skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What have you used Prolog for? If the information is not under NDA.
It's easier to get a home EV charger than a personal gas station, which helps.
It should be USofAians, of course.
> I think tablets are a decent secondary substitute for print-form [...] where the activity is more browsing rather than linear.

Interesting that my impression is more or less the opposite: I can read on a tablet all right, but leafing through is annoying and switching back and forth between three or four places in a big (thousand-page) reference book is so annoying as to be nearly impossible. The first, because rendering PDF pages (understandably) takes time, and the second, because I’ve seen no bookmarks interface as seamless and convenient as leaving a loose sheet of paper or even just your finger in the necessary place—they’re all much too fiddly.
impressive, but as I've witnessed a top fuel dragster do 0-320mph in just over 3 seconds (meters away from me!), think I am a bit desensitised.
College class. Loved it.
Yes, the color of every pixel is ultimately determined by a shader program, but as you might expect it's more complicated then that.

There is what is referred to as a graphics pipeline consisting of a mix of fixed-function hardware stages and programmable stages. At a high level, it does the following: 1) the GPU accepts a set of 3D triangles from the CPU, 2) a 'vertex' shader program transforms (flattens) the 3D triangle vertices into 2D triangle vertices with pixel coordinates, 3) the GPU rasterizes the 2D triangles to determine exactly which pixels the triangles cover, 4) a 'pixel' shader program is run for each covered pixel to determine the color of the pixel, 5) the resulting pixel color is stored in a frame buffer (which may involve blending it with the existing color). This 'pipeline' is then repeated many times (with different triangle meshes and shaders) until the whole frame is drawn.

Hope that helps!
In case anyone else was seeing the images as flickering noise, my fix was to copy the image from the browser and paste those somewhere else. You can view the images correctly.

Link to imgur. The first image is screenshot of what I see in the browser. The rest are actual images after pasting to imgur.

https://imgur.com/a/F4203rz
Because this ends in a race to the bottom. Employers have much greater power than employees as long as the latter are individualized and only act according to their individual best interest. Society is better when we do things for each other - and sometimes that involves things like not being a scab.
I guess I have something similar when it comes to productivity and my workstations.

In the last two years I have completely moved my desktop configuration into Ansible making it near perfectly reproducible on another machine. My thinking was it would make me more productive in the long run.

But rather then spending some of my free time working on some of the other actual software ideas I have accumulated over the years, instead that time goes into endless tinkering with the playbook and trying to add even more to it.
> It looks like a dysfunction to me

Undoubtedly for some it is a dysfunction; but for most, I suspect it taps into something common to most of us and is encoded by our evolutionary past given that for most of human prehistory we were equipped to deal with scarcity. For many with collecting hobbies, the target items are very specific and their practices don’t preclude moving effectively through life.
Colonizing Mars for real (that is, building a self-sustained habitat there) is a way to create a habitat not controlled by any Earth government. That's the only potential upside I see in the short term, an upside for those who care about such things and are ready to pay an immense price for it. Something that a bunch of eccentric libertarian-leaning billionaires might do. (Oh wait.) Large and unconventional religious movements could be interested, too, like Puritans of old, but much more well-funded and determined.
Based. Kremlo came from space!
No. 1G is 9.8 ish (m/s)/s and 3x that is more than 100 kph/s
A lot of cats die every year from [Cytauxzoonosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytauxzoonosis) (aka "Bobcat Fever"). It's absolutely terrifying disease which kills the victim slowly and with an extreme amount of suffering.

This horrible parasite killed two of my cats this summer. I've learned that it has become very common across a large part of the US and is spreading rapidly. The vet in my small town told me they saw at least 35 cats so far this year with only 2 survivors. It seems to have wiped out most of the feral cat population in my area in a single season.

There are some treatments but they are both expensive and fairly ineffective. To make things much worse, survivors become carriers of the parasite and can then infect ticks which go on to infect other cats. If all of that wasn't bad enough, you may not notice anything is wrong until it's far to late to do anything about it. At first, the parasite multiplies quietly for several weeks. By the time there are noticeable symptoms, the cat has only a few extremely miserable days left to live. The treatment is only effective if you catch the disease extremely early which is unlikely unless you (your vet, more likely) proactively examine a blood sample under a microscope to see the parasites. It's easy to miss them during the early stage of the infection when their numbers are small, so the test is non-conclusive. This is obviously not practical or economical.

I'm also unsure if the parasite can be avoided by judiciously removing ticks. It may be like Lyme disease, where you can prevent infection by removing the tick within a short time, however, I haven't seen that stated anywhere. It's a parasitic organism similar to Malaria, unlike Lyme (which is a bacteria) I'm not so sure you can count on any time delay before infection occurs.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, treat your yard for ticks. Watching your cat die from this disease is traumatic and heartbreaking. I would not recommend it to anyone.

As if all that weren't enough to think about, one more warning: If you deploy a pesticide to control the ticks, it's important to know that the most effective chemical is permethrin. Unfortunately, it's highly toxic to cats. Just a tiny amount of the stuff can be deadly. Humans and many other mammals can break down small amounts of permethrin without difficulty. Not so for felines. Any amount of the stuff is really bad for them and this is why some cheap over the counter flea collars make cats sick. This further complicates the situation. At the very least make sure that your pets are inside for a while after applying any chemicals around outside.
If you assume constant acceleration (unlikely, but whatever) and do the math, it works out to

(100 km/h)/s = 27.7777778 m/s^2 = 2.83g
At that distance and in real time, can you see those tires doing that absolutely wild twist as they “wind up” all the tension gripping the asphalt?
Since only two (or maybe three, I'm not 100% sure) of these positions exist, a mass resignation would be delayed by having to cycle people through the appointment and release of these figurative roles.

It also created a curious effect where a Sinn Fein MP (Gerry Adams), who like all Sinn Fein MPs never took his seat because he would not swear allegiance ot the crown, had to accept a crown job to resign, which David Cameron criticised him for (in rather poor form).

And there is nothing aside form precedent preventing a capricious government from stopping MPs from resigning by refusing to make such an appointment.

It's all fun and games having an unwritten messy constitution until a government exceeds its powers to e.g. prorogue parliament against its will and we have to wait months for a court to rule on it when a proper consitution would never have allowed such an act in the first place.

An insurrection like January 6th would suceed in the UK because there is so much arcane bullshit where our constitution should be, we are solely dependent on the good will and character of the current government to run things as they are meant to be run.
Video says 3.8G with a lighter pilot than the TV host.
This is BS. You can't anonymize a phone! Even if you could, you would need a voice synthesizer to use it, too.
Show HN: I made yet another UI to browse HN
Primarily built this to learn how NextJS works and also a bit about Tailwind CSS.
Also has request caching using the WebCache API + expiration which is quite a hacky implementation.

Let me know what you think!

Source is at https://github.com/say4n/hn, pull requests welcome!
Growing up watching top fuel I'm exactly the same. And until battery technology achieves the same energy density as fuel (and its a long way off) we won't see the same kind of speeds with electric vehicles.
I believe people interested in the latter are almost always interested in the former also, at least in the context of transactional systems (and particularly anything subject to complex regulatory requirements).

Analytical systems are a different world where time seems to often be regarded as "just another dimension", but strong consistency and auditability are increasingly relevant there too, which is also a natural reflection of how a lot of modern OLAP systems operate internally using immutable snapshots of blob storage (see Snowflake, Iceberg, LakeFS etc.).

I know there are definitely lots of potential tricks for making better use of a first-class understanding of time in analytics though, and not just treating it the same as other dimensions, e.g. https://duckdb.org/2023/09/15/asof-joins-fuzzy-temporal-look... and https://materialize.com/blog/temporal-filters/
Or video games for kids...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_(video_game_series)
Aye, kenning is a well understood linguistic principle, hence why quake is sufficient in English.
You need to make sure you select the correct model to do it. Hover over GPT-4 and select DALL-E 3. Should work then!
Good to see others post ianvists posts, anyone might think I was Mr Visits himself.
Shaders do all the drawing, but it does so in different stages. I won't explain the entire graphics pipline[1], but a lot (some 90%+) of what people casually think of as "shaders" for doing lighting effects are the fragment/pixel shader stage of the renderer.

there are other stages (vertex, tesselation) that draw those basic shapes before the fragment shader draws "on top" of the scene.

(there is also a lot more to what I described for fragment shaders. e.g. deferred rendering[2]. But that's an equally large topic to get into).

1: https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Drawing_a_triangle/Graphics_pipe...

2: https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Deferred-Shading
I see two definitions of engineering:

1. Building engines from scratch, i.e. something that converts a thing from X to Y consistently.

2. Knowing enough about an engine to get it to do what you want it to do, as well as maintaining it.

Prompt engineering initially started from the latter, back before ChatGPT and stuff which you'd just give instructions to.

Engineers have to be familiar enough to know how it works, what it's strong at, what it isn't, things like margin of failure, all that stuff. A lot of it is just prompt alchemy, I guess, but the lower part of this article has some juicy reverse engineering.
> a somewhat newer Geforce GTX 1070Ti at 1080p

Yeah, integrated graphics right? :)

That's a 200 W card.

I'm sure it runs great on battery.
"Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback." - old Dutch saying
Second biggest Russian insurance company hacked
Buses do take people to the airport, they are extremely inconvienent for anyone but a solo traveler with minimal bags that happen to live close to a bus line.

The only time I take a bus is when I need to take a transfer from the airport parking to the terminal, that part usually takes longer than my drive to the airport. I'd gladly pay another 10-20$ for a valet to park my car from the terminal to avoid those busses.
At current technology we are unable to eliminate fossil fuels. In some regions we can definitely cover a lot with wind and solar but during the day its not always enough and we still have night time generation. How are you expecting a company to provide you timelines?
No kidding -- for Sutskever, superalignment is the inevitable next step. “It’s an unsolved problem,” he says. It’s also a problem that he thinks not enough core machine-learning researchers, like himself, are working on. “I’m doing it for my own self-interest,” he says. “It’s obviously important that any superintelligence anyone builds does not go rogue.
Sample code and generated images for several tools: https://text-to-diagram.com
I have realized I already have more hobbies than i have time for. I do need parts to repair my other hobbies, I might get a 3d printer for that, but i'm thinking about using some printing service to make parts for me instead
Don't forget that if order matters, you probably can still use windowing functions and have no problem - I wrote an iterative but still set based newtons method of least squares in CTEs/windowing functions and it was tens of thousands of times faster than a looping option.
I want one. But what is the price?
A lot of "feature store" systems seem to make the case for time travel these days, e.g. https://docs.featurebase.com/docs/concepts/time-quantums/
So, adjust your infosec policy accordingly.

I already have. You can get the same or better "privacy" using public wifi with a random MAC address.
Show HN: Spotify tmux plugin (with now also status bar)
I've already uploaded this before, but now there's an update where you can also show playing track, album or/and artist in your status bar :)
The butterfly you've seen is a Diaethria species, also known as the "eighty-eights" for obvious reasons.
You said it better than I did. I hate this path of painting oil and gas companies as the big evil conspirators. They have certainly done things that are not great and have been part of natural disasters that probably could have been prevented.

There is that whole pitch. We need to be using more electricity to drive more innovation which will lead to greener alternatives.
Barbies, Ties, and High Heels: Goods That People Buy but Wish Did Not Exist
I'm sure some people do indeed say that, as that has also been said about most famous smart people.

However, from my experience as someone who scored "off the charts" on a UK school Cognitive Abilities Test and 148 on an IQ test: any score over 130 is suspect, as basically nobody is collecting enough data to make the tests statistically valid once you're more than 2σ from the mean.
Google Cloud IOT.
In an RDBMS a schema change is both an application tier change and database tier data definition change and depending on what you want to optimize for that can be a material difference in terms of agility. Anything can be described as "quite easily" but in a fundamental sense if a change requires you to reason and initiate at two layers and that change often requires downtime, you have a major impediment on your hands. You might also call slowing down a feature. I think it's a bit like fiat vs Crypto, there's a religious ferver aspect that drives some people to declare a position on this and a set of tradeoffs aspect.
As opposed to writing vague instructions for a compiler?
Ah nice! Didn't know about this one! Unfortunately looks like I can't add a reply to re-start the discussion...
There is no just in hyper
That's strange, what browser are you using?
Room-temp continuous-wave topological Dirac-vortex microcavity lasers on silicon
From the Abstract: "Here, we experimentally realize the topological Dirac-vortex microcavity lasers in InAs/InGaAs quantum-dot materials monolithically grown on a silicon substrate. We observe room-temperature continuous-wave linearly polarized vertical laser emission at a telecom wavelength. We confirm that the wavelength of the Dirac-vortex laser is topologically robust against variations in the cavity size, and its free spectral range defies the universal inverse scaling law with the cavity size. These lasers will play an important role in CMOS-compatible photonic and optoelectronic systems on a chip."
Microchip breakthrough may reshape the future of AI
Ah yeah, many thanks for the clarification. I notice that UI drop down.
As of 27th October 2023, you are currently much more helpful than chat GPT-4 ;)

When asked about this it said it could do this. When Prompted it decided it couldn't. When asked for an explanation it gave me;
"I apologize for the confusion and any frustration it may have caused. As of my last training cut-off in April 2023, I am not equipped with the capability to generate images directly within this chat interface. My earlier response was incorrect, and I appreciate your understanding as I correct this mistake."
People are treated when they or the people around them can no longer turn a blind eye to the problem. But it can have a very negative impact on people's lives long before it becomes clinically relevant. Just alone considering the vast amounts of time and money that go down the drain.

Similar to how it has long been recognized that modern lifestyle has a negative impact on our physical health if we are not mindful of it, we should start paying attention to mental health. The COVID Lockdowns were a wakeup call for many people.
Yeah. When my dad had a kidney failure I had a lot of fun proving to the doctors that I did not in fact love my dad, and that's why I was giving him a kidney.

Really though, the definition of "compelled" is fuzzy, and mostly for medical stuff we take "consent" to mean "sound of mind" and "not overtly coerced, i.e. by threats of violence or such".

Is someone able to "consent" if they're only donating blood or a kidney because their religion tells them to do good? That sounds like a cult, huh. What about because they love someone? What about because the local blood drive literally gives you 10 bucks and a candy for donating blood?

Like, you can argue around enough and say everyone is always compelled at all times by "society" or "their upbringing", but that's an obviously useless definition.

What we have now, you getting a private meeting with a nurse or such who asks "are you really sure? Is anyone making you do this?"... that, plus doing basic mental health checks of "does not have dementia or mental retardation", that seems like it should be enough for any real situation.

Trying to say "No, someone who's famous might be doing this to write a blog post about it, that's not okay" is an interpretation of consent that simply is too far gone to be useful.
From what I could see, surprisingly yes, specifically when it came to control over my data.

But I actually use Firefox.
I agree, but I saw it claimed EBCDIC doesn't cover diacritic characters. That's not true.

If ISO8859-1 covers the exact same set that CP1047 does and that doesn't meet GDPR's requirements, that implies ISO8859-1 doesn't either and a unicode based character encoding is a necessity for GDPR compliance.

Then again, unicode doesn't cover the late artist formerly known as Prince's written name either.

All things considered, IBM should work with that Dutch bank to move their system over to UTF-16. It's the natural progression of such things.
In the alignment example from the post there’s a missed opportunity to align the components vertically based on their role

The caches should be next to each other, and the servers should be too, leaving the DB up top and the lib between the servers

Although personally I’d also then flip it to put the DB at the bottom so the server becomes the headline, and if one server is public and the other internal, then I’d push the internal one down half a row too
> Christian Laettner is quite clear that Swift was a reinventation of Objective-C, and most Objective-C 2.0 improvements and latter ones, were already with Swift interoperability in mind.

Yeah, I'm sure he said that at the outset in 2014 when Swift launched, but in 2023, that's not where Swift ended up.

> As for C remark, our computers have long stopped being a PDP-11 clone.

There is absolutely no need for a language like Swift to be as complex and bloated as it is; browse the language spec, and about 50% could be discarded and you'd still have a very complex langauge.

The Swift team would do well to take inspiration from C and keep it simple; just stop adding new langauge features and let the existing language breathe. Full stop. Each new release keeps adding new features without any regard to how new ones negatively interact with previous ones. It's a language being designed by compiler engineers and not app developers.

And don't get me started on the bloated language parser - editing Swift projects beyond a certain size in Xcode still gets abysmally slow. All they need to do is lock down a core subset of the language and just fix bugs; make the compiler engineers speed up the parser. That's it.
GPT-4 embedded in your repo makes PR and reviews code
Imagine having an engineer embedded in your repo with automated code contribution by raising PR from issues as tickets to pull request reviews.
Say goodbye to boring chores and mundane tasks, using GPT-4, have an AI take the wheel and deliver faster.
Elon Musk famous for sacking entire department or even close down factory PERMANENTLY. Europeans will find out their current unemployment will be doubling in coming months with no money to pay for American expensive oil and gas replacement to Russian. Swede will learn they arent that special and even influential. Their train schedules really under perform if you ever experienced the Japanese one.
I'll belief the likes of Davos and the WEF have anything in mind but tearing down any remainig class mobility, restricting people from moving to wherever the grass is greener and reintroducing a 21st century style of slavery, when they start pushing for a ban on private combustion powered megayachts, private jets and an upper powerlimit for pool heaters.

Instead they're interested in blocking out the sun t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶f̶a̶r̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶g̶a̶r̶d̶e̶n̶s̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶o̶s̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ limit solar heating.
Thomas Rid on Active Measures and Digital Disinformation
I am not a regular customer but I don't think I have seen that many under 18 working at McDonalds tbh and the few that would could be asked to just prepare the burgers and stuff or handling payments.
> go low carb

No, eat a healthy and balanced diet while avoiding processed foods, especially those containing large amounts of sweeteners.
Nice! Now does anyone know a way to find my wireless earphones? Presumably in their charging box.

I expect not, because they don't have bluetooth on in their charger, and I don't think the charger itself has bluetooth. But just in case someone knows a miracle for me: Sony WF-1000XM4.
Fool the radiologist – AI-generated CT images
I'm European and to me American means from the USA.
Admittedly the "usual waffle" is the actually interesting part of the video. For me the most interesting tidbit is using fans for generating ground force, like the micromouses do.
I think it depends on whether you can do stuff in the os even if it is not yet set up exactly perfectly. If so, then you can do stuff when you need to, and play with the os when you want to.
But obviously some will be too distracted from doing anything such that that's still a bad idea.
As a Brit, I think I would rather have a hereditary peerage I could leave to my family than be Prime Minister. Not sure if that is typical though.