skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I get a weird 'feeling' from the Strong Towns movement, and I can't put my finger on why

An organization with a subtly culturally imperialist name ("the cities are all fine, but all small towns are all broken everywhere") is unlikely to have your best interests at heart even if its conclusions may have some validity.

The thing that this lobby group misses is that, ultimately, most smaller towns are in maintenance mode (we soft-banned most resource extraction and what is left only requires a tenth of the workforce) and that's true to a degree for smaller cities as well. This isn't something you can easily do with a major city because the infrastructure is more heavily used and won't as gracefully degrade, but you can keep rural roads serviceable for a long time with simple maintenance.

And this is why "stroads" exist in the first place- that's already the cost-optimized solution (take 2 lane road, expropriate some front yards/front parking, now you have a 4-lane road that can support through traffic and exiting traffic), and reworking them is not going to help a town that Strong Towns claims in the same article "are financially irresponsible and don't even have enough tax revenue to sustain maintenance".

Surely, if they don't have bread, perhaps they might consider cake?
I have an odd usecase that I've yet to find a good solution to: Reading construction documents (Blueprints are always PDF). I've had much better luck parsing DXF (AutoCAD) files but it's not always easy to get an architect to send them to me even if I'm the GC on the job.
And, of course, there is the story where Samsung replaces the moon with its high res version.

I don't think photography from phone can actually be trusted to be a faithful representation of reality as it is not a purely mechanical series of actions. This will be even worse if ai is involved in the process.

I certainly think that there is an argument for photographic evidence to be inadmissible in court.
Also cars are driven more than repaired. Highways are used more than they need to be maintained. Yet if you don't include some thought to how to deal with a situation where something breaks, this could (and very likely: will) eventually come back to haunt you.

But code is not the same as your car. If money is not an issue and your car breaks you could just get another one that drives equally well. Try doing that if your code breaks.

So whether values like readability, maintainability etc. can be important for good code is out of the question — what remains an open question is (on a per file basis) how to priorize between those two if such a need arises.

And that isn't a small "if": One should guard themselves against the simple thought that these are inevitable tradeoffs that are mutually exclusive. You can easily make code that is both unreadable and doesn't run well. You can also make extremely readable code that runs nearly perfectly. The latter is of course harder than writing the same code to just run well, but if you are not coding alone or your project is beyond a certain scale it might be well worth the extra thought.

The solution space for "clear structure" and "good performance" is smaller than for either of those alone, so finding a good solution here is a bigger challenge, but depending on what you plan to do it could be worth a try.
> I wonder if its inherent in the nature of the simpler x86 DOS based systems of the time

I also learned Turbo Pascal without any books (I had a Basic book, because that came with the computer). But it was way easier. Drawing pixels was as easy as just selecting your (double buffered!) display mode and, well drawing pixels. Same with the reading of e.g. the joystick port or the mouse, you'd just read it.
Something in the British/Irish mentality which appeals to flawed geniuses such as him. We like our hero’s to have a drink/drug problem.
I remember it well, including the fonts it bundled .. burned into my retina even today, given the crazy code I wrote using that toolkit. Thanks for the nice memories, I always wonder what happen to TTK .. as well as PC-Write, for which I had the source code license, and always tried to pack along with the TTK in my backups for some reason (I was a weird kid) ..
It's a weighted random choice, so a bit better than randomly because of the weights, but not much better.
A Repair Lawsuit Against John Deere Clears a Major Hurdle
"Some activists believe that the mismatch between Spain's clock time and solar time contributes to the country's unusual daily schedule.[9] They believe that the relatively late sunrises and sunsets shift the average Spaniard's day later than it otherwise would be, and that a return to its original time zone would help boost productivity and bring family and work rhythms into better balance.[10]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain#Criticism_of_t...

But both Portugal and Spain are living in the wrong time zone, which is at least one hour off compared to natural solar time. So it most probably don't make a difference health wise if you move from Portugal to Spain.
you mentioned koolaid somewhere in your replies. sounds like you're drinking good ol U.S. of A koolaid.

good on you! the car the picket fence the lawn and the McMansion. it's just that it doesn't really work that way for most people. and "most people" ends up being apparently very tricky in US history let's just say.
I just looked up Houston's commute time and all[^1] the[^2] sources[^3] I found seem to say otherwise.

I also found this[^4]: Apparently Europe's cities with the longest commute time have about the same commute time as Houston. Not to mention that Paris and Budapest have populations many times the size of Houston.

^1 https://houston.innovationmap.com/houston-worst-traffic-comm...

^2 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/transpor...

^3 https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/03-04-19-houst...

^4 https://www.mynewsdesk.com/eurofound/news/budapest-paris-and...
"In the long run, we're all dead."
>Why don't they all have big buttons, which are much easier to push?

In Australia, they all do have big buttons.
> they are incapable of critical reduction, ie "which laws should we get rid of?"

Why do you say that?

I've had success in cases where I want to simplify an article or table of contents. I've shared it with GPT4 and said something along the lines of "this article/TOC is overly complex and I want to keep the only the most important parts. What would you suggest I remove to make this easier to read" or similar prompts.

I've used this quite a lot as I've been writing tutorials recently and I tend to be too wordy/over explain things in my first drafts. The results have been pretty good, especially with detailed TOCs (i.e. a TOC of all the headings and subheadings in a long article).
Well, it's typical of the phoronix forum, they even start a fight over zstd compression levels. Like a bunch of 12 year olds who "mastered" installing system x, they now have to defend their choice of distribution, file system, desktop/wm, wayland or x11, and at the same time attack everything else because their choice was superior.
How have you become more hard-working?
> Is a nipple present in the scene? Then too bad, you can't press the shutter.
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Oh yes you can, and the black helicopters will be dispatched, your social score obliterated and credit ratings becomes skulls and bones. EU Chat Control will morph to EU Camera Control. Think of the children!
very different causes though; the xerox one was an image compression bug, IIRC; this is a "chop up multiple photots and stich together the best composite".

Still got room for library bugs! (wasn't the Samsung moon pictures sort of more like the xerox one?)
I bet the operators on the front lines are pretty much 100% competent with their systems. But the people at the top are not necessarily competent with their tactics. And how could they be? The weapons systems on both sides change every war. e.g. nobody predicted how the war in Ukraine would turn out.
While I agree with the gist of your comment, I cannot leave this detail uncommented

>Or, put another way: you can undo effects of a lens, or the way photo was developed classically, because each pixel is still correlated with reality,

You cannot undo each and every effect. Polarizing filters (filters, as are lens coatings, are part of a classical lens in my opinion), gradual filters, etc effectively disturb this correlation.

As does classic development, if you work creatively in the lab (as I did as a hobby a long time ago in analog times) where you decide which photographic paper to use, how to dodge or burn, etc.

But yes, I agree that computational photography offers a different kind of reality distortion.
Basically he's describing immutable storage and what we now call write-append-log DB backend.

Quite a foresight at time when microcomputers persisted data on audio tapes and Sinclair launched a computer with custom chassis, keyboard, PCB and 3.5MHz Z80 CPU,..., but yet chose to include only 1kB of RAM to keep the costs low.
What kind of system do you need for that?
In reality it'd fall apart on any attempt at either the Black Diamond Drilling Kalgoorlie Desert Race or the Finke Desert Race (classic Australian Mad Max racing events).

The courses are long, rough as guts, and the woops destroy vehicles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPOd4iq5d4A
About 24 years ago I built a webmail service based on C++ cgi's. FastCGI existed, but that required perfect memory management. CGI let us do what your instructor did, and on one hand it saved us from dealing with leaks at all, and on the other it reduced the performance overhead of going for CGIs - much faster to deallocate the whole heap in one go.

We'd manually deallocate particularly big allocations, but otherwise we knew the process would die within fractions of a second anyway, so the increased memory use was fairly limited.

We served a couple of million users with that using servers with a combined capacity lower than my current desktop.
I'll be interested to see if the Elaphe in-wheel motors are designed into a high ground clearance 4WD. The site says added weight 25-65kg but maybe that is two motors for 2WD? A grunty 4WD tyre like a 33 inch (33/12.50R20) might weigh 33kg per tyre (not sure if rim weight), so the additional unsprung weight for the motor is comparatively reasonable per wheel? In-wheel would allow the suspension to be designed for much better clearance (since no shafts). Tyre might have a speed rating of Q (99mph).
> The reality of the sunlight is a broad spectrum of radio emissions: UV, infrared

Thats irrelevant, radar reflects reality, photoshop doesn't. Even children understand this distiction.
It takes up space (maybe not an issue in the US), it requires a lot more energy, and it makes using healthier transportation like walking and cycling a lot more difficult.

But yes, living spacious with a private garden and not to close to your neighbors is very nice. I would love to have both.
> do you ever wonder why dense cities are dense though? we're all fooled? slaves? red pilled or whatever color the saying is

There are no conspiracies, just pure market forces. Dense cities are more efficient for _companies_ because they allow access to larger talent pools. Basically, if you are Google, it might make sense to open an office near Amazon's campus, and hire away some of Amazon's engineers.

This has an externality: more people will have to commute into that small area, resulting in longer commute time. Alternatively, they can move to live closer to that workplace, downsizing their living space and/or increasing the real estate price (more people competing for an inherently limited resource).

We also know the market way to fix that: price the externalities via taxes or cap-and-trades. In this case, the density needs to be treated in this way.
I used the Turbo Debugger to crack or develop cheats for games, that is until I discovered Softice. It always amazed me that when I set a breakpoint, it would halt the running program, switch to text mode, I could single step for a bit, modify an opcode, then continue running, and the screen would flicker back as if nothing had happened. Even the key combination, I think it was <ctrl> <break>, would halt a lot of programs. This was in the DOS days when programs had a lot more control over the system.

My experience with Pascal was my first experience with a procedural language. Before that I had been writing BASIC. I didn't believe at first that I wouldn't need a goto statement somewhere. I recall later thinking that compared to BASIC, the resulting code was more satisfying looking. In highschool we used the Watcom compiler running on QNX on a 286. It was slower to compile I remember than my later experience with Turbo C.
Which is why there are 100+ LLMs in China ... the so-called 百模大战, battle of the 100 models.
Sure it did, no wrinkles, no moles unless huge, skin tone like after 2 weeks vacation in Carribean. What previously had to be done in photoshop to make people look younger is now done automatically, for every photo, and you can't turn it off.

They call it 'instagram look' for quite some time, Apple is the worst among all phone manufacturers (in form of furthest from actual ugly reality, but a lot of people got used to it and actually prefer it now), but all of them are making it.
Chinese prisoner's ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat
If Columbus hadn't been a wilful idiot by taking the smallest possible calculation for the diameter of the Earth and the largest available guess for how wide Asia was, he (like everyone else of his era) would have known his galleon couldn't make a trip long enough to sail west to India, and wouldn't have accidentally discovered the Americas in process of making this mistake.

I think Mars is a bad choice for a first attempt at a permanent village in space, let alone colony, because things will go wrong and the distance is so large help from earth can't[0] arrive in less than several months. Moon? Few days. Could fix "our food cargo storage exploded/was infected with deadly mould and now we don't have any" if it's on the moon, everyone dies if that happens on Mars.

Mars does have one advantage for saving the earth, though: even if we never actually go, developing the tech to make a self-sustaining colony on Mars necessary solves the biggest environmental challenges on earth.

[0] with current rockets; in principle faster ones can be made, but nuclear propulsion is frowned on for various reasons depending on exactly which one is under discussion
I'm not surprised. Barely any games on my steam list would run since they are mostly 32bit compiled.
It sounds a bit like using the same password for all your services... Hack a Nextcloud instance, gain root on any system through Docker,
Have you looked at the average commute times for the US and European cities?

Go and do that.
I think Helsing is the closest to that. Not hardware though.

https://helsing.ai/
ChatGPT was not blocked by the GFW when it first released for a few weeks (if not months, I don't remember), but at that time OpenAI already blocked China.

The geo check only happened once during login at that time, with a very clear message that it's "not available in your region". Once you are logged in with a proxy you can turn off your proxy/VPN/whatever and use ChatGPT just fine.
exactly, this tech eull send innocent people to prison
This tool shows that an EV in France pays back it's carbon debt and overtakes gasoline after 10,000Km (roughly 1 year).

https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/how-clean-are-...

It also lets you change country and various other parameters e.g. compare with diesel or hybrids.

Two other interesting things I noticed:

1.It lets you choose where the battery is made (China Vs EU average Vs Sweden) and it has relatively little impact.

2. It lets you choose solar panels instead of a national grid, and France's grid almost exactly matches the figure they use.
Interesting, so you don't think that separating different kinds of traffic (through traffic and local traffic) would inheritly also be better for car drivers?
You can alias `grep` to `gr` or even `rg`. Installing a whole entire different program just to type a shorter name is a crazy contrived justification.

I imagine a lot of devs have grep preinstalled. In fact, where is grep not installed, now that WSL exists?
i'm learning about this right here as I read, but do you mean complex numbers rather than imaginary?
If new neighborhoods had to pay for their own pipes, roads, electrical hookups and couldn't put that on existing tax payers it'd help municipal finances a lot. Sprawl is expensive from an infrastructure perspective. And the spending to benefit a few at the expense of many is not unlike some sweet heart tax deal "bringing in good jobs" at the cost of several million dollars a pop
It's not because he's not ideal. Elon musk is the caricature of the billionaire class. Does what he wants above all else, condescending about people who work for him (union busting, safety disregard), zero consideration for morals beyond his pet concern and hypocritical about them as well (free speech absolutist).

His failing and why people gravitate so much to him is that he is loud and public.
Reminds me of the concept of games in combinatorial game theory, they are a superset of surreal numbers (which are themselves a superset of the real numbers) in which the definition of the surreal numbers is loosened in a way which looses the property of they being totally ordered. This creates games (read weird numbers) which can be "confused with" or "fuzzy" with other numbers, the simplest example is * (star) which is confused with 0, i.e. not bigger or smaller than it, it's a fuzzy cloud around zero (notated 0║*). More complex games called switches can be confused with bigger intervals of numbers and are considered "hot". By creating numbers from switches you can create even more interesting hot games.
I've been using OpenHermes-2.5 [0] and NeuralHermes [1] which are both finetunes of the Mistral7B base model. The only objective test prompting I do is asking the models to generate a django timeclock/timesheets app. In this test they compare favorably to GPT-3.5. Also LMStudio [2] has a better UI than chatgpt and responses are much faster too (40tk/sec on my 2070).

[0] https://huggingface.co/teknium/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B
[1] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-...
[2] https://lmstudio.ai/
Looks like it's missing the verbatim search?

tbs=li:1
It's been a long time since I've done anything in C, but I tended to use -Werror -Wall -Wextra and then disable individual warnings/errors if I was sure they were false positives. It can be tedious, but I figured better safe than sorry.

EDIT: For the last couple of years I've used Go almost exclusively, where every warning is an error. It was annoying and tedious at first, but I've come to appreciate it.
It’s cool but it’s just another dick measuring contest.
A bit of uncanny valley in a way.
> What's wrong with sprawl?

Think about children! They are stripped of the independence of move, because they can not drive a car. And everything is so far away (school, after-school activities, friends places) so it takes forever to go there by foot/public transit.

And self-driving cars seem nowhere near the production-ready deployment. It's very strange to rely on a solution which may be probably somewhere in the future. Why don't you mention a teleport then?
According to a friend who is a senior partner at a major class action firm many law firms are heavily relying on GPT4 (including his own). However in his firm it’s used to generate drafts and summarize large boiler plate documents. Humans always meticulously review and revise the drafts and the summaries done by humans are so likely to be flawed as documents grow just due to signal to noise ratios that the GPT4 analysis is more accurate.
Is your reported p99 wrong?
BS=1 also means you can only decode one token. This is not always what you want, and then you're back to matrix-matrix multiply again. Most of the from-scratch llama implementations start with matrix-vector because it's simpler & easier. But eventually, you will want to serve multiple users, or compute multiple beams together...
Induced demand is a funny thing: most people want more space (I want more space!), but suburban sprawl in the US reveals how little that space actually gets used: guest bedrooms that aren’t opened for years, furnished basements with untouched pool tables, a single common room that everybody actually uses, &c.

Put another way: car-driven development induces desire for sprawl, but living patterns reveal actual preferences here.
How many "purists" are there in the wild ? I'd only see police and insurance agents needing pixel perfect depiction of reality as it's out of the sensor.

Photography as an art was never about purity, and I think most of us want photos that reflect what we see and how we see it, and will take the technical steps to get that rendered. If the moon is beautiful and gently lights the landscape, I want a photo with both the bright moon and shadowy background, and will probably need a lot of computation for that.

But the doppelganger brides, or the over-hdred photos, or the landscapes with birds and pilars removed aren't what someone is seeing. They can be nice pictures, but IMO we're entering a different art than photography.
Absolutely. Still have an inaccessible YouTube account connected to a deleted Yahoo email (for inactivity, without warning, lol). When providing the correct >10-characters-with-numbers pw, it wants to send a confirmation code to that email first. None of that rubbish was in place when that account was created.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Semiconductors headed toward strong 2024, Intel will spend $25 billion on manufacturing its new chips at TSMC, China’s pursuit of autonomous machine computing self-sufficiency
> It takes up space

And?

> it requires a lot more energy

This is the _only_ problem, and it's being solved by switching to EVs. They are more effective than buses and are competitive with rail.

And the household energy use can be offset by solar energy (individual houses are great for it!).

> and it makes using healthier transportation like walking and cycling a lot more difficult.

I can get my 10k a day steps in a nice sprawl with shady tree lanes much easier than in Manhattan.
Ah, its a good point that the main target is the even more bad faith actor in the form of Facebook! Even more reason the technical criteria has to be broad.

I am however confused why you think the law being applied to the company having 91% of search in Canada is mission creep, you never actually say why claiming that Google has a "a significant bargaining power imbalance" is "loosely" interpreting the criteria....

And sure, the state might have a good chance of winning the court case about Google and Meta trying to avoid the law by not technically delivering the snippets themselves, but it'll take years for sure to go trough the courts. And why would you accept those several years where the damage the law is trying to prevent continues because you wanted the technical definitions to be narrow as when you already had criteria on company size.
Just to be clear, I prefer my Tesla to my ICE car and I enjoy driving it as much as my Kawasaki ZX10R..

The Tesla will refuse to go in to gear for genuine reasons, such as:

- refuses forward/reverse if the car is moving too fast in opposite direction

- refuses forward/reverse if the car just turned on and foot isn't on brake

I haven't worked out what the other reasons are though.

The vast majority are when I'm in a rush, I get in sometimes have to press the stalk about 4 times (in 2 seconds) for drive. It could be because my seatbelt isn't on yet, or the car needs a small amount or time to boot up. To be fair I'm moving off faster (even pressing the stalk down a few times) than my ICE car, and Tesla adding the Chimes really helped.