skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that US politicians are corrupt and stupid but as an American citizen I want to be able to access the world's information in order to establish an accurate perspective for myself. Banning media from certain countries is exactly how you develop a delusional worldview and ironically become more susceptible to propaganda.
Hi there. I'm the language designer who created the 'Collection Expression' design/specification: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/5354

You can see the entire history of the proposal there. To answer you specific question, we went with `..` because that's what the language already uses for the complimentary 'pattern matching deconstruction' form for collection patterns.

In other words, you can already say this today:

if (x is [var start, .. var middle, .. var end]) { ... }

So the construction compliment to that is:

M([start, .. middle, end])

We very much want 'construction/deconstruction' to have this sort of parity, and we will be continuing to follow that principle with new features we are continuing to invest in.

--

Now, if your next question is "why was .. picked for collection deconstruction?" the answer is "because we considered that the nicest syntax from the choices we considered". Syntax is often very subjective, and we often come up with numerous forms to consider (along with examining other languages to see what they've done). In this case, we simply preferred `..` over `...`. The extra dot didn't add anything for us, and we also felt like it might be an operator we might want to use in the future for other language features.

--

Finally, if you're interested in these sorts of questions/designs, def participate on github.com/dotnet/csharplang. We do all our design in the open over there, and are always interested in community perspectives on these sorts of things.

Thanks!
Archive link as the website seems not to load for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20231027091200/https://challenge...
Reminds me that explosions in space in Interstellar were silent (as they should be).

I hope this kind of thing catches on. If a movie shows a distant explosion and its sound is heard at the moment of the explosion, you don’t really think about it. But when they treat the sound accurately, it really grabs your attention.
> Covering your tracks is red team 101 right?

Yes, but surprisingly few adversaries actually do this so if it's being observed in the wild, it's a notable development.
Yes I’ve been a supervisor in both feature film and vfx at major studios, as has my partner who currently still works in the industry. I maintain close ties with several major studios and am still a well known entity in the industry. I feel like I can speak with quite a reasonable level of confidence in this space

You made two claims, that the jobs have been laid off (correct) and moved to India (incorrect). The layoffs are parts of market changes due to the strikes and production cuts before then. The implication that it was caused and will lead to outsourcing is not borne in reality for feature/tv animation.

But yes several studios are hiring still. The job fair at the recent Spark conference in Vancouver had several studios open. Feature and Tv animation hasn’t seen the slowdown that other areas of the market have and will bounce back faster.
Only because of company culture, in most enterprise projects I work on, doesn't matter the stack, everything gets legal and IT approvement into the internal Nexus.

Devs might do whatever they feel locally, however if those files are going through CI/CD their dependencies better be in Nexus.
And they shouldn't need to worry about that. Neither should others, honestly.

I mean, realistically I know that some folks don't have real choices, and that includes whether or not they get to concentrate on school or whether they need to work - but it doesn't have to be that way so often.
Mostly stuff born out of technical ego ("_Our_ problems require a solution that isn't off the shelf"). It's usually been a mistake. Some examples:

- Shitty worse Airflow/Step Functions (MedTech startup, FinTech startup).

- Shitty worse AWS Athena (Green Energy startup)

- Shitty worse Supergraph (FinTech startup)

- Shitty worse...idk PlayFab? We attempted to rebuild every single component of PlayFab, but custom, and before we had any users (Games startup)

Would be happy to talk about any if there's interest. Those are just the most egregious.

edit Worth noting I suppose I didn't follow your prompt exactly, as I was not a founder at any of these startups. Consistently engineer #2-3, behind a technical cofounder. So I tried and failed at steering away from building these solutions.
Yes

https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/oversight-of-the-federal-...

> We have seen the far-reaching disruptive impact a serious supply-chain compromise can have through the SolarWinds intrusions, conducted by the Russian SVR.
Cutting out carbs completely. It's crazy how it knocks me out at 2/3PM like clockwork until I discovered this. Now my energy is stable through the day, and I sleep much better, and get up at 5:30am to job. It's nuts right? But try it, no carbs.
Can confirm, never felt more tired day to day than when I was drinking two cups of coffee per day. Stopped 2 years ago and never looked back. The first 30 days are the worst, but after that, a glass of water wakes me up just as effectively.
oh, in that case it's awesome news!
an article on a website is actually nothing like lynching
Amusingly, I was just about to pick a distro to install.
Hello Debian.
ubi just shifts the income distribution so a larger fraction gets spent on the things the poor want than used to be the case. e.g. Fewer McMansions, more apartments. the incentive to work isn't suddenly gone, just no longer life threatening.

compare to the standard conservative argument for inequality (a rising tide lifts all boats), which explicitly depends on economic growth.
Nice! Time to create another donut.
I initially thought the same, but my current model is that the mirror would also have a very low emissivity so you can't passively cool (only not heat so much).
I love to talk to just about anyone, but when I ordered a pumpkin spice latte, decaf with almond milk I would've really preferred a digital kiosk tbh. Felt really weird to order this as a dude, even though I wanted it. I also don't get pushed into weird and totally overblown tips. (Even though I'm based in Germany, it got to us as well. Thanks USA!)
Stuff like this is why I don't want OTA updates in my cars. Let the car dealership deal with it during regular maintenance. They'll be on the hook for fixing it before handing the car back to me.
Tesla Won't Sue Cybertruck Resellers Anymore
I am going to a GIS conference and I saw Felt on the list of sessions. Didn't know what it was until now.
That’s a huge plus for me. CarPlay or nothing. BMW is becoming closer to a Tesla like screen. GM is supposed to drop CarPlay in favor of whatever they are doing on their EVs.

I don’t want my ICE/EV to become a SaaS app where I’m paying $500 a year to use my own car.
Split units in the US tend to be crazy expensive. When I was shopping for an AC, it was definitely a few thousand more than a regular (central) AC. I know folks in other countries buy it all the time, so it must be cheaper there.
Didnt CentOS...go away or am I confusing it with another distro?
Show HN: GPT-4-Vision UX audit for your landing page (relaunch)
Last week, I got seriously fascinated by the new GPT-4 Vision API introduced on OpenAI DevDay, so I decided to build a UX Audit tool with this API.

It's pretty simple to use - just go to https://flawless.is and enter your homepage or landing page URL.

I'm using the urlbox API to get a screenshot of your page, then I utilize GPT-4V to analyze the screenshot, find potential usability and conversion issues, suggest fixes, and highlight the relevant areas in the screenshot (although the position is sometimes inaccurate).

Last week, I launched it on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207892), but I wasn't ready for the 20,000 visitors that came next... Unfortunately, GPT-4V has a rate limit of 100 events daily, so almost no one could use the service - EPIC FAIL.

To manage demand, I now priced the service at $1.99 (still less than a cup of coffee), which should keep the demand at bay, and also cover the costs of GPT-4V, the screenshot API, and hosting.

As a proof of concept, there are some demo audits on the homepage you can click and check out.

Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions on how to improve it!
>ChatGPT is not going to tell you how to design a system, architect properly, automate, package, test, deploy, etc.

Really? Please explain how chatGPT can not, but you can? What magic is it that you know that it's incapable of explaining?
> Well huggingface and tons of others offer stable diffusion training services.

Huggingface also has porn-focussed trained stable-diffusion models. [0] They also have celebrity-trained models. [1]

[0] e.g., https://huggingface.co/WolfAether21/NSFW-STABLE-DIFFUSION-LO...

[1] e.g., (yes, poor quality from the samples) https://huggingface.co/lora-library/12jenniferl
This, and more ..

... all the way out to the digital frontier of professional wacom tablets and 4 feet wide plotters. A fun hobby for some.
My favorite is Chicago's reversible express lanes, which have thirteen physical gates you have to blow through in order go to the wrong way. I always wonder if they add another set every time someone still drives through them all.
There is no tax harmonization in Europe; therefore, each country regulates taxes differently. While most countries offer some form of guidance, explicit regulation is not universal.
(If someone with knowledge or experience can chime in, please feel free.)

To the best of my knowledge, poor weather (especially wind shear/microbursts) are one of the most dangerous things possible in aviation. Is there any chance, or plans, to implement this in the current weather radars in planes?
I try to write down what I was going to do next before stopping, but I’m not sure how much it helps. It’s a heavy hit, and I get a little frustrated when it’s not an emergency and it keeps happening.
The 'visit source' button links to an Amazon listing of Penrose's book
https://github.com/lapce/lapce says,

> Lapce (IPA: /læps/) is written in pure Rust with a UI in Floem. It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages Wgpu for rendering.

So I think it's reasonable to conclude that they did move back.
Ubuntu continuing to try to push their snowflakes. nmcli/nmtui works acceptably well. ifupdown-ng works great. What problem is Ubuntu trying to solve?
Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion
> Where does it say you should expect troubles?

AFAIK every Linux distribution has a section on the website about recommended hardware, don't they? Yes, Linux is better than Windows in many ways, and many people have a good reason to say that. Maybe they should always add that you should choose your hardware carefully, which I did above.

> no victim blaming

The victims in this case are Linux developers and the whole Linux community, which is harmed by unsubstantiated claims that Linux doesn't work reliably. Nobody guaranteed ever that any OS would work on all hardware in the world. I'm tired of this myth.

> Does it really matter that much which exact issues, on an opinion piece?

What if I write an opinion piece that Windows is extremely buggy and slow on my unspecified hardware (which happens to be, e.g., a MacBook or oldest Raspberry Pi)? Does such "opinion piece" bring anything useful to the audience?
Agreed! But it also has a high cost for the community of the city. I still prefer my Airpods in the sub.
Well, what is "real weather data?"

We have dozens of complementary and contradictory sources of weather information. Different types of satellites measuring EM radiation in different bands, weather stations, terrestrial weather radars, buoys, weather balloons... it's a massive hodge-podge of different systems measuring different things in an uncoordinated fashion.

Today, it's not really practical to assemble that data and directly feed it into an AI system. So the state-of-the-art in AI weather forecasting involves using an intermediate representation - "reanalysis" datasets which apply a sophisticated physics based weather model to assimilate all of these data sets into a single, self-consistent 3D and time-varying record of the state of the atmosphere. This data is the unsung hero of the weather revolution - just as the WMO's coordinated synoptic time observations for weather balloons catalyzed effective early numerical weather prediction in the 50's and 60's, accessible re-analysis data - and the computational tools and platforms to actually work with these peta-scale datasets - has catalyzed the advent of "pure AI" weather forecasting systems.
It was written in part (I suspect in large part) by Robert Bryce

I don't see that he's an author or indicated as helping outside of an interview. He's quoted in the story, although not with the detail you provided.

I am an adamant supporter of electrification and of sustainable energy, but I don't see why we can't read articles such as this one, which seems to cover many points about the cost of heat pumps, the expense of energy, and many other aspects of the economics of the issue without needing to be spoon fed a story 'from our side' or whatever.
You got me haha
If we’re talking science fiction, then sure, you could do anything.

You’re talking about metal tube that never reached the orbit. You thing you just need “slight” customization to make it a space station?

That thing doesn’t fly yet, is not human rated, has no life support capabilities, has unknown lifetime in space, has no propulsion system that would keep it in orbit for long period of time and bazillions of other things.

It’s just a metal tube at this point. I know it’s cool to fantasize what it could be, but so far its metal tube that doesn’t even fly and is hugely behind schedule.

And it’s built by guy, who’s known for overhyping.
LoL
It got me

will tell everyone
No, blinking dot all the way down. Waiting some more does the trick.
Yeah that is a much more succinct way to put it!
ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
> Yep. I'm surprised anyone hears a problem like this without immediately thinking of maps and sets.

If you want to import a day's worth of access logs into a hash map, you need to take into account not only the time but also the space complexity of this sort of solution.

Depending on how much traffic a service handles and also on the misguided arbitrary beliefs of a reviewer, importing a day's worth of accesses into a hash map can be a gross mistake and deemed a no-hire with prejudice.

This exercise is even dumber if we take into account that something like importing access logs into something like sqlite, querying data, and discarding the database is something that might be as efficient (if not more) and can take a hand-full of lines of code to implement.

Also, personally I'd consider a sign of incompetence complaining about using a proper database to ingest and query data efficiently but also believes that the time complexity of a task which is expected to run once per day is a hire/no-hire deal-maker. Computational complexity matters for code running in a hot path. Beyond that, either you're playing trivial pursuit or failing to understand the basics of what you're doing.
From what I can tell from reading & based off https://colab.research.google.com/github/deepmind/graphcast/... ,
one needs access to ECMWF Era5 or HRES data-sets or something similar to be able to run and use this model.

Unknown what licensing options ECMWF offers for Era5, but to use this model in any live fashion, I think one is probably going to need a small fortune. Maybe some other dataset can be adapted (likely at great pain)...
Interesting. I presume harder to tamper with (due to CC) attestation wouldn't help if the developer were compromised/had ill intent/wrote an exploitable bug, while sandboxing or other confinement might (depending on the malware/exploit, and coarseness/robustness of the confinement), so they are complements?

(I'm not sure whether SolarWinds involved any malware or unintended vulnerabilities, from my casual reading it seems to have been a bunch of different attacks...in any case, these supply chain attacks/vulnerabilities exist whether they were used in SW or not...I'm just always slightly uncertain by what is meant by SW-style; not a criticsm of this comment, just laying out my ignorance!)

Re memory-safe compilers, is Graal the known one because it is (I guess it must be given the claim) pure Java? As opposed to relying on eg LLVM or GCC which are heaps of C and C++.
Is the rationale behind this statement that you’re doing DCA and you’ll come out ahead in the multi year timeline?
To me, this makes the doodles more interesting for a few reasons:

1. Penrose obviously is well known, so I’m more likely to pay attention

2. This is more about seeing how mathematicians think and less about a specific individual

3. There’s something cool about seeing that people in the field all start from the same foundation, and it brings Penrose back down to earth a bit
> Perhaps using WASM via something like https://extism.org/. That would also open it up to building plugins in multiple languages.

https://github.com/lapce/lapce already says,

> Plugins can be written in programming languages that can compile to the WASI format (C, Rust, AssemblyScript)

so it sounds like they did that?
> a grid that will support a fleet of passenger EVs.

A neighbor got a Tesla last year. Some months later he got a green transformer in the yard from electric company. He told me he paid a small portion of that cost. Now I'm paying part of electric infrastructure cost so my neighbor can charge at high speed.

People should pay for their own toys instead of spreading the costs to other rate payers.
>One isn't stuck with actually using what it outputs verbtim, and really shouldn't until at least a hypothetical GPT-6 or 7... and to use it fully now, one has to know how to nudge it when it goes into a bad direction.

Exactly.

chatGPT is the single smartest person you can ask about anything, and has unlimited patience.
> how much is there really?

The only way to really answer that to the satisfaction of every possible skeptic is to release it all. But that is a mighty risky experiment.

When you play Russian roulette, your odds of survival on the first round are pretty good, exactly 5 in 6. That doesn't mean playing Russian roulette is wise even for one round.
Hey everyone, founder of ShadowTraffic here. I built this product in 90 days bootstrapped on my own dollar, which was a wild experience all on its own. Happy to answer any questions :)
Curious if these improvements to F# signal that it has improved standing in the ecosystem.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-fsharp-8/
It is most certainly incorrect to claim that the jobs have not (at least in part) moved to India. It is also incorrect to claim that laid off workers are not being replaced with foreign vendor studios, largely in India. This is a 100% verifiable fact for at least one of the "North American" studios you mentioned.

It would appear you have taken your own experience, which I'm sure is vast, and made the mistake of assuming it applies to every studio. I can tell you that it does not.

I can also tell you that the job market is quite dry indeed, and that studios that were attempting to headhunt just months ago will now no longer even reply to applications.
Is it able to provide data on extreme events. Say, the current and potential path of a hurricane? similar to .kml that NOAA provides
> Controlling likenesses in AI was the whole point of the SAG strike.

No, it wasn't.

It was one important issue in the strike, but there were others (streaming residuals were a big issue, for instance.)
I love NaNoWriMo and have written and won every year since 2019. My only issue is once the month is complete, no one cares about your novel or that you finished it.

So when I got laid off earlier in the year I started working on an alternative to NaNo.

https://penpinery.com

At the moment it's in MVP but it current has:

- Author profiles w/ blogging
- Publication cataloging + reader reviews
- WIP cataloging with word count tracking
- A community feed similar to Goodreads + WIP word count updates

The idea is I think NaNo could be more social post-November. With Pen Pinery's current MVP I think Authors can build a readership fanbase much easier than anything NaNo could do.

In the future I want to also have goal tracking based on pages instead of word count and for editing as well. I also think there's a lot of potential for building out an ARC sign up system.

Pretty much I've self-published 15+ books and I'm putting everything that worked for me into a social author/reading platform.

Authors who use NaNo or are completely against it, I'd love to get some feedback on the concept from a description standpoint. Any thoughts or tips?

---

Since this is YC, the tech stack is Django 4, Postgres and Bootstrap 5; Hosted on DigitalOcean.
There's no definitive study that I'm aware of, but anecdotally many people have trouble getting to sleep if they consume caffeine too late in the day, and/or struggle to get out of bed before regularly consuming caffeine in the morning.
We need a term for "culture war adjacency bias".
People forget this goes both ways. Legal systems completely break down across international borders except for the most esteemed international criminals.

The number of hoops someone has to jump through to launch international investigations is incredibly expensive, both in time and money. It's also a lot of luck and playing hyper-political games like throwing a party for an ambassador. Ask how I know :)

In short, one could hire locals to dish out vigilante justice with virtual impunity.
It’s pretty common in the Bitcoin community.
>At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself about what your hourly rate is.

At the end of the day it's a question of how much ROI are you getting. Your hourly rate is irrelevant, when you're just learning a new tech... because when you're hacking/learning the hourly rate is $0.
Book more calls with hyper-personalized LinkedIn cold outreach
works well to get you leads
In the last 53 years, there have been 2,057 shooting fatalities in K-12 schools in the US [0]. That's an average of 38 per year. As of 2020, there were 56,282,248 K-12 enrolled students [1]. So there's a .000067% chance that any given one of those students will be shot and killed in any given year.

That's what you're worried about? A .000067% chance? You must live a life of crippling fear then, the number of things more deadly to your kids than .000067% is staggering. I assume you never let them enter a vehicle of any kind, for example.

By the way, of that 38 per year number, less than 10% happens inside a classroom [0]. The most likely location is outside in the school parking lot, a violent dispute between students, and not a "mass shooting" scenario. So if you were mostly concerned about "mass shootings", the odds of death are over 10 times less than .000067%.

[0] https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/safety/k-12-school-shoo...
[1] https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/education/k-...
Well I did, especially on my vacation to the US. I connected with almost anyone, especially in rural areas. Still cherishing the memory of the dude I talked to for ages in the gas station in the nowhere of Nevada. Or the place where I got the coffee that had lots of police patches from all over the world somewhere on the Route 66 in AZ.
PRNG Evaluation and Benchmarks for Monte Carlo Simulations