skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem for the last 4 decades has been getting people to admit that we were 'building one to throw away'. In the last 2 we've tried a couple of different tricks to get things done anyway, with varying degrees of success. But that's all external-facing problems

The internal facing problem is getting a team to agree to differing quality gates for different parts of the system - the absolutely knowable and the arguably unknowable parts should not be written with the same mindset if you want to maintain velocity. If you get lucky with the org chart you can fake some of that quality diversity via code ownership, but that's a rough approximation at best. People seem to prefer picking something static and not thinking about it too much, rather than having to reason about every feature. I'm curious to see what we try next to deal with this.
That’s why I try to make my POCs at least 80% as good as production in terms of code quality. Much easier to fix that last 20% later than if you had started at 20% and have to fix 80%. And usually it doesn’t take longer, you just have to have more intentionality with the changes you are making.
Tenerife also has 'galerias' that are dug horizontally into the mountain to obtain water. (They were dug much later thsn the qanats to my understanding)

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galer%C3%ADa_filtrante
See this comment, which explains why it happens and resolutions, which are all workarounds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38235283
Rats have an imagination, new research suggests
Ah yes, the classic "I don't like your point so I'm going to gently concern troll you into trying to walk it back with implied threats to your livelihood."

Grow up.
Here's a commercial with that jingle at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI
Hey, wait just a minute! — 75-year-old retired anesthesiologist
I've only ever known the language as being called "Farsi". I don't think I've ever heard the language being called "Persian".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus
Rolling Stone doesn't have the same credibility they once had
i look forward to seeing it! the simple, approachable truetype implementation is very exciting already! i didn't know about libschrift, but one third the code makes Skrift three times as approachable

do you have an output sample like https://github.com/tomolt/libschrift/raw/master/resources/de...?
Interesting take. Very elitist and not rooted in reality though, I must say. The overwhelming majority of code out there is in languages more verbose than strictly necessary, and less expressive than possible. So in real life, yes AI generated code is a helpful and worthwhile thing. Not everyone can swing their Coq around at work.

That said, I do agree with the general notion. I find the more verbose the language, the better the help. Dense, more expressive languages fare worse. I’m referring to Python and Rust in my case, so one factor is of course massively larger training corpus for Python, and relatively more churn in Rust.
I believe they view the file order as a feature. It forces a certain style/thought process in how you design your project.

It's also part of the ocaml legacy (I believe file order matters in ocaml as well).
Reads line an ad and also stinks like damage control after what Reuters posted last month regarding GI track issues. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
It's hard enough finding names that people can pronounce, much less are literally cross-language. We just thought of names that various family members could pronounce, throwing out "impossible" sounds until we ended up with only single syllable names. It works.
Right, and the classified ones are probably more like "what does space radiation do to uranium/plutonium/LiD/etc" and less like "if we take the Mexico Mummified Alien Bodies into the Van Allen belts, do they come to life?"

EDIT: I'd still watch the movie though.
The best way I know how to express it-

We live short lives, and only have enough time to make a few real investments of our time. We can't throw these investments off too casually, or we end with nothing.
This.

The keeps alternating between the person and the achievement, digging quite a bit to give a picture of all the different disciplines JVN was involved in.

Plus a lot of interesting trivia. For instance, did you know that he met his second wife Klára Dán, the first person to implement Monte Carlo, in... Monte Carlo?

The audio book is very good too, but you'll want to look at some of the pictures.
pretty soon comma.ai will be like littlesnitch for cars.

it will popup with a message like: your honda civic just tried to send a video payload over cellular to analytics.honda.com, allow or deny?

driving a car without it will feel like running a macbook with littlesnitch. disgusting.
Do other countries apply emissions standards retroactively? In the US emissions regulations apply mostly if not entirely to new vehicles.
Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?
Good to know, thanks.

Doubly so right that the effort to remove RV-C failed then.
My name is pronounced differently in my home language vs English.

My close English speaking friends and colleagues pronounce my name the "correct" way, according to my native language.

Acquaintances, distant colleagues and new people I meet will pronounce it the Engish way.

I've learned to react to both pronounciations.
4) Not allowed to make command decisions
with what funding for that many ships for what purpose of recovering the investment?
https://archive.ph/RJagN
Pretty unlikely- you don't actually need to put people in space for most military purposes, at least not anymore. Most human spaceflight missions can be done far cheaper by not using humans, especially when we have computers and AI as good as we have today. If the military needed humans in space to do something they would probably just have it be a classified part of a normal astronaut's mission or something
I've been thinking about that for a while, for a variety of reasons. This is one of the smaller ones. Probably after the holidays.
Why is that, when it's just land covered in water
I absolutely loved the Pragmatic Programmer (the audiobook is incredibly well done), but I wouldn't consider it a "programming" book. It's a great book to outline what good developer culture is like, but it is (purposefully) very light on actual software development knowledge.

For me, it'd probably be the K&R book. C will never die.
The first file I looked at in that codebase has a “goto” (as well as some IMO hacky-ish logic). Now I’m not going to say this is never right (but it probably isn’t), but it takes a lot of hubris to claim you are “striving for perfection” and I just don’t see perfect code using goto, sorry.
True. Most Latin names are gonna work in several languages + English. For example, Amalia. As far as I know it works in English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. In French there’s a small variation to Amelie (still pretty close).
Him and 5,000 children a month

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/13/americas/darien-gap-us-pa...
Would definitely watch that movie.
Haha yes, "I need you to evacuate" is certainly no good -- but "evacuate; this building is burning and you will be trapped soon otherwise" is much better than "evacuate". People who grow used to urgent-sounding requests are likely to blow them off.

I once got fired for not doing something the way the boss wanted, because at my previous job we did it the opposite way. He had explained that he wanted me to do it, but didn't say why, so I didn't remember. I too find that when I ask someone to do something, they're much more likely to do it right if I explain why, not just how. (Getting the method wrong is different from ignoring the request, but they both spring from the same underlying phenomenon -- we are likely to discard information if we don't know why to heed it.)
The AI Game Economist
I bought some books of maps of the entire continent I’m on and put them in our cars. Seems like a reasonable emergency thing to do. I’m under no illusion that if some catastrophe happens that takes down the internet and or GPS that we will necessarily survive but would hate to die knowing I could have spent an extra $20-40 bucks and lived.
My experience in grad school was similar. IMO it decelerates the shift from undergrad to grad work, as you have to overcome the knowledge gulf by immersing yourself in the essentially confusing sea of primary literature. Arguably unnecessary IMO … good material at various levels of expertise makes a lot of sense.
If you have accurately marked charts but fail to use them, charts were a contributing factor. However, it is the human error that was the blame.
And the US. Anyone who's ever had to deal with short term FMLA leave or a workplace injury has probably had to deal with getting doctors to fill out forms and fax them to their company's servicer. Or just transferring medical records to a new doctor in another city...your options are probably calling and asking to have them faxed or mailed.

Medical and law entirely runs on fax in the US.
He built the best http library for Python and it’s free to use. That’s gotta alleviate some of peoples’ negative feelings towards him. That is huge value created for the world.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve signed up for all 3 bureaus and enabled the credit freeze. My understanding, and experience years later, is that it is still frozen. I had to unfreeze a specific one last year for an auto loan.

Is there something else I’m missing that’s only temporary?
Inspired by this, magic could represent the energy of the shared narrative of a tabletop roleplaying group's imagination. It doesn't need anything more than being measurable by the game world's upper limit of science, but it's there (and, like gravity, leakly quantifiable).

Maybe those mad wizards are not so crazy after all, if they have awareness of a fourth wall. Yet the separation between all their machinations and our ability to stand from the table is an unbridgeable gap.

Similarly, if we are simulations, we are not completely autonomous, except a mirror drives us, or a "global consciousness"--the Dungeon Master (DM).
up for this. i use this quite often.
It’s true that it’s fairly subjective but that doesn’t mean we should abandon all judgment. Food is subjective as well but still you will get most (not all!) people agreeing that Nobu is better than McDonald’s.
Thank you! And thanks for the feedback.
Do the three of you have experience setting up and running a startup?
If not, then do not try to precisely define equal responsibilities because, as you’ve already learned, you’ll fail. Agree on each other’s areas of responsibility, how success will be measured by the other two founders (until you have a board), and start executing. Agree on terms that two of the founders can use to terminate the other founder with appropriate compensation and guarantee of equity to that point. Otherwise you’re just going to spin wheels and get frustrated with each other.

Specifically: at the outset, with no idea of what you’re building, at best the sales and marketing founders are going to be twiddling their fingers in their traditional roles. So maybe task them either with help developing the solution or figuring out operations you’ll need later on even if those are outside their normal areas of responsibility. Whoever the tech founder is will be under the gun to build the thing and figure out operations for the thing, hand off anything that isn’t building the thing to the other co-founders until the thing is built.

Precise roles and responsibilities at this stage can kill startups. Sometimes there’s going to be a mess on the floor that needs mopped. Doesn’t matter whose “official” responsibility it is, just get the mess cleaned up and move on. If you burn time and capital bickering over who’s responsible you won’t succeed.
It’s great until there’s some new regulation or costumer requirement and it can’t possibly be added to the monstrosity and so you lose those millions until you can rewrite, which takes months.
I went and read the article but have not tracked down the original paper.

It is at least 26%, because that was the percentage of studies that provided access to their data that proved faked or fatally flawed.

It may be substantially higher.
The remake originally had China as the invaders. They changed it to North Korea to get it into the Chinese market.
A reporter wrote the text; a photographer took the photo; an editor arranged the final composition.

They don't always perfectly align on big nor small.
If you can find good articles. The reality is with the ad economy, 99% of articles are plain wrong and copypasta.

Todays internet is a cat litter spilled all over the floor.
I use python pretty much all day long, and would never use a python environment besides the basics. A Docker is more general, serves the same purpose, less mental overhead etc.

Really, could anyone explain why I should care about python environment tools at all? Because we do fine without them.
>I’m a non smoker period, and I can only assume this “oh everyone says they can’t get addicted to cigarettes until they start smoking” attitude can only be projection from hapless addicts. It just doesn’t work that way for me.

this is a bizarre assumption. first of all, no one said that everyone who hasn't smoked has a strong propensity, what I said was that everyone who has been addicted once wasn't. I myself have very little propensity towards addiction to nicotine and do not enjoy cigarettes. that doesn't mean that I think this talk of most "never-smokers" having little propensity towards addiction makes sense. everyone who has ever been addicted to nicotine was once a "never-smoker", and probably billions of people consume nicotine every day. those numbers tell the real story
Fair enough; thanks for the response!
Why are you fucked? Being addicted isn’t bad in itself. Nicotine by itself has very few ill effects on the body and there are plenty of way to only get pure nicotine (gum, patch, vaping with unflavored liquids)
Haven't seen it posted yet? It's actually six dollars.
I have no idea to be honest. My plan was to post it here, announce it to my newsletter, and then list it on Product Hunt, and then work on remaining features like recursive comments, and address any feedback I get from users. Do you have any advice on how to grow a webapp?

I will be posting my own posts on it just because I write a weekday newsletter, and so I am constantly searching for more information. I think there's a chance some people may look at my site, because there are many other people who have AI newsletters who need to source their information from somewhere. I suspect many are like me and keep an eye on HackerNews for interesting posts, as well as various subreddits, and Twitter, and other misc. sites.
> Pony up some substantial money and make it contingent on meeting guidelines.

You can't even do this, gimp doesn't take donations or money for development.

https://www.gimp.org/donating/

You can subscribe to one developer's patreon, or buy an animated movie by another pair of developers. That's it, no contingencies allowed. And direct donations to the foundation cannot be spent on development efforts.

> Donations through GNOME Foundation can only be used for community needs (conferences, developer meetings, material renewal…).
and there is more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_Canyon/Hermits_Peak_Fire
That's a very interesting question. I've only ever heard it referred to as Farsi, so I didn't even know there was another option. Intriguingly, Wikipedia provides plenty of information, which seems to support your position (italics mine):

"Farsi, which is the Persian word for the Persian language, has also been used widely in English in recent decades, more often to refer to Iran's standard Persian. However, the name Persian is still more widely used. The Academy of Persian Language and Literature has maintained that the endonym Farsi is to be avoided in foreign languages, and that Persian is the appropriate designation of the language in English, as it has the longer tradition in western languages and better expresses the role of the language as a mark of cultural and national continuity. Iranian historian and linguist Ehsan Yarshater, founder of the Encyclopædia Iranica and Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies, mentions the same concern in an academic journal on Iranology, rejecting the use of Farsi in foreign languages."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language#Name
It depends a lot on how you got together in the first place. Why did your startup need three co-founders? What was the expectation when you got together? Why do "you" need to define cofounder responsibilities equally? Usually the structure should be set up in the way the person who contributes the most ends up with more equity.
I always liked the anecdote that Mel Brooks couldn’t write music, so he hummed all the songs from “The Producers” into a tape recorder and those recordings formed the basis of all the arrangements.
Volcanic Earthquakes in Iceland
https://twitter.com/WillManidis/status/1719824801433268512
I value not working way more than raising the GDP. It is not a competition for first place where you will receive some kind of medal from Wikipedia.
I might have to edit that comment then…
I just tried it. You have to hum until it says stop. It keeps prompting you to keep going
No :( I am working on adding one right now (tonight). It will probably be up at the latest, by the end of the week (because I have a normal day job - I can only work on this project in the evenings). I'm not sure if you were the person who wrote me via email, but I took the suggestion to heart.
Because 1024 files ought to be enough for anyone? People wanted to write software to handle more files than that.
ctrl p and ctr shift p thats all i know lol
Yeah, the big awkward thing about selling things on eBay is that even if you value the things you're selling at $0 and so have 100% gross margin it's pretty easy to end up with it being a pretty underwhelming hourly wage. Depending on how much you value your time, giving things away via freecycle or a facebook group etc. can be "cheaper", although that has its own set of problems.
The TLDR for me: be pragmatic.

don’t get caught up in dogma and ideology in search of the “right” answer. Don’t be a “fanboy”. There is no such thing as the “right” or “best” solution because every engineering decision has tradeoffs.

You have to make rational, pragmatic, decisions based on the facts on the facts on the ground.
Of course. The only reason I went was to placate my partner. She wanted to split the cost of the vacation and this was one of her ways of doing it. I said I would've paid for the whole thing but she didn't want me to.

There were a lot of problems in the relationship. I try not to think about those days.
Rewriting 5000 lines doesn’t take months. I actually ended up refactoring it in under 24 hours to make it about 10x more reliable and performant (after I put out the immediate fires that had me looking at it in the first place).

In general, I agree. I don’t write code that bad, even for prototypes. That said, I worry a lot less about being super meticulous DRY and best practices in my prototypes that in 90% of cases will never touch millions in value. Done is better than perfect.
Yes, but no. A green card allows you to stay in the US permanently. The only major differences between a green card holder and a citizen are the right to vote and the ability to hold public office.
IBM Aptiva
It's all about names. None of it seems to be about music.
Does that imply nuclear weapons? It's not obvious to me if a payload of nuclear warheads would be that heavy to justify the delta-V though.
Very cool - it looks awesome. Can I ask for advice on how you grow a user base?
For my son, a half-German, half-Quebecer, we wanted same spelling in English/French/German but also similar pronunciation, but also native appearance, but also Chinese pronunceability for the grandparents.

We ended up with Daniel.
I feel like it grew from within the system (where change isn't possible) until it was picked up by those outside the system who would articulate the change.

I was mostly locked up in pre-trial detention and "inmate" has a serious connotation of conviction behind it, so it was considered especially ugly and demeaning there, where the acceptable term is "detainee."

Here are some quick reads on the issue:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/12/i-am-not-your-...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/12/what-words-we-...
I saw your post, and very much appreciated it. Thanks for looking at the project for me.
How does El Niño affect snowfall over North America?
And Experian pays your company for the data through programs like The Work Number
OCaml is great, we learned it in class back in college, then we learned Rust right afterwards. Oftentimes people say OCaml is Rust without the borrow checker (or that Rust is OCaml with a borrow checker), but that's not quite true. Since it is entirely functional and recursive, it takes more time to wrap your head around. Now with OCaml 5, we also have algebraic effect support, something that Rust is looking to add in as well, in a more moderate capacity.

Also, if you don't like the OCaml syntax, check out ReasonML, which is an alternative OCaml syntax that Facebook developed several years ago. It has the Algol-style that many modern languages today use.
Daniel is literally a book in the christian bible. The very same Daniel features in a few islam writings as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_in_Islam
There's probably an alternate timeline where we went down the SNOBOL road for pattern matching rather than going with regexes.

I believe SNOBOL pattern matching is more powerful than classic regexes, though I don't know that holds for modern regex extensions.
I apologise if that comment made it seem like I was currently incarcerated. I've been out for a few months now.

Yes, in contact with my brother. No other family interested in contact any longer. Mother died while I was locked up :(
Ethanol for Methanol poisoning.
Man save his family during 7-10 massacare thanks to his RaspberryPI setup [video]
This still blows my mind a bit - yes literally they should just copy Photoshop because everyone knows how to use it. Menus are fine, any complex tool has lots of menus. I have been wishing for a photoshop-like GUI frontend for GIMP for 20 years. It's not even that far off. That sounds ungrateful, and it's not meant to be - I know this is just how it is, amazing stuff under the hood and janky interfaces

I mean, linux today is full of macos GUI ripoffs and people love it - because Apple did some great UI design. I was using windows 11 recently and so many common things are complex to the typical user - e.g. making an application run at startup, anyway I'm in boomer mode so I'd better stop writing
It’s true that space is limited but there’s no reason to believe that we have used up so much of it that there’s no more left and we have to reduce our existing land use.

Every human and human created thing on the planet undoubtedly takes up a tiny fraction of the earth’s surface, even if you exclude oceans.

I am, of course, open to seeing any facts that you have that demonstrate there is no more room left on the planet for additional housing.
OpenAI's New Weapon in Talent War with Google: $10M Pay Packages for Researchers
One day! The story isn't over (yet).
People also need to learn that vertical doesn't mean high rise apartments. There's a big gap between single story detached houses and high rise apartments. Townhomes, condos, row houses, and so on can all fill that gap.