big difference: rust-analyzer is deterministic and 100% accurate while ChatGPT is non-deterministic and hallucinates.
We're addicted to stuff that runs on fossil fuels. Keep running into ideas about how to offset that. We need to wake and stop. If there hasn't already been enough climate Narcan sprayed to wake us up by now, we'll keep dreaming until we can't. Then we will stop.
Those same people will microwave a meal for dinner and then make breakfast eggs on an anon-stick Teflon pan the next morning.
> There are many issues with Web Components, but I don't think this is one of them.

You described another version of the problem I'm getting at. You should be able to use vanilla HTML, but you can't without hoop jumping.
I think if you get three to five developers who are enthusiastic about X language, their collective knowledge will select good packages.
Not even PPP per capita, but overall PPP.
I wouldn't necessarily say that wanting to pay an employee less is "exploitive," just as I wouldn't label an employee's desire to make more an attempt to exploit the company either. I'm just saying that those are opposing goals that are going to make it difficult to build a fully aligned relationship between the two parties.

Not sure I really understand how this position relates to the Dark Triad concept. I thought that these days DT was really only bandied about by people in the pick-up community with something to sell to frustrated men.
There's one feature that changed the game. Alexa. Now I don't punch in those stupid numbers.

I just go "Computer! microwave for 3 minutes and 30 seconds!" bam!
The AI Ethicist: Fact or Fiction?
Cool research - 4 pastors, a rabbi, 13 academics, 50 MBA students and 50 Prolific online contributors were asked whether they preferred the ethical solutions proposed by the NY Times Ethicist or ones proposed by GPT-4.

When forced to choose between the two sources of advice, the random subjects recruited online displayed a slight but significant preference for the AI generated advice, selecting it 60% of the time, while MBA students and the expert panel showed no significant preference.
But the whole point is if you ruin thousands of terrestrial telescopes used (successfully) by thousands of researchers, and in exchange you get a promise of one day maybe having tons of orbital telescopes, you aren’t really addressing the concern.
>I don't know why this topic polarizes people to such an extreme degree.

A number of reasons, actually.

- Because the entire idea of "the Earth is fucked, so let's go set up camp on Mars" is a train of thought that's only applicable to the ultra-rich, and in the current economic environment that's (pretty understandably) an unpopular idea.

- Because after Starship's failed attempt at landing and highly-destructive launch earlier this year, people who care about the nearby wildlife refuge at Boca Chica are understandably not thrilled about continued ops there.

- Because the man behind SpaceX -- whose past achievements are admittedly impressive, at least in the spaceflight industry -- is increasingly associated with deceptive marketing, poor design choices, and incompetent product management, and when a corporation like SpaceX relies on significant funding from taxpayers that's a troubling combination.

- Personally, for me, coming from startups, "move fast and break things" scales terribly in terms of (for lack of a better word) social responsibility, and with the company's stated ambitions, I don't see this ending well.

SpaceX does a lot of cool shit, but let's not pretend like they're advancing the state of human existence here. They're a commercial entity, even if not publicly traded, but with Musk at the helm that feels like the tradeoff between being purely profit-driven vs having later-years Howard Hughes behind the wheel.

Anyway, it's pretty disingenuous to call Starship in particular "the most capable and sophisticated rocket ever built." So far it's capable of doing a significantly suborbital hop and failing to land. You could argue that it's failed at the one thing a spacefaring vessel should, by definition, not fail at.

I do trust in the FAA's judgement here, but I hope they work closely with Fish & Wildlife. The effects of climate change are increasingly endangering wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico, and having chunks of concrete the size of a living room flying into the water isn't helping.
A few weekly mobility/flexibility sessions (10-15m) to keep things limber also goes a long way.
I don't know why a second house or something like that is not being taxed to the ground in California. Like Prop13 was meant to keep seniors from being evicted from their own homes? Sure, that is the primary residence. But what are they doing with the second or third house? That is clearly an economic investment. Get taxed.

Tax those extra houses harder to the point even corporates and landlords feel the heat of profiting off of homes. I don't know why it isn't done. Cali always want raise tax on the middle class but those landowners somehow aren't getting the book thrown at them.
Right so basically “we’ll maybe have more space telescopes someday” is not actually relevant to “you are effectively destroying terrestrial telescopes today.”
It's sort of interesting to see it. I believed that Mangini would be their last drummer.
I was thinking of something like this for running queries for sharded data: the execution could be paused and moved to the server that is closer to the data source at a given runtime.

> Notice how flawless takes away the burden of persisting the state.

Reminds me of the Wisdom of the Well: "You'll never find a programming language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas." [1]

Although solving durability of execution for arbitrary code sounds super cool, I suspect that writing the code in a way that could be checkpointed/resumed more naturally would probably be easier to debug and implement, in the end.

--

1: https://xkcd.com/568/
*fewer

Less is used for qualitative data like “I love him less”. Whereas fewer is used for countable things like “I need fewer tokens.”
This is exactly the use that Promptr is intended for https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr

* full disclosure: I’m the author of Promptr
Wow I genuinely hadn't noticed the A/B/C/D thing!
The collapse straw man doesn’t equal an economic slow down/middle income trap prediction, but it works well as a straw man. Remember, the prediction was 2026 but that was pushed back to 2035 where china might get parity with the USA in terms of GDP.
None of which is relevant to astronomers who depend on terrestrial telescopes to do their work today, so it’s not really a meaningful response to their complaints.
But at least I know if I'm ok with it, so it can't be exploitation. If I wasn't ok with it, I could change it. The hardworker doesn't even know he's getting paid less (because I made sure of it in contract). See the problem?
Same. I hate the systems we currently have.
I have a really old microwave made in Korea which I bought used 20 years ago.

It has two mechanical knobs: power and time. You can hear the timer whirring down.

That’s all I need.

Live long and prosper, nameless microwave.
The lack of lights and increase in number of crossings (for non-tiny ones) make them pretty terrible to cross as a pedestrian.
"In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote the initial proposal for the World Wide Web, envisioning it as a "universal linked information system" to help researchers share information."

Statement of Facts

Idea: Let's use this system to disseminate advertising.

Idea: Let's use this system to run code automatically on peoples' computers.

Idea: Let's use this system as a means for people to communicate with their family and friends over the internet by uploading their "private" messages to a third party's website.

Idea: ???

Universal linked information system --> universal internet surveillance system

Question

Is the web still suitable to help researchers share information if so-called "tech" companies intermediate access to all information and seek to commercialise all web use.
Well of course they're going to triple-down, they went all-in on the technology.

"things like un-affordability"

Battery prices are still dropping as more production capacity comes online. It's premature to call time on this. The idea that you can have multiple sets of fuelling/charging infrastructure (petrol, gas, hydrogen and electric) across every fuel station in a nation is laughable. Considering electricity doesn't need to be trucked around it's probably the only next frontier we can reasonably ask for.
> they have a no-automation policy

What's that?
I have scripts that automate publishing of new release of my crates. And I think many projects have.
It’s working. I really can’t see it. All I see is ****
You can apply algebra to your functions, while also acknowledging that there are other interesting objects than just functions. It's called logic, and in my opinion, logic is really just algebra.

Number theory is not just numbers, by the way. It has plenty of functions as well, for example the Riemann zeta function.
Excellent for things like melting butter or chocolate
The launch site is 20 feet from the border. (hyperbole, but they are pretty much on the edge. You can walk there.)

The FAA directions explicitly tell them they're bound, obligated to seek clearances from Mexico to do work which impacts Mexicans. I read the doc:

The VLA is approximately 2.2 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border and the LLCC is approximately 1.3 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border. ... SpaceX would coordinate with the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation–Mexico if any airspace, land, or water access restrictions in Mexico were required.
Is there any good data comparing cloud provider uptimes? I know GCP had an outage recently that impacted me.
It does seem like in the last 10 years the tax code in Canada has become more strict and the CRA really doesn't like single-customer "corporations" anymore and ends up taxing them just like employment. So some of the holes at least have been plugged.

For 10 years I worked at Google and pulled in what I would consider a ridiculous salary. But over 50% of it was pulled away in taxes. I am a socialist by conviction so don't complain about these kinds of taxes much, but it really chafed me to see people in contracting situations bringing in more than me by squirreling away money, hiding it from the gov't in these kinds of corporate arrangements.
I don't know if the US' inept rollout of EV infrastructure, and its subsequent impact on EV demand, is a reason for Toyota to dislocate their shoulder patting themselves on the back.

China's EV transition is flying, they're arguably well past a tipping point, and Toyota is not executing well in that market.[1]

> However, sales slumped almost 13% from a year earlier in China, where a lack of electric models is seeing global automakers like Toyota and Volkswagen AG lose ground to domestic automakers like BYD Co.

> Production in China fell 18% to 167,987 vehicles. Toyota earlier this week said it had dismissed roughly 1,000 contracted factory workers in China.

And while the US isn't performing a competent rollout of EV infrastructure in the near term, I wouldn't bet the rent that it'll be a technology backwater forever.

[1] https://archive.ph/269rK
“Forced to use it” is a bold prediction. We’re currently not forced to use anything Meta makes. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
While building physical simulation workflows, the input for calculation steps was intentionally not autogenerated from some config file but retained a template that require users to check. This way, it is easier for scientists to have a good idea so that they know they are doing the "right" calculations.
Apple TV original content just sucks.

It’s neutered and toothless in the worst ways possible.

The only somewhat decent thing there was Severance but you can tell by the last episode that they already know how they will ruin it
Not to be tin foil hat, and I have no idea what I'm saying, but something just felt unnatural and wrong about microwaves, so years ago started using a toaster oven and I use it now over microwave and oven as well for toasting and baking everything. Please tell me how I'm doing it wrong my mind is open.
Seriously. I used to have a microwave and oven stacked on top of each other. Both had an LCD, and so some horrible PMs somewhere presumably had entire sets of meetings to spec out the clock feature.

The microwave would not function if the time and AM/PM values were not set. (As far as I could tell, there was no way to actually ever see the AM/PM value after setting it!)

So. Every time the power went out, I would be confronted with blinking times on clocks I didn’t even want, and a nonfunctional microwave.

I will never buy a kitchen appliance with a mandatory clock ever again.