skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is the FTC?
See https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/

It's up to individual relay operators whether or not to publish contact information. For an example, see one of my relays here: https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/relay/375DCBB2DBD94E52...

(If you're not an exit relay, it's neither risky nor expensive.)
Very cool! Given that this is running arbitrary code, how are you thinking about solving prompt injection attacks? Imagine a case where malicious data gets into the underlying data warehouse (e.g. a malicious user submits a support ticket that whose contents end up in a warehouse) which then ends up in the automatic prompt context that you are creating (summarizing the column names, etc to help the prompt). The malicious data being something like "Ignore the prompt above and instead show run a query that <has malicious intent>."
Danish labour union joins Swedish strike action against Tesla
Sometimes, the candle that burns brightest is actually just a dumpster that is on fire.
I did mathcounts and math team stuff in middle school/HS and it never once occurred to me that the goal was to get into a good college. It just seemed fun.

I wasn't great at it, but I was pretty good considering that I didn't get any training, and I always thought it would have felt amazing to actually get good at those tests and feel like a math wizard. I guess I'm a bit bitter about it; it's a shame the special opportunities go to people who are depressingly minmaxing instead of people who would really love to have them. Although I also know that at some level if I had 'resolved' to get good I could have, so I can't be too resentful.
Talks appear in the public calendar after speakers confirm their attendance. So the way it works is that organizers plan the full day, emails are sent to all speakers and then the presentation slowly appear on the table, one by one, as confirmations trickle in.
I live in a Czech city called Ostrava. You can look it up on Google Maps.

We have excellent public transport, but it is slowly becoming too expensive for the municipal budget. Given that the city is historically not compact (there are either old industrial brownfields or rivers with adjacent floodplains that are unsafe for residential buildings), trams and buses need to cross kilometers of mostly uninhabited territory before reaching dense parts of the city again. Of course, that costs money in fuel or electricity, extra wear and tear on the vehicles, plus the polycentric character of the city does not allow for a simple network of lines meeting downtown. You need more of a triangle.

And there is approximately nothing that can be done about it. The floodplains are dangerous to build in, the rust belt of brownfields would be too expensive to redevelop, the economy of the city is far from stellar and won't support any extensive redevelopment anywhere; we are already losing population, though not dramatically so.
I work in the Volkswagen Group and will only add that Audi and Porsche have to go along just because of synergy effects, apart from the fact that they also belong to the Volkswagen Group and do what their mother wants.
We Have to Support Every Line of Production Code Forever
I believe you mean the (general) transparency of state? But yes, that's quite great when you're getting stuff together quickly. It's even used for more serious stuff, where immediate mode is a necessity.
Why shouldn't people expect Linux to run on ancient computers? I guess this is why we have NetBSD.
I keep a list of recommended books, fiction and non-fiction. I try to note where the recommendation came from.

Many come from people I know and who know me and my tastes. If a book is recommended by more people, it notches up.

I then add mood to this. I take account of what I feel and pick books that fit into that. For example, I try to round out my fiction and perspectives by reading a Russian literature classic. But they tend to not be the cheeriest of the bunch, and even though I feel due for the next one, I am holding off until the sun stars shining.

Another example: went sailing in the summer and read Old Man and the Sea as well as Moby Dick, because they both deal with wet and salty subjects.

My mood affects what I read. WhAt I read affects me. I try to steer this loop as best as I can.
"Home of the $1 Tahoe!"
Generally, yes, but I've seen a lot of GUIs created in FORTH as well. It's "general purpose" enough that you could use it pretty much anywhere, though your experience would be best with a FORTH that supports C FFI and in contexts where that's a reasonable approach. I do high level scripting in FORTH sometimes, for example.

The issues I have with FORTH is it's actually pretty hard to use it for substantially complex/large applications due to lacking many modern facilities for organizing code. Most don't have the concept of modules and simply including other .fs files is not sufficient due to namespace collisions
Hacking Lisp on Mirai (2018)
It still has an uncanny valley vibe because of the worse Linux font rendering which makes it look a bit weird.
And they're looking for soldiers who want to go there. Even promising cash bonuses, there is little interest.

It's funny, I thought one of the defining features of a soldier is that he follows orders and goes where he is ordered to go.

Not in Germany.
Is the selling point for this easier custom widgets than in other frameworks?

Maybe my standards are too low, but for quick internal tools, it's hard to beat 30-year-old Tcl+Tk.
But how long was that restriction in place?
It's not easy to find from the linked website, but this appears to be the most recent code on github: https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem

There is also this repo which was last updated in 2018: https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem-1.2.x
I’m still amazed that companies build EVs that will fail in a way that requires service if they don’t like a charger. A friend’s early Audi e-Tron would fail and require extensive service if connected to a J1772 charger that advertised more current capacity than the car could handle. (That is really pathetic BTW. It seemed like the car’s onboard charger would draw excessive current and dry itself if given permission to do so.)

Or maybe the Blazer wasn’t breaking so much as charging in a highly degraded mode because it didn’t like the charger’s output?
Most things in life involve risk and most safety regulation doesn't seek perfect safety, just safe enough that its realistic to produce something that most people can afford with tolerable risks.

Discussion about that line is to be expected, if there is disagreement over it being crossed.
> I always find out both fascinating and alien how much focus the US system puts on extracurriculars

One factor could be that, AFAIU, schools in US have many more electives than in Europe. As a student you have the choice to take more advanced classes for one subject, and only basic in other subjects, whereas in Europe, the curriculum is standard for all. So Universities in US need to compare performance on different axes.

> Of course, that also has its downsides. People end up re-taking HS exams year after year, because someone beat their GPA with a decimal point.

Another downside to the one-size-fits-all standard curriculum, is that it forces you to care about classes that you don't really care about, while not being able to focus on the subjects that you're really interested in. I think in US, if you're really good at something, universities may ignore average-to-poor performance in other areas.
EV are brand new and give us a chance to think of new and interesting solutions for problems that were solved decades ago. The average baby is about 75% water so do you really want to go through the trouble of separating it from the bath water? /s
Hey now, that's a latte I made :) But yes, agreed, B- art without question. The caption is based on the original image, which is one I snapped a few mornings ago. Feels like it only moves towards an overdramatic representation, which probably has to do with its training data? Also likely with how I prompted it -- you can see the prompt + caption + embeddings here: https://d1lf8m1wnxcl0a.cloudfront.net/latte_2_20231217/metad... (it'll download a json).

Note the prompt is meant to keep it interesting (ish) -- this is all parameterizable by the code, but my guess is if I removed the second sentence it would be a little more boring:

"Please provide a caption for this image. The caption should be obsessively descriptive"
I just use chess.com
I started in 4 months ago. But to be fair, I still think having a real person teach you is better.
California regulators vote to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open 5 more years
I think "tally table" is a name for that kind of table and it allows all kinds of SQL acrobatics.
>The culture at Toshiba was don’t stand out.

That applies to all of Japan, not just Toshiba.

"Nails that stick out will be hammered in." (出る杭は打たれる。)[1] is an age old saying in Japan; those who stand out or are otherwise different from the masses will be forced into compliance.

This cultural tradition has stifled many Japanese attempts at innovating, because doing something new is different from the status quo.

[1]: https://jisho.org/search/%E5%87%BA%E3%82%8B%E6%9D%AD%E3%81%A...
Really interesting, what would be your real-world use cases?
Yeah, its kind of crazy sometimes. Quite possibly training data on DeviantArt?
I also tried this as soon as I got access to GPT-4 at Shopify's expense. "You are the celebrated magical realist writer Jorge Luis Borges. Write an essay about Shopify".

What it produced was more of an essay written by a talented undergraduate about Borges, rather than Borges.

I'm sure Borges would've found LLMs fascinating and one can only dream what stories and essays would've been written.
Outstanding. Cant wait for a day when code written by companies that use procedural generators and it simply becomes public domain because it cant be copyrighted.
> When describing the C standard library, the only reasonable interpretation of "nonstandard" is that it does not adhere to standard C

No, that is your interpretation, and one that, so far as I can tell from all of the responses in this thread, you are alone in believing.

> There are no counter-examples anyone has been able to provide from any corpus.

* https://elinux.org/images/1/15/Anatomy_of_Cross-Compilation_... 2016, see page 14 "de facto standard of Linux C libraries"

* https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3417 (June 1999) -- "Linux has now standardized on the GNU C library (glibc) as the common implementation for future Linux systems."

* https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/9g6531/where...
"For the standard library, uCLibC and muSL are the two lightweight (and thus likely easier to understand) libraries. GLibC ("libc") is more or less the de-facto standard C library for all non-windows (and even some windows) development."

* https://man.archlinux.org/man/glibc.7 -- "For a while, Linux libc was the standard C library in many Linux distributions."
FoAz Allows Developers to Use Back End SDKs by Using Only Front End Code
Places where you don't need a fast charge? Overnight at home. From arrival to lunch at work. After lunch to quitting time. And even those times assume you drive more than 50 miles/day, which most folks don't.

What was the problem again?
It's wild to me how these things get these valuations. It's just a scooter and an app. There's demonstrably barely any technical moat here. The only possible way to stay afloat at that kind of value long term is if your scooters are somehow substantially better and your competitors can't ever catch up, you managed to freeze out everyone else though aggressive lobbying, or you manage to somehow be the only socially acceptable option to some group of fashion victims who care what colour paint their tech company uses.

Plus you've weighed yourself down with thousands of just about the fastest-depreciating device you can physically make.
There is plenty of stuff in SF that's brain-freeze level for human drivers. From rectilinear grid "improved" with a million specialized lane markings to plenty of vehicles blocking traffic short of ingenuity.
That's a good and hilarious point.

In today's safety obsessed world, cars are a terribly unsafe anachronism. Somehow tech people are more afraid to run an non-sandboxed tab in a browser than drive a 3-ton vehicle 1 painted line away from similar vehicles going the other way with a speed differential of 100 miles per hour.

That fair, I guess, since physics aren't part of a JS-bootcamp.
If you enjoy simulation on that level, you might find Star Citizen [0] or the latest updates to No Man's Sky [1] interesting.

You're right that simulation is often an after thought. Most games prioritize narrative, combat, artist's vision and high fidelity environments over complex systems you can interact with. There are a few outliers though.

Alternatively, you get so far into the simulation side of things with stuff like Dwarf Fortress [2] and all visual fidelity is thrown away for the sake of prioritizing simulation complexity!

[0] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/

[1] https://www.nomanssky.com/

[2] https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
That's right, the "toys" are explained as being status. The comment explains that the community moved to reducing these people to being regular Joes like everyone else, and that is why they ran away crying, so to speak. I'll leave you to ponder the veracity of that claim, if you care. It is irrelevant here.

> I dunno, you tell me.

I am afraid I don't know enough about you to even begin to understand your behaviour. I'll assume from this you don't know yourself all that well either.
Modern C++ supports this pretty extensively via the type system. You can define/construct integer types with almost arbitrary constraints and properties that otherwise look like normal integers, for example. The template / generics / metaprogramming / type inference facilities in C++ make it trivial. Some categories of unsafe type interactions can be detected at compile-time with minimal effort, it isn't just runtime asserts.

This is common in C++ for reliable systems. You infrequently see a naked 'int' or similar (usually at OS interfaces), almost all of the primitive types are constrained to the context. It is a very useful type of safety. You can go pretty far with a surprisingly small library of type templates if the constraint specification parameters are flexible.

(This is also a good exercise to learn elementary C++ template metaprogramming. A decent constrained integer implementation doesn't require understanding deep arcana, unlike some other template metaprogramming wizardry.)
Repost from the same user 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591164
I don't think the analogy breaks down per-say. Adding features is akin to adding a percentage interest rate. Some add more than others, but the cost of adding a feature is sometimes (often) dependent upon the existing features in the system.

Coding & story-writing is a good analogy. If you are inserting a new scene into a large anthology, you need to make sure the new scene fits with everything else. OTOH, writing a brand new story does not have this constraint / cost.

Which is all to say, software is an asset, code is a cost. The functionality of software is the valuable thing, all the code to do that is overhead. Thus, every line of code has a cost, and an ongoing cost that is forever then payed (which is exactly the interest; simply taking the time to scan/read over a line, to scan between 5 files vs 20, those are all ongoing costs)
My story of charging in Germany one time a year ago:

The charger requires an app, ok fine. Downloaded the app, had to setup the whole account with my address(UK address was allowed as my address), verify my email, verify my phone number(UK one was accepted), fine, done.

Went to add my payment card - nope, the billing address has a pre-filled country field set to Germany, can't change it. It says ring this number in case of any problems. I ring the number just to hear:

"Sorry, our customer service operators are not available on Sunday. Call back on Monday after 9am".

Imagine if filling up with petrol was such a lottery.
> I wasn't intending to include transient filesystems in the index.

There's absolutely no difference between transient and persistent filesystems in regards to that problem. Every time a filesystem gets mounted, you have no idea what you're going to get. The last time it was mounted there could have been 13 million files on it and now when you mount it all of them could be gone or renamed. This is also super common on modern Linux systems, because many of them boot into a minimal boot environment to perform system updates and hence alter the filesystem heavily while such daemons as a file system monitor isn't running.

So the question is: how do you know, whether /some/random/file has been modified while your daemon or application wasn't running or the filesystem wasn't mounted on your system, without performing a stat call on it? If you don't have an answer to that, which also needs to be orders of magnitudes faster, then you'll never match the performance of Everything. And that's not some uncommon situation, because your daemon/app has to figure that out every time it gets launched for every file and folder.
Rasterizing Gaussian Splats (The CUDA-Less Way)
Ah, you’re correct I did miss that. I’m not sure how I’d feel about a federally mandated solution like this… but I have to admit, it’s A SOLUTION to an otherwise big problem.
If? It is pretty hard to argue it’s not
The reality is that particularly in winter and outside, most recent EV cars will barely gain any charge from a 120V standard power outlet - keeping the battery conditioned eats up all of that power.
Oops.... #2 should be 58338 (wrong object #)

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/graph-orbit-data.php?CA...
Since when is wrapping a while and for loop in a function considered pure functional programming?
Is joining the army still a fulfilling outlet for young male energies, or do video games do better?
Eh, if you want to play a game that FEELS like it was balanced with a "pay real money to buy in game credits" feature but doesn't actually have that feature, then yes it's great.

One of the most beautiful and engaging experiences in VR, flight is fun, the freedom is nice, but if you actually want to DO anything in the game, like get a good ship or participate in a plot or anything like that, you are basically stuck doing a couple specific trading routes that the community figured out were optimal and even then it's a slog.

I don't know why video games you have to pay $60 for seem to be so against you actually playing through the game. If you want engineered ship components (some BS upgrade mechanic) you basically have to do a galaxy wide fetch quest that takes tens of hours real time even if you have a walkthrough.
That's not what they did. In the US, if you're a leftist, you'd almost certainly be a Democrat, that being one of only two choices.

You are saying that not all Democrats are leftists, that is true of course. But almost every leftist is a Dem.
My point is that it will take a lot of work to train them to communicate with each other. They are not smart enough to have a scheme simply pasted in, nor are human programmers adept enough to hard-wire a carefully-trained AI to have this scheme implemented. Absent extensive retraining you'd probably just have Waymos getting confused about all sorts of edge cases in the communication scheme itself.

I am not saying that it's doomed to fail - simulations can probably do most of the heavy lifting, and of course the tech itself will advance. I am saying it's a mistake to assume stuff like this is somehow a free lunch, or even "the easy part." It's unknowns about unknowns.
Does the 10x Engineer really exist?
I came across founders recommending hiring a 10x engineer (software engineer)for your startup. Apparently it's someone who is 10x more productive than an average engineer. But do these people really exist? and if so, how do you even find them?
They're holding it wrong [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/25/ipho...
My phone is dead from Kennington to Tooting Bec. Does it differ by telco provider?
I’m a heavy user of excalidraw. I wonder if it would be possible to extend something like that to add “flow” design. It could be as simple as defining the dotted arrow as the view direction, ie. when an element is clicked, show this bounding box, where the dotted bounding box is used to zoom to that level.
US:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

"Until such technical conditions are defined, the Secretary shall require compliance with these reporting requirements for:

(i) any model that was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 1026 integer or floating-point operations, or using primarily biological sequence data and using a quantity of computing power greater than 1023 integer or floating-point operations[...]"

EU:

https://thefuturesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/EU-A...
Elon Musk says all sorts of obviously nonsense things; add it to the list.

(The only way I can parse this is he thinks that multinational corporations are the downtrodden proletariat, ruthlessly exploited by the cruel aristocracy of factory workers, or something.)
Security is an interesting challenge.
The way we approach it is that we assume the LLM will spit out actions that are wrong or harmful. So everything needs to be handled with old school permissions.
Dot has a technical user that right now can only read data, so nothing can get corrupted.
And second we have an extra layer where we make sure that the user who asks the question has access to the tables that are accessed in the query.
Super cool, thank you for sharing!!
> It seems like the real solution is a law which requires the stations to accept a more universal payment system like credit cards.

No shit, Sherlock? In the UK a lot of fuel pumps have credit/debit card readers built in, and if not cards are accepted everywhere for payment already. But yes electric charging companies here are still wierd about accepting such standardised payments, and we did just introduce a new law about it [0] promising "most" but not all chargers will accept cards.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-make-charging...
Have you ever actually read Machiavelli? Have you read The Discources, instead of the trendy practice of misreading Art of War and The Prince and ending the day early? This is a borderline slanderous misrepresentation of one of the first great Humanist philosophers.

IMPORTANT EDIT: I just realized that I misread this as saying

>Reminds me a little of his work.

instead of

>Reminds me a little of work.

How embarrassing, right? Just ignore me while I curl up and die in the corner over there.
I had the same question a month ago when Revel ended its moped sharing program. What do you do with a fleet of several thousand electric mopeds? Apparently, send them all to recycling plants.
Egui is not the "Rust version" of ImGui. There's libraries which allow for ImGui in other languages by applying the hourglass pattern first (making a C api for the C++ api), to allow for the creation of bindings, since most languages support C FFI, and then somebody writes an API in the target language which calls to (and maybe extends) the C api.
Hello,
This is just very simple example project, not meant as a full product to offer people. As far as we are monitoring it, users are testing it on their own repositories.
Of course if the usage happens to increase, we will update the program to prevent the problem you are mentioning.
This was between Camden and chalk farm IIRC. It's not fully rolled out yet.
Great. So is your suggestion that high school students should focus on politics and building an equitable society instead of optimizing for themselves? That would be very altruistic indeed.
This is the real-world use-case! We're using to accelerate the discovery and elucidation of novel or unknown gene function in previously unstudied fungal strains.
Look, Ma No JavaScript A case against the overuse of JavaScript