skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked it. Seems like the author has spent a lot of time in self reflection. In particular the section about the cost of being a champion resonated with me. When I was younger I wanted to be the best at everything I did, and there is a high cost to that. Now I more or less just want a job that I mostly enjoy, allows me to do the hobbies I love and spend time with the people I care about. On many days that feels more than enough.
I think that’s an amazing idea. I tried with https://github.com/pion/offline-browser-communication but it requires standards improvements

If you are interested I would love to work together! Join the Pion slack and would love to brainstorm
Elephant matriarchs remember old watering holes that the herd has not visited in decades, and in extreme cases, watering holes that none of the other living members have ever seen.

In drought years these backups may end up getting the herd through the worst of it.

And it turns out that for elephants, water availability is one of the biggest limitations on reproduction. Provide a population with an artificial water source and it will explode in short order.
The Vision Pro might be an impressive hardware on its own. Yet, I suspect it might come with certain limitations, such as requiring a Mac or iOS devices for full functionality. This is a significant reason why I, personally, would not consider the Vision Pro, even if it were offered at half its original price.
Size: 1.45MB zipped, 3.10MB unzipped
Minimum OS: Win95 (Win98SE if you want to use DirectX 9 option)
Version: 3.40
Updated: September 24, 2023.

:))
For those familiar with what Pandas and Polars is, I wanted to draw attention to this comment in this thread. Wow!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38920417
This is the most detailed information on the topic up to this point.

The presenter is a 777 pilot and also an A&P mechanic.
Operational Transform (an approach that requires a central server to coordinate edits)
Can you elaborate on what this 174S is? I've never heard about it.
Landing page is very nice! Maybe I'm missing something, but can't Dall-e do this out of the box? What makes it special? I can't use it without paying for it.

Edit: https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-girl-reading-along-her-...
Psst: Paper-Based Secret Sharing Technique
sklearn is adding support through the dataframe interchange protocol (https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/25896). scipy, as far as I know, doesn't explicitly support dataframes (it just happens to work when you wrap a Series in `np.array` or `np.asarray`). I don't know about PyTorch but in general you can convert to numpy.
Can you add more solar?
I was going to say - it always feels so humbling seeing pages like this. "DataFrames for the new era" okay… maybe I know what data frames are? "Multi-threaded query engine" ahh, so it’s like a database. A graph comparing it to things called pandas, modin, and vaex - I have no clue what any of these are either! I guess this really isn’t for me.

It’s a shame because I like to read about new tech or project and try and learn more, even if I don’t understand it completely. But there’s just nothing here for me.

This must be what normal people go through when I talk about my lowly web development work…
>Use case

>Let's say you have a bunch of files in your ~/Documents folder, some public, some private. Run merkdir on the directory, and you get a root hash which anonymously represents all your documents. Now you can publish that, sign it, timestamp it, whatever you like.

Maybe I'm the wrong audience for this, but I don't know what this means.

I feel like the Github README stops one or two steps short of explaining how this tool is useful for a real-world task.
You're the first person I ever encounter that publicly states to prefer a library because of its copilot support.

Not making a judgement, just finding it interesting.

Anyway, for what is worth, Copilot learns fast in your repos, very fast.

I use an extremely custom stack made of TS-Plus a TypeScript fork that not even the author itself uses nor recommends and Copilot churns very good TS-Plus code.

So don't underestimate how good can copilot can get at the boilerplate stage once he's seen few examples.
Moonwalker robotic shoes get lighter and smarter
First photo from crippled private Peregrine moon lander holds clue to anomaly
Very excited for this.

I used Elixir for a period and loved the language but I got fed up with using Dialyzer so I switched to other typed languages.

When this is done, I'll be coming back as I think Elixir does pretty much everything else better when it comes to writing web apps vs other languages.
They haven't been crucial vs. Germany during WW2, which arguably was where all the big powers were concentrated on.

And I'd say that even during for WW1, the naval battles didn't have that much of an effect on how the war ended, in fact after the Battle of Jutland (summer of 1916) both the British and the German navies were de facto fleets in being.

Later edit: I could make a point, and a very valid one, for the strategic importance of subs (the WW2 Japanese merchant fleet was mostly sunk by US subs, for example), but unfortunately for the US subs fleet people are not thinking about them first and foremost when the US Navy is mentioned.

Of course, all this talk ignores the nuclear thing, this discussion is entirely made while focusing on the conventional way of waging war. If nuclear were to be a real option then all prior assumptions about the next big war would dramatically change.
You'll be a little less than half as old if you pretend to be a Martian with their 687 Earth days per Martian year.

Just don't go with Neptune, it takes almost 165 years before you turn 1 there.
I'm not sure if this is because they went on an acquisition spree, or because Riccitiello ran that company into the ground, or both
Yep! Unless I'm mistaken, R (and its predecessor S) seems to have been the first to introduce the concept of a dataframe.

One could also argue that dataframes are basically in-memory database tables. And in that case, S and SQL probably tie in terms of the creation timeline.
I'm no expert, but they're all pretty darn expressive.

Personally I'd love to work with Kdb+ as you have a lightning fast database and you typically use the q-language instead of k. Q allows you a lot of the power of both SQL and a general purpose array language.

The dyalog variant of APL does have support for common data formats like CSV & JSON, but I think it's all a lot more natural in Kdb+
The Max 9 has been in service since 2018 though, I think if it was a design issue it would have occurred before now. This seems like a Manufacturing QA “escape” to me. Some bolt was either not installed properly or not tightened to the proper spec, QA did not catch it
Hear me out. Try three transformers.
A problem with this story is that the witness retracted the claims soon after (in 2016 iirc), admitting that she floated them to discourage retaliation from Epstein.

I do think it's worthwhile to audit the network of malign influence (legal and illegal) which surrounded that guy for decades, but the signal:noise ratio of any Epstein-related discussion is horrendously bad. On my more paranoid days I wonder if things like Qanon exist partly to bury leigitimate investigation efforts in so many layers of self-contradictory garbage that the really salient facts become obscured.
True, and obviously worms and humans aren’t closely related.

With that said, this research is about how cells cooperate to form a multicellular animal.

I think it would be interesting to use the results to design an experiment that could be applied to animals more closely related to humans (that with these results in hand you could get passed the animal ethics committee).
> Evidently not though

Bolts can be loosened by the physical and thermal stresses of use if there is a design flaw. So it’s not evidently an assembly QA problem.
QA was literally invented for the airline industry.

Software QA when actually practiced is more advanced now than airline QA.
Honestly, I think it depends on the form of the work.

* I'd be supportive with 10 years for software, articles (newspaper or scientific journal), and similar things which go out-of-date quickly.

* I would be supportive of 10-20 years for things which make most of the profit in the first few years, such as movies.

* I'd be supportive of 20-30 years for music, where it often really does take a while to build up an audience and to cover costs.

* I'd be supportive of the lesser of the authors' life and 50 years for things like books. A lot of books take a long time before they begin generating any sort of reasonable returns.

* I'd be supportive of longer periods for things which are CC-BY-SA, GPL, and similar licenses, which aren't as burdensome as All Rights Reserved, and where the copyright has a motive beyond profit.

The little guy won't be able to afford this for more than 7-11 years. The big guy will be able to do so much longer. I'd actually rather flip it around so the little guy has longer copyright than megacorps.
Obviously that makes no sense. It’s a layoff, they’re not cutting salaries.
When a junior software engineer drops a table in production, we don’t say the junior engineer was sloppy. We say the protections and process in place were bad.

I don’t like how the sentence in this parent comment blames individuals for process problems.
Yeah so this is AI's MovableType moment - maybe. Mojo - a will-be-open-sourced-soon-we-promise fast python alternative targeting AI - is in the same boat. Saying they'll be open source, releasing stuff, but VC backed with the ROI impetus.

Quick history lesson: MT owned blogging, got VC backed, changed the license because capitalism, and everyone fled to WordPress which powers over 40% of the Web today. I think looking at the way Matt has run WP and the level of sensitivity he's had to have towards OSS/GPL in order to maintain the ecosystem and community, is instructive when it comes to the viability of an OSS AI VC backed C corp.
Buying Home and Auto Insurance Is Becoming Expensive
“We’re a family in this company… and when you betray the family, there are… consequences…”
I’m no MBA or aerospace engineer, but why sub-contract the fuselage? I get subbing engines, since engine designs can be used on/adapted to other (possibly non-Boeing) airframes, hence opening up economies of scale, etc. But the fuselage is most of the plane by mass and integral to the design of everything else. If you don’t like making fuselages, maybe you should get out of the aircraft business. Was this just a union-busting thing?
https://archive.ph/WnaF8
Looks like things are about to get interesting, between this work and iterative, self directed AI REPL type architecture.
The Movie Interstellar in Under 8 Minutes [video]
That's how human brain works through constant exposure. If you don't care learning the language and honest with yourself about it then it's fine too. But this topic is mostly about the people who do want to learn the language.
> Sequences of actions should be organized into groups with a beginning, middle, and end. Informative feedback at the completion of a group of actions gives users the satisfaction of accomplishment, a sense of relief, a signal to drop contingency plans from their minds, and an indicator to prepare for the next group of actions.

This is why we built our product around a workflow abstraction. Everything the user can do is some workflow implementation with a # of discrete steps. Our criteria for the scope of a step is guided by a dark and mystical process wherein we all argue about the business for a few hours and then sketch out some prototypes. One trick is to design these with lego-like reuse in mind. Oftentimes, the business will have the exact same view used across a wide range of activities.
Yes, no, no, yes HDRP is fine
They're not going to be returning to the firing spot. There's no point doing it. It's been tried, there isn't much to do short of an invasion.

Despite much media ado about destroying the launchers, those are typically just welded pipe or wooden catapults. There's no value in them and no point in ever coming back there.
Is the discussion about the paper, or about how it was unilaterally rejected?
Have been using pandas for years and statements about polars definitely seem appealing. Especially around performance, where apply function in pandas (to iterate over rows and derive a new column) can easily be 100x slower than vanilla python. Similar with some pandas APIs culprits like making sure to reset the index after joins and other transformations
Both are reasonable concerns. If you were running your own company the calculus might change though. Or not but I’d say it certainly could. Similarly for code which is not client facing.
Make sure that you're running a 64-bit OS. They use MongoDB for the unifi controller, and it simply disables the write ahead log on 32-bit Linux. This means it'll corrupt itself on crash.
It would probably make sense to elaborate on what you are looking to solve.
Pre-systemd Arch felt very much like another BSD. At least about as close to one as a Linux could.

These days it’s a lot more Linux-y though.
Canada (close to Detroit) has always been part of the US auto manufacturing scene. In fact you could take what you write and replace the US with Canada and you have what people (and unions) in Canada are complaining about. Not sure what to replace Canada with in your text though. Maybe Mexico a second time?
Which one?

A large part of the IT community does indeed very little work.

As for having to work over 40 hours and being stressed, I guess there's a price to having to work in US under such lax worker's rights and benefits, in Europe you just say no thanks boss see you on Monday.
In high school I toured Oakland Center, the regional air-traffic control center for much of the U.S. west coast. The controller with whom I sat had the big circular display we've all seen, and I noticed one contact labeled "NASA 714" moving away from the coast to the southwest, and I asked what it was.

It was the Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory¹, a converted C-141 transport with a telescope inside, en route to Hawaii on a mission. (Nice!)

"714" is also the badge number of Detective Joe Friday from the "Dragnet" TV series², and is a telephone area code serving part of Southern California³.

The "cylinder" part came when I was casting about for an HN handle, and it sounded good in combination with 714.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Airborne_Observator
2: https://www.perfessorbill.com/misc/badge714.htm
3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_714_and_657
The difference is dataframes can also be seen like matrices. You can do row operations, row + column operations, multiply rows and columns, multiply different matrices, transpose them etc. These kind of things don't really make sense in DB tables (and they are generally not supported and you jump through hoops to do similar things in DBs).
Another application of this is addressing people who say "nuclear is safer than solar/wind" and trot out some numbers they got somewhere.

Assuming those numbers are correct, when you look at them, the contribution of the putative saved lives to the cost of a kWh is somewhere around 1 millionth of a dollar (I forget the exact number), and so is totally swamped by the actual differences in cost. This is not the case for lives lost to fossil fuels, particularly coal; there the contribution is significant.
> And yet, refusal to do anything about it.

I mean, I literally said in the same post what I was going to do about it. I'm ending it on my own terms when I'm satisfied with my own progress.
Honestly I'm surprised why airlines aren't being designed for the slumlord airliner at this point. its pretty obvious from the haphazard window placement on any airplane that it was built to have more legroom but they slid the seats narrower on the seat rails. USB ports never work and power outlets are bent loose to not hold anything plugged into them. Might as well narrow the windows accordingly and ship the plane without cabin electric to save a few cents on initial cost.
It's the alias of a minor character in the novel The Nuclear Age by Tim O'Brien -- one of the two trainers of a small group of radicals that included the novel's protagonist. Not that I train radicals or anything like that.
> Also, just food for thought: If one unit of gas has one 1kWh energy, a heat pump can make 3-4kWh out of it (You are following right?).

Not really following. I think that's a central point of the discussion. Is that COP realistic? Even after re-watching the follow-up videos on that, I tend to say no.

If we assume an energy mix of 30/70 wind/conventional during winter and conventional means lignite, hard coal, nat. gas. Taking the numbers from Quaschning (https://www.volker-quaschning.de/datserv/CO2-spez/index_e.ph...) let's say we have CO2 (equivalent) emissions of 700g/kWh for electricity generation on average (where nat. gas mean is 436g) incl. the upstream chain. 700x0.7 = 490g/kWh (wind subtracted). Now that has to compete against 200g/kWh for nat. gas burned in the furnace, disregarding any losses in both cases. 490/200 = 2.45 which would be the COP needed to break even. And that is without production and installation emissions with regard to the whole heat pump system, including a potentially common replacement of radiators/floor heating, installing a flow heater for hot water and so on. Also disregarding that the flow heater will have a COP of 1. Please correct me if there's an error in my calculation. It's just a back of the envelope thing and won't be accurate, but hopefully good enough to illustrate my point a bit.

> the co2 tax for gas and oil will be higher and you will still only be able to consume those.

As discussed in the reaction videos, I think it's not a fair point to compare the current costs to hypothetical future costs. Especially not if the german official sources state that the gas price will not substantially rise until 2035. But that's a point of discussion that's based on so many ifs that it's not really one I'd like to have at this point. We are basically at a point in this country where the government has to revert its policy on Diesel tax increases on the farmers. It's unclear to me if tax increases on nat. gas will be accepted by the population.
I believe the best case scenario is one where humans have all of our needs met and all jobs are replaced with AI. Money becomes pointless and we live in a post-scarcity society. The world is powered by clean energy and we become net-zero carbon. Life becomes pointless with nothing to strive toward or struggle against. Humans spend their lives consuming media and entertaining ourselves like the people in Wall-E. A truly meaningless existence.

Francis Fukuyama wrote in "The Last Man":

> The life of the last man is one of physical security and material plenty, precisely what Western politicians are fond of promising their electorates. Is this really what the human story has been "all about" these past few millennia? Should we fear that we will be both happy and satisfied with our situation, no longer human beings but animals of the genus homo sapiens?

It's a fantastic essay (really, the second half of his seminal book) that I think everyone should read
Can’t. Three Body Problem.
Leaked emails suggest Carta marketing shares of clients, even without consent
NP hard for a pathological case doesn't mean all practical cases are pathological. Many of the cases have optimal solutions in a reasonable amount of time without resorting to brute force because you can use structure in the dataset to limit the search space.

That you can construct a pathological case makes something NP hard for an arbitrary case but not for all cases. Compare with QS: it's very fast for most practical cases but you can construct a case where it performs quite bad, much worse than you'd expect given the name. But in practice that isn't all that relevant.
Blue Robot Cult: "Godot is a toxic cult"
The implication isn't that we should, rather that IT sector is reverting to some saner curve of compensation vs skills and effort.

It will still be insanely cushier and well paid than other jobs.
Good news, I got rid of ALL the tickets!
I think it can be instructive to look at other social mammals that range over large areas, like Orca and Elephants. They tend to lean heavily on elder females as the purveyors of tribal knowledge and inter-generational memory to remember where to go and how to get there as environmental conditions vary from year to year and decade to decade. It doesn't matter as much in humans since we have writing and maps now, but this kind of wisdom of those who remember similar lean times from 60 years ago could have been very important to the survival of human communities.
Is that what they did here? Article doesn’t say it.
This is the the best update I have seen so far on the incident Alaska Max 9.

The presenter is a 777 pilot and A&P mechanic. Released 2hrs ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfK9jlZK1o [13:43]
At least one author has claimed that even sending the whole chain to the client is a hack. It is a practice that was not contemplated in the original design. Another commenter in this thread has corroborated this fact for me.
16 :/
I think that's the right call. IMHO now is the time to experiment with it, not to replace pandas where it's already working.

The API is still seeing some (expected) breaking changes, and could become a maintenance burden across multiple projects. But the API already feels more consistent, and overall seems to be going in the right direction.
Even if it's a closed system (I'm not sure it is), it's definitely not a zero-sum system.
Super smart idea. I ostensibly do this sort of thing manually to expand my vocabulary in other languages I speak.

What does adding a new language involve other than adding a dictionary? It doesn't seem like there are too many language-specific features at first blush.
Crazy expensive may be affordable to firms like JP Morgan, but other industries just won't pay that when Postgres is free. It's not as good for the kind of analysis Kdb+ does IMO, but free is free and it's easier to just get a VM from IT.
There's odoo, https://github.com/odoo/odoo

I'd be interested in the experience of other fellows with it, or maybe there are different ones?
At the very least it makes pivoting from mediocre engineer to ransomware kingpin much easier.

Pivot! Lean startup! Four hour workweek!
I think this has been observed by others too:

> Snapchat’s UI Receives Backlash From Users for being too complicated. However, Snapchat’s user experience is not bad. It’s actually an incredibly smart design. Their challenging user experience is what keeps them relevant to their primary target audience: teenagers and millennials.

> It keeps the adults out..Snapchat is a safe place for teens. They intentionally made the user interface challenging to grasp in order to make it difficult for adults to use. Most adults would not bother putting up the effort to learn how to use the app, leading to its abandonment. All content is ephemeral with strict limitations on editing. Most content is sent privately, and no content can be publicly rated or compared. Adults would not bother putting up the effort to learn how to use the app, leading to its abandonment. This limits Snapchat’s user base to teenagers.

https://uxmag.com/articles/how-snapchat-and-netflix-break-ux...
You take what you can find and negotiate.
Do they still use "surf the internet" in this day and age?
To save time:

https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
Yes, exactly this. You don't need the optimal solution in most cases, you just need a solution, and if it is 9x% there then the optimum solution can be approximated by burning more cycles but from an economics perspective you may well already have a viable solution in hand.
Pro tip: just don’t respond to the “good morning” messages. If they don’t follow up it wasn’t important anyway.
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