skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting!

Any idea if this is why, in Japanese-dubbed anime, the voice actors seriously mangle some English words/names? E.g., they often add a vowel sound to the ends of English words that should end with a percussive syllable.

I.e., do you think it comes from those words/names being written in katakana or hiragana in the dialog scripts, and those systems just can't express the correct pronunciation of such English words/names?
Cool idea but yeah, no thanks if its React only.
Pretty cool, thanks for sharing with us! It originally sounded like you were earning this from a specific job, but yes if you can build a successful business then your earnings can get arbitrarily high. I'm not sure most of us would describe it as "not hard" though! Congrats!
Partly it's a lie that the stack forces them to use EBCDIC. There's plenty good ASCII and even UTF-8 support on mainframes even in the traditional OS's. They just refuse to rewrite the customer facing portion of their application for whatever reason.
Another relevant language might be Vale (https://vale.dev), which is aiming for "perfect replayability": https://verdagon.dev/blog/perfect-replayability-prototyped
The resulting color of a paint mix is a weighted geometric mean of the paints' reflectance curves. The code is available on GitHub: <https://github.com/eugene-khyst/artistassistapp/blob/main/sr...>.
> Civil registry is usually considered the source of truth

The USA doesn’t really have a civil registry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_registration#United_Stat...:

“In the United States, vital records such as birth certificates, death certificates, and frequently marriage certificates are maintained by the Office of Vital Statistics or Office of Vital Records in each individual state. Other documents such as deeds, mortgage documents, name change documents, and divorce records, as well as marriage certificates for those states not centralizing these records, are maintained by the clerk of court of each individual county. However, the term 'civil registry' is not used.”

I think that means your marriage may be documented in county C1, your subsequent divorce in county C2, and your name change in county C3, none of which need be in your state of birth.
Ah, the ol' papal endorsement—that'll encourage the kids! /s
Well, as a developer in a small team it has made my work significantly easier, so personally I am already directly enjoying the benefits. It has supercharged my capacity to pick up new languages and technologies.

Besides that, it will have a huge impact on non-trivial things like the design industry and data interaction. Being able to programmaticly handle abstract decision making is a big one as well.

It frankly baffles me that people can describe the current AI boom as a fad, when a simple extrapolation of the current technologies will show you what an enormous impact it is going to have in the coming years...
I used to have a job where I always had a feeling of being watched. Pretty much anyone passing by saw my monitor and there were always lots of people passing by. So during (rather frequent) downtimes I just had to “look busy” - always paging through some code, etc. I did browse the web sometimes but I used lynx so it looked more like I was working…
Heh, TIL, thanks. Obliquely, I was in Venice some years ago; sitting on the steps of a church I set to rolling a cigarette. A couple of small boys stopped and stared at this activity, one pointed and said "Il fabricato fumer!", I knew exactly what he was saying (although I have no Italian). So Venetian it is.
meh, while Python is the modern Basic and general all-round utility, it's not IMHO a very good first language, with quite extensive (and sometimes messy) syntax, not to mention the glaring mistake (again very IMHO) of significant-whitespace.

Scratch, and other block codes are a good first contact, but for text languages, I think something like Lua is a much simpler, and therefore better introduction. And it's great for games (love2d, pico8/tic80, roblox, etc), which is what can really motivate kids.
But there's no way to completely avoid complexity.

So tools to manage complexity are welcome in my toolbox.
> None of that would be possible without good road and personal vehicles.

Would be very possible with good public transit. But that's the point. The average NIMBY doesn't want bus stop in their neighborhood. They don't need it. The only thing it would enable in their mind is people that do need it (poors, browns, etc) access to where they live. You don't spend $650k on a house and $80k on a Tahoe to have poor people riding busses around you.

That's the general attitude in my neighborhood at least when I describe why my old ghetto neighborhood was better in a lot of ways. Zoning allowed businesses nearby. I could walk 5 minutes to Dollar General instead of an hour. But I might have a black guy ask me for bus money, which seems like it would be a horrifying experience for most of my neighbors.
It would also echo capitalist surveillance.

That's because it's surveillance.
If it used anything else than Rust, they couldn't call if "Flawless"...

(SCNR)
As a lingua franca, it's culturally reasonable.

After you've grokked it the first time, e.g. "dgemm" is much more convenient than "double precision general matrix multiplication". This is akin to speaking aloud "DC" versus "The District of Columbia". Uses far outweigh learning.

Consider even Python calls it a "dict" not a "dictionary" because the latter is a mouthful. Though what was wrong with "map" I often wonder.
Interesting tool! I watched the video in which you built a query using the query builder and mentioned that you can copy and paste it into your project. Do you have plans to further integrate it with projects (in form of some API call, or your SDK), or is it already part of the product? It can be cumbersome to repeatedly copy and paste code snippets every time something changes.
My problem is that I 'm in europe but don't sell to any europeans.
There's plenty good ASCII and UTF8 support on mainframes. They just don't want to rewrite any of their ancient application, which could easily have a more modern UI slapped on it that could in various ways support more modern encodings, even if they left parts of the backend in EBCDIC.
Why aliens might already know that humans exist
"Alien astronomers might be looking in our direction from distant planets. What would they see?"
Sounds nice, though ideally password sharing should never happen and is a security nightmare. Reallistically we know however there are situations where it's the easiest or only way to do something.

So when I e.g. revoke some contact access to a shared password I absolutely have to change the password as well, since I have to assume that contact made a copy of it somewhere else.
Nice!

Just to add: You need to be on the original URL, so A-instance.com/@B-user@B-instance.com.rss won't work, it must be B-instance.com/@B-user.rss
You can certainly become well off from a poor background. Whether you can be well off and retire early is a completely different matter.

It also depends massively on your definition of well off. It tends to mean "at least as good as my parents". People don't really even acknowledge lifestyles at a level significantly below that of their parents.

The right combination is probably poor/frugal parents/upbringing and a gift for something like programming: a "new" field that pays well but doesn't require the "gift of the gab" and connections that are found in long-standing well-off families and valued in "traditional" fields.

The worst combination would be ending up in a "traditional" field with parents who are well off from a "new" field but have neither the bullshit nor the connections, and who live their lives to the absolute fullest, leaving nothing behind when they go.

It's not fair. Perhaps the people campaigning for equality will one day realise it's not really about race or sex or much else, it's about inheritance.

But it's not all gloom. You only really need to see positive change in your life to be happy. Absolute standing in society doesn't mean much above a certain level (see the hedonic treadmill).
I open sourced this tool that takes OpenAPI spec and let you control API using natural language https://github.com/mquan/api2ai

Let me know if you have any questions or feature request
I wish this would document the auth headers.

What would be particularly useful is if it saved token values and then (through search) joined them on the response of the auth call to get the initial token.

That way you could easily determine what auth call was needed to get you a token to use the endpoint.
There’s something odd about their Track 1 results:

Flan-base gets an alright score, but Flan-large gets 0.0. That seems very fishy as it sounds this is pretty much a multiple choice kind of task. I would not expect a score less than 1/N choices for models with no physical reasoning
Because you pseudo control the direction of the projects by having people contribute full time
This would definitely help artists sharpen their skills in reference drawing with a generated image and help folks like us to learn to paint with hundreds of generated inspiration images to choose from without leaving the web app.

I can also see my friends daughter using this web app as an open source coloring book!
Sure it does, all the tooling around git that many people associate with git.

Issues, Wiki, Automation (Github Actions) etc
Barely recognize any of the books or authors there, especially the winners.

I've listened to Travis Baldree narrate Cradle, so I'm probably gonna check out his Legends & Lattes book.

It didn't win, but I read The Scholomance which is listed in the series section. If you're interested in unconventional magic systems then I'd recommend it.

Nettle & Bone was the big winner. Reading the blurb doesn't immediately call out to me. Worth checking out?
I'm thinking Crunchbase would give you a comprehensive view into Silicon Valley (and adjacent) company data, but the data is behind an API.
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We took at least one immediate practical good piece of advice out of this which is that we should release a conda package and make sure that dlt works in it.
Yeah, when I wrote that, I didn't realize they were also arguing for an alternate extension that would add address modes and the like. If they fail to add this to the standard, but go ahead with implementing their extension anyway, then their CPUs would be RISC-V but with a custom instruction set extension. RV64g + their custom stuff.
When was the last time anybody considered Slovenia a 'Western' nation? Just asking.
> Huh? I’m German and I have never heard of this.

I am also German. The only people (in Germany) who I know and did a (forename) name change did this because they hated their parents, since changing the name is an open signal that you deeply hate what the parents did to you your whole life (including giving you your old name).
I love the new CPU wars.
Ask HN: How to get invites when your network is small?
I love tildes. But I feel like I’m outside the glass looking I’m at all the cool kids. How does one with an unconventional network get invites to closed spaces?
That's true for the raw git repos, but if you're using any other features (issues, pull requests, actions...) migration is going to be painful.
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You’re aware we’re probably talking about ten year old kids here, right? Do you want them marching through a city?
Thanks!

Yep, we have (early) SDK's for Typescript and the JVM, to submit the query directly.

Also, you can publish queries as standalone APIs, in a BFF-style pattern.
James Briggs? He's awesome and you can find lots of his articles + videos here:

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/

https://www.youtube.com/@jamesbriggs
You are not comparing comparable things. Requests has, albeit marginal utility by making the interface of urllib more accessible. They work together.

Click is not an interface or an improvement on argsparse. It duplicates its core functionality. When compared to argsparse it offers no tangible benefits and lots of downsides. While "improvements" like the mentioned progress bar are worth very little. They are both poorly implemented, so, if you wanted a real thing you'd have to do it differently, and unwanted for the most part. It's a very small niche where you want something half-baked, and you already agreed to install third-party dependencies, but you won't go all the way to use, eg. Prompt Toolkit.

There's nothing commendable about Flask or Django. Both projects are hilariously bad. They are popular because of what they do, not because of how they do it. Web in general is one of those places nobody should go look for quality, but a crossbreed of Python and Web brings the worst of both worlds.
Awesome! Any chance of a Safari extension too?
It is 100% garden-variety pedantry. Everyone knows the meaning of "work for myself" and no-one is confused about to whom one has obligations. This entire thread is just "well ackshually whoever pays you is really your boss when you think about it!!"
What is tildes?
I Don't Use a DI Container – Node.js with TypeScript
I love when people start using “isms” as scare tactics but pick the wrong one(s). True communist states wouldn’t necessarily thrive on a lack of privacy, but totalitarian and capitalist systems have and would.
Ultimately, the NEH has been gutted, professional historians are in the firing line for conservatives, and the (admittedly reasonable) focus on university education as career development has truly destroyed history academia. Even Digital History work is barely funded. I've got a friend who has a PhD in history from a top department and the number of available Tenure Track positions in their field the year they graduated in the entire country was zero. Many of the history departments that I'm aware of are currently in a state of "we do not know if we will ever be able to hire a TT faculty member again."

These sorts of weird scrappy things are compromises that can hopefully help reinvigorate a culture appreciation for history and build collaboration with science and technology, which may provide enough interest to justify a bit more institutional funding.

I want history to be well funded. But it isn't. And it is perceived as an evil discipline by a stunning portion of our voting population. This weird side stuff helps.
god help us when it starts to
Anyone can listen and understand when a person spells "Q U E U E", even if they don't speak English, so long as they share a common (spoken) language. Not so with "列"
As an FYI, Databricks' "Delta Live Tables" product keeps being contracted to "DLT" at my employer, so you have some potential naming confusion in your future.
"The NHS staffing problem is due to a lack of qualified staff seeking work in the country period. "

Correct, which is why preventing those with money from jumping the queue is so important. Then the queue is a priority queue based upon need not ability to pay.

There is no place for a 'Fast Track Queue' in the UK health system which serves nobody but the rich.

You can't have a 'market' except where there is excess capacity to supply.

You've very kindly explained why private medicine cannot exist.

"economically illiterate as 'the root causes of inflation is that productive employees haven't been forced into the public sector yet'"

Good job that's just a straw man then isn't it. Including the obligatory reference to Venezuela, Zimbabwe or Weimar just to demonstrate the comment is emotional rhetoric and belief rather than anything considered.

But of course it is far, far better I presume to give rich people free money in higher interest payments than to ensure poor people have jobs.
Reductive, rude and not productive.
Let's take a look at where the exponential growth of technology kicked off, and when the first actually almost-free-market began. Hmm. Quite a strong correlation.
I think there's a bigger issue at hand than AI here, and its how the lay person interacts with systems they don't understand.

I was listening to a podcast a while back discuss this conspiracy theory going around new age TikTok that "0010110" is some kind of secret code to transcendence... which of course is ridiculous and anyone here can see it's just a 7 digit base 2 representation of the number 22. However it made me realize that uninformed people born into the information age are going to assign meaning to all sorts of things they don't understand that are really just artifacts of a design choice some engineer made at some point.

It's like the computer equivalent of all the new agey quantum mechanics woo, people are going to discover ghosts in the machine and I wouldn't be surprised if they assign supernatural or religious significance to those ghosts.
I see nowhere that GP said anything about what they believe. They might believe that, but until they say so, you're reading more into the comment than is there and making an assumption
Thanks for the idea. I will think how to implement it.
It's one of those irregular adjectives: "I am well-cultured, you speak in clichés, he is a stochastic parrot".

You could say these things of him (he also does this with many things from The Culture series), but you can also just say that constant exposure is what turns figures of speech into phrases into clichés into common sense into cultures.

But something something mote of dust something something plank of wood, or that other one about everyone can be fooled some of the time and some of us all the time — either way, point is, even if you can see his mistakes clear as day, we're all fallible to this kind of thing.
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Specifically, from the U.S. Holocaust museum, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-cou... . I recently read the Eichmann trial coverage by Arendt, and she goes into this horrible situation in some depth. Getting people to betray and persecute each other for your benefit is probably the most essential definition of evil we have.
> That's why I said architecture and medicine and not rocket science.

You conflated architecture and medicine to a builduo to "serious engineering culture". There is no way around it: it's nonsense. Even though they are highly specialized fields, neither architecture not medicine has anything to do with the basic principles of engineering. It's just nonsensical word soup.
7" is a little small for typing, but it's so adorable.

What I really want is a slightly larger 11-12" mini laptop that would be the spiritual successor to the ThinkPad X220 which is to me the gold standard for portable and useful machines.
https://archive.ph/1LZdt
Adam Bierton is a professional sculptor and pumpkin carver
Yes! We have clean integration with other tools in the Git ecosystem on our roadmap.
Somehow it’s the tech bros fault.
Me, talking to Perplexity.ai earlier:

Me: List of EDA tools ordered by estimated price of each tool?

>"Here is a list of EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools ordered by estimated price, based on the search results:

[...]

Ansys - pricing is not publicly available, but it is considered to be one of the most expensive EDA tools

[...]

Me: What is Ansys?

>"Ansys, Inc. is an American multinational company that develops and markets CAE/multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design, testing, and operation. Ansys offers a suite of engineering simulation software products and services to customers worldwide. [...] In the 2000s, the company acquired other engineering design companies, obtaining additional technology for fluid dynamics, electronics design, and physics analysis. Ansys Mechanical finite element analysis software is used to simulate computer models of structures, electronics, or machine components for analyzing the behavior of the product under various conditions. Ansys engineering simulation and 3D design software delivers product modeling solutions with unmatched scalability and a comprehensive multiphysics software solutions and digital mission engineering help companies innovate and validate..."

(Perplexity was apparently repeating verbatim the relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansys -- but interesting nonetheless!)
> I've seen that forever and not just on United. I have thought it's something about the underlying SABRE system that many airlines use. Maybe someone here knows more.

I don't remember the precise details, but some airline website's password had restrictions at one point that made it super-obvious that they were internally converting alphanumeric passwords to digits based on the US telephone key mapping.

I remember thinking at the time it might ultimately have been due to SABRE (because I believe that's literally one of the oldest computer system still in use), and screen-scraping some telephone menu system depressingly seems like something someone would do for expediency.

I wouldn't be surprised if a system like that also mangles names.
The Scholomance series by Naomi Novak is quite good, her best and I've liked all her books. Yes it's a Potter derivative, but doesn't feel derivative but inventive and de-disneyfied.
And I would say that’s a good case where the long name is meaningful and necessary.

On the other hand when you are dealing with a file pointer in a language that deals with file pointers constantly, “fp” is meaningful enough.
Here's a little more context: https://temporal.io/blog/samars-journey
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Please keep her away from ex-soldiers with very long swords.
It is hard to do for many and even if you do try it is imprecise.

I do not use Chrome but I would imagine it is harder to do than with Firefox?

I am happy to use several extensions, nextdns, container tabs, private windows etc. But it's work and many will just want the internet to work without that extra effort.

Additionally, it's harder to stop tracking on mobile.
It is not number of packages! 20.04 has 2977 packages and 23.10 has 1841 (from pkglist from distrowatch). After a quick eyeballing, example packages in 20.04 but NOT in 23.10: apache, g++, qemu, php, postgres, samba.

Also for comparison:

- MacOS installer ~14G [0]

- Windows 11 installer ~8G [1]

- Arch installer ~800M [2]

0: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201372

1: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

2: https://archlinux.org/download/
And this predicament has been caused by their decades of being given special treatment via government interference.
For those with limited time or patience for exercise, the details can be important. If only to (hopefully) help convince 'em to do a bit more or more-useful exercise.
Totalitarian, dictatorship, monarchies, autocratic, intolerant. Those are the words you are looking for. The economic system doesn't at all imply a political system.
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