skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty biased selection of queries. Article avoids the things that ChatGPT and the others without fresh data can't answer. Look at the trending searches on Google. They are all for fresh info that none of the others can answer. Sports scores. Google probably judges quality weighted by the questions their users actually ask, not this nerd bullshit.
> Just because the US wanted a fight

There you are repeating that claim without any evidence.
You may not need trade as much as, say, Holland, but you would be much, much poorer without it. US isolationism is not a rational world view.
Like all things - wars are a combination of rational self-interest, emotions and random chance.

The action itself matters less than the consequence. The typical example is that USA gets away with shit other countries can't because nobody wants to invade usa.

My understanding is that in this particular situation - yemen is a humanitarian disaster after their civil war. Any country that invades is going to be seen as responsible for fixing that mess, and nobody wants responsibility for that.

I think the other factor is that israel is not a popular country in most of the middle east. Even if these ship attacks screw over most of the countries in that region (probably hurting egypt more than anyone else) many of the regimes in the middle east dont have a super solid grip on power and are afraid to do anything that might be seen as helping Israel (even if really they are mostly helping themselves) lest it leads to popular discontent locally. Countries further away are less keen to get involved because middle east is a continual powder-keg that nobody really wants to get sucked into.

[Im definitely not an expert on this, just one uninformed opinion]
You can't if you have to pick the 1gb of additional data before you see the 1gb file you're supposed to compress (which is the situation gpt is in)
That's a pretty harsh take. I think it's worth fleshing out an idea a bit more to see how much value it has before you try to destroy it. If the cons outweigh the pros too heavily at the onset you might not bother trying to overcome them when there might actually have been something valuable there or something that could have been realized in a different way.
Amnesty confirms Indian journalists' iPhones infected with Pegasus spyware
A little off-topic, but I'd love to see a tool similar to this that provides real-time previews for an entire shell pipeline which, most importantly, integrates into the shell. This allows for leveraging the completion system to complete command-line flags and using the line editor to navigate the pipeline.

In zsh, the closest thing I've gotten to this was to bind Ctrl-\ to the `accept-and-hold` zle widget, which executes what is in the current buffer while still retaining it and the cursor position. That gets me close (no more ^P^B^B^B^B for editing), but I'd much rather see the result of the pipeline in real-time rather than having to manually hit a key whenever I want to see the result.
I think the problem is not OOP - the author approached the problem bottom-up, they were trying to foresee usage for code they were writing. The resulting code is a bit of a mess, not OOP (there’s even instanceof) Instead we should start with the usage, with the code creating the value and then filling in the details. In this problem, if we choose to simulate the circuit I would start with the simulator code, introducing abstractions for components only if it would help the simulator.

I liked the demonstration of this approach in Chapter 6 of Robert C. Martin’s Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices. It’s available online here:

https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~jeanpier//Fall2021/Topic%201...
> Another mechanism that causes warfare is a lack of flexibility, a lack of options. Popular takes on IR love to urge that a 'line in the sand' or 'redline' should be drawn - another tough, angry way to feel powerful and safe. You don't see professionals say it however.

One of the two biggest global superpowers, the PRC, bombastically announces a dozen or so redlines per year.
It is interesting that no one responded. These falls under AdTech and AdOps. There are some people here who can provide insight. I'm not one of them, but I would like to know more too, and would love to see a primer.
We in the US may be relied upon to do the right thing, but only after we've tried all available alternatives first.

Look at our electoral politics, do we seem rational to you?
I don't do New Years resolutions per-se (the last one I kept was "quit making New Years resolutions"). What I do now is (laugh if you want) more akin to doing an Agile retrospective for the year.

I sit down and list off "things that went well", "things that did not go well" as well as "things to do less of next year" and "things to do more of next year" in a general sense, and write down some high level themes for the year. One of mine for this year involves the phrase "be more goal focused and process oriented".[1]

Now I suppose you could argue that that's just a resolution by a different name. If so, so be it. To me a proper "New Years resolution" is more like "lose 60 lbs" or something.

Anyway, the retrospective, yearly themes thing is something I've been doing for a couple of years now. So far I find the exercise valuable and would recommend it to anyone reading this.

[1]: I'm not really offering that up as an example I'd expect anyone else to find much, if any, inspiration or value in. The phrase itself is short and pithy and doesn't convey that much. But in my mind it ties back to a lot of other thinking I've done and lessons I've learned, and so it conveys a lot more "weight" to me specifically.
For whatever it's worth, I think your comment would be a whole lot more convincing without its first and last lines, which had the effect of making you sound (at least to me) like you're shallowly dismissing the article.
20gbps passive USB-c cables were often wired by hand. Machines with the required dexterity to line up the connector used to be too expensive and AFAIK some cables are still made by hand today
Clickbait. It is just a tutorial.
Storing copyright content itself can sometimes be illegal - like ripping a Bluray. What if these frames are now stored on their servers and go into the training dataset?
Yes, it becomes an in service credit system, which is pretty clear to the user and most of us experencied that at some point.

It becomes messy when you have more credits than you could ever consume, as the service will be reluctant to emit refunds (making them harder to get also pushes the user to consume them instead...yes, dark patterns...), but I think it's a good system.

I personnaly think it works better when it's not auto renewed (so not a subscription), as it engages the user in the ownership of the credit and naturally reduces the refund part. Getting new credits can still be as simple as pressing a button, so friction can be reduced.
This article reads like it was written by ChatGPT.
ECS actually refers to EC2 Container Service (EC2 is what you were originally thinking of, which stands for Elastic Cloud Compute) :-)
The higher speed comes from visible light having a higher frequency than radio.
Now or never, what are your new years resolutions?

One of mine involves installing a two knob shower, one for emitting varying amounts of water and the other one for emitting very cold water. Would like to hear yours.
> From what I understand of modern biology even newborn babies are not entirely blank slates, there's some amount of genetic and epigenetic influence so that many 'choices' are not really up to the individual to decide. ...

I think you are taking the influences we all have - emotional, physical, environmental, etc. - to an extreme. It's not blank slate or automaton. People still make lots of choices, even if there are drives and other influences one way or the other. You don't have to do bad things, and you can choose to deal with your natural drives, emotions, etc. in many ways.
The launch prices haven't changed all that much and SpaceX is raking in margin.
> doesn't exist yet

Yes, it does. Per the original comment. AP1000s have been built and are generating power.
I had a more charitable reading of GP's comment: supposing, hypothetically, the US wanted a proxy war against Russia, it didn't have to "trick" Russia. This is a perfectly valid rebuttal to GP's parent imo, especially because GP's GP never suggested US "tricked" anything.
The typing pool converting one format to another is not equivalent. It’s more like the demise of administrative support professionals. That work just got shifted to the people they used to work for because it was now supposedly “easier” to manage themselves with more advanced information technology. Which is why we all have to waste massive amounts of time figuring out our HR stuff, arranging work travel, etc.
But they’re probably high off the ground in a healthy flow of wind current right, as Newton’s third law would dictate. I could be wrong - mainly just nitpicking the way the demo video relentlessly mentions that the bird can hover
https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/30/estimate-thrice-develop-on...
I think there is a difference between how wars are "sold" to voters and why nations actually go to war.
What's most shocking to me is how much malware there is in all of this. The fact that Google et al aren't constantly in trouble for directly forwarding unwitting users to malware distributors indicates to me just how far our standards have fallen for a "good" search engine. I feel like we'd be happier with search engines that adhered to "first, do no harm" principles.
The easy and widespread solution to this issue is simply to ask the user if they would like to log out their other devices when they change their password.
I agree with most of that, except for:

> it's hard to see how war could have been averted by that point

when you read the day-by-day activity leading up to the war, you see plenty of missed opportunities. Czar Nicholas, especially, could have NOT mobilized. Wilhelm could have told Austria NOT to declare on Serbia. And Wilhelm could have said to his generals, "You know what? We're not attacking Belgium" in which case England stays out. At least for a while.

Of course they were weak people who'd allowed themselves to be put in that position, so in that sense they perceived no choices.
> interrupt flow

sorta. this really varies strongly from person to person and i wouldn't generalize. but you can construct small commits after you're done with your work.

> contain intermediary trains of thought that aren't relevant

no. delete these, they should not be present in the final history.

> decompose the [...]

i don't know what this is supposed to mean.
As do many “creatives” who don’t understand the technology, much less the endgame of those who will control it.
Yes, it's troubling. Also, nationalism might be the leading political mechanism that results in warfare; many blamed it for WWII. China was, at least for years, fanning its flames. It makes me wonder what they are up to, or who is making decisions.

Other countries world-wide, especially right-wing movements in them, have also been fanning nationalist flames. We know well what the outcome often is.
>There isn't one. Smalltalk implementations, including Cuis/Squeak/Pharo, are image-based…

well that is true, except one case when vm doesn’t run on the desired hardware/software combination. So in my case I had quite a story of trying to port vm. (unsuccessfully so far, see details : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820927 )

Any advice about how to move forward with it? How hard it is to extract the bare minimum of the language from the image? All I need is basic set with repl , nothing more. As I understand it should be possible but requires deep knowledge of the image which one does not possess in the beginning. I really wish to play with language and study it and with current limitations it is only possible on a hardware where the vm doesn’t run out of the box.
The experience of splitting in git could be made nicer in a few ways, but yeah.
But isn’t the problem that the ‘object’ formed by the measuring tape/rulers isn’t representative of the (most likely) concave object you’re trying to measure.
> I imagine that Google would lose a bunch of users if they suddenly started to expire those cookies

lol
meme contraexample of course being the gulf of tonkin incident where us warning fire on vietnamese vessels in vietnamese waters being responded to with actual fire was taken as grounds for war, because war was desired
They have their own origins, motivations and agency; it's a mistake to assume there's someone pulling all the strings (and this goes for all sides).
Very good discussion. Still, exceptions are dangerous.

https://pianomanfrazier.com/post/exceptions-considered-harmf...
I'm not able to reproduce the author's bad results in Kagi, at all. What I'm seeing when searching the same terms is fantastic in comparison. I don't know what went wrong there.

In the Youtube Downloader search, NortonSafeWeb is nowhere to be found. I get a couple of legit downloader websites, and some articles from reputable tech newspapers on how to use them or command line tools.

In the Adblock search, ublock Origin is #3, followed by some blogs about ad blocking ethics debates and the bullshit Google has been pulling recently.

In the wider tires grip search, #3 is a physics blog that dives deep into the topic.

In the transistors search, the first reddit link directly answers the question in very similar wording to the hypothetical correct answer spelled out in the rubric. 4/5 of the reddit results are on the correct topic, followed by two SuperUser questinos also on the correct topic, then some linus tech tips and toms hardware articles, also on the correct topic. No Quora questions.

In the vancouver winter snow search, the first several results are from local news papers talking about the anticipated effects of el nino on snowfall, and then a couple of high-quality blogs and weather sites.

Really wondering how Dan got such bad results.

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Aside from that, the way that the author expects all the results to return the same kind of thing is just... weird? Like, that's not how search engines are supposed to work. A search that gives you 10 links to fundamentally the same thing is a bad search. Search results should cover a breadth of reasonable guesses for what you should be looking for given a query. If you search for "download firefox", and you scroll past the first 5 download links, then you're probably not actually looking for a download link and a blog post about firefox is not "irrelevant" and shouldn't be points against.

This opinion is even borne out in search engine quality metrics that have been industry-standard for decades, like mean reciprocal rank and distributed cumulative gain. What matters is how far you have to scroll to get to a good result, not what proportion of the first N results are good.
> Of course they were weak people who'd allowed themselves to be put in that position, so in that sense they perceived no choices.

What is the basis for saying it's weakness? The point is, it might have been politically impossible for them to do otherwise.

As an extreme example, after Pearl Harbor could FDR have said, 'we're going to let Japan get away with it'? No, he'd be impeached and removed from office, and someone else would have taken the US into the war. Politics is the ultimate power, not Nicholas, not Wilhelm.

Political power is often intangible, so it's easy to deny it from the sideline, but there's no doubt about its force.
Note that when (other people's, surely, not yours) bad git history with unrelatedly-broken commits everywhere means you can't bisect, you can use bisect --first-parent to travel down only the first-parent history (which should be just merges to master) rather than having to laboriously figure out whether it's "bad" or "skip" this time.

If you're unfortunate enough to have an impoverished "linear history", you're stuck figuring out whether it's "bad" or "skip", sorry.
> After that I stopped buying safety critical things from Amazon.

Why would you buy anything from Amazon after that experience? I personally stopped buying things on Amazon when they gave up on having a trustworthy supply chain.
10 years in service on orbit around mars, which is 10 times the original design lifetime. Impressive even by NASA political-engineering standards.
is that an alias, or does hypergrep really use the same command name as mercurial?
Oh cool, I never even heard of them. That looks like it is quite a bit more dense than the ones that I'm using (these are at 10mm pitch, the Divoom displays look like at least half that maybe better still). Slick packaging too.
GDevelop Academy: game making tutorials
Wouldn't that work the same with an email a week before renewal day, saying "Hey, you haven't used the service most of this month, would you like to pause it before renewal kicks in ? We will let you reactivate it with a month free next time when you ask to resume."

That keeps the user in control of the situation, as a service you've been transparent, and you can still issue full refunds to users who come to you after a while explaining they actually wanted to cancel but forgot.

My basic POV in all of this is, the user enters the agreement on their terms, and it's weird to have the service acting cute and unilaterally suspend itself.

As a real world example, it would feel like leasing a car and have the dealer take it back during the night and stop the lease because you didn't drive last month. Sure you could just phone and they bring back the car, but why in the first place ?
Like the author, I learned to program in the 70s. I read the guide that came with the Apple 2 and just went from there. It was easy.

But its important to understand that the scope of learning was narrow. The environment I was programming into was primitive. I cut my teeth on simple programs and games because there was a very very low bar.

Through my career the environment has grown increasingly complex. Windows. Internet. Mobile. APIs.

Today programming is still easy to learn. But the scope of a "simple program" is massively larger. There's a LOT more to learn overall, and a lot more to do to get that first program going.

I get the nostalgia of going back to old friends like BASIC. But it's not the language that makes programming hard to learn, it's the environment.
OP: I was told the final date of my employment would be Dec 31st (turns out that date was made up). I asked to be let go in Oct with severance but it wasn’t approved. I’ve been checking messages and reviewing requests but not taking on any new work.
Yes, I vested my final payment from my original RSUs in October.
I've stopped buying books from Amazon as _every_single_one_ comes with the corners dinged, the covers scratched, and often times bent in half one way or the other.

If I happen to want a self-published-printed-by-amazon book (ie. not available at any other store), I'll really think twice about it, as the quality is probably total crap. The last one I got had screenshots that were all unreadable (and the main content was mostly in the screenshots, without explaining text otherwise), and looked like it was printed at about 15 dpi.

OOTH, I've never had problems with BN or Bookshop.
What’s a degree in prompt engineering?
Yeah, it's non-deterministic by default. They provide some helpers for organization though:

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-10/#base-sets-getting-def...
precisely my point and what the downvoters are missing. ultimately all wars are energy wars... just maybe 2-3 times removed.
It was renamed: https://github.com/p-ranav/hypergrep/commit/ee85b713aa84e005...
Chatgpt3.5 is good enought if can give context in query.
M1 MBP.

At the lower tier with the 8GB RAM, it's the most affordable device that will outlast power cuts that are frequent where I am - cheaper than getting a backup power solution. Getting more RAM is a ridiculous cash grab by Apple.

It's a rock and a hard place.

>4GB RAM is very little usage for advanced IDE

Java is awful with RAM in general. Decent text editor plugin setups can get close to the Jetbrains suite for what I do, but it's just a few small UX & plugin papercuts that make the difference. And I heavily doubt that those tools I prefer are that heavy compared to other editors.
XDG isn't recognized as an authority outside of XDG.
Once someone slips and breaks their neck using this thing its game over.
I've sat in a jury for a frivolous lawsuit and there are tons of sharks out there.
In the line voltage (120v and up) world, fuses are made by Mersen, Littelfuse, and Bussman. Mersen owned Ferraz and Gould-Shawmut and sold fuses as Ferraz-Shawmut until a few years ago when they rebranded to Mersen. Bussman is owned by Eaton, and Littelfuse is an independent company.

Those are the only three manufacturers I ever see specified by electrical engineers in construction specs.
Does this diversion significantly affect travel time, which would cause some shippers to opt for air instead of ocean?
Those are all bad excuses. And they all have fixes other than compromising on the quality of your computer. Laptops for managers who go to meetings, workstations for engineers who actually accomplish things.
There aren't rules. Casus Belli will be manufactured if war is desired and if not then these acts are ignored and the respectable media will dutifully keep it suppressed.

Right now the US security apparatus is trying its damnedest to maintain the illusion of invincibility by avoiding serious humiliation. Civilian leadership has prioritized ideological orientation over lethality for at least two decades. This is good if you're scared of a coup that would kick out all the ideologues who've made their long march through the institutions since Wilson, but a disaster if you want to win an armed conflict.

That said civilian leadership behaves like a mafia that protects good-fellas and keeps the competent out of leadership shows in how The State Department has miscalculated and mismanaged delicate situations with disappointing consistency from Benghazi to Venezuela to the completely laughable strategy of trying to overcome the Russian Federation with social shaming and loss of access to financial institutions as if Vladimir Putin was some naughty YouTuber they could cancel for an off-color joke.

The Federal Reserve can't print artillery shells. Ukraine has made it clear that combined arms doctrine and NATO weapon systems 10× the cost of their competitors' is a paper tiger. Empires have a shelf life.
I appreciate the exercise in cognitive contortion. The author of the post makes the following observations:

- Babar's memoir is very honest about himself and his desires

- Babar's memoir is unlikely to have been written for circulation

- Babar's memoir states he wants to eradicate Hinduism and destroy its temples

Ghosh's conclusion? Babar didn't _really mean it_, he only wrote that down to appease the Indian Muslims he was trying to court, and in reality Babar was a great defender of Hinduism. Proof? He wasn't as virulent an iconoclast as he could have been.

I would certainly never believe such people existed, with so fervent a devotion for the people that hate them, were it not for their diligence in writing down their own thoughts. And if ever there is to be more meaning derived from the toppling of the Babri Masjid, beyond religious zealotry, then it should be a long overdue civilizational immune response to this category of intellectual.
Yes, j guess that's my point. Certainly individuals "could" have said or done anything. But politically, either personally or nationally, the outcomes were going in one direction.

Russia has an alliance with Serbia. Not mobilising would have had significant international repercussions.

Perhaps Germany could have removed the blank-cheque support for Austria. That may have de-escalated things, but may have left Germany unaligned, and thus vulnerable.

Occasionally a domino doesn't fall, but all too often, if you set them up right, they do what they do best.