skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That example syntax has so many potential footguns though.

I’m not someone that subscribes to the notion that saving keystrokes increases productivity (eg function key words being “fn”). I only think it’s worthwhile removing tokens if they add to the cognitive overhead. In the case of trailing semicolons and commas, it’s something you need to remember to add. So why not make it optional?

However using whitespace as a delimiter and having expressions require zero spaces between tokens is adding to a developer’s cognitive overhead. As well as inviting hard to find bugs.
Sorry, are you from the UK? Which part of southern Europe are you referring to? I can appreciate that the UK is milder than it should be, but it definitely gets winter compared to southern Europe, particularly the darkness. It even snowed here a couple of weeks ago. Melbourne, Australia would be a good example of your “6 months of autumn” idea.
I would argue, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781612 is also related. It explains that issue in detail and measures it in C++ standard library implementations.
Are you sure it wouldn't be recoverable using something on a similar level than they did (particle accelerator scanning) ?
Thanks, I came back to point this out.

Why link to a source that says directly opposite of what is being claimed? It doesn't make sense to me.
The market has spoken only in the sense that air travel used to be prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of people, and now it isn't.

For many trips, there are no reasonable alternatives to air travel. If you live in New York and really want to treat your kids to a trip to Disney World in Florida, you can drive, and can take a train/bus, but you'll be burning a significant amount of your precious time off work on travel.

The interesting thing is that I don't believe air travel is all that much cheaper now than it was in, say, 2010, when things were quite a bit more comfortable. Maybe not as comfortable as pre-deregulation, but certainly better than today, with more comfortable seats and more leg room.

Has it become much more costly to run an airline over the past decade? Maybe? I don't know. But if not, this doesn't seem to be "the market", at least not in the way a healthy market, with ample competition, would behave.
Location: Mountain View, CA

Remote: Preferred but not essential

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, and many more.

Resume / CV: https://www.spease.net/resume

Email: spease at ucla dot edu

I started programming ~2002 with a C++ commercial game engine in high school after developing websites with a friend ultimately using HTML4/CSS/PHP. Went to UCLA, and have had a varied career since then working in defense, content delivery, robotics, biotech, and AI domains.

I prefer working on high-quality, well-designed, human-facing products that are simple to use (think Apple).
Ads on cable tend to occur at natural breaks in the programming.

For series the episodes are written with commercial breaks in mind. For example a typical "The Simpsons" episode is written as 3 acts and the commercials come between the acts.

Movies aren't written with ads in mind, but usually the cable channel running the movie takes into account what is going on in the movie when they decide where to place their ad breaks.

This makes that ads a lot less intrusive than ads on YouTube or most other ad supported streaming services.

With the ads not actually interrupting the story, they actually often provide a convenient break to get up and get a snack, or clean up after the last snack, or visit the restroom. And I can always pick up my iPad or Kindle or a book to pass the time during the ad break if I don't need to do any of those other things.
Whew, I wasn't the only one.
No, because the LLM isn't just copying from the same text. Rather, it's "classifying" the text using the self-attention, and then applying a simple Markov Chain (supposedly). The classification is the hard part because how do you know what text from the training data is "similar" to the prompt text.

From the blog post for example:

Original string: 'And only l'

Similar strings: 'hat only l' 's sickly l' ' as\nthey l' 'r kingly l'
This would be more useful with "why"
I did... after approaching near 100% speed of light, I decelerated, but it refuses to budge below around 45%. I accelerated both axes.
> Can you explain why matter-antimatter only has 60% efficiency?

We don’t know how to use all the reaction products for thrust [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron–positron_annihilati...
Good point, I should define my terms better. I mean holding the product and how it's built above MBA stuff, which is the part I admire about Musk companies. If they want to cut costs, they typically find a new technique or new process to build a part, instead of reaching for typical MBA levers like new suppliers or outsourcing.

Your point about transforming intractability is cogent and I think we agree. To your last point about polymath tactics, you're right to a degree, but you can also watch Everyday Astronaut's SpaceX factory tour and realize that it's far more than a basic understanding, which is probably a big part of SpaceX's wild success.
Tango class - Trust me on this one

My CTO and myself both met our wives at a Tango class for beginners. Take a long one that lasts several weeks. Everyone is terrible at first, nobody cares about looking stupid, and everyone knows that in a few weeks you will start to enjoy it beyond initial expectations.

Women out number men 3:1 in a tango class, you won't get better odds anywhere else that I have seen. After a bunch of lessons you will go to a Milonga which is an open dance where a lot of people from all the classes of all levels show up. Your odds go up to 6:1 if you are halfway decent since the ratio will be even more in your favor.

Your age is perfect for Tango.
Just to note that prosecutors are not absolutely immune in all cases. They can be qualified immune, like officers.

For instance, in my case the prosecutor's office acted as law enforcement, e.g. they conducted investigations and conducted an arrest and executed a search warrant. In those cases, when they are acting in a nonprosecutorial role, and in a law enforcement role, they are definitely only qualified immune.

In Illinois it was ruled that prosecutors creating their own quasi-police departments is no longer legal. The advantage for the prosecutors was that they could bypass 99% of the laws and regulations that apply to police because they don't fit the statutory or regulatory definition of a police force.

Edit: Also to note, the CFAA has exemptions carved for law enforcement to do things that are criminal if done by the public:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

"(f)This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence agency of the United States."
> It should just be a library in a real language

The last thing I want to worry about is having malware in an M5 bolt.
It's a tradeoff between concentrating your risks in a very low-risk-probability monoculture or distributing your risks across a large statistical sample of (generally) much higher risk individual providers (smaller companies shut down or get acquired at much higher rates, and are frequently still high value targets for attackers even though they have much smaller budgets to spend on security and defense).

Distributing your risk among a large number of vendors is not necessarily better, and even if it's "just backups" can still multiply your risk of ideally non-public information getting disclosed.

Denial of service risks exist but are rare and, for example with the myriad complaints about "stripe is evil" tend to trace back to "account in question was doing something a rational unaffiliated observer would predict as a likely account cancellation driver for stripe." We don't know the circumstances here. If the circumstances were benign, it will likely be corrected, if not benign, we may never know the details.

EDIT ADDED (since HN is rate limiting this): self-hosting doesn't eliminate risks, it just changes them. You still face denial of service risks from loss of power, fire, natural disaster, theft, component failures, etc. If there were a zero risk path, everyone would take it.

We tend to prefer risks we feel we have "control over" (eg. Self-hosting), but at the incident rates of most other corporate hosting risks you're into the territory of an earthquake took out both your house and your rented storage locker.
There needs to be prosecution and not just firing. When an engineer lies in a legal setting and consequently gets someone put into jail for years, should they merely be fired?
Malware can go and dump the keys from the Secure Enclave. It's just the same mechanism that pirates use to crack the Widevine decryption, just that it's the strong digital identity of a person towards a government at stake here.
I've been thinking about this for a bit.

Productivity is a hard sell for a company that is tech focused. Since a client basically can't measure the impact there is little external difference between a true solution and a fake solution. As a result even if you convince someone of the value a company that focuses on marketing to those paying the bills will win out against one that focused on building a better product.

Security has fairly proscriptive compliance requirements (ie: SOC, etc.) which provide a benchmark against which to measure impact. Not impact on security but impact on meeting the compliance requirements.
Is it just me or does the sample not look that beautiful?
> We just need mass adoption of the device.

Not holding my breath.
Then why do the tests cost money?
It’s not just cars and cable, most services are loaded with “fees”, what is the point of a price sticker if you gonna charge whatever you want, it should be like retail, you have to charge what is posted.
Matt at it again, nice post! Make sure to check out his other posts if you get a chance, really enjoyed those as well.
PG-CLI – Read PG's essays in your terminal
Pretty sure only those 10 ship years worth of transmissions would suddenly appear. You're still 20K light years away so the rest of those years' transmissions are still in flight.
This is great, how well does it do with informal/slang Portuguese, Russian or Spanish?
Could this be a natural result of the cultural shift away from viewing police work being honorable and decent like it was after 9/11? Seems like recent events could have applied selection pressure to make only those who could care less about honor or decency willing to stay in the profession. Sad all around. If a civil servant talks this way about a 23 year old grad student being killed in a fashion that would put an average citizen immediately under the jail, it's probably wood chipper time for them. What a disgrace.
And that's a huge bummer since I know people who rely on those products and they're getting value out of them. However, I don't think the company failed because it didn't use more aggressive advertising.
It’s all fun and games until your bank reports something to the government under this SSN and it affects a person to whom its really assigned. Bonus points if “something“ has fiscal consequences for either of you.

Seriously, this is not kind of shenanigans you want to be doing for no reason at all, simply because the reason would be invented by someone else.
I worked for a hosting company so I had free or discounted hosting. I used HomeSite to write the HTML and then some kind of FTP app (I can't remember which) to upload the changes. Then I would test the results in Netscape Navigator.

I played around with Microsoft FrontPage and NetObjects Fusion but always found my way back to HomeSite.

This was all running on Windows 95 on a home-built PC.
This is super interesting and a promising development for those of us dreaming of running a lab out of a garage. I've never worked with Rothberg directly, but I've read great stories of him cultivating entrepreneural talent in molecular biology.

When PacBio was scaling their technology, they had lots of problems with photobleaching. It turns out shining intense laser light at a polymerase-nucleotide-fluorophore complex and inducing lots of electron flux in the fluorophore eventually causes an electron to get overexcited, jump around, and damage the machinery. PacBio eventually invested a lot in builidng elaborate shields into the nucleotide-fluorophore link, able to absorb the stray electrons and save the polymerase.

Given that experience, I'd expect shining intense UV light into a TIRF volume to break the reversible terminator link will cause lots of photobleaching. It will be interesting to see if 454.bio can overcome this.
I think the perceived output from stationary lasers on Earth would appear to decrease as your speed increases, since you're accelerating away from the laser photon packets. Because of that behavior, I'm not sure it's a feasible way to get up to relativistic speed?

I think the lasers would also need ~10,000 years of fuel, as opposed to ~10 years of fuel if you could somehow figure out how to carry it. But the energy to sustain in either case is probably measured in Dyson spheres, or some fraction of all energy in the universe pretty quickly too.
Obviously 2011 Boeing couldn't see into the future, but I do wonder if standing firm against Southwest -- even if they went and bought Airbus -- would still have been better for the company in the long run.

Wikipedia says Southwest has the fourth-largest fleet in the world (today, dunno about in 2011); while that's a lot, that's still only 800-some planes; did Boeing really let an airline with a 7%-or-so share of their business hold them over the barrel? I guess that's not entirely unreasonable, but... it's not great.

And if you look at the breakdown, more than 70% of Southwest's fleet still consists of 737-700 and -800. Boeing in 2011 was "taking too long" with their next-gen plane, and yet, 13 years later, Southwest is still largely on the previous generation. Maybe their blackmail was more a bluff. Hell, maybe at this point they regret their blackmail; it possibly would have been better for them to just wait for a new plane, or not bother and just go with Airbus.

But really, the problem didn't start in 2011. They'd already rode on the coattails of the 737/737NG design for too long. They should have started on a new narrowbody design even earlier. Sure, hindsight, and all that.
Can't reproduce at the moment. Used mobile browser.
Great point. We'll change that soon! Especially true for interfaces too since modules might have tons of accessible interfaces and the language server could list them out for you.

Did you see the ESP32 in the package registry? https://packages.atopile.io
But not quite that either right?

That’s what you have if you mechanically keep the shutter open for a prolonged time, exposing either film or a sensor to light.

But from what dang was saying, he seemed to describe emulating that effect in software on discretely captured frames.

Sounds almost closer to onion skinning, and in particular the part of this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_skinning where they say:

> This effect can also be used to create motion blurs, as seen in The Matrix when characters dodge bullets.
Yeah. I genuinely considered buying one, playing with it for a few days, and then returning it. I can't imagine actually using it on a regular basis and even if it were useful it wouldn't be three times as useful as the $1200 macbook I already have.
I wonder if this would make a fun game, like geoguessr. You see the HN page from a random day, perhaps with some date scraping to remove super obvious clues, and you have to pick the year/month.
I have been getting the FS newsletter for quite some time now, and I think it is quite worthwhile. That being said, I was a big fan of Charlie Munger long before I had heard of Shane Parrish.
fatGPT... the LLM that helps you be more model, less large.
For context, I am very familiar with KiCAD and somewhat familiar with Eagle.

I think KiCAD gets a lot of things right. Some of the broken things:

parts management (There is no central repo, a la LVFS, where I can get a part/pinout/3d model to easily import)

export process (feels kludgey, although some manufactures take the native KiCAD files)

multiple users, same project -- it's hard to put artifacts into git and merge changes.

I see this solving the last issue, perhaps the second as well. Commercially, I think it is worth pursing the first.

Other thoughts:

When I spec parts for certain types of designs, I need a whole lot more than just tolerance. e.g, for a mlcc capacitor, I need to spec dielectric, voltage, tolerance, ESR, sometimes leakage. For resistors, inductors, and other jellybean parts, similar metrics apply. Specing active "common" parts (like bjt/fet, diodes, etc) has even more parameters to consider.

I would also love the ability to take a design and drop it into SPICE for simulation.
The NHS is so far behind the current science it's unreal. They're still using the 50% hypopnea defintion.
Thanks! We definitely want to get involved on the education side. Currently we are super focused on building out the tool and growing a community around it. We are looking for people to use our tool and give feedback on what works and what sucks. Would be excited to chat about what you would want to see from an education standpoint!
Dartmouth wants to both achieve SES diversity and gets kids who are likely to succeed. If selecting the top of each class in the state gives them the diversity but doesn't give them the success rates, it's a less effective strategy. Their data seems to say that accepting medium-high SAT scores from poorer kids gets them both the diversity and the higher predicted success rates.
That's a bit too much. Wouldn't it be better to each year rank all the executives by their proximity to Jack Welch, and then fire the worst 10%?
At least on the video the text does not look crisp.
There is no payback day in time dilation.
A favorite anecdote, and I don't know anything, I could have misheard it, was about Tolkien.

Apparently, he did not know the character Saruman existed. He was just working the story, and had this gap which eventually turned into Saruman. Saruman seems rather "important", so it's interesting (to me) that it was not a core character from early on.

As a non-writer, even as a programmer, I find it kind of surprising that the authors surprise themselves. Writing code, it's rare that I've found "I needed Something" without knowing what it was, and then stumbled on to a solution. I usually have a pretty good idea of a mechanic I need for a particular situation.

I mean, I understand how a writer can create a character, and "let them go" and "see what happens", but I just think that's different from a more structural component of the story.

Of course, as a corollary, there was an author talking about how in one story, he managed to back the characters into a corner. He then proceeded to write some other parts of the story, and when he got back to the earlier characters, they were out. They had escaped. Whatever corner they were backed into, they were no longer there.

And he did not write how that happened. They just "got out". He used the interim story to, essentially, distract the readers about what was happening before.

Cheap trick, but I guess whatever works.
It’s easy to guess what happened: they developed an IPv4-only network stack and baked the limitations and constraints of IPv4 into it: private addresses are mandatory, public addresses are scarce, and NAT is required.

Then they got told to “do the needful” and make IPv6 happen, so they did… by weaving IPv6 support through the tangled briar patch of their codebase. They wove it through the NAT, the tiny public address blocks, and the mandatory private address spaces on virtual networks.

The result is IPv4 with a sticker on it with a hand-written label that says “IPv6”.

“Job done boss!”
At least what they have is robust. Complete attention-to-detail and a complete foundation, upon which to build something great. At least, hopefully.
What exactly is the distiction?

Comair started a regional airline. They partnered with Delta. Then Delta bought 20% of them in 1986 and the other 80% of them in 1999.

If you want to call that a meaningful distiction then I don't know what to say.

It's like claiming Instrgram is distinct from Meta because ??? I don't even know, they kept the name separate? WhatsApp is separate?
Yes, the latter is worth mentioning more. Many people think MAME is just an emulator of arcade machines, but it really is an emulator of nearly everything with a CPU including classic home computers (even very obscure ones like the Mattel Aquarius), gaming consoles, UNIX workstations, and even handheld LCD games like the Game & Watch series. Of course with thousands of systems not everything completely works yet but it is still in active development despite being over 20 years since the project started.
Benchmarking Time Series DBs
I mostly agree with you.

(I didn't spell out how much I agree because being against Israel is a sure way to attract downvotes. But let me do it anyway: Israel has no right to exist and never did in modern times. The people Israel stole the land to not only have the right to the land because they were, you know, there and the Jewish invaders weren't -- they were also genetic heirs to ancient Israelis to a higher degree than the Jewish invaders were. I think it is disgraceful that Israel has so much influence over US politics and media (USS Liberty cover up!). I think it is disgraceful that Germany backs Israel to the extent it does -- in order to not be, or be perceived as, evil.

Where I don't agree so much is about the US and Asia. The US had every right to fight in Korea and it was a damn good thing it did. It also had a right to fight against the Viet Cong -- and it was a disaster for the Vietnamese when the Viet Cong conquered Southern Vietnam and caused a mass famine with their collective farming.)
A whole lot happened between the big bang and the formation of the CMB 400.000 years later.
I know next to zero material science, but I would think there's not much motion going on, and that it's more that once you're past the yield strength, stress causes nonlinear increases in strain, and you get hysteresis (i.e. permanent deformations). Then over time those deformations add up to a weaker structure that eventually fractures. As long as you stay within or close to the linear regime, there's little to no permanent damage. I imagine it's more of a chemical process (i.e. you're damaging the bonds/lattice structure of a material), but I don't know.
GitHub Innovation Graph
This was really fun
Explaining the SDXL Latent Space
FTA: “Then you can use the tool as follows

pipenv shell
pipenv install
python main.py https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html, https://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html

Just add the webpage URLs separated by commas”

What’s the rationale for “separated by commas”? The convention for CLI arguments is to use one argument per input file.
I agree - also an EE - and I think it is similar to 'programming music' packages like Sonic Pi. If you are used to reading and writing standard music coding will be an odd and difficult change.
Right now we have a comfort for seeing the layout and such physically, and since that is how we manufacture it this is going to be an output anyway, but there is some future world where it is all put together automatically within the requirements we specify and we have an entirely new way of designing circuit boards.
Each component would come with not only a footprint but an array of basic design implementations that would mix and match with others.. autorouting on steroids of sorts.
From a security perspective, it does help that ato is not executable!