skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How poignant - another post on the front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236607

Top quote in the article

> I don't think computing is a real field. It acts like a pop culture, it deals in fads, and it doesn't even know its own roots. And worse than that it does not know about the really good things that were done in the past. — Alan Kay
Indeed. 10-30 minute video is way too long for this story anyway, and the only reason YouTubers make videos this long, is because they round up to magic monetization thresholds (first one is 8 minutes, IIRC?).
Green waste goes into some sort of composting system. Maybe a bit of compacting on the truck which can break open some of the bags (but doesn't break all of them), then however many days of stick it in a pile, mix up the pile/stick it in a new pile, then filter for big pieces: everything small is organic compost, big items remaining in the compost get resorted.

Your local waste hauler may do compost giveaways in conjunction with your sanitary district. If so, that's where that compost product goes and if you use it, you'll see some small non-organic materials make it through, including bits of plastic bags; but the process means they can label it organic compost.
How much money do you give your family/siblings every year?

How big will your estate be, should you die today?
Strictly speaking this is not true. Canada, Australia, and some of the gulf states have worse CO2 emissions per capita than the United States.

On the basis of total CO2 emissions, the USA is the second worst, but is far behind China.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Is “Effective ___” a managed brand in any way or are people just riding coattails whether their product is good or not?
Seems really terrible engineering to design a laptop where malware can destroy the speakers.

I guess there's reason to wonder whether malware might also be able to set the whole machine on fire.
Depends on how your system handles it. In Toronto, they basically pulp it all, put it in a vat of water and scoop off the plastics at the top and really heavy stuff at the bottom before letting it do it's thing in a sealed digester.

As a result, they even accept diapers because they'll at least soak off the stuff worth composting. A last step is to heat it enough to kill off any pathogens.

Also accepts meat/fish/bones.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/organic-waste-composting-1.5...

If your system is just throwing everything into a big piles getting mixed around ("aerated"), the rules get different.

Another city that uses the classic "big piles" method had to ban grass clippings because they contributed to too much odour (too much nitrogen = lots of ammonia, but would've made great fertilizer)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/green-bin-composting...
https://archive.today/TdKi1
I've had friends be deadlocked getting an apartment in UK/Ireland

1. To get an apartment you need a bank account
2. To have a bank account you need to identify yourself
3. How do you do that? Provide them with a GAS BILL for your apartment - which you don't have.

IIRC the deadlock in this case was solved by another friend loaning their bank account to bootstrap the system.
> some citizens of certain religious sects, like the Amish, do not have social security numbers.

Fun story: many years ago, I worked on some consumer tax prep software. Specifically because of the Amish, the SSN field was optional. Imagine that - an Amish person using tax prep software.
See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/37_(number)

Also see:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3

etc.

Lots of interesting points in those, and not just about math
This is one of the best articles I have read in a long long time!
@Hellisotherpe10

I don't use twitter much. I've emailed you a rather long email already and would prefer that. I emailed shawnpresser@gmail.com
Because I didn't like the name, I just renamed it to swarmgate.
React makes it fairly easy to implement your app in a way that makes it easily portable to different platforms. With things like HTMX, you'll more or less have to rewrite everything if you ever end up in a situation where you'd like to release the application on mobile, or as a desktop app, especially if you want it to work when you can't rely on the user having a stable internet connection.
>Volkswagen (Porsche's parent company) certainly has the scale to make this happen.

Yeah, but VW and Porsche are into selling cars not OSS so their priorities are aligned with that.

Think of it from the bean-counter's perspective, which run these companies: why would they invest resources into sharing your SW as OSS if that's not gonna sell more cars?
They could do the Dell XPS 13” and 15”. Once you factor in the XPS rebadge Latitudes, that would be a pretty big number.

They make for cheap pickups on the secondhand market too. And Dell already does a bunch of testing/fixing for free as they ship them with Ubuntu.
I also take issue with parts of libinput... there are things which are relegated to the hardware database which should 100% be config options. I don't mind the idea of having a hw database, but if I as a user disagree with a choice made in the hw database, I should be able to easily change it. It sounds like the "all or nothing" tap to click stuff fits the general vibe of not letting the user configure stuff too much.

I also dislike how there's no global libinput config file. I get that it's supposed to be a library, and the user of the library (GNOME, KDE, Sway, whatever) is supposed to expose those options, but in practice, a lot of useful options aren't exposed to the user. GNOME is especially bad about that.

There are also weird choices, like: when you press down with two fingers and then move those fingers together (double click and drag), the cursor moves at twice the normal speed.

Linux input isn't universally better now than it was a decade ago and that sucks.
Cool, thanks for sharing it.
I've not seen the reasoning for this in the thread.

Best practices are generally called that for a reason.
> I wonder if it's just a case of each of us having one HDD of a particular brand fail on us violently, and then finding others who were in the same boat.

That is absolutely the case and anyone with enough experience could confirm it. Both WD and Seagate have made some real trash drives, and both made at least one or two models that were trash at scale. If you timed it just right you could jump from one to another and experience massive failures with both! You also probably have a drive from each that's been running for 20 years somehow.
Humane wearerable personal data concern
so like the utility of the humane wearable BUT they aren't answering my questions about what they share with Tmobile. There is an AWFUL lot of very personal data headed into that little thing and I would want to CLEARLY dictate what and WHO should have access to that data in any shape or form. What happens if the humane device detects that you are developing a neurologic disease and tells your health insurance first? Can it listen to someone who is just at the next table and use that data somehow? I think this is different to just a smartphone considering the "AI" aspect of it. Anyone share my concerns? If so email your senator as they are looking for use cases to consider.
https://megasquirt.info/ is one (and one of the most well-known).

I've considered doing a retrofit on a classic Mustang V8, but the old-school carb works well enough that it's not been a priority.

Edit: sibling comment correctly identifies the code as not open-source. (I could have sworn it was; perhaps it started that way, or perhaps the amount of open it was when I last looked in detail was sufficient for my plans.)
> malware might also be able to set the whole machine on fire

that was one of my favorite parts of Mr. Robot
You were thinking about JimboChiu? Why?
The Most Useful OpenSSL Commands to Work with SSL Certificates
If it is convincing most people, then surely by definition it's closer to us than to a Markov chain.
That still makes running it a bit annoying, since you have to call each script in order. You could of course create a script that covers this, but that's duplication that can drift apart. I guess you could generate the script from your YAML or use a linter or something, but it all feels a bit annoying. It would be awesome to e.g. just call a command like "gh-success" or "gh-failure" to manually indicate the success/failure, maybe with an optional ID to prevent accidental double calls etc.
Mandated overtime in fire and EMS is common.

36 hours though?

The private ambulance company near me only requires 8 hours off-duty after SIXTY hours on-duty.
I, for one, think zero good will come of it…

Two soon?
He should give the tapes to the British museum out of spite. They BBC will never get the back and the British Museum doesn't care what crimes were committed as long as their collection grows.
Thanks so much.

And really appreciate all you & the other FreeBSD developers do.

Question: I’d be curious to hear your take on below (with the exception of the better defaults blog topic, since I see your comment history on that).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37886507
Effective Altruism Is a Welter of Lies, Hypocrisy, and Eugenic Fantasies
I start my projects in `~/tmp/<project>` and when I feel like I'm getting somewhere with them they graduate to `~/src/<project>` and get published on GitHub (and a few mirrors for the most important ones). Anything on `~/src` need to be backed up but things in `~/tmp` can be lost without missing them.

When I start working on a new feature for a project I create a PR on GitHub and document my research and then the implementation with screenshots.

I also have a text file on my computer where I write a few lines everyday about what I'm doing. From time to time I send it to myself by email.

It's relatively simple and low effort but has proven to be very helpful many times.
One serverless function is effectively a http router that knows how to call the appropriate code path to reach the 1000 handlers.
I suspect the lack of emoji support is not a technical issue.
It took german automakers a decade to be international and they still hire just "german" speakers to some teams. Hard pass.
The movie Chasing Ice documents this phenomenon about as effectively as could possibly be done. A must see.
Reminds me of OSX Leopard -> Snow Leopard.
Same here. This is exactly what I don't want. Sure you can cram a lot more people into a smaller space and make it cheap if you want, but it causes more problems than it solves. Maybe in some futuristic utopia this would work, but not in this reality.
the tears of clowns...
I still hold onto my SpaceOrb369 for this sort of game. There is a guy that makes a converter to make it work over USB...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb_360

https://www.tindie.com/products/vputz/orbotron-9001-version-...
Probably this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
Don't Call People Intelligent
One thing about these free washrooms is that they're hard to find, they're often dirty, and a lot of them have restrictive opening hours. Frankly paying a small sum for use, and finding reliable, clean facilities might be a good tradeoff.

As for coins being useful for parking, around here (Canada) we've already moved beyond the pay-and-display machines (which don't even accept cash) to - horrors - a sign with a QR code. Nothing worse than wanting to do a quick 15 minute stop to show visitors something, scanning the QR code and being greeted with an account signup page that demands a ton of information. But cash? Hardly used at all any more.

The only US$2 bill I've ever encountered - and of course I kept it as a souvenir - was in the change for a $5 in Tanzania, of all places. The Plattsburgh ferry used to give either 50 cent or $1 coins in change for $10 - this dates me!

The pre-loonie Canadian $1 coins obviously never gained any collector value. I got a sheet of a whole bunch of different years at a garage sale for face value!
Most of the time, I have not found the distillation from GPT-4 to be "sloppy".

> If you want to be an autodidact, seek out the information from primary sources, study it and organize it yourself. With GPT-4, you're essentially reading a sloppy cliffs notes of the topics. You'll be much better informed and be able to think more deeply about the subject matter if you adopt some ideas from Richard Feynman, wherein you try to explain what you think you know to a child, or at least someone with no knowledge of the subject. That will highlight the gaps in your understanding, and you can return to the source material to fill in the gaps.

The most immediate and fundamental problem with what you are suggesting is that it is infeasible. Nobody has time to learn everything they wish to at the level of depth they would ideally want. Nobody has time to read all the primary sources on which GPT-4 was trained. I find this so obvious I won't belabor the point.

I don't think any other tool can approximate the personalized "per-unit-of-time learning" afforded by a good LLM.
If your standing waves mean you only need to attenuate frequencies with EQ then you're very lucky! A standing wave means there will be some parts of the room that are too loud (antinodes) and some that are too quiet (nodes). Bass traps are to eliminate standing waves such that you won't have this variance around the room. The bigger problem is when your sitting position is in a node meaning you will completely lose a bass frequency. You can't EQ that back.

EQing out bass if you sit in an antinode is definitely better than nothing, though.
High level AI developments:

https://importai.substack.com/

https://www.semianalysis.com/
Hardware focused. Paywalled, but long article teasers contain plenty of information.

Research Focused:

https://codingwithintelligence.com/

https://dblalock.substack.com/

https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki
> Because I tend to write all my code such that a complete stranger should be able to drop in and understand it

This isn't an achievable goal for most complex systems. Even very well written and documented code bases (for e.g. tcmalloc, bigtable) require a good deal of background reading to develop a baseline understanding of what is going on.
They specifically say it’s an LFP battery which I understand will be safer.
React is so simple to use that you definitely don't need to hire a "react dev" to "handle all the complexity". Like >95% of the effort is just understanding the basics of standard front end technologies (HTML, JS, and CSS), something that "back-end" devs (especially ones that label themselves as such) are by no means guaranteed to understand, which is an issue, since you'll have to understand these things even when working with htmx.
I reuse the same coffee cup every day. Dishwashers are great.
Take a physical card and a phone. Throw both on a busy street and let them stay there for a few days.

Come back and find them stolen.

Which one is easier to reacquire? You can just walk to any store, grab a phone and restore it from a cloud backup (or even a local one if you're so inclined).

To get a full-on ID is a huge hassle of reserving a time to the police station, them asking you weird tidbit questions about your life and parents to make sure you are you and then you'll get an ID in 1-3 weeks depending on how busy they are.

The type of card we're talking about here is not the American driver's license kind that every teenager seems to be able to forge according to the movies. This is a proper personal ID card with holograms and security measures.
Not just Neil Gaiman, it was widely reported at the time: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchet...
My comment mostly relates to this

> Also with lambdalith you probably end up needing an application framework as opposed to just using mostly vanilla features of your language of choice.

The point I make is even with lambda per endpoint you need many framework features.
Brian Hook was in there as well. Wasn't he at id at some point?

Also, lots of people on Netcom. That was my ISP as well around that time and I still have their DNS server IPs memorized.
It is economically true in aggregate, although you're right that the worker overseeing the intern very often feels like it isn't true. The mechanic you mentioned could fall into that category, but I think it's more likely that it's just one of those jobs that's not knowledge work so what I'm saying doesn't really apply, because there are physical space limits to collaboration in realspace work that are much more readily obtrusive than equivalents in knowledge work. Basically, good knowledge worker A & bad knowledge worker B are never going to be "A + B" productive together, but they're also extremely unlikely to be <A productive, only in very specific situations that generally have to do with destructive operations by B (deleting files, using up limited tools like licenses or submissions, etc), and LLMs have been built specifically to not be able to engage in destructive operations. Contrast that with physical work, where two people can't physically occupy the same space and if they try they are likely to end up at a lower productivity than either one of them could have achieved alone because they quite literally trip over each other.

About the interns as hiring component, that's the official reason for interns and they are used that way, but they are also just valuable in and of themselves as labour. Companies that aren't even hiring and won't be in six months will still take on interns, because it's free labour. Interns are the equivalent of manual labourers in knowledge work, able to do what you tell them but not yet possessing the skills to do many complex tasks alone.

And I wouldn't be so sure that the "LLMs as interns" relationship we have now doesn't result in them learning. Obviously on an architecture level any individual instance can only learn in-context and that's wiped when the context is, but in aggregate they are learning from their "time on the job". The next version of GPT is going to be directly better at least partially because of all of the data that ChatGPT 4 being an effective intern brings in. It could be anywhere from just an intern at 6 months rather than an intern on the first week, through to an actual hired employee somewhere during their first year. Even if it was technologically possible I don't think OpenAI would deploy their next product if it was as good as a senior employee in some substantial number of domains, because that would be too disruptive of a leap for society. But anywhere on the intern scale that's better than GPT-4 up to approximately an employee one year in I think is feasible for their next release, and that will be in large part thanks to the data they get from their current deployment.
They have security flaws that are 20 years old that could be solved by an 8 year old.
That's fascinating, I'll have to research my local agency and see if I can find out more. Thanks!
> If the present Earth continued warming for the next 50 years and then cooled down again, would we expect to see an extinction event in the fossil record, if we ignore human impacts other than temperature?

Over the next 50 years? Yeah, almost certainly. If the current change continues for the next 50 years, you’re going to have ecosystems changing _dramatically_. Of course, it’s kind of speculative, as you _can’t_ really disentangle the other effects of humanity easily, but if the current trend continues for another 50 years, it’s hard to see how that would not lead to a mass extinction event.

> I'm not saying this is what is happening, or commenting on how likely it is,

I mean, I think we can say that is _definitely_ not what is happening right now. It is not just doing it on its own. Like, what would the mechanism be?
One of my professors would often refer to this struggle as taking place between the Nihilists and Unitarians.
You can already edit your comments? They give you a grace period of about 15 mins. Are you pissed when that window of time expires and you can't go and 'perfect' your posts?
And that someone else may be future me
I think you can make that same argument for many large companies that contribute to OSS though.
Does the set of sets that exclude themselves exclude itself?
To be accurate in the past year we went from 3 to 7 in that team, and I think everyone has been using htmx at least once, and 4 of us are using it on a regular basis.
Glasses use sonar, AI to interpret upper body poses in 3D
No one thing is the answer. The answer is to do many things, for example, planting trees.
Google's mothballed plans to quit search in Australia
...and Apple presumably have the IMEIs.

Another easy example:

> In the UK in 2016, there were almost half a million mobile phones stolen [...] _most of them iPhones_

https://www.trustonic.com/opinion/smartphone-crime-turning-t...
Indeed, I'm a fan of the USD Kennedy half dollar but haven't seen one in years
Steve Wozniak likes his $2 bills.
Yeah, kinda gross. It takes zero effort to call someone's writings "blogspam". Would love to see comment OP's website so we can compare it to some random "agency".

Probably some "entrepreneur" chud.
We have similar setup here as well (and I think that makes sense). I pay about $10/mo for the meter and then the gas is split into supply (the gas) and distribution (the transport). On a random month last winter (Jan 2023), distribution was 55% of the variable part of the bill and supply 45%. Last month, supply was $0.63 of a $32.54 variable part of the bill, owing to very little usage and a supply cost of only $0.0233/therm.
Others, like Thiel, are so deflated by the tenor of GOP discourse that they appear to have decided to sit out the 2024 campaign entirely.

I cannot imagine what he thought was going to happen. What he got was exactly what it said on the tin. If it's worse than he wanted it's exactly his fault.
Well, everyone needs to have some level of feedback, it's not just me. That is a good suggestion though.

I have tried messaging a few people today. They seem to be ignoring me. But it's a small sample so far.

I will keep your suggestion in mind. I have a feeling that most are going to ignore me still but I assume it will be better than just only hoping people will write something in Discord.
That one gets too much news coverage. The biggest garbage incinerator in Europe is in Paris: https://sciencespoedj2022.fr/2022/04/19/the-fumes-of-wrath-i...

(and it's not the only one in Paris)
This looks really helpful! As someone learning Rust these are a lot of the things I wonder about but can be quite hard to find good information on.
Do other manufacturers try to restrict resale

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a45429246/porsche-to-fight...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44491972/rolls-royce-has-...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a40756702/gm-to-limit-warr...
Proposal: An HTML Element for Spoilers
I think you may be misunderstanding how I and others are using it; I feel you are viewing it as very much an either-or proposition of "it either writes code for me or tells me exactly what's wrong" or it's unusable. For example, there are still questions one would have as one goes along for "investigative problem-solving" which GPT-4 is useful for answering.

> In my experience, every current AI model gives up long before writing a complete piece of software.

I don't get why you want to get it to write a complete piece of software.
No it isn't.

Android is as much a Linux distro as any other.
The optimal date picker depends heavily on the platform too. Don't want your crusty custom date picker over my platform specific date picker that I know well.
"What do you guys think of the new Google Play store update?"