skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But also the solution. With enough classify -> beat the classifier iteration, the works will be indistinguishable from human production, at which point there is no longer a need for classification.
If I may be forgiven for asking, what about web app playgrounds? Does anyone know a good solution for embedding whole sandboxed products for demonstration purposes?
(I'll use "soccer" for "Association football" below to avoid confusion. I'll use "field" rather than "pitch" because the FIFA "Laws of the Game" use "field" except in 3 places [1]).

The rest of the world uses a different size soccer field than the rest of the world. Not only do soccer field sizes vary country to country, they can vary from league to league within a country.

In American football the size is standardized, except for children's leagues. High school, college, and professional leagues all use 100 yards x 160 feet (91.44 x 53.3 meters).

Heck, soccer fields can even vary within a single league. Take the UK Premier League for example. A few years ago their fields ranged from Fullham's 100 x 65 meters to Manchester City's 107 x 73 meters. They have since tried to standardize on 105 x 68 meters but aren't there yet.

Premier league clubs not yet using 105 x 68 are Brentford (105 x 65), Chelsea (103 x 67), Crystal Palace (100 x 67), Everton (103 x 70), Fullham (100 x 65), Liverpool (101 x 68), Nottingham Forest (105 x 70).

For international play, the requirements are 100-110 meters for the long dimension and 64-70 meters for the short dimension.

There are some things that are standardized on a soccer field and so could be used as length references. The funny thing is that those things are all round numbers when expressed in feet or yards.

E.g., the radius of the circle around the center mark is 10 yds. The penalty area is 44 x 18 yds. The penalty mark is 12 yds from the from the goal. The goal area is 20 x 6 yds. The goal posts are 8 yds apart and the crossbar is 8 ft off the ground.

That's because these things were standardized before the UK switched to metric. I guess they didn't want to change the sizes just to keep the numbers round.

[1] there are two places where they say that the assistant referee should "face the pitch", and one place where they say the assistant referee should use his flag to indicate on what area of the pitch offside occurred.
Recommendations? Someone nonadjacent to the lesswrong smooth brains, pretty please.
> one of the safest modes of transportation

How far do standards have to fall before that's no longer true?

Recall also that aviation is the safest in aggregate, but the severity of each individual incident tends to be much worse than others.
That's exactly my thinking. Even time to slim down a bit for summer.
A whole lot of (mostly-)little things, over the past half-ish century, have lead them to seriously doubt the existing social order. Volunteering for military service is something of an all-in endorsement of that order.

Though it doesn't help that British kids have felt no visceral "we're at risk from $Powerful_Enemy!" fears since ~1990.
maintainable prototypes are overengineered
Only if they or their partners have max planes in their fleet.

Choose airlines which don’t fly Boeing or don’t fly the route.
I wouldn’t be surprised if half the interest you get from posting there are fake emails from nosy HNers wondering about your creds.
I think free is the thing. Python replaced MATLAB and Mathematica, not COBOL or Fortran, which was already out.
The article doesn't say what the jokes were!
There's a willingness from the systemd devs to start incorporating Rust into it, possibly quite soon: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/19598
This is less the difference between fortran and python and more the difference between run once for an experiment culture and run as part of a pipeline culture.

Languages are mostly funglible, coding culutre is not.
So doing engineering with business school theory doesn't work so well.
Being intelligent in one domain doesn’t automatically make you good in any others. Exceptional biologists can be astoundingly bad at maths, and the other way around. Like most skills, being good at writing software requires not only intelligence, but lots of experience too. Maybe smarter people will pick it up faster, but they aren’t intrinsically better.

It’s a bit surprising you’d have to explain such a basic conclusion here.
> He was frustrated that, when he was first fired, people thought it was an obvious conclusion for telling jokes while having a day job.

> “Like, ‘What do you mean? You’re off hours, you’re having fun with, like, creative expression, of course you should get fired for that,’ ” he said. “But I hate that that’s become normal. And I want to be an example of like, no, your employer doesn’t own you.”

This is a terrifying state of affairs. Similar to the whole "all code you write, on or off hours, belongs to us" some tech companies try to pull.
Why not do it as a hobby instead? It's quite popular these days.
Alan Sokal's Joke Is on Us as Postmoderism Comes to Science
If you have a black box that signs things, the information required to make it sign arbitrary things is always going to be extractable, one way or another.

PUFs attempt to prevent this, but I'm not sure it's been done in a provably secure way yet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function
You mean they didn't have go to stores staffed by real people in London or Delhi or Hong Kong?
I guess you mean "email service" not "email client". Zoho have a free tier with custom domain. Porkbun will host your custom domain email for $24/year which is almost free. Or you can self host I guess!
New Myths?

Snopes dot com

I know it’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s the most comprehensive telling of every modern myth they can find.

Here are the ones in Technology…

https://www.snopes.com/search/technology/
This plane was mangled by bean counter logic: drive down costs to the point where customers go elsewhere, doesn't work at 50,000 feet.
If someone built the vision in this article I would use it. I love declarative config.

The article is such a good take it makes me want to try out the author's Adélie project.
Sorry for the frustration. The search won't push state anymore now.
The search experience still should improve in the next version.
Much more of this sort of thing, and any rebranding might have to do something about the 'Boeing' part of the name. I suppose they could bring back the 'McDonnell Douglas' name... but that is associated with a far worse door-coming-open problem.

If Boeing wants to rehabilitate its reputation, showing more respect for the regulatory process would be a good start.
Zoe Bee did a video essay[0] on her experience as a ghostwriter producing essentially the kind of junk that is now being automated with LLMs. In her case she was (somewhat unknowingly) paid to write unlicensed Minecraft stories. I think the video is worth a watch if you're not aware of the state of ebooks (especially on Amazon) prior to LLMs.

It's also worth mentioning that this problem isn't limited to ebooks. There's also a cottage industry of mass produced minimal-effort audiobooks on Audible as part of various "passive income" scams. Dan Olson made a pretty good video essay[1] about one such scam where he actually played along for most of it and also gave it a try as a ghostwriter.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1aqLLiIjgA

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

EDIT: Considering the most cited examples are Amazon/Kindle and Audible, I think parallels can also be drawn to the proliferation of no-name brand Chinese whitelabel dropshipping products on regular Amazon. Everyone already knows not to trust Amazon reviews but at this point it's hard to find reputable brands for products you're not already familiar with (e.g. which of the one hundred brands featuring near identical products are actually brands you might find in a retail store rather than a random name slapped on the product in the same Chinese factory?). LLMs will definitely make reviews even more untrustworthy but they might also help generating even more plausible copycat product descriptions and designs.
> > Go is kind of odd in that even when it was new, it was kind of boring.

> Java was designed to be boring, too.

Which is something of an irritation and bemusement to me; I remember when Java came out and the paean at the time was that it was written as a simple language, that average programmers can easily use. And was SOUNDLY SHIT ON for that. Who would want to use something for... pish posh, AVERAGE programmers!?!

Then Go essentially did the same marketing move, and this was seen as some glorious genius big brain move from on high.

People are funny.
While there has been some backporting of features TO Gecko from it, Servo is technically an open-source non-webkit/blink/gecko browser engine.
https://archive.is/Bbmju

subtitle: "Articles in hard-science journals increasingly read like the 1996 hoax, and dissenters are suppressed." The author, Mr. Krauss, a theoretical physicist, is president of the Origins Project Foundation and author of “The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.”
thanks for mention it. For people who don't like using js heavy site, this is a very good way to just browse lite document base (not SPA) web site. No Brave or Ad blocker needed. And it is one of few browser will display google in html old format.
what should be the replacement for C stdlib?
> where the each commit describes changes to a graph of objects

You're propagating misinformation, in this sentence. Each commit describes a complete snapshot and the previous snapshot. You do at least describe it correctly later.
> The book market relies on a vast army of unpaid volunteers to effectively sacrifice their time and wade through a sea of trash to find the gems.

In other words, the market already sees no value in books. If it did, the money would be pouring in for this type of work. AI isn't the problem.

AI might be the solution, though. It is conceivable that AI could find a way to make books appealing to the market in a way that humans have failed to discover.
https://news.sky.com/story/us-general-warns-british-army-no-...

They’ve apparently kept cutting costs for a long period of time. This has probably hurt the value proposition for attracting young talent.
Except maybe Heraclitus and Lao Tzu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi
Tactical Order of Battle, maybe?
Live Map of Swiss Trains
a TUI program without a screenshot might as well not exist... nobody is going to use it if they can't see what it looks like.
What you are looking at might have a lower compute count as the popularity grows and the GPU/User ratio shrinks.

A GPU shortage under popularity growth should result in more obvious AI art over time sans an algorithm breakthrough that reduces compute cost by orders.
Thanks for this brutally honest post! We need more of this on HN.

Some advice from a weakling(!): In most gyms where I have worked-out, you can either ask the staff or a super buff lady/dude on how to best use the equipment. Yes, you feel like a complete idiot for about 6 seconds while asking for help. But then, they are so supportive and friendly. It's weird. If you are a tiny nobody at the gym, the super buffs are more than happy to provide advice if you asking respectfully. Note: Do not ask for help when they are in the middle of a set!

EDIT

Big support for going the gym. Your original post sounds like you were going through some big issues.
Note that fbdev use deprecated because it's a really bad and broken kernel API.

One can use KMS directly, but at that point you're just implementing all the logic of a display server and might as well just use a small kiosk-style Wayland display server instead.
People are posting AI grift books, but is anyone buying?
The weird back button behavior should be fixed. and it's not open-sourced
Adélie Linux
Nominations aren't awards...?
The reporter doesn't want to lose her job, either
Did you mean complexity of deployment? What does a modern front-end need beyond something to serve up resources at a reasonable rate?
It may kill the market of books, if it weren't already badly damaged by publishers and editors. A lot of pre-AI books, specially on the latest years, were of bad quality, even recognized authors wrote bad books, but very extended, seeming more worried about selling words and pages instead of quality content. There were a lot of garbage already, and somewhere floating in that sea, some good books.

Curated books, even if they were written by AIs, could be a way to get out of this cycle, at least if editors/publishers didn't had all the incentives to lay a hand on it (Goodreads is a good precedent for this).

Another way of get out of this may be to turn over the economics of books. Did you read something good, that enjoyed and considered that it was time well spend? Then consider paying for it. With digital distribution the cost of having more readers is nearly zero. AI or human written books, what in the end matters is how it was the experience for you. And maybe how much you trust in whatever made you to pick that book.

At the start I thought that the article was about killing books as in the experience of reading books. Having AIs that somewhat had read already the book let you have a summary of what is discussed there, even have a discussion and analysis on the content, maybe even posing as the author or the main character or an expert on those topics. You may not "need" to read the book itself, and decide for a shorter activity. That won't be the end of books or reading them fully, but for some books, some topics, one approach may be better than the other. That may affect how books are written, or what are exactly books from now on. And shorter fiction like articles, blog posts and so on.
> wrote at least one bug every time he created a PR.

An economic hero. A man of the people. Creating job security for QA departments!
You claimed the diff was stored - that's what the correction is about. Git's primary storage model is of complete snapshots.
Statistically they're still rare, fortunately. There's a lot of these planes in the air every day, and it's far more likely to be involved in a car crash caused by somebody not paying attention, than it is to be on one of these flights.

That said, I don't really want to live with the nature of all these flaws. This is not their rocket science that is failing, but it rather reeks of complacency.

I still remember the wrenches found in early Dreamliners. Noone died, but I mean, come on.
Highly recommend the animated movie Secret of the Kells.
Who amongst GenZ would be qualified for a Rear Admiral position anyways? The job requires 20 years of experience in the armed forces.
It must be a typo from the independent, right? Its driving my insane.
Especially since this will be completely hidden from the public, and complex and expensive to check by governments, and even harder when on international waters.

That means there's hardly any penalty or price for polluting and destroying sensitive ecosystems. And since companies treat fines like operational costs, these companies will be financially incentivized to mine, pollute, and destroy the seabed, even for questionable gains.

And say there will be some organizations bothering and protesting, they will be disregarded as "green climate weirdo's" by populist right-wing governments in the West.
*MacBooks Pro
Probably humanity will regret the technology that strengthens a post truth world.
The main thing AI does is kill off blind purchases of ebooks from unknown authors. Reputable publishers won't be publishing and bookstores won't be stocking AI generated books so it's mainly an ebook problem.

The way to successfully write a book as an unknown author without a major publisher intent on making you famous is already to build a social media following[0] then leverage your social media following to promote your book.If nobody's heard of you, self publishing a book has always been a waste of your time. It's just even moreso now because somebody is using the BS generator to write fake books and flood Amazon with them.

[0]: This doesn't just mean writing social media posts but could also involve things like getting published by magazines, doing podcasts, appearing on TV or even just doing Twitter Spaces. The point is to be a known figure by your target audience before you write a book.
To fill a position as "director of submarines and [who] would be responsible for 'elite operations' and the nation’s nuclear deterrent" requires intimate knowledge of the workings of the Royal Navy. It would almost certainly be a promotion from within or for someone who had as least previously worked for the Royal Navy and risen to a high level. Wouldn't hiring a headhunter to do a targeted search work better than using Linkedin?
My suspicion is that people who tend to want to live alone feel that way because of some experience with trauma. The baseline seems to be that people desire some measure of company, whether that be intimacy or conversation or just reassurance that they're not The Sole Survivor. When people say that they're happier without some sort of regular interaction, something has disrupted the natural inclination. Depending on circumstances, that may be optimal: if you're surrounded by abusers and people you can't rely on, self-sufficiency is clearly the approach least likely to see you hurt. However, if what I've described is an accurate model, it does mean that the prospect of an even better quality of life lingers in the background, should the happy-alone person find access to treatment for that trauma and a generally healthier and more pro-social environment.

Maybe I'm wrong though, and there are just people who would rather be alone, and that is their max healthful state. Even if this isn't the case, I think it would be wrong to assume access to those healing resources mentioned above is readily available to any given individual; it's probably not helpful to hound someone to get therapy because they say they don't like company. All of this also doesn't mean that there aren't people who feel the need to shack up BECAUSE of trauma.
How does this architecture handle this concern:

Say I have a web application, written in JS running in the client browser. It uses the REST API.

I also need an Android app.

Does the Android app use the same REST API? If so, is the business logic re-implement both in the front end web JS code and inside of the Android app?

Or is the business logic embedded in the API?

If the rest API is pure, it will provide low-level CRUD operations with minimal business logic. The business logic will need to be written in each frontend. Making sure the business logic is correct and in sync across the front ends becomes a challenge.

If the business logic is embedded in the API, then many of the API endpoints will be less REST and more RPC style. But then the utility of Django REST framework is diminished.

How would you navigate this?
how is it broken?
"Motivation" can be either intrinsic or extrinsic

You are asking about extrinsic motivation - ie, how can you "make" them want to do the work

Extrinsic motivation only comes in 2 forms - positive (eg a passing grade, promised promotion, etc) or negative (ejection from the school, loss of job, etc)

Intrinsic motivation is entirely up to the "motivee" - if they do not "care", and you cannot "make" them care ... they will not do the work

You might tell them about the benefits to them later of doing this now (possibility for career advancement, opportunity to do X because they have learned Y, etc)
I’ll redo my wish into: I wish Pikchr was more expressive. I’m not attached to Mermaid, but I do like things that make the common tasks simple.

AFAICT the Pikchr language is still pretty close to its PIC roots, which is comparatively low level. An expansion to better handle the sort of diagramming that has become common since PIC’s 80s time would be excellent.

This is especially true in the context of Fossil, where being able to make quick flowcharts or sequence diagrams would be super useful.
Very little to do with Whitehead’s system other than being broadly “process” oriented.
In my first year of undergrad biology, we had an assignment pertaining to Olestra.

While I remember a lot of what I learned in undergrad, the only words from any course that I recall verbatim are from that assignment:

“Greasy, hard-to-wipe-off fecal matter.”
While I was never eligible to serve in the military due to a health condition, I can also say that violent video games had the opposite effect on me that many adults feared they might - I learned via first person shooters that other humans were quite skilled at killing me and was smart enough to know that there aren't any re-spawns in real life. As a result, I never wanted to get in a gunfight with anyone.

Also, while I was quite naive to the realities of the geopolitical order as a kid (and probably am now too as an adult), the clear hard sell pitch that George Bush gave the country about how we needed to invade Iraq made me instantly suspicious of his motivations. I think that instinct has proven quite correct in retrospect and is probably one of the happenings you're alluding to over the last few decades.

That's just me as an American Millennial, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's somewhat of a general view.
Huh? There is nothing in the FAQ claiming that Go doesn't have exceptions... It literally says that Go does have exceptions.

Are you referring to the frequently asked question itself? That's the only thing in there that could even possibly make you think Go doesn't have exceptions. Except, being a FAQ, you know that the question comes externally from people who don't know about Go. That is why they are asking the Go people the question! One would have to be braindead to think that is an insistence.

Maybe you need to be even more specific.
> Thing is, one should read lots and lots of fiction until his mid-20s at the latest, if he/she leaves the “reading lots of fiction” part after that timeframe then it would have already been too late.

sorry but why is this the thing.
+9000. Asking for a spot on a personal big lift is a huge opening to talk with people. The before and after are a great opportunity to be emotionally vulnerable -- "oh, can I do it?" ... "oh, thanks for the 1kg help on the last rep. I really needed that!"
Have you read the later book Living with Complexity?

It is pretty much this topic; how to reconcile complexity and confusion.

He talks a lot about reaching designs of irreducible complexity as a way to mitigate confusion.

For what it’s worth, I’d say that Git is pretty far from irreduciby complex and thus has preventable confusion baked into it.
an idea: perhaps you can automatically download all the requirements in the background when the page is launched to save some time?
Libraries are already flooded. Libraries regularly send older books to be pulped, due to the fact they often contain outdated perspectives. They also look at last-checkout. There's a huge recency bias in anything except national archival and university research libraries. And donations are not put on the shelves, they go into the booksale pile and then the pulping pile. Collections are almost always only added to via librarian purchases, procuring new books at their discretion and patron request.

A few put them up on third-party bookseller sites for a time, and I've been able to get a lot of rare and notable works for comparatively little money. Actually, a lot of them come from university libraries, so maybe they're not as much of an exception as I think.
At my alma mater it also replaced all existing programming courses for non ee/cs students, replacing Java and Delphi still lingering around from days past. Multi platform support is very important which is one of the reasons to use java.
This has the big advantage that in multi disciplinary subjects everybody knows something of the programming language involved.

And of course it saves on the insane licensing costs since Mathematica is no longer required in all student software packages (MATLAB still is afaik).