skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visiting family in Iowa, I went for a run around some back roads and saw dead hogs out on the road.

I asked my grandparents what that was about. They said they were out for rendering to pick them up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)
Landlines are irreplacable in case of power outage. As someone who lives in developing world we often have power outages, when if you have no charge left in your cellphone, you cannot even call emergency. Landlines are independently powered and never failed even at most serious multi-day blackouts; even municipal water pumps stopped working, but phones kept functioning..
Powershit is a good thing?

Here’s a genus idea, put an object oriented language in the terminal.
They do that with Putin. Works ok, even for the meetings with the heads of other states (except for China or Turkey - these guys get the real deal refusing to settle for the impersonator)
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I mean, what kind of stupid do you all think we are?
> There is a documented 30-year history of ISPs not expanding their network

Yeah, which has nothing to do with race at all, and everything to do with population density. ISP’s don’t want to invest to expand to rural areas with few customers for obvious reasons, none of which have anything to do with discrimination of any kind.
Biden for one:

> An unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop. Folks like me who were Caucasian, of European descent for the first time in 2017 will be in an absolute minority in the United States of America, absolute minority. Fewer than 50 percent of the people in America from then and on will be White European stock. That's not a bad thing. That's a source of our strength.

And that's a very innocent one, but terrifying nonetheless. Imagine the same wording but about how a reduction in blacks would be a strength, all hell would break lose.
To you.

Why does that apply beyond you?
I don't care that it's hard to learn. What turns me off rust is that if I ever make a change that requires a lifetime annotation, I now have to go back through all my code potentially adding lifetime annotations to everything it touches.

I was making a little toy compiler in rust and basically gave up when I wanted to make a change that would have amount to string -> string_view in c++ because in rust I now need to tell the compiler that the String to my &String is going to outlive the struct. Now I understand why it's good but Id rather just let c++ blow my feet off. Maybe once I nail down all the data structures I'll rewrite it in rust.
Yeah, another universe where you have wizards who know how to fold the paper correctly to make the ambient computational environment do things.

Hard pass.

Folk computing for me is a hardware/software layer stripped off the commercial abstractions that hide the inherent simplicity of the medium.
laughs in cities skylines 2
Who in the world rents an SUV (or a car for that matter) to get around Paris? Edit: best option is to park outside city limits and take public transit. Maybe that's the point.
Look, I'm trying to give the guy some leeway for being a massive stick in the mud. I think some people call this "steelmanning"?

Fine, it's rare that "60fps" is actually mandated by publishers or console manufacturers (even if there's at least one instance to the contrary[1]), but it's at least a fact that your title is unlikely to pass console certification if it isn't at least somewhat stable[2] and that titles have been retracted for instability in the past[3].

Whether you have to meet 60fps or 30fps or just remain somewhat playable is entirely besides my point, which is that making mistakes in writing code in gamedev can lead to lost sales while being too conservative to make mistakes in writing code in webdev can lead to opportunity cost, and that's where the difference in engineering strategy comes from, and why are we fake surprised that they're different when it's obvious?

As an aside: I'm not sure why you're asking me to name six new video games I've played when even my most avid gamer friends barely have time for half that.

1: https://www.polygon.com/2016/3/17/11256142/sony-framerate-60...

2: "A playable experience varies per title, but generally means no severe drops in frame rate, no freezes, impasses, bugs causing major progression hindrances, or graphical corruptions." https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/_content/gc/pol...

3: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/22188007/sony-cyberpunk-...
So you agree. A robust government regulatory agencies with effective enforcement is required to ensure the protection of the environment and workers' safety and dignity.

I'm glad we see that the inevitable outcome of free market deregulation is destruction.
To be clear: I already had my old car insured with them for several years, so I just removed the old car and added the new car. I am also 50+ with no negative record and a garage in a single family home.
I never said anything about splitting a commit. My entire point was about creating commits from current changes, either with or without the index. And how I prefer the git way that is two steps because of the index, so it's more helpful to commit what is related instead of everything at once. But it's okay, sometimes we misunderstand.
The increase in auto insurance is just reflecting the increase in their two main expenses: healthcare and cars/car parts.
A physical qubit with built-in error correction
EV sales are continuing to climb, just slower than previous projections.
It’s all in the hips… it’s all on the hips…
I think the actual lesson learned was to develop these research departments as incubators where the inventors are expected, and trained, to become entrepreneurs who spin out companies that the parent company owns part of.

It would have been easier to just make some of the inventors upper-level managers and executives of the parent company.

Given the cost of the original Xerox computer, Apple still may have eaten their lunch. Apple itself spent a lot of effort getting the Macintosh, expensive as it was, as cheap as it was.
This sounds like Sri Lanka's ban on fertilizer, pesticide etc. imports the then govt sold as a switch to organic, but was just a short term saving of foreign exchange that was disastrous within an year.
r^2 is around 2.3 for the alleged size so it won't be too big a difference.
> The use of env is considered a good practice when writing shell scripts, used to tell the OS which shell interpreter to use to run the script

When using a shebang line, the reason for 'env' is actually something different.

You can just leave out 'env' and do a shebang with 'bash' directly like this:

#! /usr/bin/bash

But the problem with that is portability. On different systems, the correct path may be /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash. Or more unusual places like /usr/local/bin/bash. On old Solaris systems that came with ksh, bash might be somewhere under /opt with all the other optional software.

But 'env' is at /usr/bin/env on most systems, and it will search $PATH to find bash for you, wherever it is.

If you're defining a Docker container, presumably you know exactly where bash is going to be, so you can just put that path on the shebang line.

TLDR: You don't have to have a shebang, but you can have a shebang at no cost because your shebang doesn't need an env.
Especially with natural monopolies like infrastructure, there is no economic case to overbuild most power grids, water/sewer districts, Telecom infrastructure or natural gas networks regardless of regulation.

The rare times you see overbuilding there is always a scheme involved, whether it's Comcast's recent edge outs to appear as though they aren't bleeding internet customers, or government money incentivising an overbuild cause the current ISP didn't document that they serve a set of addresses.
Or my personal disappointment: Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Feels like that ought to work on Windows 10, but I couldn’t get it to. If I remember correctly it did work fine on Windows 8.1 strangely enough.
Yes this is one way it shows. Another is that there can be shops in your street that have no apparent viable business, but they exist only for the laundering. They are run by poor people. Every once in a while the real criminal (boss) shows up. It can cause all sorts of problems in good neighborhoods. Without cash, these problems would not exist.
I've seen this happening more now. I have two potential explainations. First, almost all of the people I've heard of doing this have turned out to be really drunk or high when they were arrested or autopsied. Second, one is more along the lines of what you're saying with poor driver quality. Some people have an over-reliance on GPS telling them where to turn and have lost the ability to navigate for themselves (or even just verify what the machine is telling them is at least safe).
Another poster had something else from NASA, suggesting 1.55 Earth radii and 3.02 Earth masses.
“Homely”?

Avoiding something because it’s “homely” sounds exactly like symboling status :)
LA City is large but it is such a patchwork whose borders move between other separate municipalities

Nobody knows anything about what the smaller municipalities do, or what LA County does only within the unincorporated areas

It is impossible to coordinate.. well there is no real interest in doing so because it creates so many opportunities

A tiny hamlet of 200 people pays their public sector 300,000/yr and simply exists to keep LAPD and LASD out by not being part of LA City or unincorporated respectively
Possibly, although it may be relative like others have noted. Maybe people were awkward in the Radio Era, and just sat around at home listening to other people "supposedly" having fun in the Roaring Twenties. "That seems like so much fun, yet I could never do that." However, in the modern era, other reasons might be:

Cell Phones - In every situation now, there's an excuse in your pocket to avoid everybody and not interact. To scan your finger up and up through images, while avoiding those around you. To tap on the endless hallway rather than talking.

TVs - They're in many public businesses related to socialization, and in pretty much every household. It wants you to look at the screen. Its easier to look at the screen than talk. The TV does not actively dismiss you, reject you openly in a bar, or sneer at your lack of the latest fashion / tech gadget. It shows you images that are better than your life every day, it doesn't need to reject you to make you know it's part of a better social desirability class.

Achievement Pressure - The whole world's gone gamified and you can feel bad when you drop out in the operating room. Week late, week early. Didn't walk soon enough. Didn't speak first word quickly enough. Not a math prodigy before kindergarten. You're being left behind by the 10x children, the AP class children, the children that started with advantages. Your paycheck's not what all the websites say your supposed to be getting. $50B?? My paycheck has 50k on it... Your family's not like the family on TV. You, your spouse, your children, your parents, have all those horrible issues the drug commercials tell you to worry about. Not nearly as hot as the movie people. Does my voice sound that way?
This is already a thing in many countries! There is one company building and maintaining infrastructure, and anyone who wants to can provide a service on it for a fixed fee.

I believe this is legally required for gas & electricity in Europe, and some of the privatized national phone companies here have similar obligations.
Researchers uncover potential non-opioid treatment for chronic pain in mice
> you build it you run it

Huge fan of this model. And fwiw, aside from not being strong with aws but still familiar, I tick all the qualifications you listed and I would expect most of that list to be valid for someone to claim to be a senior. That person should have some experience in nearly all of that. Specific frameworks should allow for more wiggle room if you are familiar with the given language.

The bigger problem is "senior" developers with 4 years experience who don't know half of that and are mostly familiar with crud apps.
The Iconic Photos from STS-41B: Documenting the First Untethered Spacewalk
Texas had a record-low winter storm that caused a major outage.

Followed by record high summer heat that caused outages too. Texas power grid operates on the verge of collapse --- because of bassackwards "free market" ideology. You don't have to take my word for it, several studies have said the same.

Also, California's electricity is more than twice as costly as that of Texas.

Texas uses tax payer money to subsidize their grid's inadequacy. They pay selected large enterprises to shutdown and stop consuming when their grid starts to fail.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-r...

This is the prevailing "free market" ideology in Texas --- instead of making it economically viable for providers to add more capacity.
Poster said power density, and I don't really believe theyre' right (see:a123 batteries, and now there are plenty of competitors)

However that's different than you're saying, which is about energy capacity.

I believe they are mistaken because many lfp replacement batteries have BMS units that are usually the limiter. But you can also buy lfp starter batteries
The way this squares up is that the protein of the population that is urbanized is very low compared to many other countries. In lots of African cities the road infrastructure is underbuilt for the amount of usage, but also there's just a lot more people still not living in urban areas. A good short hand for this is proportion of the country that works in agriculture. It's about 66% for Ethiopia (according to first hit in Google search), compared to about 2% for the US. Lots of those Ethiopian ag workers are going to be subsistence farmers, probably using animals where the us would use tractors, and public transport for personal transit and moving extra goods to market.

It'll be interesting to hear how they plan to handle freight and public transport (buses/matatus).

Random link source:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/agricultural-workers-by-....

(I spent about a month in Ethiopia back in 2012ish, amidst a year in Kenya. So thoughts and observations are largely based on that time.)
Wouldn’t a people carrier have been adequate? I don’t think people have an issue with the desire for interior space for families, it’s more an issue with the unnecessary extra size and weight brought on by the offroadesque styling
I sincerely doubt it's the devs coming up with these ideas and pitching them to management.
Isn't that why Rc<> and Arc<> exist in Rust? So that you can deal with situations where you don't know the object lifecycle at compile time?
There are plenty of entry level software roles out there. They are often listed as senior and may not align with your particular definition of entry level, but there are definitely people that are getting those jobs who have limited prior professional experience.
The trick is to mandate "telephone service", not "analog landline". That'd allow them to transition to telephone-over-fiber, making new connections worth the effort.
They do, but it's a hassle and means people are reluctant to keep money in their mattresses (which might be a good thing). It's unfortunate when it comes to resilience however. Realizing after the big two-week-blackout that the 10x SEK500 bills you stuffed away for this emergency are invalid and would need to be posted to the central bank before you can eat, is not a good experience.
I'm sure they've already gotten a lot of responses. People will be suckered by that little dangle of "potential reward of up to 20k dollars!"
It's not about proficiency, it's about not getting bogged down in programming language bikeshedding.
Show HN: Experimenting with generating SVG diagrams and visualizations
I ran a quick experiment to see if I could generate SVGs using an LLM with good layout. This is an interesting task, because it requires spatial reasoning and planning (it can easily start off well-laid out, but run out of space as you can see in some of the examples in the linked framer site).

I started with a single prompt to GPT4. The results were pretty terrible in terms of layout (many overlapping / obstructed elements), but (I think) show promise. Also, it takes a really long time to generate, because the SVG path is usually 1-2 characters per token.

Next, I implemented a visual critique and self-refinement. I created a rubric that asked a bunch of questions about layout and educational / communicative value. I take the initial generated SVG, convert it to PNG and send it to gpt-4-vision-preview with the rubric, asking for a critique and regeneration.

The generation + visual self-critique and refinement takes about 3 minutes per SVG, so I generated about 300 examples, eliminated the bottom 50%, and fine-tuned on gpt-3.5-turbo. The fine-tune now takes about 7-10 seconds to generate one SVG with comparable quality to the GPT4 + GPT4-V refinement pipeline (according to GPT4-V's own scoring of the rubric).

Thoughts on this approach? I'm considering doing 10-100x the compute / dataset size, wondering if this interests anyone else. Happy to expose a (free) API to the fine-tuned model if people are interested in playing around with it.
Your screen buffer certainly undergoes additional transformations and modifications on the way to your monitor.
It would be funny if one of the arrows in the visual on the side were missing. “Sorry, you can’t convert that.”
Sounds cliched, but the remaining 10% is real world experience applying and reflecting on a myriad of (sometimes pseudo-) psychology concepts developed over the years in the areas of leadership, self awareness, and workplace behaviour.
Might have been a lack of clarity on my part. When you split, you are actually choosing "what goes first". The issue workflow-wise today is primarily a lack of tooling designed to represent this process visually in an easy way.
Not with rent control. If we're in a low price market, it and a renter snags rent at a low price, he gets you locked in at that low price even when the market recovers.

Rent control incentivizes empty housing during bear markets.
So does the primary use case of this seem to be for teaching computational ideas in a simple manner?
The foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters, does that mean it’s an SI unit?
Since people are summarizing, his insight is nothing deep. It's basically experiencing glimps of what anyone who played cyberpunk or imagine cyberpunk eyemod computing is suppose to be.

I enjoyed him using the device outdoors, which I thought more reviewers would have shown. Reviewers kept imagine AVP for work on an airplane, but it was interesting seeing apple TV window that was openned when subway was stopped at station float away as train starts moving, presumably anchored at wrong point due to too much windows. Like how well would AVP work in a car? As passenger... as driver. That's illegal right? But some folks will do it since eyetracking and hand gestures seem workable while driving.
Yaml predates toml by ten years or so _and_ has an extensible schema to define types.

Sadly, nobody ever cared about that.
If you want to go specifically to Paris from most places in Europe the train (preferred) or the airport are the most efficient connections, car is hard for many reasons. But if you are visiting Paris while 'en route' then yes, do as you say.
What tool ist that?
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation
What’s the fraud? Really?
I can't take a crypto-shilling browser seriously. They lost all respect from me the day they added that feature.
This is called pole attachment, and most pole owners offer this for tens of dollars a year per pole.

No property owner wants additional poles put up, and it certainly won't be cheaper to buy and install a pole than just paying a few hundred dollars a decade to make it the pole owners problem.
Minivans are much more practical: generally more cargo space, lower bed, higher mileage, less roll-over risk, better front visibility (so less chance of running over your kids in the driveway), good amenities. The Toyota Sienna comes in a 4WD variant too, and has plenty of power.
At that scale, Amazon would just be warehouses of people pissing in bottles. They'd have to piss all day and all night until the heat death of the universe, just to cost him even one billion. So few people realize the scale of a billion :(
Starlink's big investor and launch customer was US Air Force.DoD had long complained about lack of fast sat comms, it's also why they effectively own Iridium.

So in addition to households add foreign bases and possibly drone command networks to possible sources of traffic going fast enough to warrant sat-to-sat connection.
> Today's definition of wealth is rooted in resource extraction and energy use.

That's not true, unless in very basic technical sense - like, we need energy to exist, turn on our computers, etc. But resource extraction and energy production is not the dominating source of wealth for many years now. Look at the current market's magnificent seven: Alphabet (GOOGL; GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), NVIDIA (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA). Not a single of them does resource extraction or sells energy.

It's not true socially either. If someone wants to get rich, they go into finance, high tech, entertainment maybe. Not in oil prospecting or gold digging (not that there aren't money in it - there are, but it's not what the society considers to be a lucrative business anymore). It's not 1849 now.
It is very much a problem of convenience. I paid for the Sims 4. It required me to use the EA launcher, which wasn't only slow, it was buggy and crashed constantly. So I pirated the game and played that way instead, despite having access to a legal copy. No launchers, no account sign in, no ads. Plenty of other people happily cut out the middle man and go straight to piracy.
But then you'd need to have a viable alternative and that's a bit of a problem for 'last miles' delivery of goods. But in-city SUV traffic is entirely optional.
Dockerizing a shell script????

Unless your tool is converted to a service how would anyone ever use this? Do you expect them to run their project inside of your container?

This is very bizarre.
“If you open settings and go to the plugin section it’s always there” is very different from “it’s always on your screen”.

The plugin for Ktor is always there too. I don’t use that. But I’m not raising a fuss.
COBOL's Map Reduce (2022)
UK shareholders should vote against Flutter's flight to the US – Nils Pratley
The car was a Kia...
Feynman already did that: https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machin...

"By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations."