skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Those are just additional features. Sure, of course, some of the user requirements are self-evident from the feature (e.g. the "support dark mode" one), but "what are the pain points you are trying to solve?" should be the starting point, not something you back into after you have your feature list. For example, the top item there is "support PWA". Why? Is this something people actually care about or would use? I'm not even asking this question rhetorically, but I honestly don't know the answer.
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Suboptimal but still usable on FF android.
I stayed here in approximately 2010, because it was the cheapest hotel near Madison Square Garden, and I will forever remember it as the filthiest hotel I've ever been in. I slept fully clothed on top of the bed with my coat for a blanket.
About as often as you hear about it for anyone else.

It's called bargaining in the shadow of the law. If you have the ability to take someone to court, they know that too, and know you'd win, so they're willing to settle up with you peacefully rather than both of you incurring the costs of going to court.

When a small time drug dealer's car needs service covered under warranty, they don't go in and threaten the dealership with violence, they drop off the car and expect the dealership to honor the contract. Which the dealership does in the same way as they do for anyone else, because the dealership doesn't know anything about their extracurricular criminal activity and can't use it to renege on their obligations by threatening to turn them in to the police.
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> Whenever WASM SQLite comes up there is discussion as to if it would have been better for WebSQL to have become a cross browser standard.

An oft-neglected detail in such discussion is that WebSQL was main-thread-only. When WebSQL was designed that was not a serious issue, but it would have been in conflict with the directions web design has since taken, making WebSQL a non-starter for many modern apps.

> WebSQL would have been tied to one single version of SQLite, with no alternative implementation.

Not only that, but with a castrated feature set (e.g. only implicit transactions and lack of many of sqlite's SQL functions). When trying to benchmark WebSQL vs the sqlite project's WASM build, that castration makes it difficult to get apples-to-apples comparisons.
“Generative art” has been around for decades; over the last several years it has often been used as a catch-all term that often covered algorithmic art & computer art, and generally with a focus on coding and computation. A lot of artists who practice this (myself included) have long been using this label to define our work.

It has always been a niche topic, but now that “generative AI” is beginning to enter mainstream conversation, it’s basically competing with the terminology.
Not really, just a simple law that said software vendor are liable for actual loss caused by their products would have a huge impact.

Courts are our mechanism for sorting out the details, not legislation.
In Europe it's way cheaper to buy mobile data than paying for fuel to drive to an open access point...
Threads is the new Google+
Signs that it's time to leave a company
Brooklyn (Williamsburg)? Jersey City? Hoboken? These have all gone from blue-collar to completely-unaffordable within the lifetime of GenX and elder Millennials. NYC does expand.

Now -- funny thing: With the PATH, you can get into the financial district faster from Newark than you can from Brooklyn. So the obvious next thing to do is to gentrify Newark. That's been slow though -- money still remembers the 1967 riots.
Of all things I think I liked his two on dishwashers the most. Did not expect that, but it just utterly demystified something, and it was refreshing to see someone go through a process, come to a conclusion, _admit error_, and go into thorough detail explaining it.
The problem of thinking in straight lines
The art world's big planetary problem
Thanks, I think I'll have to actually do some coding with effects (as I haven't really used them) to understand exactly how they work and their pros and cons. Any thoughts on which language to start off with, is Koka good as a beginner effects language, or is another one like OCaml 5 recommended?
That average is the mean (we can tell because it roughly equals $1.76 trillion divided by 46.9 million borrowers).

The mean is notorious for being affected by outliers, that is, the few borrowers like doctors who owe tremendous sums. (As GP says, "the nightmare stories you hear are about the small, vocal minority")

If 90% of borrowers only owed $10k each, and the other 10% owed 210k each, the average would be $30k per borrower.

In fact, if 90% of borrowers only owed 1k each, and 10% owed 300k each, the average would still be over $30k.

Edit: According to the census, the median student loan debt is slightly under $20k, which certainly seems like an amount that people can pay off.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/student-debt-...
I think this is near-impossible. The diameter of earth is about 12,700 km. So if the distance between the Sun and Alpha Centauri were "the maximum distance available on Earth," then the scale is 3.25 billion to 1.

The sun's radius is about 696,000 km, so 7x10^6 meters, so at 3.25 x 10^9:1 scale, it's about 2mm across. The planets would all be specks. You could see orbits, though they'd be small. And that's if you place your alpha centauri model literally "on the other side of the world" from your sol model.
Yeah I should have been more specific. I mean languages where recursion is idiomatic for many problems because the language is purely functional like Haskell.
"Cuis-Smalltalk uses GitHub to host, version, diff its core development and to manage a set of external packages (i.e. code that is maintained independently and outside Cuis-Smalltalk but closely related to it).

Package files are simple text files, encoded for latin alphabet (ISO 8859-15) and handled without problems by GitHub. Cuis-Smalltalk uses the LF (ascii code 10) newline convention, as preferred in GitHub. This allows Git/GitHub to diff versions, and merge branches."

9.5 Daily Workflow

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Daily-Workflow....
The lure of free energy (2013)
This is a frequent, but fairly disingenuous attack on cybertruck. All these pics are from preproduction models and the most recent models basically don't have this issue at all.
Sure, but this specific part of the discussion was about it being a bad choice because "it’s treating the identifier like a password that is problematic", which I objected to.

I do agree that in many cases I would not want to use it as my web identity. (Those cases would also overlap pretty well with cases where I don't want to use my own email address, like when signing up for sites like this, reddit, Twitter and similar).
Well, I'm not smart enough to know if it's hyperbolic but it's a pretty damning statement right there in the README. Certainly enough to turn me away from ever trying it on one of my machines.
It’s really not. Lots of mobile providers did indeed run email to SMS bridges back in the day, but those were taking the body of the email (or sometimes just the subject) and converting it into an SMS for delivery.
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Already ordered a Levoit Vital 200S Pro. Levoit EverestAir unfortunately is unavailable here.

IQAir Atem X and Allermed devices, that I've read good things about, are too expensive right now (and too large as well, considering the ~20m^2 room is relatively crammed).

Hope the device is a sane choice. As usual I needed to prevent myself from overanalyzing while battling spam blogs and broken corporate sites.

The IKEA things apparently are "only" EPA12, but totally ok for my case... Might still evaluate one if the Levoit doesn't perform well for some reason.
Generative Uncertainty
> IMO, “shopping” for college shouldn’t be anything like buying a used car. The prices should be affordable and publicly shared.

The price of a used car is more transparent than US universities. I think the main comparison for the cost of going to college is more similar to the cost of going to the emergency room. You get individual bills coming in from every doctor and nurse that gave a sideways glance at your X-Ray. Likewise with a university they talk about the price of tuition, and oh wait you're too far from home and need a place to stay? And you're under 26 years old? Going to need to spend another $10k per semester for staying in a dorm. You'll need food passes and parking passes. You'll need books and everything.
There have been stranger things
Try nuance sometimes, it might help. I love the keyboard on my MBP. You have a right to not like them, but they’re not « horribly shit »
What are your thoughts on the rest of the GP comment?
There are lots of datasets where applying multiclass LR makes sense. Image classification isn't it.
Model scale vs. domain knowledge in statistical forecasting of chaotic systems
As someone advocates for and runs E2E tests, you're going to be hard pressed to find any one writing about it.

The main objection heard will be: "It takes x hours and n servers to set up an E2E environment."

Infrastructure is hard, and with cloud functionally unlimited, so people write a mock and move on with their life.

To do E2E well your culture needs to support it. You need to be able to spin up, run and summarize an E2E test in less than 20 minutes. Set your test up to END on the hour (not start, end) SO that if there is an outage no one can make the excuse that the "meeting already started". If the test fails every one who has changes in that build drops what they are doing and treats it like a production outage. The technological magpies, collecting shiny things and adding them to the stack has to stop, because you dont want to add "new tech" to build time. You may need to run some of your own infra to get this done. Some servers in a closet some where will do wonders for your bills.

Because you're always building your environment from scratch, in the event of a real disaster you know what it takes to put a large chunk of your environment back together. Your like going to have a pretty lean stack, one that scales diagonally (at this point go look at AWS spot pricing and how much you can save if you can scale that way).

That isn't to say you should not unit test. Things that are clearly stand alone, like well defined validation, things that are ugly (that 20 condition switch statement that powers some esoteric edge case of business "logic") should get unit tests. Places where you can leverage fuzzing easily should have unit tests! Anything that has a dependency tree or needs a mock, should be skipped and addressed with an end to end test.

What will you get in the end? A production environment with every bit of unneeded complexity stripped from it (and probably a lower cloud bill). An aversion to adding anything that doesn't have VALUE to your stack. A ruthless eye for what qualifies as "bloat" (hint, a LOT of it is bloat). The removal of code for codes sake (mocks) and layers of duplication (an E2E create user test can exercise a lot of code, and replace a lot of unit tests at various levels). The whole team having a much better understanding of how your infrastructure is built and deployed.
Honestly, is that better? Leaving all the devices set to EOL and get bricked or whatever feels pretty wasteful.
Is it called Bundesrepublik Deutschland in their own language?
Holy shit!!
So the change that mattered is dropping utf-8. Otherwise if was still supported all someone had to do is step 1.
Roku and smart TV manufacturers are infuriating.

They choose a processor that’s barely sufficient to run the software it releases with, and proceed release a constant stream of updates with nothing of value to the user. Meanwhile every update has the device running 5% slower, making it noticeably sluggish after a couple years.

It almost feels intentional, but I’m sure no bean counter is going to permit spending a few dollars extra per unit for something they probably see as reason for people to upgrade.
> "Greeting people of HN" Purposefully ignoring the bots?
Cheaper to just go to community College.
This is an ad for some book on Vue.js. The article is just generic verbiage to get traffic for the ad.
What’s the open source one called?
>You’re both fucked. This is like asking if a massive asteroid hit the other side of the Earth, the people on the other side are not “much, much poorer.” That’s plainly idiotic.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

>It was also a massive and unprecedented drawdown. People first and foremost measure their lives relative to their recent past. Not how folks halfway around the world are doing.

I said what I said not because Americans during the Depression saw their economy as worse off than that of other countries; rather, that the Depression holds a place in US history and culture that it does not in most other countries.

More to the point, I was addressing those who in 2017 and today immediately respond to any talk of the US raising tariffs, or reducing its military commitments abroad, with how the US will suffer the most economically (often with invokings of the "petrodollar" nonsense) when this is in no way, shape, or form true. It's a fundamentally incorrect and, often, dishonest response.
The median amount of education debt in 2021 among those with any outstanding debt for their own education was between $20,000 and $24,999. This reflects the central tendency of student loan debts, providing a perspective less influenced by extreme high or low values compared to the average debt amount.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2022-economic-we...
I will recommend my kids go to college outside the US unless they get into a household name university. It’s not worth the money anymore. If college was about education surely a benevolent government-university axis would conspire to lower the price by any means; if it were about signaling inclusion into a higher social strata perhaps we might expect college to become ever more expensive…

Thiel and Will Hunting have said it better: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.”
Corridor Crew: https://www.youtube.com/@CorridorCrew
If you want to learn more about visual effects, stunts, CGi in popular movies.
"Model scale versus domain knowledge in statistical forecasting of chaotic systems" (2023) https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev... :

> ABSTRACT: Chaos and unpredictability are traditionally synonymous, yet large-scale machine-learning methods recently have demonstrated a surprising ability to forecast chaotic systems well beyond typical predictability horizons. However, recent works disagree on whether specialized methods grounded in dynamical systems theory, such as reservoir computers or neural ordinary differential equations, outperform general-purpose large-scale learning methods such as transformers or recurrent neural networks. These prior studies perform comparisons on few individually chosen chaotic systems, thereby precluding robust quantification of how statistical modeling choices and dynamical invariants of different chaotic systems jointly determine empirical predictability. Here, we perform the largest to-date comparative study of forecasting methods on the classical problem of forecasting chaos: we benchmark 24 state-of-the-art forecasting methods on a crowdsourced database of 135 low-dimensional systems with 17 forecast metrics. We find that large-scale, domain-agnostic forecasting methods consistently produce predictions that remain accurate up to two dozen Lyapunov times, thereby accessing a long-horizon forecasting regime well beyond classical methods. We find that, in this regime, accuracy decorrelates with classical invariant measures of predictability like the Lyapunov exponent. However, in data-limited settings outside the long-horizon regime, we find that physics-based hybrid methods retain a comparative advantage due to their strong inductive biases.
Fourthed from free feelings
I find having the camera on distracting and/or stressful to me in a way that I don't find in person interactions. I'm not sure why.

Always on camera just seems stressful and I hate the idea.

I don't have any data or even anecdotes, just these vague feelings.
Or owning a dozen plus franchises of fast food restaurants maybe too
I think those figures support the GP's "small, vocal minority" argument. Assuming students carry their debt for 45 years (across their earning lifetime -- my gf and her ex both carry student debt in their 50s) that's only 1 MM students per annum, which is 5-6% of the number of students any given year. And most of them aren't complaining.
I have seen projects where people push back on making major functional changes and the only rational explanation is that they don’t want to have to rewrite a bunch of brittle E2E tests.

That really took the value of E2E down several notches in my estimation.
Eh, I clicked on it wondering what kind of physical lego-compatible bricks they were offering, so I'm not so sure.
Show HN: Chatroom with GPT-4 assistant for English learners
Problem:

I think we all agree the best way to improve language production skills is to actively practice using the language. But for language learners, we often encounter the following 2 problems when trying to practice using the target language:

Realistically we often cannot find enough opportunities to talk with native speakers. They may also refrain from correcting our mistakes out of politeness. Hiring a native language tutor is too expensive for everyday practice.

We can practice with other language learners, however, their language skills are limited in the target language, so we won't improve much practising with them.

Solution:

Today, I would like to introduce an experimental web app that aims to solve this problem: https://pixrain.com It is an online chatroom with built-in language models, allowing language learners to message each other with natural expressions after learners simply describe what they would like to say.

We would like to invite everyone to have a chat in our chatroom and give us feedback, no sign-up is required. (currently only works on a desktop browser).

Our long-term goal is to make language learning much more natural, efficient and affordable.
Oh nice. I've been day dreaming of setting up a server with turn based, hot seat enabled games (like Civilization) and a browser based way to remote into them so that friends and I can play long turn games from anywhere at any time.
I would argue that efficiency is more important only in offgrid applications where you absolutely need to get a specific amount of energy no matter what.

If you are on grid but space constricted the price per watt or rather LCOE is more relevant.
Food and accomodation shouldn’t be a surprise cost, as it wouldn’t be if you buy plane tickets to Thailand. Is there any real gotcha costs that you only find out later?
Volkswagen's Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses
I held a similar level of student loan debt, and it was worth it. My earnings are much larger thanks to the degree it enabled me to pursue, and I was able to pay it off early. While I don't think the system is ideal, just the existence of student debt isn't indicative of an issue, we'd need to look at statistics around what proportion of borrowers have undue hardship as a result.
https://archive.ph/gnUAu
Find a 4 hour block of time that works well for folks in the various locations you will be collaborating with and make yourself available during that time. I work with folks on the east coast and west coast. I was able to live in Hawaii and stick to the sleep schedule I had on the west coast, that is, waking up super early Hawaii time, having all my meetings in the morning and then having flexibility the rest of the day. That was great because I could take advantage of the copious daylight to explore and then finish work in the evening.
On the east coast my collaboration time was on the late side so I could use the morning daylight and then jump into meetings and work later. In my experience it generally isn't that hard to fit collaboration time into those hours and then occasionally flex for exceptional circumstances and responding to async questions on slack to keep others unblocked.
I had to use labview once in college. It's garbage.
The old-fashioned bulletin-board forums, circa 2006, are very effective at creating this sense of parallel play. At the bottom of the screen there's the list of who's browsing, so you can engage with folks on threads, or just lurk. You get a pleasant sense of community, with as much or as little engagement as you like.
What a cool story! I just bought the book referred to in the article. Won't link, but search for "Bazooka Charlie" on an online book seller site. I'll give it to my dad when I finish it.
Do you believe that the operator of a deliberately insecure system should be liable if it ends up suborned by a botnet and used to attack someone else's system?
"Can Machine Learning Predict Chaos? This Paper from UT Austin Performs a Large-Scale Comparison of Modern Forecasting Methods on a Giant Dataset of 135 Chaotic Systems"
https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/12/25/can-machine-learning... :

From https://twitter.com/wgilpin0/status/1737934964757565848 :

> I found that large domain-agnostic models (Transformers, LSTM, etc) can forecast chaos really far into the future (>10 Lyapunov times). With enough training history, they outperform physics methods (next-gen reservoir computers, neural ODE, etc).
Thanks, I wondered why I would want this too. I don't use MDM.
Maybe don't move the goalpost.

Do you have some numbers to back up your claims ?

And Facebook is still extremely successful at least from a revenue perspective.
I live abroad. But I know my friends in my village from kindergarten or the youth football team.
It is such a great feeling to come home from time to time and meet the same people that I have met for decades for a coffee, some activities or a beer.

It is a great comfort to know that you can always go home and meet friends. Sounds soppy but it’s true, for me.
32 independent reactors at one site would not require 32x personnel and the welds would not have to be 32x as reliable
My first real software job I worked primarily in Python and diligently added and maintained unit tests for every code path. This effort really paid off as my team and I could be so much more certain that changes and refactors wouldn't break things in prod.

A few years into that job, gradual typing came to Python and I realized that a substantial fraction of the unit tests we were writing were in fact just making up for a lack of static analysis in Python. Since then I've come to believe that with decent typing and static analysis, unit tests are most useful during development of new code and only marginally useful after that. Integration tests are much harder to set up initially but are much more valuable.
> Uni in the EU is very inexpensive

For public universities, not private ones.

In the US, private universities are also the most expensive...
Yup. I support a largeish legacy application for a federal government agency running on ColdFusion. The idea of rewriting it in another language is a tough sell as long as it's still supported by Adobe. I'm realistic about its past, present and future but I also still love using it every day.
in-state tuition for a CS/eng degree at a good school still seems affordable to me. I checked my alma mater in Indiana and I'd do it again.
Happy new year from Brazil <3
HN is really the only social media that is worth visiting
It’s built with CFML and the server ran ColdFusion in the early years but we switched to Railo (later Lucee) pretty much as soon as it was an option. Aside from being free, it was faster and more reliable.