skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they used to say INMATE but that word has gone out of fashion

Is this due to some kind of “political correctness” thing coming from well meaning people outside the system that the system is pleased to accommodate for easy brownie points, or are there distinct-enough tiers of people inside the system that “inmate” isn’t useful?
> Some tracks are long

I guess it's only talking about recorded tracks, but 13 hours is rookie numbers[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible#Halberstad...
That's true for literally all software.

We would be much better off if GUI was a replacement for the shell instead of a replacement for every individual shell utility.
He could have been, its possible nobody has been clever enough to see it yet.
Cars are great. The problem is not cars, it's bad planning for walkability and alternate transport. You can have a large, sparse, American suburb, and also have a dense, walkable, bikeable, mostly-quiet city center that feels much more human and safe, and also have long-distance public transport for people who want or need it.

Well, OK, fossil fuel powered cars are a bit of an environmental midpoint, and just moving traffic out of city streets isn't quite enough if they have very nonlocal pollution on top of their local pollutants, but electrification and renewables are both set to make that problem far more sustainable already.
Science education has been exponentially improved by chatgpt
Don’t buy the damned things. I just bought a 1989 Toyota pickup. Manual transmission, locks, windows, etc. Super reliable and easy to work on. It’s got a standard double-DIN stereo opening, so you could install the latest touch-screen gizmo if desired.
Five right-wing terrorists arrested throughout Europe
Only posting this due to the 3D printed guns being involved again.

Cross-reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38234749
> Changing from local, first-party burning of natural gas to remote, third-party burning of natural gas doesn't isolate me from increasing gas prices.

It doesn't, but the percentage of fossil fuels used to generate the electricity powering your heater is only going down as solar, wind and other forms of renewable electricity generation enter the field, so the effects of price hikes there will get lower and lower over a very short timeframe. Even nuclear can't compete against that any more on price, which is why just last week a project got shuttered in the US.
I just tried this on my Pixel. I tried humming the synth part to Just What I Needed. It was stuck on "still working" for a whole minute because it couldn't distinguish my humming from the faint background noise outside my apartment. After trying 3 times I just gave up.
I agree with your take that the spoken version of my name is what I identify with most, not the written one. This is maybe a little more relevant to people that have names from languages with non-Latin alphabets or with Latin characters that use different sounds than in English. (Sz in Polish for example.)
We’re not. OPEC makes up around 11% of our oil supply. A very different scenario than we had in the 70s.
There was a lot of completely esoteric design software for workstations in the 1990s. Softimage was a paragon of user-friendliness, so it’s a high bar for comparison. (I still miss Softimage XSI and resent Autodesk for buying and then killing it.)

The Blender dogfooding effort is a reflection of the team’s background in actual 3D production and their commitment to a long-term dialogue with this userbase. Gimp never had that.
I wouldn't even buy a phone with just 8 GB of ram, atleast for an android
For sure.

I know JIRA isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it reminded me of Confluence since you mentioned people across domains like that. I only mentioned JIRA because it was connected to Github and other services (sales, marketing, designers, etc.) and that made it easy for people across domains to discuss and have common place for everyone on a project and share information in a meaningful way.

The knowledge lived in one space together, so it was kind of cool that I would pull some data from our data sets to help marketing frame their messaging. Or seeing designers and product managers work together on mocks and share customer insights, and then product engineering teams would build their tickets from it. I could get an insight into what work the technical teams are doing and help them deploy their software.
Postgres podcast episode highlights about solving every data problem in SQL
Try a different DNS provider. In particular, don't use Cloudflare. But there are others that induce this behavior as well.
Depending on your state, there may not be many houses not vulnerable to forest fires. The 2020 fires in Oregon cery well could have burned their 2nd largest city.

Also consider that many of these forests are only here now because of modern forestry practices.
I really like how AOSA just describes things that exist, rather than trying to push a particular way to design/architect
GPT-4 or GPT-3.5?

They're completely different products.
What happens if 'find()' returns a list and you call '.text()'. Intuition tells me it should fail but maybe it implicitly gets the text from the first item if it exists.

Either way, I think you create a separate method 'find_all()' that returns a list to make the API easier to reason about.
Real ID is whole 'nother can'o'worms
I thought Dialyzer never raised false positives at the expense of false negatives, though perhaps your example is a false negative? I’ve only used it in the last 4 years. Is it possible the bugs have been fixed by now? Or is this just an inherent to this kind of type checking?
Gnome is currently helping to design a standard HDR protocol for Wayland, they definitely won't add HDR support into the DE unless there is a standardized protocol for it (which is a good thing IMO)
For obvious reasons, there is perfect anti-correlation between the months with the highest solar generation potential and the months with the highest heating demands on my house.
GIMP's UI is perfectly fine to me. I frequently use it for editing, design, and even drawing, and I have no desire to use other programs instead. What's so bad about it specifically?
The execs may be incompetent, they're probably not stupid, though- they don't use that shit.
> So do you think it would be a good use of die space on a processor to support a substandard by today’s standard codec that was last used a decade ago?

There's a specific reason why Theora was last used a decade ago... Apple. Apple is the reason. There was some other opposition, but in 2009, Apple drove the hardest against Theora being included in the HTML5 spec, and they ultimately won, leaving us with no standard codec everyone could actually agree on. Because the web is supposed to be open, and h264 is not.

It being excluded from the spec, you could not rely on Theora support in the browser.

> It is a complete non starter for Apple or any mobile device maker to build in support for a non hardware optimized codec on a mobile device.

Given that a RPi 5 takes less than a full core to decode h264, I'm not even sure this is a real concern. In my tests, ogv.js is able to decode VP9 at modern resolutions on an iPad without even really making the device warm; it's undoutedly inefficient, but the fact that it can even be done using WebAssembly gives me a feeling that this isn't really the huge problem it's made out to be.

For Theora... I mean. It's just not an issue. You can just do it in software. Maybe not in 2009, but certainly today, right now, on any hardware made in the past few years, on one core, without even driving the clocks up.

For AV1, yes, sure, this is a real issue; but Apple has been a part of the AOM for years, so I have no idea why they are building machines without hardware AV1 acceleration today. That's a question that only Apple can answer, given that it has real adoption already.

> How does that benefit users besides the ones who bemoan not being able to run Linux on the Apple Pencil?

Yes sure, let's take a random unrelated detour to make fun of tinkerers who like to be able to reads notes run their own software on hardware they purchased. I'm disappointed, although unfortunately not surprised at all.
First suggestion I got for English/Japanese masculine names was “Hide”. That doesn’t strike me as a very common name in English. And the Japanese pronunciation (he-day) would constantly be mispronounced by English speakers who would read it like “hide”.
> Take a look at the infobip-spring-data-querydsl library.

That looks like an absolute nightmare and not an example of very good code.
I think there's a pretty wide range between 3 and 4 that is worth exploring. Maybe the real problem I have with this article is that once you peg 3 as "good enough" and 5 as unachievable, then there's a whole mess of interesting quality levels squeezed between the 3..5 range.

If we peg 3 as "good enough to ship and stand behind it", then I'm immediately thinking about getting the code to somewhere in the 3.5 range. After you ship, you're in a good position to revisit some of the decisions you mode. Everything's fresh, and you can go in and squash some bugs that you know are in there, expand some tests that you knew weren't as thorough as you wanted, and trim some of the crap that you realize that you don't need. Maybe it's time to do some refactoring, now that you have the big picture. Maybe it's time to chase after some performance improvements. Maybe it's time to make the integration tests faster and better.
I'm surprised that nobody on HN seems to point to or mention bing chat. It is based on GPT, it is much better than free GPT 3.5 and it is free as well. I use it plenty of times and more than 90 percent of the time answers are exact and code just works as is. You just ask it extra questions about how it works and it explains it in as much detail as you possibly need, until you fully understand. Then you ask it to rewrite it this or that way and you try it out and add features step by step. Works like a charm.
As a DCS player, I appreciate when information is moved into the public domain or whatever it's called when the module makers can freely design a plane that's almost just like the real thing. A few specifics are approximated to gloss over things that remain classified.

(DCS World is a combat flight simulation game, the consumer version.)
For "full" context, typically:

7B: 8GB (4GB min for model only)
13B: 12GB (8GB min)
34B: 28GB (18GB min)
70B: 60GB (38GB min)

Lower bpw quants and 8-bit cache size can reduce memory requirements / expand context, but if you're sticking to mainstream L1/L2 models, just go by that.
> Don’t buy the damned things. I just bought a 1989 Toyota pickup. Manual transmission, locks, windows, etc. Super reliable and easy to work on. It’s got a standard double-DIN stereo opening, so you could install the latest touch-screen gizmo if desired.

How did this comment die so fast? It's a valid point of view. I also much prefer older cars. Late 80s ones are getting hard to find in decent condition though but I would certainly consider one if available.
Fair enough. And what were the ballpark figures?
It would probably be a good transitional tool. We can start with 50 per month, it is enough to do the organization of it and end that part of the debate (both real and imagined) When in place it is really easy to increase it to 100, 250 etc
Peertube can also do some fanciness: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/channel-sync
Why are sheep so prominent in Bible, which comes from hot Mediterranean climate?
Cyber hunt – A technical adventure for Unix enthusiasts
There are various apps that present this index in a more accessible way.

Raycast for example. It still wont find synonyms, but it works well enough that I frequently use it in Affinity and similar apps.
> (Remember SoftImage?)

I loved Softimage's look ! Flat and minimalist zen design way before ! Then I got the credits for that course and moved on to different pastures.
Ummm, have you used ANY software ever?
I read this:

“If three siblings inherit a $1.5 million house from their parents, and only one of them wants to keep it, she will have to buy out the other siblings’ share for $1 million, which reflects the high cost of housing in the Bay Area,” Alisjahbana said. “It’s often not possible to buy out the siblings’ shares, so in this situation it’s common to sell the house.”

My heart really goes out to the unfortunate people who inherit $500,000. Compared to those of us who inherit $0, their situation is so tragic.
I'm certain of one thing...when I'm making a GPT, I save, I update and it completely disregards established rules, making me max out my requests very fast. It also gives general answers when I ask for specifics. I only have Plus. In regards to general answers...I then went to Bard and got exactly what I was looking for after 1 request-this is well known information that's been online for years, information that Bing certainly has...it was making me angry, basically charging me for doing nothing over and over.
>Your comment has no substance. It's absurd

It’s absurd to point out that increasing M2 contributes to inequality? This is so simple, surely you could take the time to refute it instead of trying to discredit me.

>You’re a random internet commenter

Well, one who is employed by one of the most valuable companies in the world to find flaws in systems designed by “experts” with PhDs and way more credentials than I have.

I’m likely paid more than 99% of economic professors as well; not sure why I should be impressed by the title of “economist professor” any more than you being impressed by my credentials.

> It's impossible to become an economics professor, much less a Nobel Prize winner in economics, if you don't know basic math.

I didn't say they didn't know basic math, I said they're 'failing' at it, as in, they're currently making a mistake. It should be quite obvious to everyone that yes, Nobel Prize winning Economics PhDs do make (very public) math errors....
The impersonated person is impacted because the credit agency is lying about them to other people.
Especially compared to this thing you submitted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072433

I’m glad you shared that link here. It looks interesting, and fits with the general vibe in my opinion. I’d be interested to hear why that one is okay though and not any of the examples you listed
Surely people won't want to spend the money just because they have it. Won't competition continue to fight for people's dollars?
I'd rather know the sources than have every website be an opaque WASM blob.
> e.g. if you type "pref" it won't find "Settings".

I find the OSX search feature close to useless as a "help" feature because of this.

I came to the realization that it's more like a power user shortcut tool than something to help new users. If you know exactly what you're looking for and exactly what the application calls it then you can skip navigating through nested menus.
I'm guessing you didn't/couldn't use poll(2) because of the performance hit (both user and kernel side) of parsing/checking the less compact data structure?

I both miss and don't miss the days before epoll(2) et al.
Seems like they got a few key things wrong. From tfa: "which he sharpened with a spray of saliva". At no point did they add moisture or hone the knife. A file was used, and any knifemaker knows well thats not good enough. Seems like a shitty study however you slice it.
> But it bothers me that even in Docs, almost nobody knows about menu search because it's hidden under the "Help" menu, rather than being a nice prominent rounded search box in the upper-right corner like you'd expect.

They changed it recently. Now it’s a nice prominent rounded search box in the upper-left corner.
> Old and big European cities achieve good public transport by having people not live in suburbs.

And by not having huge empty spaces between houses, wide roads, 2-garage houses with long driveways. Ultimately, it's a different geographical and historic reality.
There's a threshold around 2-3 million inhabitants where cars just stop working, and you need to start building the Kowloon Cube. If you live in a city with less than 200k inhabitants car-oriented development is the only thing that makes sense. Different city sizes have different optimal solutions. Urbanists pushing for transit-oriented development in small towns are just as wrong as suburbanists pushing for bigger highways in LA.
I don’t know what the article is basing this on, or how true it is, but it and your anecdotes could both be true.

There’s a good bit of selection bias to your statement because you’re starting out in the city, not some random distant suburb.

Just because you can visit some places far away, doesn’t mean that all far away places can easily get to the city.
Upfront, I mostly agree with the post.

However, I may be a tad famous about striving for perfection in my code. [1] [2]

Why? If "good enough" is good enough, why do I go further?

For a few reasons:

1. I want the industry to be more professional [3] where it matters, and I need to set an example.

2. The kind of software I write already has alternatives, so mine needs to be far better to get adopted. And it does. [4]

3. Also, I am just a perfectionist. It's a problem.

Anyway, "good enough" is good enough most of the time; just make sure that your situation doesn't require more.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/08/why-perfect-software-is-near...

[2]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc/src/commit/22253a3a6/ME...

[3]: https://gavinhoward.com/2022/10/we-must-professionalize-prog...

[4]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/my-code-conquered-another-os...
For instance, my GPT is based on a list of 15 items. I had to repeatedly tell it not to deviate from the list because it kept doing so. I save and update every time, and it never matters.
Would my life become worse without LLMs like ChatGPT - yes 100%. I use it more than Google nowadays - actually I have Sider extension that sends to both Google and ChatGPT - for many queries I find ChatGPT answer better.

Would my life become worse without crypto? Actually it became better - I sold all my crypto, coinbase made it painful to deal with them and they jacked up transaction fees. That money is now in good ol’ stocks.

So OpenAI specifically, I can’t say but AI in general that is trained on the entire knowledge set of humanity and that can reason from it - that will become ever more valuable.
Yes let's happily dive & swim in the sewer of mediocrity that is the modern software industry. Our hardware keeps getting better and better and our devices become slower and slower, while the apps keep glitching and crashing at an ever increasing rate.

It's like the fat acceptance movement "it's OK if you're plus sized, or plus plus plus sized, or I guess multiply exponent factorial sized".

But it's really not OK. Not just apps but even our operating systems have turned into layer upon layer of unfinished and half forgotten features that sum up into something literally worse than what random natural selection wrote in our DNA. That's right. Random chance, throwing crap at the wall is better than our "software engineering".

Be better.
https://humanmicrobiome.info/testing/
I totally agree. It's nice to have something that doesn't require magic vendor tools to fix. You don't have to go all the way back to the 80's though. The 90's are fine too and you still own your vehicle in the 00's. Late 90's make the vehicle harder to steal.
Lol been waiting patiently for that for 20 years in .Net. Such an obvious gap.
American Airlines: Soaring debt, fleeing investors, and a 90% stock drop
Why talk about cities' "accessibility zones" in area and not population? Sure, America has 1,160 accessible km²s vs Europe's 430, but that area is far less dense. The average population density of the US is just 94 people per sq mile [1], while Germany stands at 619 pp/mi² [2].

[1]: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/built-environm...

[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/germany-popul...
"Everything about the seafloor is bigger, bolder, and more extreme than the comparatively quiet terrain we know as land."

Well said :-)
I am curious if it is legal in the US:

1) to view these data (nothing nefarious, just to see what they look like)?

2) to use these data for business?

Edit: I have no interest in using such data. I am asking to educate myself about legal ramifications that pertain to such leaks in general.
https://archive.ph/eJ6YT
Qanat is an Arabic word which translates to "Canal", but it's a little more traditional and made to transfer water for long distances between a source of water and an agriculture field for irrigation.
Yeah, the data isn't super clean. English-German suggests "Abigail" - which just straight up isn't a German name at all.
No need to be snarky or insulting: I was trying to ask for a sincere assessment of that law.

> do this in service of capital

Sir, this is ycombinator.com

If the intent is that no database with an individual-level breakdown falls under GDPR IID protections, I presume that far more processes and declarations would have to be applied to circumstances where there never was an intent or a credible option to de-anonymize them. This is not how it is enforced, understood, or applied today.

The large companies that you criticize so readily would have an issue automating the paperwork or building hashing solutions that divert the problem, but their privacy-respecting competitors would fall under a lot more paperwork and legal risk than they could handle.

Thankfully, there are solutions: a lot of people are now handling internal data processes with the same open-source tool, dbt. That platform could help change standards if they knew current patterns do not respect the letter of the law. But their lawyers seem to think otherwise.
That's also what I thought as well. This is the kind of overabstracted code Java gets a bad reputation for and I would not want to maintain that.
That is not what russia is doing.
How sloped are water tables, typically?
Native means belonging to a place by birth, as to distinguish from citizens not born here. Colonizer is dehumanizing language.
That's gonna be tough with phonetics across several thousand languages... not to mention regional slang and other subculture stuff. I think the surest bet is just to avoid short names. If it's four or five letters, the likelihood of a collision is high. Stuff like Josephine, Gabriella, or Nathaniel is probably pretty safe.

Most of these are commonly shortened and then you're back in the danger zone, but then, at least you have the option of reverting to the long form without jumping through any legal hoops.
Public transit creates a class divide between people who can afford to live near train stations or high-frequency bus lines, and people who cannot. This is true even in places with excellent public transit. And the bar for being able to cross that class divide is much higher than the cost of a second or third hand car.

This is apparent if you just look around the country. Cities with good transit have far more inequality and visible class divides than suburban and rural America. My wife is from the Oregon coast, which is both poor and has no public transit to speak of. Virtually everyone has a car. They’re one of the main assets handed down in poor families. And the social hierarchy is extremely flat.
Seems like someone at the economist has been huffing gas again.

We are going to look back at the automotive era without rose colored glasses. For a century, we’ve loved our cars; they certainly haven’t loved us back.