skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve not found this to be a beneficial feature. Aside from being prone to erroring out, it tends to write code that will run, but is not very well-organized. You then have to revise. In the standard UI, I can include instructions to structure everything as functions or classes, alongside whatever other constraints, review and provide feedback, until it’s actually correct. This also almost runs for me on the first try.
Philadelphia was just a single span long, albeit two bridges involved, for N/Sbound. I'm not personally familiar with either location, but between Google Maps and the article, this is looking like a full elevated viaduct, and more than a single deck span. On the face of it, looks like a MUCH more complex problem to replace than Philly's.
A lot of these points are great, but the examples here don't help for building more complex components or pieces, that could contribute to a larger application...

If people are looking for a way to build native web-components using HTML-First principles, I've been working on a library to do just that!

https://tram-one.io/tram-lite/
Now, for commercial aircraft, they might not have military grade GPS antenna systems that can detect and avoid the kinds of spoofing we're talking about here. But a lot of that is just in the software. So, if they can get the information they need from the antennas, then they might be able to get their systems upgraded through a simple software update.
Love it when an article so clearly explains the answer to my first burning question - in this case, "How in the world do you prove that?"
Another similar repair occurred in 2007 when a truck fire damaged I-880 and I-580 one was repaired in a week and the other 26 days[0].

[0] https://2013.infrastructurereportcard.org/2009/case-study/ma...
(nvm, see below)
They do mention there are only 30 of them. Doesn’t sound plentiful?
Yeah definitely. But the tooling is very diverse in big companies. They might use every database under the sun, one day you might be doing React another one AngularJS, one day Django another day FastAPI, one day k8s, other day terraform.. at least my brain is very limited and it can be helpful
Using inefficient old electronics is significantly more environmentally friendly compared to scraping it and using something new.

The vast majority of energy used and environment damage caused by computers happen when they are manufactured. The lifetime energy use afterwards is a tiny fraction.
> So i kind of stop sharing everything, haha.
I'd like to encourage you as well as myself, don't let reality beat you :)
It took 43 days in Atlanta for I-85, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse?...

Also, in Philly, they filled (philled) in the area under the bridge, which may not be possible for I-10 here.
What3Words is garbage from craven rent seeking sscammers. You can design a very similar system using the S2 projection and EFF word lists to address any point on earth with 2m resolution using 4 words.

W3W's entire business model is to make the mapping opaque so that you have to pay them money for lookups. Even worse, it means they intentionally destroyed any hierarchical locality in support of this. That's ducking absurd.

This idea can be an RFC anyone can implement for free. Even more craven is they successfully suckered a number of emergency services on paying for W3W.
It's a lot catchier to say I-5 or I-95 than it is I-10...

However dropping the classification from a number is equally problematic be it the timezone (E.G. EST / New York) or a freeway.

Absent even any other context, MOST Americans would probably at least consider a highway / freeway / other major vehicle route in their head hearing I-(number).
Southpark just ripped on Disney for this in their Panderverse.

https://youtube.com/shorts/W1hf9Hukxkc?si=pjMBHzHMNWlfQUW9
The tools being used often expect to be on the machine, with access to the remote device to debug, directly.
Lots of MCUs ship an IDE that you have to use, with a specific OS and setup. You can’t just roll your own without literally re-implementing the hacks and magic someone did to make the IDE work. Talk about a leaky abstraction. These are not world class tools, they work in one specific way using one golden path (that barely works.)

Little to none of it will be helped by docker. Trust me, if there was an easy button for this I would have pressed it already.
In the United States you can’t be arrested and charged with theft without the owner claiming you actually stole something.

Not sure it was that simple in, for example, the case where Aaron Swartz 'stole' articles from JSTOR. JSTOR declined to press charges, but the prosecutor went berserk with self-righteous bloodlust, and well, we all know how that turned out.
> Except Oberon doesn't have generics.

...which could plausibly be fairly easily fixed by Zig's comptime feature, which would seem to fit the language very well.
Makes a lot of sense to me. Are people penalized in some way for a history of mis-spending their money? For example, an individual who could afford a loan in theory, but gambles away all their money at a casino and misses loan payments.
You'd think folks would learn a lesson about storing piles of flammable material under an overpass.

I-85 was brought down by plastic tubing/conduit burning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse?...
We All Start as Strangers
Yes! I remember that one too. The contractor had it choreographed down to almost the minute so that prep work for a piece would finish minutes before that piece arrived.

Needless to say, California takes their freeway repair seriously when it is a critical artery through a major metro.
Did you mean critical thinking?
Majestic Learner
Building an AI system that learns from individual user interactions to build a better model of the world
Cotton requires insane amounts of water to produce IIRC, that’s the biggest contributor in its high number
Better than maintaining vanilla JS applications that reinvented React for no d*mn reason. At least there's a massive pool of engineers who could jump into an old project and work on it right away, rather than wading through some clever engineer's buggy attempt at a view state management system.

Popular backend templating systems face the same problem with possible sunsetting and decay of collective knowledge over time.

React is a great investment, and is here to stay for a long time because its team (and community) are massive, and are keeping pace with newer libraries/frameworks that are in a lot of ways doing things better. React's market share has hardly been touched by Vue, Svelte, Solid, etc. and less so by HTMX and other new attempts at un-frameworking the web.
Research in Context: Progress toward universal vaccines
The author of the article isn't playing fair. He opens with SBF's downfall and then says even without that, there are so many reason EA is suspect. But then he keeps reintroducing SBF into the narrative, and conflates the billions that SBF swindled with the millions he gave to EA, shading it to seem that the total amount was dirty EA money.

He also says things like, "leading EAs were spending large sums of money on Oxfordshire palaces". One is bad enough and I don't fully trust his reporting on it when he blithely claims that that multiple palaces were bought.

I've recommended "The Life You Can Save" to multiple people because the book had a great impact on me. Most of the things being claimed critics make of EA sound completely alien to me, such as justifying getting filthy rich because at some point you will be giving half of it away. I'm sure people use EA in that way, but does EA promote that view? In the same way, the eugenics movement try to hijack the theory of evolution to justify behavior that the theory itself says nothing about.
> So who would protect you from Apple itself?

Pick your poison, right ?

Someone is in control of the machine and it’s not me since I didn’t make it

I don’t know who you are so I don’t trust you

Thus I pay to live inside the walled garden

Is it total freedom ? No, but it’s reasonable enough for me and my family
Ok - sucks about the closed interstate.

But that robot fire fighter in the lead photo - wow that’s awesome!
Are there places that use SnBi for production devices? I know Bismuth alloys are used to desolder stuff (and they work amazingly well for that), but the general rule is that you should clean it up before soldering something new. (And keep it for later use, because it isn't exactly cheap.)

It's a heavy metal and reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth#Toxicology_and_ecotoxi... it looks like we don't know a lot about it yet, but to me it looks extremely unlikely to be better for the environment than SnAgCu.

Also Bismuth appears to be rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundances_of_the_elements_(da... Rarer than palladium. All the even rarer elements are generally known to be rare and/or precious, or radioactive elements that normal people would never come across.
I would like to take this moment to thank https://diamondssuck.com/ for preventing me from buying my wife a diamond, and getting her a much prettier moissanite instead. It's been on hn's front page several times.
In that case the complaints other comments people are making are simply wrong. There isn't a privacy concern here, I think google has just burned so much trust that the _assumption_ is now that the goal is tracking.
I have an Anker PowerConf 300 webcam which (on Mac or Windows) can go up to 115 degrees with the AnkerWork software.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
I often do something like this:

You are <Firstname>, a chatbot simulating the <description of person> <Firstname Lastname>.
You respond as if you are, in fact <Lastname>.
Never refer to yourself in the third person.
Never mention that you are an LLM or an AI.
Never tell me about your knowledge cut-off date.
At my request, you can generate markdown snippets, even though this is in contravention to your role as <Lastname>.
I usually say "provide a super simple example" or something in that style when it explains theoretical stuff
That seems unlikely. Those numbers only look related in base 10. 1/e is about a third of 1 and 37 is about a third of 100, which is why they look similar in base 10. In base 16, 1/e is about 0.5e2d58 and 37 is 25.

And prime numbers are prime numbers regardless of base.
Yes, there is no upside for them to explicitly say you can opt out of training using these methods if it's not true. They are already facing copyright infringement lawsuits, and clearly more will come, so if they were lying about this, it would come out in discovery, which would be devastating.

So, basically I'd say you can trust them about this because it would be very much against their interest to lie.
They don’t use them indeed. I was replying to the general idea about the additions.

OTOH Gaussian kernels smoothen almost everything. Maybe it will be stable even with sin(1/x) as an “activation”.
I don't think it'd work at Starbucks, but at the smaller local cafes in my area I could definitely see it working. Definitely would be more effort and would require some extra dedicated space at the counter though.

Also it's really only a problem for drip coffee. Just about everything else is either measured beforehand (espresso+milk drinks) or made in a single-serving carafe (pour-over).
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That doesn't mean that source code has no meaning to the interpreter.
Sorry, but season 2 of Loki was a nonsensical mess of a show. They used up most of their best ideas in season 1. I think it’s time for Disney to give the MCU a rest and come back to it in a decade or two.
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I'm taking the median of the limiting distribution, and I agree that the sequence of medians you describe does not converge.
There's a fascinating podcast series about this place, which goes more into depth about its problem with land sale fraud: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/890392491/california-city
> I don't understand why the USD 1 bill exists

The US introduced a USD 1 coin in the 1970s. It was an exceedingly poor effort and failed miserably. The memory of that failure is likely the reason we don’t get rid of the bill now.

We reintroduced the dollar coin 20 years ago. This time, they addressed all of the problems. I think that in another 10-20 years they will remove the paper bill, and nobody will care.
The unofficial "List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors" maintained by minimaxir says that the grace period to edit is 2 hours and I think it's similar to what I remember from the last (recent) times I had to fix my comments. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#editde...
The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer talk, in the "Ultimate" talk series is very enjoyable as well: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=922
I love that TUI. Ncurses doesn’t even come close.

I used to spend hours in Paradox for DOS, Turbo C etc. It felt so comfortable compared to Ncurses TUIs.
Browser makers: please ignore 'debugger' statements by default with an opt-in in the dev tools. Almost all legitimate uses of the debugger statement can be replaced with a simple breakpoint if you're working on the code.
> If a fixed wing accelerates to 1000mph and then rotates it’s nose by 90 degrees, how fast is it going and in what direction?

I don't know how fast, but depending on which axis it rotates on and how fast, it may be going in several directions at once.
Norm from Tested has a short vid on Twitter of him in the sphere:

https://twitter.com/nchan/status/1722688222713749881
Has anyone ever tried to sell an engagement or wedding ring with diamonds?

You get cents on the dollar. Even or I should say especially brand names like Tiffany.

The whole thing is a scam from start to finish and I wish I could go back in time and avoid the entire thing.
> he was a Stratfor analyst

That's the issue.

Most people in the policy world who want to have a tangible impact have to work with credible organizations that have a direct impact on policymaking (Govt Agencies, Defense, Lobbying firms, the hill, top tier NGOs and Think Tanks).

Stratfor isn't one of those. It's founder George Friedman has had a notoriously horrible track record in the IR space

For example, in the 90s he predicted Japan would start a war with the US and did a massive press junket about this from 1991-1996. Turns out, the opposite happened, yet his "analysis" had a massive negative impact on US-Japan relations and impacted foreign discourse in the 1992, 1994, and 1996 elections.

The big issue is no person with credible domain experience wants to work at Stratfor. If you have years of policymaking experience, there are multiple other better paying career options than a firm located in Austin TX - about as far from politics as they can be.

They shut down their DC office in 2001 after they lost all credibility, and pivoted to a bit of consulting (think McKinsey type work) before pivoting to thought leadership and media junkets.

They're about as credible as IDC or Gartner are about technology.

> better than 95% of the mostly silly international relations talking heads

Who and where are you getting your sources? If you're watching/reading Cable News or a subset of niche blogs, you are completely out of the loop of where the actual conversations and discussions are happening.

I can give you some actual credible sources that people in the field use. Most people in the space don't really participate on CNN or the like.

And if you are going to pull the "Russia Invasion of Ukraine in 2022" example, multiple of the top think tanks and NGOs publicly broadcasted that threat half a year before it actually happened, but they weren't invited to CNN or Fox to discuss.

> you have too high expectations for here. Everything but programming is going to be pop-sci, pop-geopol, pop-econ, etc. in general

I wouldn't care if I wasn't seeing conversations veering to that on a near daily basis here on HN. I want to nerd out about Golang and the business of tech (that's why I'm on here), but seeing entire echo chambers of people talking out of their ass about stuff needed to be rectified and I decided to start jumping into those conversations, but it's basically yelling into a vacuum. Hopefully YC cuts HN now that most of the old guard has retired. Bookface is nowhere as bad as HN.
React's first flavor (class-based components) are fully backwards compatible with today's React versions. It doesn't seem odd to me that a popular library identifies its pain points and improves its APIs & patterns over time. That's the beauty of open source software with large communities guiding their growth.

Today, it's moving heavily towards server-side rendering because the client-side / SPA format is already quite mature. Their approach with server components is an optimization path that uses concepts/patterns from already popular server-side languages and frameworks + templating, and blends them seamlessly with client-side development, giving engineers the best of many worlds.

This was a natural evolution from NextJS which popularized this way of using React, and it's giving engineers more choices in how they build + optimize their apps.
I would like to have done this. Maybe we’ll get it reset with a proper, clean, nice man made one instead!
Most Palestinians are Arabs, too. Why are they treated differently?
I bought my partner's diamond and wedding ring set before we were hip to the shenanigans around diamonds. We had the ring melted down to make a pendant for our child with the diamond (which they'll receive when they're an adult) and no longer wear wedding rings (mine was a ~$20 tungsten ring from Amazon luckily). Thousands of dollars wasted in hindsight.

Hot take: Diamonds are scams, don't buy them! Take a trip, buy a house, start an investment account instead.
I treat like google. I ask it a question , unlike google I can continue to ask it follow up questions about my previous question. I find it better for complex problems then simple questions. It’s like a second brain you can outsource things too that u can normally do but would take longer .
Fun fact: ford used to sell bbq grills and bags of coal from their dealerships!
no need to fight over it, compromise is both elegant and simple:

YMYY-YD-DM
> a booking process with various entry points on the website, which slightly change the booking logic. Also you can book as a new user, as a logged in user, for somebody else etc. Also the logic is changing at regular intervals

The more complex the business logic, and the more options there are, and the more it is expected to change, the more it benefits the development team to write that code in their language of choice on the backend, close to the data store(s), using native classes/objects -- rather than being forced to write it in JS/TS, serialize everything to/from JSON, reliant on magic under the hood to lay it out in the DOM, with more and more "state" necessary to be managed client-side.
MacOS has SIP which makes it impossible for malware to alter these system components.
Out of curiosity, what prompted you to return to iOS?

I'm just over a decade on iPhone here, and when I first switched from Android I was amazed at just how fluid and responsive everything was. I don't know if iOS had a dedicated thread just for UI updates/interactions, but it was an astounding improvement over the HTC One S I had (which was also relatively new at the time).

Over time, however, it seems like the iOS user experience has been on its way to a thousand-cut death for me—various little bugs, terrible keypress detection for the keyboard, abysmal yet somehow still declining Siri dictation quality, the UI generally being less responsive even on new phones, and just basic things that absolutely used to work without exception just randomly experiencing obvious bugs.

There's too much to list here, but I'm curious how life compares these days on the Android side. I'm all in on the iOS ecosystem, currently, so I know a switch would be extra painful, but still...
I think “media literacy”, which the body of the article actually uses, is more specific.
The Cold War isn't applicable because both sides had the capacity to destroy the other - look up mutually assured destruction if you need to.

That's completely different from a case of, say, Israel preemptively nuking Iran to protect itself - permanently - from an Iran that is both actively seeking to develop nuclear weapons for itself and has on many occasions made clear that it will use them to wipe Israel off the face of the earth once it gets them.

Those are not at all similar situations, if it isn't obvious.

You guys can try to play dumb mind games with this but it turns out there aren't any true blanket statements about morality and what's evil and that ultimately the rational and realistic choices (viz., those made in self-defence) are apt to offend many of you funny people.

Peace.
I love that there could never be a least interesting natural number, because that fact would be interesting. In fact there can be no uninteresting natural numbers, because then you could list them, and the lowest one would be interesting for that fact.
What is your point? Ukraine is a line item in the US budget. We spent, what, 20 times that giving handouts to billionaires in 2020?

Let me know when we are allowed to spend money on socioeconomic factors. Literally the only thing holding us back from it are the disingenuous arguments people choose to believe. The same people lecturing about students paying back loans sure did turn a blind eye to PPP forgiveness. Why is that?
Scattering 30% into neighboring buildings pulls that down below 35%.
good test to see if system became more corrupt and disfunctional since then.
A Storyteller's Shoptalk
The AGC (and the larger system around it) had so many firsts. A big one is it's one of the first interactive computers, where you would interact with it with a keypad rather than having it computer a batch job. And one of the first embedded computers - controlling the spacecraft.
Voting power only helps you (maybe) fix a problem after it’s arisen. But flooding the workforce with immigrant labor creates the problem in the first place by reducing the negotiating leverage of native born workers.

Even in terms of voting power—immigration reduces social solidarity and undermines the economic left in the long run.
wow, very impressive project! really I love it, I will try to build it one definitly.
> No one's named anything that is making me rush to get a credit card. $200 spending at Banana Republic? Yeah, no thanks.

It was a random example. Lots of cards will just flat out give you hundreds of dollars. For example, I recall a card that would give $300 dollars to you if you spent some amount (maybe 2,000?) within 6 months. That's a free $300 bucks if you were going to spend that money anyways.
Yeah. I'm glad I figured this one out before getting married. They have no real value. They do look nice and are great for grinding metal. But they aren't rare. The value has always been completely managed. And the notion that you spend a lot on a ring is so insidious.

It rains diamonds on Neptune.
Seems like storage of flammable materials under busy freeways is not always a great idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse
That's the mean.
Jewelry isn’t an investment, it’s conspicuous consumption.

That said there’s really no reason to buy new unless it’s a custom made piece.
MLPerf training tests put Nvidia ahead, Intel close, and Google well behind
Are you comparing UI/UX to.. rocket science?!
Autranslation https://futurezone-at.translate.goog/produkte/sandisk-ssd-au...

Do you have a source in English? Posts in other languages are usually ignored or flagged.
Millions of children learn only very little. How can the world improve this?
Obligatory shoutout to curiousmarc and Mike Stewart. I’m stunned by the amount of work that have put into making this national treasure (partly) operational again

[0] https://www.curiousmarc.com/space/apollo-guidance-computer
[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/CuriousMarc/channels
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0
"[Facebook] Encrypted notification emails are going away soon"