skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to take away from the excitement but ML weather prediction builds upon the years of data produced by numerical models on supercomputers. It cannot do anything without that computation and its forecasts are dependent on the quality of that computation. Ensemble models are already used to quantify uncertainty (it’s referenced in their paper).

But it is exciting that they are able to recognize patterns in multi year and produce medium term forecasts.

Some comments here suggest this replaces supercomputers models. This would a wrong conclusion.It does not (the paper explicitly states this). It uses their output as input data.
In the supermarket it's 50/50 for me, sometimes the selfscan checkout, other times I put my groceries on the conveyor belt. On the way to the supermarket though, I made a habit of smiling, greeting and eye contact with everybody I encounter. It always adds something extra to the day, greeting a stranger and having a short connection. Always. I had to practice a bit, because not getting any acknowledgement back might feel as a discard at first. Not anymore.

BTW, do you see any difference between Amsterdam and Limburg?
Is there a colab example (and/or have they released the models) for MetNet like they have here for GraphCast?
I don't want to be rude, but I'd say if you fall for that then you're a sucker.

Tell me which of Elon's companies would exist today without heavy government subsidies or largesse?

He is a modern day Ross Perot. No more, no less. Maybe he wants to make the world a better place - but only if he can get extravagantly wealthy on US taxpayer dollars doing it.

He's obsessed with Mars because it represents the fattest international government contract that ever existed.
The models are free without a login. The only way I would characterizing it as a "marketplace," it individuals offering commissions, I guess.
I mean why don't the astronauts go to Starship in orbit on a Falcon 9 instead of the very expensive SLS? Just because it's a sunk cost?
HN isn't social media. There is no social graph. HN is a web forum.
I hate that we are completely enamored with browsers. Desktop apps and browser webapps are different platforms, with different methodologies and motifs.

I hate hate hate it when a desktop app looks and acts like a web app.
In an ideal world, I'd probably prefer to buy a laptop with no built-in camera and then add a good quality one; this trivially improves the privacy situation (although models with a built-in shutter are also fine), and as others have commented the default cameras tend to have atrocious image quality so there's something to be said for separating it so people can get a good quality option.
For the record, the point of NaNoWriMo is pure word count, and folks consider December to be "National Novel Editing Month" where you refine the word vomit.

Obviously this is not the only approach to writing, and some folks are incompatible with the concept of "just write with abandon" and "sort it all out and refine it in edit".

If you want to write and edit at the same time, consider halving your total word count (since they take two months to do that), or double your time (and continue through December).
SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust
Excel and power query, bonus point, you can perform more advanced data analytics and industrialize for a folder easily
People don't get the same emotional response from saying no to a screen that they do when saying no to a person.
Solar electricity, including panel production and disposal, is so much less emissive than even the cleanest gas generator (let alone coal or such), that I honestly find that a worry for later. Let's get the world on low emissions before nitpicking about how to get it fully circular (likely, that's near-impossible and we'll eventually need to mine other bodies in the solar/star system, but that, too, I find to be a worry for later). It comes across as though you're asking a vegetarian if they've ever killed a mosquito. Perfect is the enemy of good

If it's a serious question, then this is where carbon capture will have to come in, if our emissions aren't already low enough to be workable for the earth's natural carbon cycles
> we prefer not to talk to each other anymore

The "we" here being "The Dutch". Pretty much everywhere (other than Eastern Europe maybe) is it easier to talk to random strangers. I've also never seen any place where it's more socially accepted to be a complete dickhead to strangers (other than locals in overcrowded tourists destinations, but that's a special case). After spending a few years abroad I found it absolutely shocking.
To be more precise, there is a snapshot of a subset of the algorithm available as AGPL at that address.
> give it a large program that has a bug which isn't a trivial syntax error, and it won't help you

That's not fair, humans can't do that, and if you walk Chat GPT through it, it might surprise you with its debugging abilitis... or thankfully it might suck(so we still have a job).

Complex code is complex code, no general inteligence thing will be able to fix it at first sight without running it, writing tests and so on.
Oh, you're right, it's there right above the title "Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor".
I swear they added that after my post ;)
I see the limitations of vim an advantage not a disadvantage. Because everything is a buffer and the layout is just windows, the usual keys just work.

It's one of the things I have about "real" IDEs with a vim mode. The one in vscode is pretty good, it's pretty rare I break it when just editing code (mostly '.' not doing what I expect). But everything else doesn't fit the vim model. I have the file manager or something open in the left and I can't reach it with ctrl+h, because it's own weird UI thing not just a split (like it would be in vim).
The user is not to blame for the confusing naming that the platform owner chooses.
>Backblaze software is pretty reasonable.

Hard disagree. The jankiness of their software was what made me cancel my sub after several years. Firstly it doesn't follow the OS date and number formatting. It's a minor thing, but it's so annoying having to parse the dumb M/D/Y format and comma thousands separator etc (being da-DK). It's not a deal breaker, but on the other hand, it's such a low-hanging thing that most other software gets right immediately.

But far more importantly, the BB client would some times just decide to re-upload several hundred gigabytes of data that I know for sure didn't change, which makes me wonder if it's just the client being retarded or if the data got lost server-side. And it takes absolutely forever to detect USB harddrives being plugged in. And its log files will grow to absurd sizes, and you're not allowed to purge them or the client will become brain damaged. And one time I needed to do a restore, it took literal days for BB to prepare it and I had to get support involved. I feel I just can't trust the BB stack, the client being the weakest link by far, and backup I can't trust is worthless.
yes, but when buildings painted white already get warm from sunlight, we can safely say that a ~35x reduction will be meaningful, as opposed to the example you provided where there will be no observable effect as you correctly pointed out.
Exactly. You're an Android user. You're okay with Google's business model of giving away their code so they can make it back with advertising revenue. It's totally fine. If you are happy with that then more power to you.

I'm just echoing how Apple users feel about the product that we buy in large numbers and are also very happy with.

The reality is that we are forced to install apps in modern life. Want to go to a concert then you have to install our app. Want to board a plane then you have to install our app. Want to talk to your friends on whatsapp, then you have to install our app. Why do we have to give all this private information to McDonald's to buy a hamburger? We like having someone put limits on the programs running on our phones, because we often have little choice but to install the programs.
It definitely should be. I don’t want my face used for porn if I just randomly shot a stock photo.

Controlling likenesses in AI was the whole point of the SAG strike.
I've been thinking about this recently, Microsoft seem to consequently name things in the least intuitive way.

Like seriously: Windows XP -> Windows Vista -> Windows 7 -> Windows 8 -> Windows 10

or: xbox -> xbox 360 -> xbox one -> xbox series x/s

and a bunch of other things, like Azure Devops, which doesn't necessary have anything to do with Azure or Devops depending on how you use it. And their editor Visual Studio, and their other editor Visual Studio Code, which are not really related. IIRC, I also had to make a visual studio account in order to access the azure devops repository at my previous client, even though I don't use visual studio (the editor).

It's seriously like the Fast and Furious franchise.

They seem to be doing it for most of the microsoft products I can name, I wonder if there is a reason for it?
I haven't done anything terribly performance-sensitive with it, but what I have written has performed extremely well. My app starts up to its main window instantly (which SHOULD be table stakes...)
> because it implies that it should be necessary

Who gets to decide what should or should not be necessary? Do you think your opinion about this is the majority view by people?
Of course not; that wouldn’t align with the ideals of rugged individualism.
At Harvard, 28% of students receive no aid at all. So they pay full sticker price.

Average net price by income in 2021-2022 [1]:

Income Cost
0-$30,000 -- $5900
$30,001-$48,000 -- $3,002
$48,001-$75,000 -- $4,180
$75,001-$110,000 -- $17,037
$110,001+ -- $52,634

If your household makes $110,000 per year in California, the take home pay I found calculated online was ~$75,000. So that means paying around 22% of take home pay to go to Harvard? Can the average household actually put 22% of their take home pay into tuition without taking on debt?

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=harvard&s=all&id=166...
Any tips or tutorials for a PHP dev who wants to pick .NET up after a couple decades of not using it? I looked at the project templates in Visual Studio 2022 just for web apps and the options made my head spin.

My wife has worked QA for a number of .NET teams and it just seems like something I should at least keep my thumb on, but I've had nothing but frustration with it so far, even just trying to figure out what template to start with.
I use the Camo software that turns my phone into a webcam and the quality is astounding but it still suffers from the "appear to be looking elsewhere" issue.

I have sketched out a design for a bracket that dangles your phone upside down, in front of the screen and turns the phone front camera into a webcam that's much closer to where you are typically looking.

The interesting bit is that software on the phone displays the part of the monitor that's covered and creates a "seamless display experience" (slightly tongue in cheek).

Not perfect by any means but maybe worth creating a prototype of both hardware and software to see how it feels?
Cookie Permissions 101
.NET is stable, they very rarely remove things. Code written for .NET Framework 2.x will probably work fine on .NET 8 (unless it uses the things that didn't make the jump, like WCF, but there are libraries that provide SOAP support.)

Can a single developer remember all of .NET? No, but that applies to most languages/ecosystems. But if you encounter something you've never seen, you can always check the docs.

And the thing hasn't been named ".NET Core" for 4 consecutive releases now.
Well, USA specific but don't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_Stat...
And Visual Studio is probably one of the best if not the best IDEs out there.
weather prediction seems to me like a terrific use of machine learning aka statistics. The challenge I suppose is in the data. To get perfect predictions you'd need to have a mapping of what conditions were like 6 hours, 12 hours, etc before, and what the various outcomes were, which butterflies flapped their wings and where (this last one is a joke about how hard this data would be). Hard but not impossible. Maybe impossible. I know very little about weather data though. Is there already such a format?
> Iceland's only international airport

That's not strictly the case. For example, Akureyri has some international flights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akureyri_Airport

Keflavík is obviously the only major international airport in Iceland though.

A while back I remember hearing a proposal about expanding the airport in Egilsstaðir to be capable of replacing Keflavík if (when?) it is disrupted by lava flow. I think it proved too expensive for much action to be taken though. It would be interesting logistically to see what would happen if Keflavík was knocked out of service.
First of all it's not my proposal, but the proposal was simple enough and could improve outcomes.

None of these edge cases are actually issues if the system is "gambler A talks to official B before they're allowed to place more bets."

If this was an automated system sure these are issues to sort out. If it's just "talk to an official who confirms you know you're addicted to gambling and provides links to support info" before your next bet is allowed to be placed, none of these edge cases matter.

Those who have the wealth that or are not actually addicted can just ignore what the official says. No need to verify wealth, no need to check if they're winning or not. Just "hey you're placing bets at frequency X, are you sure you're not addicted? There is help available, here's some links to support materials."
> Every few months I see if ChatGPT can pass it. It hasn’t. It can’t. It isn’t even close.

As someone currently looking for work, I'm glad to hear that.

About 6 months ago, someone was invited to our office and the topic came up. Their interview tests were all easily solved by ChatGPT, so I've been a bit worried.
I don't know that we can detect ICBMs on re-entry at all. Don't existing systems only see them in the boost phase? Your scheme still hides that, I think it might work.

The only saving grace here is that if the US government contracted Elon Musk to secretly haul nukes to the moon, there'd be a smarmy tweet about it that same day.
One reason is that tuta does not require you to have any other connection to create and account.
Protonmail require a second mail, phone or possibly some kind of payment if I recall correctly (for verification?) that could be linked from your account in theory.

Without having a good anonymous starting point, protonmail does not let you get that starting point, at least the last time I tired (maybe a year ago).
Is he going to give all of the money back to Google?
That one strikes me as "minimalist but readable". It's clean and simple, and you can scroll down and read everything, one by one, left to right, without being assaulted by flying tiles or distracting animations that take your eye away from what it was trying to read.

This one, on the other hand, reminds me of a "YouTubeified" website, where every thirty seconds there's some insane distraction flying in from the side of the screen and begging for your attention.
Not all that dangerous, tbh. My main concern would be NaN potentially cascading through, but not only is `NaN > 5` false, `!!NaN` is too.
Not a fanatic, as I use other stacks as well, however a big fan boy from Anders Hejlsberg work, and naturally the team that picked that up.

.NET and Java ecosystems are the only ones with tooling and developer experience that is somehow comparable to the Xerox PARC world. Note for the pedantic, comparable, not exactly the same.

Given the way .NET was born, there is a kind of yin/yang with both platforms.

Some scenarios or guest languages are better in other platform, while some other scenarios or guest languages are better in the other one.

Given this, when would I suggest .NET over Java?

It is closer to C++ in language features (as CLR was designed to accomodate C++ as well), and C# is getting some of those runtime features exposed since C# 7.

Because of this, and XNA/Unity, also got the love from many game studios (Capcom even has their own fork).

Microsoft also understands GUI much better than UNIX shops, so even with the ongoing GUI civil war in Redmond, most of the GUI offerings are still better than what Swing and JavaFX are able to do out of the box.

Blazor looks really cool as technology, however I was in the trenches with WebForms and JSF, so not really something I would like to experience again.
The electrician we hired (biz owner) told me his guys can clear 300k in a good year.
Keeping track of C/C++ dependencies is basically the point of Linux distros...

Cargo's main problem is that it's (mostly) rust only. Same problem that pip/npm have, relegating you to (mostly) single-language silos.
There was a lake that was removed from the maps of a state park near me, although that was to prevent it from being over-visited
I think he has a great point. Its crazy to me how much some have withdrawn into their digital world. There is so much talk today about understanding each other and unity, that it makes me wonder how much of those calls are pure projection. Our personal bubbles have crystalized into diamond shells, sound dampened by AirPods.

Talking to strangers carries risk. They could always say something to makes you feel bad, or be physically threatening. But like in all things in life, you have to be able to assess risk. And taking small risks that may open doors is surely better than never taking a risk ever.

Although I do disagree with asking questions like "Where are you going?" Personal questions that reveal specific details like location trigger many people's alarms. Its easier to talk about something in the local environment where there is no asymmetric information/power dynamic.
Ukrainian officer coordinated Nord Stream attack
Yes, we evolved as a social species that thrived because of collaboration.

But for most of our history we lived in small communities. Modern cities where you cross hundreds of new strangers every single day isn't the environment where we evolved.

Being able to ignore strangers is necessary to keep sanity.
Krita isn't on the same level as Blender, but it's not on the same level as other Open Source projects either. I'd put it in the same camp as projects like Ardour, and arguably above projects like Godot (although I'm sure some people would debate me on that).

It's an exceptional drawing tool that is well-suited for professional work and is headed in a really promising direction. It's got a couple of weaknesses (vector layers) but it really shouldn't be discounted as a professional-level tool.

Unless you're claiming that Inkscape is in the same position and has gotten a lot better than the last time I used it, which :shrug: could be true, I don't know. I'm not trying to bash Inkscape here.
<3 WinForms
Weather is markovian
Same with Proton. Basically the spiritual successor to Crypto AG.
> the failure of government's prior regulatory policy of 'no regulation

Bro what?

The government's prior policy was not "no regulation". It was "regulation that prevents ordinary people from challenging corporations because hey, the government's got this, so ordinary people shouldn't be able to stop corporations from building plants that will dump chemicals into rivers or putting toxic substances into gasoline". Which meant those things could be done unchecked until the government decided to stop them--instead of ordinary people getting a chance to say "no" up front, when it would have mattered.
And many teenagers have hobbies or interests that aren't free.
You should add "Show HN:" to the title when you're presenting your own work: https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Honestly, he barely knew Twitter.
> Rewrote in FloemUI

Just had a look at this. It's one of the few that doesn't use jsx-like macros, an major anti-feature in my opinion. The jsx stuff looks fancy, but it completely breaks Rust Analyzer. You might not care about code completion, but good luck resolving the complex type+lifetime issues (that UIs in Rust often have) without hover type.

Kudos for showing scope discipline, that's one I will be keeping an eye on.
It would. Compiling .NET binaries to a single executable that does not require installing a runtime has been a thing for quite some time actually, but NativeAOT definitely improves the "simple and lightweight" part of your inquiry:

JIT: dotnet publish -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true

AOT: dotnet publish -p:PublishAot=true
> But it's also one of the more lightweight and code-centric game development frameworks out there currently, and I do prefer that to working with a heavy bloated editor like Unity

I also started with XNA, and I quite enjoyed it. But this was back in 2012, and I felt the shift happening. I used Unity for several years, and always felt a sense of confusion when looking at someone else's implementation: should I look at the code? The scripts? How is the project structured? It can be quite a task.

In the last 6 months (shortly before the infamous Unity debacle) I started using Godot with C#. Like many, I can say that I quite like it. Related to your comment though, I tried going back to a code-first approach, and so far I have to say, it's going great. I have managed to create most of my scenes with scripts alone, and as far as I can tell, Godot is made for this. Everything that can be done in the editor can be done in code.
> it allowed Russians to plant deep roots in many big orgs around the world and it might take years to uproot them all

Did it? You know it was the Russians?
No way do I care enough about the quality of my laptop cam enough to spend more money and have another cable and device to carry around. I can't think who this is designed for. I guess they have a target audience, I just can't think of one.
Forgive my quip but college is the absolute worst way to improve your job prospects except for all the other ways.

I get that if politics is important to you, you won't like a place that includes your political opponents. So some people don't let their kids go, or they resent that their kids have to mix with political opponents.

Though as pointed our here already, most kids are not politically inclined and are trying to have fun.
From my understanding Blender started getting a ton of corporate sponsorship a few years ago, and that was when development suddenly went into overdrive
Free boilerplate templates are often not maintained for that long, dare I say usually maintained as long as the author is interested in that particular stack. I think there's some value in offering a stack that has preconfigured settings for your IDE, linters, formatters etc as well as complicated things like multi-tenant databases. It eliminates a lot of toil when setting up a new product and generally the price for these kits is under $100.
Digging into the Optus Outage
Telling ChatGPT it does well increases performance