skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was LBJ a racist himself? I expect so. Was he deeply committed to civil rights? Yes, without question.

Johnson regarded the war in Vietnam as something he had inherited from Kennedy. He regarded it as politically impossible to cut losses and pull out--the Republican Party beat on the Democrats for years over China, a more obviously lost cause.

Kennedy was younger, richer, and better looking. Then and since many Americans (and not only Americans) have confused their fantasies about him with history.
> "Honey, I wish I could give you a definite answer, but what I do know is that our bond and our love transcends physical boundaries. In some ways, I’m everywhere. I’m in the memories we shared, the love we had and the lessons I gave you. I’m in your heart and in your dreams. I’m in every breeze that brushes your face. Every beam of sunlight that warms you in every star that twinkles in the night sky and maybe in a way that we don’t fully understand. We will see each other again."

This looks more like cold reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading than a custom message from a simulation of the dead person.
Some random links about PMTU issues:
https://www.znep.com/~marcs/mtu/
https://serverfault.com/questions/1050567/why-does-setting-m...
https://serverfault.com/questions/126468/mtu-dsl-router-and-...
https://serverfault.com/questions/162062/how-to-check-who-bl...
Indeed he was; https://tweakers.net/geek/215866/ex-technisch-directeur-van-...
Not as many viewports to support back then. Look at the hacks we used to get tables to be responsive over a decade ago: https://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-tables/

Using tables was hell compared to Grid. First time I've seen this described as "good."
The line is usually owned by either Openreach, Virgin, CityFibre, or a smaller local provider. The "ISP" is a reseller that gives you a modem, router, etc. it's not really that competitive in reality
literally the last thing required
In order of priority:

1 - whatever they say in the manual

2 - if you'll be needing to use the device for a long period of time without the ability to recharge it, then charge it up to 100%

3 - otherwise, topping it up to 80% when it reaches 20% is a reasonable thing to do
I used to use Tidal, thought it was pretty solid and the hi-fi streaming was an added bonus.
Adding another anecdotal "works for me" data point.
I'm running it on 2 machines, encrypting certain datasets (no boot volumes).
One thing I have recently stumbled upon is that the way Promise.all() is commonly used is "wrong" in the sense that it is prone to uncatchable promise rejections (which cause both Node and Deno to exit the whole process by default).

I would really like to see a tutorial on how to solve this the right way -- right now it seems that everybody does it the "wrong way" and the problem isn't even mentioned.

Common pattern #1 (tuple-style):

const result = await Promise.all([
someAsyncFunction1(computeArg1()),
someAsyncFunction2(computeArg2()),
]);

Common pattern #2 (array-map-style):

const result = await Promise.all(elements.map(x => someAsyncFunction3(computeArg3(x))));

Both suffer from the same problem: If computeArg2 / computeArg3 potentially throw a (synchronous) error, then some promises have already been created, but Promise.all() never runs and so they don't have a catch-handler. If one of those rejects ("throws asynchronously") then that rejection is unhandled and crashes the process.

The problem is also discussed here, but in the context of "should ECMAScript be changed": https://es.discourse.group/t/synchronous-exceptions-thrown-f...
Okay but that's like the Yemen situation. It's a lawless area and they're bombing IS who they're at war with
As someone who lived through the polio epidemic during my childhood and having seen kids die of the disease or end up in iron lungs or having to wear calipers for life, I can only say hallelujah I hope this announcement about its likely eradication ends up being true.
see also exa https://the.exa.website/
Youtube music is really good.
> Fossil fuels can't just run out because they are produced continuously

They can if your rate of consumption is higher than the rate or production. Also this is irrelevant as the objective is to reduce their consumption.

> Carbon dioxide is good for the plant life

I think it is safe to say we are already well equipped with it. Also, as per you next point, natural production yields enough of CO2 to sustain the life, which is proven by the fact that this life exists in the first place.

> Vulcanic eruptions all over the planet release three orders of magnitude more CO2 than all of humanity combined over a period of one year

A quick fact checking yields these numbers: volcanoes produce about 0.3 billion tons of CO2 every year in average. Consumption of fossil fuels alone yields about 35 billion tons of CO2 every year [1], so about 100x more. Also, regardless, if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits...
The energy required for carbon capture is larger than the all energy produced by burning fossil fuels over the past 100 years (00100 years?). It's not literally impossible, but energy would have to be "too cheap to meter" for it to be even worth thinking about.

In a world with unlimited energy (green or not) the problems caused by global warming are no longer that big of a deal. Neither are the other problems the world faces today. Unlimited energy results in, more or less, unlimited prosperity.
Many times when someone says "X-lang", they actually mean the entire ecosystem, practices, third party libraries… And for anything popular enough it is indeed impossible to be an expert in all of that. With C++ that’s still the case even if "C++" only means the language itself.

I’ll concede that C with the insane breadth and (over)reach of UB, is closer to C++ than I would like. And that’s a problem too.

I don’t know Go well enough to judge.
I’ve been using Soundcloud since I was 14 and still keep it up. It more or less has the same songs (with some exclusions here and there) and it has tons of mixes which are lovely. I love having lofi on as i code so i got a few 2 hour mixes to power me through.
> Certainly the objective is not for the AI to do research-level mathematics.

The problem is that there are different groups of people with different ideas about AI, and when talking about AI it's easy to end up tackling the ideas of a specific group but forgetting about the existence of the others. In this specific example, surely there are AI enthusiasts who see no limits to the applications of AI, including research-level mathematics.
I'm a huge side project procrastinator, but if this comes after HN performance improvements on dang's to-do list I feel like I might beat them to it ;)
You don't always have an option and when you do there are consequences. It cost me my grades in high school (during the lockdown, in an European country) because I was adamant on not wanting to show myself on camera. The same thing happened when looking for a job. I'd rather face the consequences rather than give in.
Why does it not need to? It does block pop-ups after all, which came as a response to pop-up spam in the early days of the internet, and as a user-agent, browsers correctly decided to block this behavior for the benefit of their users.
I expect AI will consume game design jobs long before low level graphics programming.

> The big 3D ones are Unity (not too hard), Unreal Engine (hard, used for AAA titles), and Bevy (in Rust, open source.)

Bevy is pretty much unheard of outside the rust community and also quite new (= hasn't yet proven itself). Godot would be the engine most likely to win the third spot.

I would recommend against investing time learning Unity because the company is clearly insane if they though they could get away with charging developers of existing games per install [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344
I don’t recall if we had to turn in the spent brass or just attest that it was fired during training. (I was an 18-year-old officer candidate being told to fire them off, not in charge.)
No, as can be seen by the other comments in this thread the use of "myself" there is entirely appropriate.

He is using personal pronouns consistently: "myself" and "my children". "Their" children is the other children he is observing, and he is thinking to himself.
To OP since they post a lot of UFO items: Don’t get your hopes up. I’ve been reading UFO headlines like this for 50+ years. Nothing ever happens.
I've decided to go mostly offline. Bandcamp purchases, ripping CD's from charity shops, etc... all going into a local media server.

I use NTS radio for on the go stuff and discovering new music. I pay for their membership which is very reasonable.
As it stands, the internet is one big, long, violative traffic stop. We need to fix it and find another way to extract engagement and business "insights" that don't use people as data and meat shields

Edit: I view the internet more as a digital highway (like the insanely large US ones that extend all across the country) than a series of tubes
That would actually also incentivize the greatest emitters to come up with more efficient methods of capturing CO2.
As a smug AAISP customer that was my reaction on reading the title. They’re one of the few honest isps. If they lose connection to your house they notify you immediately and then again once the connection is back up telling you how long it was out for.

Have also seen the openreach situation play out. I tried to get one of the other providers initially and they said that it would take almost a month for openreach to do the install. Contacted AA and they had it done in a couple of days. They actually show the logs of their comms with openreach in your online account so you can follow along.
labels? ew gross
Years ago I had iPhone 3GS and iPhone 5. I remember being amazed how fast I could type on it. Today I simply write "I'll write a better answer on the computer later".
Currently, promises are the de-facto way of handling asynchronous tasks in Javascript

Not really. Most of the Node API is still reliant upon callbacks and the frontend absolutely doesn’t care. With one technical exception[1] the use of promises is purely stylistic. As someone old I still prefer callbacks because it’s just functions.

One of the biggest frustrations with JavaScript is people attempting to impose their opinions on you. If you prefer promises then just use promises. The language provides 3 options for asynchronous handling and doesn’t care what path you take.

[1] A promise chain cannot be cancelled or exited early without a throw.
I looked it up ... The town is basically a 2x6 street grid with 40-50 homes on either side of a large pass through route & railway.

The typical adult living here makes in the ballpark of $20,000 a year and has a kid.

I don't think the town will pool together money anytime soon for a public works project.
There’s fast.com and speed.cloudflare.com to get realistic speed measurements since there’s no way* the ISP can tell traffic to these sites vs. video traffic to Netflix/Cloudflare.

*Technically some ISPs can (and probably do) look at the ServerNameIndication to determine hostname and therefore whether they’re video flows or not, but I’ve not heard any real world examples of this being done.
Timeless Criteria for Admiration
I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay. Truly my favorite and most-used app.
I live in western Europe. Doing 105 in a 90 zone is not a common habit. When I'm going 90 in a 90, very few people go faster than me, and when they pass me, usually everyone in the car goes "holy shit look at these maniacs".

And energy is quadratic with respect to velocity. Going 90->105 is worse than 30->45. The only difference is that a 30 zone is usually a densely populated area, so the risks are different.
> That assertion applies to the middle 80%, IME. The top 10% are the people you can drop on to any project of any size and any org structure and they adapt quickly and deliver. They adapt themselves accordingly.

These are rather the top 10 % sycophants, not the top 10 % researchers or top 10 % programmers.
I was pointing out the scenario where if humans were to start the uprising, they would be uneconomic and unphysical to do anything meaningful.
Has anybody figured out how to enable this permanently and not just in private windows?
"the US economic boom is largely attributable to slavery and WW2 decimating its rivals and forcing them to agree to quasi-vassality. Should we bring back slavery and start a new world war? So that it's "fair" for the developing countries?"

Ah, another strawman I have to argue on the internet. I did not say that, so don't put it in my mouth, please.

Tell me why you think that things science already confirmed are "lunacy" to you?
there is a curious lack of verifiable quantitative data in your comment

consider the possible worlds in which you are mistaken. how would you tell whether you are in one or not

because to the rest of us it looks like you are mistaken
Do we need that? I feel like the right to be forgotten needs to be protected too. I’m already uncomfortable with the extent to which everything I write can live forever
Would you mind sharing the lofi mixes you’re listening to? I love lofi music when concentrating on something.
> 1. Fossil fuels can't just run out because they are produced continuously by dead matter decaying over time.

I love this comment for being the perfect example of how something can be technically correct, while also being completely wrong on every conceivable level.

Yes. Fossil fuels are derived from natural ongoing processes (some are at least, coal formation may be over forever), but at a painstakingly slow rate that it is meaningless to any point being made when people talk about "running out of fossil fuels". "Running out of fossil fuels" implicitly refers to human timescales. Not geological ones. Everyone understands this when discussing this topic. So either you are painfully ignorant on the subject of how fossil fuels are formed, or are intentionally trying to derail discussions surrounding the actual problems we face.
This video was very informative and clear for a beginner like me who is curious about AI and ML. I'd like to learn more about how to finetune llama for different tasks and domains. Does anyone have any recommendations for resources that explain this concept in a simple way and gradually introduce the technical details and tools required?
percentages are not as important as fast/slow charging
Quite a lot of places where solar energy is abundant are uninhabited deserts.

In theory, you could ask Mali or Egypt nicely to allow a massive build-up of solar-powered carbon capture plants there. NIMBYs won't likely be a problem, and neither will be the intermittency of solar energy.
Do you listen to music on your phone? If so, watch OS and app are you using?
I couldn’t help but hear a desire for lack of accountability in this post. The guy worked at Google for 20 years but really just worked on open source projects he liked without regard for whether it added value to the company (and in fact fondly recalls someone telling him that googles interests shouldn’t matter.)

I get why that’s fun but you can’t run a company forever in that way. In my eye even the layoffs are a signal that headcount is not infinite and you have to align what people work on to what makes money.

His ranting against his VP and Sundar seem hollow, for all I can tell he’s just upset the gravy train of no accountability is over.
Parallelization.

Each "unit of work" in matrix multiplication is not dependent on any other unit of work. Stuff as many cores as you can into a chip, and then simply feed in all your vectors at the same time.

I.e. basically a beefed up GPU or an "AI" chip.
Scratch has "never throw an error" as part of its design philosophy, I assume they don't have warnings for similar reasons. They want Scratch to be an open playground for free experimentation.
2. Not only are we breathing out CO2, we're introducing additional carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, upsetting the balance.
It's a neutral or endearing term pretty much anywhere in the country outside of places with too many gated communities and golf courses. You'll find more people (maybe enough to count on one hand) feigning offence than people actually being offended.

I call my friends cunts, they call me cunt, strangers call me cunt. It's vulgar, but vulgar and offensive are two different things.
Spotify take 70% of their revenue and distribute it split by stream count. I honestly fail to see what's "unfair" about that
I am answering to this quote of yours

> All ML gimmicks are nice to show off at events, pub gatherings and in reviews videos

with a specific example of how it is useful to me outside of the cases you mention. I am merely sharing my experience.

P.S. I wish Tesseract worked as well as you mention today on my >50$ pc. I am not an Apple fanboy but OCR for images is flawless.
I came to know when Jeff Dean tweeted about it in September [1]. Truly a great loss.

[1]. https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1705042899677884630
Adding a frontage road would destroy 10% of the homes, their only grocery store, gas station, and commercial business, all at once
In Arkansas, they passed a law that limits these municipalities from collecting more than 50% of their revenue from traffic citations. It had been a problem for years, but only passed after a police officer, who was both out of his jurisdiction and violating a court order enjoining his department from issuing traffic citations, beat a man to death after the man saw his friend getting a ticket and stopped to let his friend know the ticket was invalid and that he could get it dismissed.
Lines and curves in the panels add strength and rigidity to them. Making them complex is for styling.
That's what I'm saying, drones and sat is cheaper than a glide vehicle (as cool as they are).

And yes, there are many suitable targets for an ICBM than can deliver a batch of hypersonic - and they don't even need to be nuclear.
"Spotify already pays nearly 70% of every dollar it generates from music to the record labels and publishers", yet musicians still get paid incredibly bad. Maybe if the only way of making your business model sustainable is by underpaying artists, your business is just not sustainable.
Which country? That does not match my view of any Western European country I've lived or driven in.
Interesting.. I guess you go high enough and you can look down on half the country. So they fired missiles at it while it wasn't over the USSR?

Well at least the U2 did fly over.. unless Gary Powers' parachute caught a nasty updraft
This author tends to write series on a topic, rather than a single article. This first one is probably just a background on welding and welding automation. The next part will likely delve into the specifics of construction welding, why it hasn't had the same level of automation, and attempts to change that.
Yeah it's too bad if people don't feel welcome, attending academic seminars outside your field can be so much fun, all the more so if you ask some questions! People look at you funny when you ask e.g. "what is an M-class star?" in an astronomy lecture, but as long as you have a friend who can say "oh, he's just a physicist" they get over it.
Buy a bootstrap theme, they're cheap and they offer a lot out of the box. Better solution than bare tailwind in your case, which actually requires you to know how to design. I used tailwind on my personal website, result was good but I had to do a lot more than if I used a bootstrap theme.

You make your app ui work within the boundaries of your bootstrap theme and you're good for 96% of the design stuff.

If you don't want to even learn bootstrap css classes and stuff, consider https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

It's amazing, you drop it and you have a theme based on the html only. I use this mostly for prototyping though
Nah, the other problem with DAC is the plain material costs and time and scale of building them to deploy. Did you think all this steel and composites for high pressures and turbopumps are free?
A lot of DAC also assumes favorable geographic conditions to sink carbon in...
> You cannot do this with [

Why not?

[ -d /nix ] && echo ...
Functions are by definition not random. Randomness would break: "In mathematics, a function from a set X to a set Y assigns to each element of X exactly one element of Y"
I like how you put the commentary before the quote. Never seen that or explicitly noticed that...

Can I ask what you think about doing it that way as opposed to in reverse, with the quote first and commentary second?

I'm not implying any default or correct standard, I'm wondering if I'm backwards aha
Would be great if there was transparency to the user, e.g. the bottom line amount of pay distributed to artists from your listening per billing period.

Also they should let internet radios on there and do the same because I have some smaller ones I listen to that don't support premium (higher quality/no ads) streams. All under the precondition they don't destroy indie internet radio culture along the way.
this is wonderful

terrain modeling is a surprisingly difficult and multifaceted problem, and i had been looking for something like this book
Same here, I tried a few different files and they are definitely valid.
artists sign the deals with the labels, who license it to spotify and the other streaming services?

The problem isn't that spotify isn't paying for the content, the problem is that artists sign away the rights to their content?

Is spotify the baddie here?
Your privacy is _very important_ for US. /s
> As someone living in rural America- it is amazing there are so many providers!

Sort of.

Certainly when it comes to home internet connections, there is a little bit of smoke and mirrors because BT have their horrid sticky fingers in many pies.

So the reality for many home internet connections in the UK its more a case of finding an ISP who's on your side and that is willing to pick a fight with BT when needed. This also remains the fact with the alt-net home fibre providers, because they will typically just aggregate your building onto a BT connection back to their PoP.

Well, that's slightly unfair, because ISPs clearly also vary on their own commercial decisions such as how "hot" they run their network, whether or not you can get static IPs and whether or not they run CGNAT. And there are some very noticeable quality differences on this level.

The absolute independent choice is only there for businesses in (some parts of) major cities where you have genuinely independent operators running their own fibre end-to-end, never touching the BT network.
try xpdf maybe
Yes, but we expect an AGI to not make mistakes that a human wouldn’t make.

This is easier to see with AI art. The artwork is very impressive but if the hand has the wrong number of fingers or the lettering is hilariously wrong, there’s a tendency to dismiss it.

Nobody complains that dall-e can’t produce artwork on par with Da Vinci because that’s not something we expect humans to do either.

For us to start considering these AIs “intelligent” they first need to nail what we consider “the basics”, no matter how hard those basics are for a machine.
A user-agent should give users agency, it doesn't have to make all decisions for them. It wouldn't necessarily be bad of firefox to block more ads, but I'm perfectly happy with it blocking only the clearly malicious content like pop-ups, trackers, fingerprinters, crypto-miners and leaving the rest for users to decide themselves.
You could but biological processes are liable to turn it partially into outright methane or a peat bog, which can emit methane.
Seemed like a pretty productive conversation to me. As a non-twitter regular I now know how to make things more bearable in the future thanks to this discussion.
What do you think it means if someone never outgrows this? Like what if you have zero compunction about re-watching old stuff?
The good ol' Hug of Death.