skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't appreciate it either, maybe I'm a bit dull. I feel tricked as it is unclear from a quick glance what I am looking at is really an advertisement, not a tutorial or some kind of reference. And as an advertisement, it may or may not be useful. At least the incentives are clearly there to present information in a way that benefits their funnel even if it doesn't benefit me as a developer. Even if its not a straight up lie, they will obviously not mention an alternative solution to their product and could very well be quite incomplete.

For a reference, I want something I can trust to give information relevant to my purpose, something that is complete and valid. Not a playful hidden advertisement, funneling me into a single paid solution. Maybe this is why I prefer python, even after working with rails for many years. As I said, I might be a bit dull.
They are already losing the lead on the EV market to BYD: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-delivered-1-81-mill...

I personally think this prediction is grounded. It has been over-promising and under-delivering for a while, and Musk has gone from a money printing machine to someone perceived as toxic/erratic. They will face difficulties in a scenario where competitors can make better, cheaper cars, and their stock market value is not inflated to compensate for that.
Work on myself. I've been in this situation above before. And the troublesome breakup in combination. Not pretty. But indeed, gym and lite jogging helped me a lot. Creating dreams and goals as well. Learning new things. One thing I had a lot in this situation (and probably you too) was time. Time for myself. You will be surprised how many other things (than socializing) you could do with time on your hands!
at this point i believe we could get evidence of alien life in my lifetime. Exciting
Added Download ZIP button under (settings / learn more), you can self host it as needed.
I was just reading about this and wanted to ask: how much do the different storage engines affect performance? I assumed you couldn't just plop the DuckDB query engine on top of the PostgreSQL storage engine and get DuckDB performance.
I’m honestly super excited about you asking because I think I’ll be able to change your mind with a single picture:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Getty...

The sun moves, and therefore the shadows move. And you need some space between the panels anyways, so they don’t shade each other. Also, grass can grow in the shadow!

The cost of installation is not a problem, because the ROI is greater than the interest on a loan. That’s what banks are for!
For now, this is very interesting, but it still does not exist any obvious path for using this effect in a practical device.

Because superconductivity is not a property of the normal structure of graphite, but it appears when a certain configuration of defects is formed by breaking the graphite, I assume that it is difficult to obtain twice the same properties.

Moreover, because superconductivity appears in a fragile crystal, it could not be used for flexible cables, but only for rigid PCBs or inside integrated circuits. Because the superconductivity is on the surface of the crystal, not in its volume, it will not be able to carry high currents.

Nevertheless, it is likely that after some years the reproducibility problems could be overcome.

Neither superconducting graphite nor lead apatite appear promising for high-power applications, but one of them or a similar material could lead to significant improvements in integrated circuits and PCBs.
Short Ruby Newsletter – edition 76
The accent colour one is awesome
Some cool typefaces, but "Corona Face Impact" hit hard.

https://v-fonts.com/fonts/coronafaceimpact
Also people who don’t take him seriously have not been paying enough attention. Chuck Tingle is a master craftsman.
No actuators. It’s basically a box
> because I didn't want to produce anything before I analyze enough music

Just wanted to say be careful with self limiting thoughts. I never saw myself even as a musician because I am largely self taught.

It wasn't really until I was having a chat with a great musician/composer that I have tremendous respect for. He made a comment that I was a great musician when we were talking about the topic of "being a musician". Those few words from him made a huge impact on my life.

I think what I'm trying to say is: write stuff, produce stuff. You don't have to publish it or you could publish under pseudonym if you like. The fear of failure has held me back an awful lot and it's still crippling sometimes.
Solana’s DEX Jupiter has surpassed Uniswap v3 in 24-hour trading volume.
The successful WEN airdrop to over a million wallets via Jupiter fueled a surge in trading volume.
Jupiter, the Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX), showcased a significant 24-hour trading volume of nearly $520 million, surpassing Uniswap v3’s Ethereum market, which recorded $436 million. This surge was propelled by the excitement surrounding a new memecoin WEN airdrop and increased stablecoin swaps.

Solana (SOL), the standout altcoin of 2023, continues to dominate the crypto market as it charges into 2024. The recent data reveals that Solana experienced its highest transaction volumes since October 2022. Moreover, the network achieved its highest-ever level of daily new addresses.
How often do you see people describe that kind of passion for Python? Maybe for lisps, Erlang, Haskell, Smalltalk. It may well put some people off, that's fine, but personally I dread it when I have to work with languages that don't instill that kind of passion.

There are plenty of things I'd like to be different about Ruby and the tooling, but with Ruby I feel like I'm crafting something that at least has the potential for elegance, whereas looking at Python code is like staring at a brutalist building that spews its innards all over its surface.

(and yes, I realise some people love brutalist buildings, and I can too, sometime, when particularly well done, and that's why I chose that example - it's possible to do amazing and elegant things in any language, even - as ugly as I personally find it - Python)
Years ago I completed a post-graduate degree in physics, and although I had studied Maxwell's equations, I didn't have a good "feel" for them.

I recently read "A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations", and it was perfect for me - it explained enough of the maths to understand the equations, without having to first learn differential geometry.
https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/a-students-g...
It is great that previous system that allowed rich to exploit the poor are not kept. Market price at time of production is exactly what the value of produced power is and that is only just and moral price to pay for it.
Ask HN: Why Facebook API responses have `for (;;);` at the start of the JSON
An example API response:

`for (;;);{"payload":{"keys":[]}}`
Creating a Next.js Dashboard for SQL Data Visualization
1. Does this actually need to be done right now?
If yes,

2. Is it in my core competencies?
If no,

3. Do I have access to someone whose core competency it is,
do I trust them with this task enough to not postpone?
(Sometimes this takes us back to #1.)
Blind CSS Exfiltration: exfiltrate unknown web pages
Thanks for flagging that out, swapped it out with another map I found, that shows different colors for different thresholds

So its not "as strict"
It has the exact same actuators to correct upside down position issues as does the Toyota Camry.
How can Karpathy videos defined for beginners when you have to know: programming, python, pytorch, matrix multiplication, derivatives...
I don't understand your point, I never said that "everything is a discrete multiple of this length, or that space is broken into units of it, or that objects have to be aligned on grid boundaries defined by it", I just wanted to mention that "continuity of spacetime is a convenient approximation" may be a correct sentence in the context of quantum gravity.

Also, for what is worth, in QM the space of wavefunctions can also be finite dimensional (for instance the Hilbert space of a spin 1/2 particle).
Just don't.

I lost a few friendships due to bad blood between us. While we had even previously worked together on the project for years, we hadn't yet incorporated it formally. But once we did, we were already being tested. We had conflicts on most of the big picture issues of the startup, and later on, I found out that he was trying to get me to lose my equity by getting me expelled from the company (we were working in a sensitive space and anything that looked bad meant being disbarred from working in the industry). Forging certain documents, badmouthing and backstabbing me. I could prove some of it to save my skin, but not everything, so he still managed to stay on. In the end, we managed an exit, but we were just lucky now coming to think of it.

On the other hand, I started up my current investment firm with a guy I had vibed well with after an interview. He is more than family to me. Granted, there are so many years of maturity between then and now.
This is the first time I've heard of "just culture" and wish it would spread to other areas of the world and life.
The probe is expected to operate during lunar daylight, i.e., until 2/1. (Note the main mission of SLIM is a "pinpoint landing" and the observation by the probe is just a bonus.)

During the remaining three days, JAXA has announced that they will focus on optical observations of the surrounding environment (specifically, some rocks in the surrounding area).
So it is hard to imagine they will do this hard schedule of risky additional operations to restore the attitude.
I knew a guy who did that with a microcontroller and hung it on the wall in the office, before data dashboards (or Pis for that matter) were really a thing.

I think a Mode 7 dashboard would really focus the mind on what's absolutely essential.
Real world code is messy. You will refactor, unless you’ve already considered every possible function you’ll code into the app in the future.
This is excellent. I proudly wear Honeybadger's swag exactly because of things like this.
Nintendo 'Switch 2' coming this year with 8-inch LCD screen
It's a process.
> or doing it in a rapid refining loop, without pausing to think and articulate clearly

Like how many people communicate now? :(
>LLMs right now are worse than useless due to hallucinations meaning you cannot trust a single thing they say

I think this supports the article quite well too. This idea that LLMs 'hallucinate' or that you can't 'trust' them is a clear illustration of the underlying problem.

I've never seen an LLM hallucinate or give an untrustworthy response. But I've seen many many people claim that they do.

Those people are usually attempting to use a language model to do mathematical calculations, instead of using a calculator. Or to lookup facts, instead of using a database. Or to get an overview of a topic, instead of using an encyclopedia.

So naturally, they have about as much luck as someone trying to chop down a tree with a phillips head screwdriver or trying to drive a screw into the wall with a chainsaw. Or even, trying to use a phillips head screwdriver to drive a phillips head screw, but doing so by holding the tip and banging the handle against the screw as if it were a hammer.

Too many people aren't using the right tool for the job, and even if they are, they don't know how to use it correctly. That requires some understanding of the tool, some aptitude, and in the case of a language model, some literacy.

But these LLMs are being marketed as if they are general purpose artificial intelligences that can do anything, when they're obviously not. And their users don't understand that and aren't using them properly.

However, if you use them to pseudorandomly generate natural sounding text, given their training and context, then they absolutely do in fact do that correctly. No 'hallucinations', no 'wrong answers'. They randomly generate natural enough text which fits the topic, pretty much every time.

The issue is marketing them as something they're not, to people who aren't literate enough on the topic to know the difference.

And if, as the article claims, half the people aren't even literate enough to use them, let alone understand when and how to use them, then it's not a good idea to use them as a standard interface nor to make promises about what they can do, when the people that would be using them wouldn't be able to make them do those things.

Back in the day, you pretty much had to be able to understand and program a computer to use one. But imagine if your standard cellphone or laptop nowadays just booted up to a BASIC prompt or even a DOS prompt. Most people would be lost. These days we have UIs such that almost anyone can use them, without that understanding and without having to write their own programs.

LLMs are still in that earlier stage. Where you need to understand them to get value out of them. But they're being dolled up and advertised as if you don't.

I agree with you, they can't successfully replace jobs when people don't even know what they want or how to use them.
Thank you for your esteem toward the project!
Compiling and Running C code inside ChatGPT
Hacker News is about hacking things together, right? So I hope it's okay that I submit yet another GPT thing. Apart from some complaints that I have about the GPTs [1], I think it's quite cool. The link shows a GPT that has some instructions for compiling and running C code inside GPT. It works because `gcc` is available inside the GPT sandbox by default.

[1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/openai-gpts/

This is the prompt:

Run C is designed to compile and execute C code provided by the user. It uses a Python script to write the user's C code into a file, compile it, and then execute the compiled program. The process can be executed in the code interpreter as follows:

```python
# Multi-line user provided code.
c_code = """
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello, World!");
return 0;
}
"""

# Write the code to `program.c`.
with open("program.c, "w+") as f:
f.writelines(c_code)

# Compile and run.
!gcc /mnt/data/program.c -o /mnt/data/myprogram
!chmod +x /mnt/data/myprogram
!/mnt/data/myprogram
```

The output will be displayed in a clean, terminal block without syntax highlighting. After the terminal block, add at least one new line. Always add this new line or the formatting will be messed up in the web interface!
As my friendly recently said "I ditched Ableton and started writing demos directly into muscle memory"
I don't get the Zeus or Thor bit. Of course our indo-european father of the daylight sky has likely killed a few mortals. But does that really stop people contributing to projects named after him? I've been using the Thunar file manager for years...
Being Diagnosed with GBS
I confess it's not as simple as $ <a >b
Sorry about that, because it means the ansdwer while technically true in some weird case where you really need it, isn't exactly convenient like you'd actually use it. I made it sound trivial and obvious and direct and it's not.

Use read in a loop, with special care with LANG and IFS to make all bytes meaningless. Except there is no way to avoid null being special, but you can handle null by making null the delimiter for read, and only reading one byte at a time. So even though you can't store an actual null in a variable, you can still detect that there was a null and print a new one back out, and since you only read one byte at a time, you do that for each individual input byte and strings of nulls are not collapsed.

It looks like a lot, but, read is a builtin, and at least in bash and ksh and zsh so is printf, and although this is a loop, it's actually not even a sub-shell. If you edit variables inside the loop, they are still there after the loop, ie, you never forked a child.

while LANG=C IFS= read -d '' -r -n 1 x ;do printf '%c' "$x" ;done <junk1.rnd >junk2.rnd
>This could even lead to RISC-V SOCs/SBCs at RPI power and price tag (yeah, still dreaming).

A little more power (different form factor...) but don't miss Milk-V Oasis.

That's due this summer, $120, mini-itx and should be massively faster than RPi5.
> . I had to take the next exit and park somewhere to get it to shut up

This is the safe thing to do. A bag heavy enough to set off the sensors (usually 10kg) is gonna kill someone if not belted in in an accident.

It is not uncommon for bags to go through the front windscreen and kill someone in the car that crashes into you.
> In mu experience, people don't want equity as much as they want a living wage. They want a proper salary, every month, not some mythical payday in the future.

People also don't want to be screwed over by their friends. A little equity costs the startup's founders very little, while making sure their friends see some benefit from a successful exit is worth a lot to those friends.
MIT is special. Stanford maybe, others are irrelevant in anime scene
This (that it doesn't matter what you choose to learn early) is a key point.

Early on you should aim to get exposure to multiple languages, ideally at least some very different ones.

So I agree with whatever is more fun. Anything that makes you want to stick with learning is great. Then you can, and should, explore.

If you want something that'll be a marketable skill right away, maybe Python will be a shortcut in the short term, but a developer who knows only one language - whichever one - is eventually going to be at a disadvantage.

The most important skill is not any specific language, but learning how to think about software.
Highly doubt.

Even Snapchat didn’t delete the “disappearing” messages lmao.
Thank you! For me, it's not a fear of failure. It's a fear of meaninglessness. I feel like the culture where people generally running around and reaffirming each other that "studying anything from the past isn't necessary because that's not how creativity works" is toxic.
Hmm, some of these restaurants might want to rethink their font sizes and background colours, since their current menus are very hard to read. The one from Phuket Cafe with pink text on a pink background is damn near impossible to parse from a distance (or if you have less than perfect vision), whereas the examples of menus with tiny fonts are barely readable in general.
I'd be careful about modelling my communication style after Cicero. He ended up decapitated and his head put on the Senate rostrum. Seems like a pretty clear message about what people thought of his communication style, in my view.
The ability to drop blame from the equation is a credit to the aviation industry and would drastically improve any team, organisation, or industry to adopt it.
That's by design. They want to minimize the number of people who completely unsubscribe.
Web search generates profit, local search doesn't.
It doesn't matter if human/LLM or its simply preset text is the source. Spam has to be consumed and "bought" by a human, so it is easy to classify as humans are predictable in what scams we fall for.[1]

Most spam is advertisement for something to make you click, In the 90s and 00's in the early days of email, it was things like Viagra etc, today it is "coin drops" and crypto related things.

Naive Bayesian filtering is a just a matter of training on the probability of such words in regular issue/PR/discussion comment threads and assigning a probability for the post and flagging it when crossing a threshold

In the case of Github, they would probably refine and improve this by adjusting the weights for different topics.

There is a good chance they already do this, and it just that the sensitivity for crypto scam words is set too low in crypto related projects as they would be probably used more by real people as well, and that is why OP noticed this as issue and rest of us rarely see much spam in Github.

You could add reputation for the user globally and with respect to the project (akin to ESP reputation) and many other refinements in addition to Bayesian filtering.

[1] Nigerian prince emails are written in poor English for a reason for example. You could bypass a filter yes, but people are far less likely fall for such evolved language defeating the purpose of sending spam in the first place.
> Or friend was trying to put you in your employee place (where you had to meet his process), or otherwise was getting a bit full of himself, or a bit sleep-deprived and nutty?

This would be a strange take. CEO shouldn't be letting people in on the nod. If hiring is someone else's job, CEO shouldn't be overriding. At best suggesting candidates but saying that it's totally the hiring manager's call.

If a candidate didn't pass a hiring process because they didn't put effort in as they felt they should get the job due to connections, I would agree with the company's decision.
> Yes, it is only machine learning. Trying to separate it from the scientific community is creating a wall that does not exist.

What? 99% of science has nothing to do with machine learning. Jupyter is used in a million different environments such as pure mathematics or computational chemistry where machine learning is almost completely absent.

> and you can't say with a straight face that python is a meaningful player in the Web application space, beyond its niche

According to the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey[1], Django is more than twice as widely used as Ruby on Rails.

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/
Awesome! reminds me of the tight-audiovisual sync style of the demoscene, but in hardware? Hope it gets explored some more!
Show HN: My game entry for the 48-hour global game jam
python has `__getattr__` (and a lot of other dunder magic), what is still missing? With named arguments and (kw)args, there is even more ergonomic magic I think. And django's orm also has similar magical abilities as activerecord.

I think a lot of the metaprogramming abilities Python has are just used less often than in Ruby. Not because it is less expressive, but because it has a culture of simplicity whereas brevity and generality are more valued in Ruby (Rails) culture.
Interesting that the list of fowls and beasts also includes (if I'm reading it right):

A bevy of ladies,
A herd of harlots.
I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine
Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Hermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish
That looks better. I think the original really was for native speakers only. Iceland is a nice quick test for that, since it should be >70% fluent in English, even with next to no native speakers. On the previous map it was almost completely white.
isn't there a postgres compatibility layer in BigQuery? shouldn't that then work with the duckdb-postgres compatibility ?
If an HDD lost its magnetic information, what do you want to create the data from?

Sure you can probably correct file headers, but that's it. Anything that's relying on file integrity probably will go nowhere without a redundant backup to correct the data from.

I'm not talking about "good enough" == "some pixels are wrong in a jpeg file". I am talking about legally relevant documents where authenticity matters and a single bit flip might cause the court to not accept the documents as evidence.
For whatever reason, I've always associated the acronym "RMS" with Stallman. (Even though I have no idea what the "M" in his name is.) I then immediately think of the famous "Stallman Jesus" photo.

In the '90s (or early 2000's?), I remember seeing a photo of Stallman Jesus on the left arrayed against Bill Gates on the right, with Stallman being the figurehead for the open-source coalition arrayed against the might of Microsoft. I've not been able to find that photo since though.
Unicode already has a special case for this, right?

"Upside down hiragana right yourself".
"Mirrored upside down hiragana right yourself".

And 31284 related emoji.
Never been on board, but I suspect the cooking on the USS Ronald Reagan is technically pretty good cooking.
Pixel-perfect fractional scaling, baby, woohoo!