skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? We've had animals in the sea for a very long time. They were developing complex ecosystems before we even had plants on land.
What about reinterpret_cast?
> you’re lacking both in imagination and historical knowledge.

Apparently, but the real problem is you don't actually give us an example, then I wouldn't need those elusive skills. It's hard to get to the point without something concrete.

Besides the moral question of killing someone doing their job due to an unjust law, there are the practical matters. If you kill one person, there are others who do the same job. Governments hire thousands of people. There is the question of subjectivity. If you think that's justifiable, what about if you're delusional or just wrong? Once you cross that moral line you're killing people just because you think

But maybe you're talking about the government coming to kill you and acting in self defence. This definitely happens, but it has practical issues. We've seen black people more or less executed by police more than once. Should black people shoot police defensively? At what point do they know it's justified? What if they're just scared and over-reacting?

Maybe you're talking about something broader, then that's armed rebellion, or civil war. That may be justified, and doesn't have the subjectivity so much, but then you're up against an enemy that is well armed. How are you going to get your hands on jets, tanks and nukes?

Maybe you don't present an example because you don't have one. You then just have an amorphous concept that sounds good in theory but makes no sense. Thus my comments and the danger of actually being one of those people you mention.
> IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN

It could happen, it would just require such a massive shift in current attitudes and regulation that it's not very likely.

> So whatever solutions we implement need to just accept that fact; it's fanciful and counter-productive otherwise.

Discussion is almost never counter-productive. I would highly advise against trying to reduce the amount of discussion (in general and on this issue.)

It's not a fact that it won't happen because it is technically possible, and there is a large portion of people pushing for it, and it's expanding in cities like Miami (where I live), Florida in general, Texas, etc.

Ironically, with enough discussion anything is possible, including a massive shift to public transport in the U.S.
It's very hard to see from that listing's photos, but there is a darkness knob just underneath the black handles, itself also colored black. When you look at the device from underneath, it's pretty obvious to see it, but it's not visible in any of the photos from that specific listing.

Here's a listing with the same T-20 designation that shows the knob: https://www.ebay.com/itm/305337386341?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DI...

And here's another listing with the T20 designation (T20A, this time, instead of B), which also has a decent shot of the knob: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116014045221?hash=item1b02f9d825:g:...
Yeah, I doubt it does anything close to what I'm talking about. If it did, it would be a massive leap forward in integration. More likely, the button opens up Copilot side-bar and only takes text input. But we shall see. Maybe some RAG going on, maybe a bit capable of multimodal, but I'd be a little surprised if there's more than the usual "prompt LLM here".
I think distillation in the original sense isn't being done anymore but finetuning on outputs from larger models like GPT-4 is a form of distillation (top-1 logit vs all logits and a curated synthetic data instead of the original dataset)

On quantization though its still weird how just the weights are quantized in methods like gptq / int8 while there are other methods which quantize the activations as well. There's also the matter of KV cache still being in original 16bit precision regardless which is also unsolved here. Do you have any thoughts or insights into this?
I definitely had Turbo Pascal in the 80's as a 16/17 year old. Started with version 2.0, in 1985. I still have a Turbo Pascal 3.0 manual and a set of 5.5 manuals (the latter of which included a nice little booklet intro to OOP.) Just checked, the copyright page of the 3.0 manual is copyright 1983, 1984, 1985. The 5.5 manual is 1987,1988. I managed to get a summer job programming in Turbo Pascal in 1987.
IMO it looks way too verbose compared to the (faster) Julia implementation in this repo.
Another Covid wave hits U.S. as JN.1 becomes dominant variant
Not looking to accuse the commenter of anything, but...

I think the Imitation Game movie may have given some folks a rather simplistic notion of Turing (indeed, I was under such an illusion until I read the biography on which the movie is supposedly based): that he was a tortured genius singly vital to the war effort, who was then persecuted and who then as a result committed suicide. But his real story is more complicated (though, to be clear, I am not looking to downplay how society treated him).

Turing's purposefulness didn't end after Bletchley or his conviction. Up until the end, he was doing ground-breaking work (at least as far as I understand it) in mathematical biology.
I was never a fan either (some VT100 compatibles did it better than others, always too slow for my taste though).

The one thing I did use it for was to collapse a complex display with lots of line drawing characters - customers were super-impressed by the smooth roll-up of the display as it changed from a complex input setup to a processing phase (done by defining a scroll region across a few text lines and simply outputting a new line feeds).
Airplane customers: Our engineering team is in the position to help you migrate your Airplane UIs/Tasks to an alternative platform, even if it’s not to Dropbase.

Cofounder of Dropbase here. We build similar tools to Airplane.

I’m surprised to hear the news. I’ve always been impressed with the product/team and we share the same vision for a more developer-centric product.

We imagine it must be a bummer to have to migrate so suddenly. We want to help in a way that’s actually meaningful.

Reach out to airplane@dropbase.io

Additional info:

- Our latest Show HN for context on the product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38534920

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- Other tools: Stripe, HubSpot, Slack, Snowflake, OpenAPI. We have experience with other app builders and we pick things up fast
The fact that adding a book to the shelf of a library can somehow affect other books is such a weird design. They band-aided a fix for left-pad but shocker that had unintended consequences.

Of course they were behaving unprofessionally, they're literally high schoolers and they're not at work. This doesn't even rise to the level of an exploit, they broke NPM doing something that is totally normal.
Would have upvoted except for that last sentence. There is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane, at least as long as "perfect" means flawless rather than good enough. Granted, there is a whole dance for accepting the risk from known defects (that's the whole point).
Interesting you mentioned GPL proven to work in the Linux story.

It was specifically GPLv2.

I feel the GPL lost a lot of momentum with FSF's GPLv3 push.

Linus was publicly against it. Not only for Linux, but generally and philosophically against it. I presume a lot of others felt the same too.

In theory you could continue using GPLv2 for new projects, but given that FSF had basically deprecated v2 in favor of v3, it seems that the momentum for v2 just slowly died out, and v3 was too controversial to gain widespread acceptance.

Without a GPL default, the developers who didn't want to get too deeply involved in ideological questions probably just adopted MIT as the new default.
hell, I once had my company send out an email that I was sure was a phishing email. I reported it and was told that, nope, they really did want me to re-upload all of my tax documents to this shady ass URL.

I just quietly never did it, no one seemed to notice. We'll see if it has an effect, but if that was actually real, whoever planned that out should be fired.
Well there's "should" and actual reality. The article lays out the latter, pointing out that it's career suicide to go into bucket #3. If you are not an 'up or out' type of person, then maybe it's worth considering spending time in bucket #3.

Of course, software is obsolete the moment it's written, so it could be argued that a lot of people who think they are in #2 are probably in #3 much of the time, spending a small sliver in #2. However, budgets are allocated once a year or maybe a couple more times, so if you are in something that's categorized as #2 when that exercise occurs, you are still in a better place.
We're in the first group and it definitely makes sense for us. 90% of our driving is in town, and we can recharge at night in our garage for a small fraction of the cost of gas. We also have 2 young kids. For vacations, camping trips, etc., we would take our Forester (which we already had before we bought an EV), but otherwise we don't need to use it. If we only had one car (and we did for years), we'd keep the EV and would rent an ICE SUV for long-range vacations (which, this being the U.S., we get precious little of), and still save tons of money.
After addressing the companies correctly and compiling latex CV for the specific posting, the smartypants will still find repulsive three months of a gap here and there and few failed trial periods... so here it is - "Dear McCompanyFace, ....".
Someone's name and bank account number are enough to write a bad check. The system was designed with a certain amount of trust in mind, and the expectation that the customers will behave in a way that makes scammers obvious.
You betcha. I remember in the late 90s an anti sniper technology that could detect lenses at long distances and fire a laser at them.

The idea was to mess up scope optics, but human heads have lenses too. It was not Geneva Conventions friendly.
Our entire approach to town and city building is fucked. People/professionals all vacation to places like Tulum (etc) where you can just walk through little slices of paradise on foot (or scooter) and reach everything you need sans car, rave about how great it is, and then go back home and continue designing and building the worst imaginable human experience infrastructure.
I’m surprised to see no one mentioned Theseus OS. It’s a WIP OS built from scratch with Rust, using Rust compiler’s guarantees around memory safety for automatically providing many things which require careful plumbing in conventional OSes. As an example it’s SPL, SAS (single privilege level, single address space) and yet is secure. All parts of the OS are hot pluggable too. The drawback is that all native code needs to be Rust, though a WASM runtime is implemented last year. Related thread from 3 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25741729
> As a current job seeker, this certainly _feels_ right.

This is why I don't invest a lot of time in any specific job until I get high engagement (IE, face-to-face interviews) with people who I will be working with.

I flat-out refuse to do long take-homes without good engagement on the company's end.
Could someone explain why this is getting downvoted?
After this follow up on the Oberon System 3, with its Gadgets component model, and a mix of JIT/AOT compilers,

"The Oberon companion - a guide to using and programming Oberon System 3"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Oberon-companion-a...

You can access the source code from Rochus fork,

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3

Or the Active Oberon evolution, although not directly done by Niklaus Wirth,

https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon

Screenshots and OS Manual,

https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/blob/main/ocp/Doc...

Or Component Pascal and Blackbox IDE, created by a startup out of ETHZ

https://blackboxframework.org/index.php
Those things don't do what OIDC does?
Your doctor will tell you stop more often than that. I haven't been able to find anything official though, but nobody says more than 2 hours between breaks for health reasons.
>I think need a full video of clicking around in the AWS console here, because the idea of having to figure out how to do that myself is horrifying to me.

Or even better, was CLI commands or terraform.
They did, there were lots of forced abortions and sterilizations.

The sex ratio per age group gives one a crazy sense of the scale of this.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/282119/china-sex-ratio-b...
Except global warming.
> Not surprising since J is optimized for code density per screen.

I don't think that's the whole story. J is dense like traditional mathematical notation, but can be executed by machine. Experienced J programmers use it to convey mathematical ideas. See for instance:

https://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Puzzles/Unit_Fraction_Sum

Although I can't read the notation, I appreciate the role it can play. Plain C (or whatever) code isn't an efficient vehicle for ideas like that. Numpy/matlab comes closer but J is a stronger approximation of traditional maths notation.
It cost me about $99 to get my DNA mapped by them a decade ago. I used a 3rd party service to sync my results with SNPedia which returned a pretty cool report, at the top of the report was a very dangerous gene I was the first in my family to discover, and has since saved lives. 23andme added that gene to their reports at least 5 years if not more later

My doctor scoffed at 23andme finding a dangerous genetic mutation and said its probably just a false positive. I had to spend $500 to get a single gene tested in a hospital, still came out positive.

So bang for your buck that $99 was a great deal for a full mapping, it feels like most of their issue is what the government allows them to show. Im pretty sure that SNPedia syncer isn't online anymore, but that was what made 23andme a great service for me
this is how i road trip generally. i almost never drive more than 3 hours without stopping for coffee/lunch/dinner. And if its more than 300 miles 90% of the time i'm going to fly.

Any time i'm road tripping more than 3 hours i'm trying to find some cute little town along the way to stop in at. Usually these cute little towns have chargers.
Oh that’s true. It adds extra latency at the start and end of a scroll.
> but rather to share the blame between the regulation writers and the corporations that lobby to have regulations changed in a way that they know is bad for society but good for them.

That's interesting. Everywhere I read (including in HN comments) the focus is on lobbyists and not regulation writers. I've never read anyone ever put the blame on the people who were given free money from taxpayer pockets to be impartial experts, and only ever on people trying to advocate for their companies.

> as a society (in the US) we tend to handwave away companies doing destructive self-interested things as "oh of course they do that", when it's not actually something we need to tolerate

I don't believe "as a society" exists :-) It's one's perception of what happens, but wrapped in an impartial-sounding phrase. I've seen far more tolerance of regulation-writers than I would expect. And there is a clear difference between a company (legally) trying to change hearts and minds and regulation writers allowing their minds to be changed for perks.

> Oil companies in the 70s knowing that they were causing global warming but engaging in a campaign to pretend that didn't exist? Should be jail for the regulation writers, and jail for the oil company execs who signed off on it.

Oil companies don't have a legal responsibility to tell the truth about the climate, I think. Also, the understanding of climate has changed quite a lot since then, so even I might go easy on regulators in this instance.

> Cause the 2008 financial crisis by deliberately mis-grading subprime mortgages? Should be jail for everyone who let that fly.

This is a good example of regulation being to blame, though. You'd go to jail if you didn't allow a certain percentage of subprime mortgages[0].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080928095759/http://www.invest...
I love Dreams. They made really interesting technical choices and this helped them lowering the barrier for creating 3d models (not sure their system is more versatile than their competitors though).
We aim at doing the same thing by using AI but we want our users to have far more freedom of the types of games they want to create. This is why we do not limit ourselves to asset generation but want to apply AI to the game mechanisms.
You can run the bin/create-sample program from this C implementation here: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc

It’s just the city names + averages from the official repository using a normal distribution to generate 1B random rows.
> Niedermeyer said that while an electric car can meet most people's driving needs, it struggles with edge cases like road trips because of the need to recharge. Since Americans have been promised a one-to-one substitute for their gas cars, this seems like a failure; an EV should be able to do everything a gas car can. This idea persists even though in 2023 the average US driver traveled only about 40 miles a day, and in 2022 about 93% of US trips were less than 30 miles. Still, in a survey conducted by Ipsos last fall, 73% of respondents indicated they had concerns about EV range.

It's entirely true that an EV will work perfectly fine for 90%+ of the drives a typical person in the US makes. Logically, the right solution is to buy an EV for commutes and errands, and rent a gas engine car for road trips.

But the result of that logic is asking people to make one of the most expensive purchases of their life where:

1. They will only use it do things they don't enjoy: driving to work and running errands.

2. They won't get to use it for the things they do enjoy about that product category: road trips, camping, vacations, etc.

Logical or not, it's a psychologically shitty deal. Especially when you compare it to gas vehicles where you can use the same vehicle for both the fun and unfun stuff (at some loss of efficiency and environmental value). So at least when you're stuck in traffic on your horrific work commute, you're in a vehicle that pleasantly reminds you of your awesome camping trip last week.
Yep, but you just named a single car.

If you look at any ICE vehicle model, a hybrid version is a super expensive upgrade.

Then demand is greater and they are harder to get — aka, marked up further by dealers.

Not really an argument. Hybrids are very expensive for majority of households to get.
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99% of the time they just want to prevent you from applying to the company directly.
There is a best of both worlds option, in theory, which is a car with a much smaller battery than can still be fully electric for a commute.

We're wasting our battery capacity on cars anyway. Grid storage is much more important, and cars have the worst possible power demands for use with batteries.
(2013)

Looks like this is from the dawn of NeoCities.
I think one fair criticism is they could have had intrusion detection trigger when, presumably, the same IP address was logging in to thousands of accounts. But who knows how sophisticated the attack was?

[edit]: there are other obvious heuristics that could have detected it, it does show they had either very basic or no intrusion detection, which, for a service of this nature, isn't really acceptable
Don't get me wrong it looks great! Very aesthetically appealing. "unixporn" is appropriate.

The shortcut key idea is interesting.

I have nice syntax highlighting /colors / statusbar / desktop wallpaper etc but if I'm trying to write / read terminal / code, contrast is king.

What I'm kind of grokking from your comment is the text on image just doesn't really bother you
> How I'd find someone to do this work on my garage, and how much it would cost is a huge unknown, and that's just enough friction to simply not consider getting an EV.

Car dealerships will sell the hookups and have connections with local companies who will install for you. No effort required on your part .
Adapters are incredibly annoying.
#2 is the best because if you can do your job quickly and efficiently you can minimize the amount of actual time you spend working as long as you are delivering the software.
They do them with much less complexity than OIDC.
So, to play devil's advocate, 23andMe shouldn't allow credential stuffing to happen by rate limiting logins after so many failed logins, or locking accounts after failed logins.

They could've blocked source IPs making all the login requests, but that was probably being changed to not set off alarms. However, there wasn't enough information in the article to go on, but since they suffered so many breaches of user accounts, they probably had to do something wrong. I'm too busy to dig into the specifics.
The full audio of that was recorded but was never released -- this is reminding me that I should loop back with ACM to see if they still have it and can release it. In particular, I want to see how long the pause when Arthur responded to my question "What do you think the analog for software is?": I won't give away his answer, but it more or less detonated my brain -- and it took me what felt like minutes (but was surely only seconds?) to put myself back together and ask a follow-up.
about 10% of the US is immigrant, that number is less than 0.1% in China.
Also the cons.

- Traveling and shaking a vessel filled with ink doesn't end well.

- Getting ink on your hands when refilling the pen becomes annoying, quickly.

- Your notebook choices now become limited to ones that don't bleed. I already have notebooks that I've been using for years and don't want to change.

- Not all pens are suited for every language. If you get a pen with a wider nib (like a parker or american ones in general), it's very easy to blur on Chinese/Korean/Japanese etc. This is fixable with a smaller japanese nib but not really an issue with ballpoint pens.

--

Whenever I'm in Japan I usually stop by a store like kingdom note and I've picked up some pilor & sailor pens. I'm happy to use them at my desk, but I just stick to ballpoint pens like the Calme 0.7 when out and about.
There's gambling in this establishment? I'm shocked! Shocked I say!
I do that, can be fun, there is so much to see on the way. Drove last Christmas from Riverside county to Bisbee, AZ and back via San Diego.
Thanks, but this doesn't really address my question. It looks like they took 25 people, and measured some variables before and after exercise post recovery (why such a small sample size? looks like a really easy test to run). I'm not really talking about how covid affects ones ability to exercise. I'm talking about the likelihood of "long covid" appearing in people who are fit and healthy vs not.
This entire idea just underscores the inane mental burden for the average person just to drive their car long distance.
The previous-buffer and next-buffer commands are also very convenient to navigate the buffers. I use them all the time. (Bound to M-A-left/M-A-right.)